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Search1API pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /search, Search, full

Search1API's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is Ceramic, $99 monthly, at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.Search1API, Firecrawl and Valyu are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Search1API's 11 plans
Call: POST /search, Search, full one of Search1API's 5 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Search1API's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for about 16 calls. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You set crawl_results to "5". You can also send search_service, max_results, page, image, include_sites, exclude_sites, language and time_range. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Search1API: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Search1API's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Search1API's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /search, Search, fullLLMLayer, top-upContext.dev, $20 monthlySocial Fetch, $59 packContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /v1/search, Search, deep
$ per 1,000 searches$2.495$2.00$2.00$2.36$2.50
Completeness33%33%17%17%50%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$4,990any amount$20$59$500
Enough forabout 166,666 calls a monthas many as you pay for10,000 calls a month25,000 calls200,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, with the authority to enter the Agreement and not prohibited by law from using the Servicesanyone aged 18 or overanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyone

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. api.search1api.com/openapi.json
  2. blog.s1.dev/pages/acceptable-use
  3. blog.s1.dev/pages/terms
  4. s1.dev/docs/basic/search
  5. s1.dev/docs/essentials/credits-and-limits.md
  6. s1.dev/pricing.md
  7. search1api.com
  8. search1api.com/pricing

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: News · Ask · Maps · Crawl · Screenshot · Sitemap · Trending · Extract · DeepCrawl
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch the web across multiple engines and return ranked results, optional images, and full page content for selected results.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"Our Products must not be used to transmit, distribute or store any material in violation of any applicable law. This includes but isn't limited to: any material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, or other intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and any material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat or violates export control laws.", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk or commercial messages in violation of the laws and regulations applicable to your jurisdiction (\"spam\").", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of running unconfirmed mailing lists or telephone number lists (\"messaging lists\")." [...] "Our Products must not be used to access any account or electronic resource where the group or individual attempting to gain access does not own or is not authorized to access the resource", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of intentionally or recklessly introducing viruses or malicious code into our Products and systems.", "Our Products must not be used for purposely engaging in activities designed to harass another group or individual.", "Other activities considered unethical, exploitative, and malicious include: Obtaining (or attempting to obtain) services from us with the intent to avoid payment, [...] Any act or omission in violation of consumer protection laws and regulations, Any violation of a person's privacy.", "Our Products may not be used by any person or entity, which is involved with or suspected of involvement in activities or causes relating to illegal gambling, terrorism, narcotics trafficking, arms trafficking [...]", "We provide our facilities with the assumption your use will be \"business as usual\", as per our offer schedule. If your use is considered to be excessive, then additional fees may be charged, or capacity may be restricted."
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough forabout 16 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second3.33
Speed
Answerin the call
Median8.78 s
The call
You sendquery, crawl_results "5". Optional: search_service, max_results, page, image, include_sites, exclude_sites, language, time_range
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, page title, URL, snippet, published date, result type, repository stars, repository language, comment count, story URL, points, images, page content

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