SearchPipe pricing: web search API, POST /
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our web search API benchmark, the best plan from SearchPipe scores 57.7 out of 100. SearchPipe ranks 12th of 80 providers.This plan is free. We rank 836 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.756 or less per 1,000 searches. See the best free web search API plan.GadgetHumans' $15 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. GadgetHumans' $15 monthly plan covers up to 100,000 searches a day. UAPI's CNY 24.90 pack costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.Levirge's $29 monthly plan covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GadgetHumans' $15 monthly plan.ScrapeNest, Clawifi and Desearch are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free tier one of SearchPipe's 7 plans
- Free tierFree tier$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $1, Credit recharge, custom amountCredit recharge, custom amount$5.00 per 1,000
- $40 pack, Credit recharge, $40Credit recharge, $40$4.00 per 1,000
- $80 pack, Credit recharge, $80Credit recharge, $80$4.00 per 1,000
- $10 monthly, StarterStarter$4.00 per 1,000
- $20 monthly, ProPro$4.00 per 1,000
- $35 monthly, MaxMax$3.50 per 1,000
Call:
POST /, Search API, basic one of SearchPipe's 3 calls for this APIPOST /, Search API, advancedFree tier$0.00 per 1,000v1/ search POST /, Search API, basicFree tier$0.00 per 1,000v1/ search POST /, Search API, fastFree tier$0.00 per 1,000v1/ search
API: Web search API one of SearchPipe's 2 APIs
About this item
- A copy at most 5 minutes old. You get pages from SearchPipe's index.
- 3 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Date, Text, Answer.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the calendar month (UTC).
- One call. You send
querytoPOST /. You setv1/ search search_to "basic". The call returns the matching web pages.depth - Who can get it: anyone with a verified email address. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: with conditions.
SearchPipe: web search API alternatives
SearchPipe alternatives: every web search API provider ranked
The table starts with SearchPipe's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to SearchPipe's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most an hour old.
| SearchPipe, $35 monthly, Max, POST /v1/search, Search API, basic | browserfoundry by keirolabs, $10 pack, Starter Pack, POST /api/v2/search/fast | Webclaw, $80 pack, Starter credit pack, 24,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search | AlterLab, $50 pack, Deposit $50, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, Google or Bing | x402serps, $5 pack, 5,500 credits, POST /api/v1/search | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $3.50 | $3.333 | $3.333 | $3.636 | $3.636 |
| Completeness | 50% | 33% | 0% | 0% | 17% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | $35 | $10 | $80 | $50 | $5 |
| Enough for | 10,000 calls a month | 3,000 calls | 24,000 calls | 13,750 calls | 1,375 pages |
| Freshness | 5 minutes | live | 1 hour | live | 1 hour |
| Who can get it | anyone with a verified email address | anyone who creates an account with an email address | anyone on the Starter plan | anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.
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
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 20 |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search API, fast · Search API, advanced · Extract API · Verify API |
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Find sources for a question or topic in one call: multi-engine retrieval, full-text fetching, LLM reranking, and an optional cited answer or structured output. |
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| Freshness | 5 minutes |
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| Keep data | no API terms |
| Use data | "You must not use the Service for any of the following: Any activity that violates applicable laws and regulations, Generating, distributing or assisting in the distribution of illegal, infringing, false, fraudulent, harassing, hateful or discriminatory content, Reverse engineering, crawling, stress testing the Service, or attempting to bypass usage limits, Transferring, renting or sharing your API keys with third parties, Any activity that may harm the normal operation of the Service or the rights of other users." |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 1,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 1,000 calls a month |
| Expires | at the end of the calendar month (UTC) |
| Per second | 1.67 (100 a minute) |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 2.40 s |
| You send | query, search_depth "basic". Optional: max_results, include_domains, exclude_domains, time_range, start_date, end_date, topic, language, country, safe_search, include_raw_content, include_images, output_type, objective, output_schema, stream |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Free tier |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a verified email address |
The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, result ID, URL, page title, snippet, relevance score, raw content, published date, evidence quote, evidence start offset, evidence end offset, source tier, fetch status, redirected, final URL, fetched at, images, AI generated, request ID, response time, credits charged, cached, warnings, notices, answer, structured output