# Sitedex, free for everyone: Web search API

> Skip the crawl. Query Sitedex. Every indexed site is a live MCP endpoint — fresh, cited, owner-verifiable. One config line, no API key. Cross-site search, REST, and a CLI too.

Sitedex's web search API on its Free for everyone plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Text.
We haven't run Sitedex through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 569 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/free-for-everyone
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://sitedex.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.sitedex.dev/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://sitedex.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#api
- Sold by: Sitedex (https://sitedex.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch one page as markdown · Site profile and headline score · Full audit report · Sites you've claimed

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Skip the crawl. Query Sitedex. Every indexed site is a live MCP endpoint — fresh, cited, owner-verifiable. One config line, no API key. Cross-site search, REST, and a CLI too.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You will not, and will not permit anyone else to: [...] interfere with, disable, or circumvent any feature, security mechanism, or limit of the Service, [...] resell, redistribute, or repackage the Service or any output without our prior written consent.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: site, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free for everyone
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, site ID, domain, site name, result source, result type, text, heading path, URL, score, total results, sites searched

## Sitedex's plans (6)

- [Sitedex, free for everyone](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/free-for-everyone/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Sitedex, free with an account](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/free-with-an-account/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Sitedex, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/5-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Sitedex, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/50-pack/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Sitedex, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/100-pack/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Sitedex, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete

## Sitedex's calls (1)

- `POST /search`: [Sitedex, free for everyone](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/free-for-everyone/llms.txt)

## Sitedex's APIs (1)

- [Sitedex: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sitedex/free-for-everyone/llms.txt)

## Sitedex: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $100 pack, Scale Pack, POST /api/v2/search/fast](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/100-pack-scale-pack-post-api-v2-search-fast/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/top-up-from-500-pay-as-you-go-20-on-top-ups-from-500-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Sofya, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-snippets/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Anakin, $300 monthly, Build your plan, $300 a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/300-monthly-build-your-plan-300-a-month/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://api.sitedex.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://sitedex.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://sitedex.dev/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://sitedex.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://sitedex.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing