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SocialCrawl pricing and alternatives: web search API, GET /v1/web/search, Search the web

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 417 plans by price. browserfoundry's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry, Context.dev and Desearch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SocialCrawl's 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/web/search, Search the web one of SocialCrawl's 3 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of SocialCrawl's 90 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SocialCrawl searches the web when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 50 pages. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v1/web/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SocialCrawl: web search API alternatives

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

SocialCrawl, £299 pack, Pro, GET /v1/web/search, Search the webSearch1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /search, Search, fullNimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, standardTavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, ultra-fastBrave Search API, top-up from $5
$ per 1,000 searches$5.316$5.00$5.00$5.00$5.00
Completeness33%33%17%50%33%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay as you gomonthlypay first
Pay£299$99monthly$500$5
Enough for75,000 pages19,800 callsas many as you pay for100,000 calls a month1,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone who signs upanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the companyanyone with a credit card

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 2026-11-01.

  1. socialcrawl.dev/docs/caching.md
  2. socialcrawl.dev/docs/credits.md
  3. socialcrawl.dev/docs/endpoint-pricing.md
  4. socialcrawl.dev/docs/rate-limits.md
  5. socialcrawl.dev/legal/terms-and-conditions
  6. socialcrawl.dev/llms-web.txt
  7. socialcrawl.dev/llms.txt
  8. socialcrawl.dev/openapi/web.json
  9. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/linkedin
  10. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/linkedin.md
  11. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/web/search
  12. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/web/search.md
  13. socialcrawl.dev/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
Perpage of 10
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat free2 minutes
Extra fieldsfetched page content: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 678 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearches web, news, and image sources and returns a single normalized list of web page results.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the Service for lawful purposes that comply with these Terms, applicable laws, and the terms of service of the social media platforms from which data is retrieved. [...] You must not: Resell raw data: You may not redistribute, resell, or sublicense raw Platform Data retrieved through the Service without adding meaningful transformation, analysis, or value. You must not operate a service that merely proxies or mirrors SocialCrawl responses. Violate platform terms: You must not use the Service in a manner that violates the terms of service of any social media platform from which data is retrieved. Harass or harm: You must not use the Service to stalk, harass, doxx, or otherwise harm any individual. Surveillance and identification of individuals: You must not use the Service or Platform Data to (a) perform facial recognition, biometric identification, or biometric verification of any individual, or build or enrich any facial-recognition or biometric database, (b) conduct surveillance, tracking, or behavioural monitoring of identified or identifiable individuals, including for law-enforcement, intelligence, or employment-vetting purposes, (c) re-identify individuals from aggregated, pseudonymised, or anonymised data, (d) profile individuals based on special categories of personal data (such as health, religion, political opinions, or sexual orientation), or (e) compile databases of individuals' personal data for sale or licensing as such. Circumvent restrictions: You must not attempt to bypass any usage limits, access controls, or security measures of the Service. Reverse engineer: You must not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service or its underlying infrastructure. Overload the Service: You must not engage in activity designed to degrade, disrupt, or place an unreasonable burden on the Service or its infrastructure. Illegal activity: You must not use the Service for any purpose that violates applicable law, including but not limited to data protection legislation, intellectual property law, or export control regulations. Automated abuse: You must not use automated systems to create accounts, generate API Keys, or consume Credits in a manner intended to exploit the Service. [...] You are solely responsible for: Ensuring your use of Platform Data complies with all applicable laws, including data protection and privacy legislation (such as the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018). Respecting the intellectual property rights of content creators whose data is accessed through the Service. [...] Complying with the terms of service of the social media platforms from which data originates. [...] Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your internal business or personal purposes. You retain ownership of any data, applications, or materials that you create using Platform Data retrieved through the Service, subject to: The intellectual property rights of the original content creators on social media platforms. Any applicable terms of service of the social media platforms from which the data originates. The restrictions set out in Section 7 (Acceptable Use Policy) of these Terms.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for50 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Concurrent50
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: sources, categories, limit, country, location, time_range, sort_by_date, include_domains, exclude_domains, include_content
MethodGET
Path/v1/web/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits consumed, credits remaining, request ID, from cache, replayed, next cursor, has more, page size, page title, URL, snippet, published date

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