# Sofya, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets, full: Web search API

> Search the web and get page content, not just snippets. Choose a search depth to balance speed and detail, and add an AI answer when you want one.

Sofya's web search API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 3 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text, Answer.
The cheapest of the 243 plans we rank by price is [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/499-monthly-enterprise-post-search-search-full/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-snippets-full
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://sofya.co/pricing
- Request: `POST https://sofya.co/v1/search`, Search, snippets, full
- API key: with the plan, on https://sofya.co/pricing
- Its API docs: https://sofya.co/docs#search
- Sold by: Sofya (https://sofya.co)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 50%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, basic · Fetch · Extract · Research

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the web and get page content, not just snippets. Choose a search depth to balance speed and detail, and add an AI answer when you want one.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree that you will not, and will not allow any third party (including any of your end users) to: Use the Service to violate any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party (including intellectual-property, privacy, and contract rights), Use the Service to access, collect, or compile information about specific individuals for the purpose of profiling, doxxing, surveillance, or unsolicited contact, Use the Service to produce, distribute, or facilitate the production of malware, phishing pages, fraudulent content, spam, or material that infringes copyright or trademark, Use the Service to make consequential, fully-automated decisions about individuals (for example employment, credit, insurance, housing, or law-enforcement decisions) without meaningful human oversight, Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Service as a substantively similar API to third parties, or build a directly competing product on top of the Service, Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, or attempt to extract the source code or non-public APIs, except to the extent applicable law prohibits this restriction, Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limit, credit metering, authentication mechanism, or security control, Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures (except in good-faith security research disclosed to us promptly at security@sofya.co), Use the Service in any way that overburdens its infrastructure, interferes with its integrity or performance, or degrades it for other users. [...] we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your internal business or personal purposes. [...] you are solely responsible for ensuring that downstream use of content (re-publication, redistribution, training, indexing, large-scale storage, automated decision-making about individuals) is lawful and permitted by the rights holder.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,000 credits a month
- Enough for: about 666 calls a month
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 30
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, search_depth "snippets", include_answer "true". Optional: max_results, include_domains, exclude_domains, topic, freshness
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone who signs in with a GitHub account at least a year old (email sign-ups don't get it)

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, page title, URL, snippet, page fetched, published date, sublink title, sublink description, sublink URL, result table, search depth, topic, response time, credits used, credits remaining, altered query, relaxed query, answer

## Sofya's plans (2)

- [Sofya, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-snippets-full/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete
- [Sofya, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-search-search-snippets-full/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 50% complete

## Sofya's calls (4)

- `POST /v1/search`, Search, basic: [Sofya, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-basic/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, basic, full: [Sofya, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, basic, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-basic-full/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, snippets: [Sofya, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-snippets/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, snippets, full: [Sofya, free, tier, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-snippets-full/llms.txt)

## Sofya's APIs (1)

- [Sofya: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-snippets-full/llms.txt)

## Sofya: web search API alternatives

- [Exa, $1,000 pack, Developer (pay as you go), $1,000 in credits within 30 days: 25 QPS for 90 days, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/1000-pack-developer-pay-as-you-go-1000-in-credits-within-30-days-25-qps-for-90-days-post-search-search/llms.txt): $7.00 per 1,000, 100% complete
- [Tavily, $30 monthly, Project, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/30-monthly-project-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [browserfoundry, $100 pack, Scale Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/100-pack-scale-pack-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Firecrawl, $19 monthly, Hobby, POST /v2/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/19-monthly/llms.txt): $7.60 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 2026-10-27.

- https://sofya.co
- https://sofya.co/docs
- https://sofya.co/openapi.json
- https://sofya.co/pricing
- https://sofya.co/terms