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SpecStream pricing: web search API

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run SpecStream through our web search API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 766 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less. See how many web search API plans are free.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.Clawifi, SerpScraper.dev and browserfoundry by keirolabs are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest SpecStream plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of SpecStream's 9 plans
Call: GET /v1/web-search SpecStream's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of SpecStream's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SpecStream searches the web when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Answer.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $10 of credit once, enough for 2,000 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Unused credit expires after 30 days.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/web-search. You can also send passages and the Idempotency-Key header. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SpecStream: web search API alternatives

SpecStream alternatives: other web search API providers by price

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

SpecStream, $228 yearlyGeekflare, $10 packMojeek, top-up, BusinessCrawlForge, $990 yearlySearch1API, $99 pack, Pay as you go, $99 (+20% bonus), POST /ask
$ per 1,000 searches$4.167$4.00$4.00$4.125$4.167
Completeness33%50%17%33%33%
Billingyearlypay firstpay firstyearlypay first
Pay$228$10any amount$990$99
Enough for54,720 calls a year2,500 callsas many as you pay for240,000 calls a year23,760 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a contractanyoneanyone aged 18 or over, or an organisation whose signatory has the authority to bind it, who opens an account with a bank card (its FAQ's "A bank card is required to open an account") and upgrades to it (its FAQ's "simply upgrade to our Business Plan"), the plan's Contact button opens a form too ("Please sign me up and send me an API key for the business plan")anyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. specstream.ai
  2. specstream.ai/agents.md
  3. specstream.ai/docs/billing
  4. specstream.ai/docs/search-api
  5. specstream.ai/pricing
  6. specstream.ai/search-api
  7. specstream.ai/terms

Product details

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

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search API batch · Extract API · Deep Search
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAsk in plain words, in any language, and get an answer from the live web in a few seconds. One GET request returns the answer, the matching rows, and the search results read.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use and export the results available to your account, subject to applicable law and any rights in the underlying sources. [...] Use SpecStream only for lawful purposes and within the permissions you hold. Do not use it for harassment, stalking, discrimination, fraud, unlawful surveillance, credential theft, or unauthorized access. Do not seek private information by bypassing access controls or use the service to make unlawful decisions about people. Do not interfere with the service, evade spending or access limits, abuse free grants, or submit malicious material. [...] Do not use SpecStream or any result as a factor in deciding a person’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing, tenancy, education, government benefits, or any other purpose those laws cover, and do not use it to screen tenants or employees.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$10
Enough for2,000 calls, once
Expires30 days
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: passages, Idempotency-Key header
MethodGET
Path/v1/web-search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a contract, once per eligible verified billing account
The 34 fields the plan's answer can hold

kind, query, columns, answer, answer page, answer read time, answer confirmed, result name, result page, result snippet, match probability, result sources, result facts, fact page, fact read time, fact confirmed, source URL, source title, source site, source snippet, source published date, source cited, handoff line, handoff request, handoff rows estimated, handoff rows basis, handoff count page, handoff next call, passage URL, passage title, passage text, request ID, response time, cost in dollars

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