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Spider Cloud pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /search, Search and crawl

Spider Cloud's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 243 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Search1API are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free credits one of Spider Cloud's 15 plans
Call: POST /search, Search and crawl one of Spider Cloud's 3 calls
API: Web search API Spider Cloud's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,500 credits, enough for about 83 calls. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send search to POST /search. You set fetch_page_content to "true". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone whose signup passes Spider's checks, no card required. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Spider Cloud: web search API alternatives

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

Spider Cloud, top-up from $5,000, Pay as you go, $5,000 or more (+15% credits), POST /search, Search and crawlStaan, pay as you go, Pay for what you use, POST /search/web, Web Search APISocial Fetch, $59 packSearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /search, Search, fullContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, advanced
$ per 1,000 searches$2.609$2.251$2.36$2.495$2.50
Completeness17%17%17%33%50%
Billingpay firstpay as you gopay firstyearlypay first
Pay$5,000monthly$59$4,990$500
Enough forabout 1,916,666 callsas many as you pay for25,000 callsabout 166,666 calls a month200,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone who signs upanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyoneanyone

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 2026-10-27.

  1. spider.cloud/api/search
  2. spider.cloud/docs/core/rate-limits
  3. spider.cloud/eula
  4. spider.cloud/guides/pricing-and-plans
  5. spider.cloud/guides/search
  6. spider.cloud/pricing
  7. spider.cloud/use-cases/price-monitoring

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, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Crawl · Scrape · Links · Screenshot · Transform · Search
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe web search API that returns pages, not links.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSpider may not be used for malicious or illegal activity, including: Hacking, Spamming or unsolicited bulk email, Phishing, Distributing malware, Unauthorized data collection, Fraud, Denial-of-service attacks [...] You are responsible for any data you acquire through Spider and any downstream use of that data [...] Spider may also limit, deprioritize or suspend traffic that harms the network or other customers, such as sustained bulk downloads of large files, media streaming, or reselling or relaying access to Spider.
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,500 credits
Enough forabout 83 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second166.67
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendsearch, fetch_page_content "true". Optional: search_limit, num, page, location, country, language, tbs, quick_search, auto_pagination, latitude, longitude, radius, return_format, limit
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree credits
Who can get itanyone whose signup passes Spider's checks, no card required
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, page content, HTTP status, duration, total cost, file cost, compute cost, bytes transferred cost, AI cost, transform cost

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