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Staan pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /search/web, Web Search API

Staan'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 one of Staan's 3 plans
Call: POST /search/web, Web Search API one of Staan's 2 calls
API: Web search API Staan'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 1,000 requests a month.
  • One call. You send q to POST /search/web. You can also send market, offset, count, include_domains and exclude_domains. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

Staan: web search API alternatives

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

Staan, pay as you go, Pay for what you use, POST /search/web, Web Search APIContext.dev, $20 monthlySearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /askContextFetch, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, deepSocial Fetch, $59 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$2.251$2.00$2.079$2.303$2.36
Completeness17%17%33%50%17%
Billingpay as you gomonthlyyearlymonthlypay first
Paymonthly$20$4,990$499$59
Enough foras many as you pay for10,000 calls a month200,000 calls a monthabout 216,666 calls a month25,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who signs upanyone aged 18 or overanyoneanyone with a signed-in accountanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind it

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. docs.staan.ai/api
  2. docs.staan.ai/docs/web-search
  3. docs.staan.ai/docs/web-search.md
  4. docs.staan.ai/introduction
  5. staan.ai/#pricing
  6. staan.ai/faq
  7. staan.ai/privacy-policy

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
Most per search40
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFuel your AI with the first European Search API.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 requests a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second20
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: market, offset, count, include_domains, exclude_domains
MethodPOST
Path/search/web
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, altered query, market, result count, offset, page title, URL, description, display URL, hostname, favicon, thumbnail

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