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

Staan's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 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 for AI 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.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. Date, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 requests a month.
  • One call. You send q to POST /search/web. 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 for AI APISearch1API, $19 monthly, Basic, POST /news, News, fullNimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, standardTavily, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /search, Search, basicBrave Search API, top-up from $5
$ per 1,000 searches$4.501$4.56$5.00$5.00$5.00
Completeness33%33%17%50%33%
Billingpay as you gomonthlypay as you gomonthlypay first
Paymonthly$19monthly$500$5
Enough foras many as you pay forabout 4,166 calls a monthas many as you pay for100,000 calls a month1,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who signs upanyoneanyone 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 2026-10-27.

  1. docs.staan.ai/api
  2. docs.staan.ai/docs/web-for-ai
  3. docs.staan.ai/docs/web-for-ai.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
  • 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, extra_snippets, full_content, max_snippets, min_score, include_domains, exclude_domains
MethodPOST
Path/search/web
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who signs up
The 19 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, published date, extra snippets, extra snippet scores, page content, page content format, page content length

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