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Surf pricing and alternatives: web search API

Surf'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 338 plans we rank by price is LangSearch, free, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches. LangSearch's free plan covers up to 12,960,000 searches a month at no extra cost.Context.dev, Serpex and Firecrawl are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free tier one of Surf's 6 plans
Call: GET /gateway/v1/search/web Surf's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of Surf's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits a day. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /gateway/v1/search/web. You can also send limit, offset, site and include_content. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: anyone, with no sign-up: every IP gets the credits. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Surf: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planSurf, freeContext.dev, freeSerpex, freeFirecrawl, free, POST /v2/searchScrapingDuck, freeLangSearch, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness17%17%17%33%33%33%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0€0$0
Enough fornot published1,000 calls a month200 calls500 calls a monthnot published12,960,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone, with no sign-up: every IP gets the creditsanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiananyoneanyone legally permitted to enter into a binding contract, at 18 or with a parent's or guardian's consent

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 2026-10-28.

  1. asksurf.ai/terms-of-service
  2. docs.asksurf.ai/data-api/overview
  3. docs.asksurf.ai/data-api/search/web
  4. docs.asksurf.ai/pricing

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
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 120 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearches web pages, articles, and content by keyword.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"a. Use and Restrictions of Output Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may use the Output for personal or non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use the Output for any commercial purpose, you must obtain our prior written consent. [...]" "c. Prohibited Conduct You agree not to: Infringe upon the privacy, intellectual property, or other rights of third parties. Decompile, reverse engineer, probe, or interfere with the operation of the Services. Use the Services to create competing models or products. Use automated tools (e.g., crawlers or scrapers) to extract data or content. Misrepresent how content is generated or circumvent platform usage policies. Use the Services for unauthorized commercial purposes or sublicense them to others. Submit data that is subject to special protection or considered highly sensitive. You agree to comply with usage frequency limits and other access rules as outlined in our documentation. You must not use VPNs, proxies, automation scripts, or other methods to circumvent platform access restrictions. [...]"
Plan
Pay$0
You get30 credits a day
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.24 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: limit, offset, site, include_content
MethodGET
Path/gateway/v1/search/web
About the plan
PlanFree tier
Who can get itanyone, with no sign-up: every IP gets the credits
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

title, URL, description, content, total results, has more results, limit, offset, watermark, credits used, cached, empty reason

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