switch402 pricing: web search API
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$8.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run switch402 through our web search API benchmark yet.Half of the 766 plans we rank by price cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 27% of the 766 plans.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.
Plan: Pay per call (x402) one of switch402's 5 plans
- Pay as you goPay per call (x402)$8.00 per 1,000
- $5 pack$5 pack$8.00 per 1,000
- $10 packMonthly plan$8.00 per 1,000
- $20 pack$20 pack$7.619 per 1,000
- $50 pack$50 pack$7.273 per 1,000
Call:
POST / v1/ search switch402's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of switch402's 2 APIs
- Web search API
- Web scraping API
POST /v1/ metadata - Web scraping API
POST /v1/ pdf - Web scraping API
POST /v1/ scrape - Web scraping API
POST /v1/ scrape/ lite - Web scraping API
POST /v1/ map
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- 1 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
qtoPOST /. You can also sendv1/ search limit. The call returns the matching web pages. - Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base over x402. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
switch402: web search API alternatives
switch402 alternatives: other web search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planswitch402, pay as you go | BestSearch, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, advanced | API.SH, $50 monthly | Tavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, basic | SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/tavily/search | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.001 |
| Completeness | 17% | 17% | 0% | 50% | 33% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | monthly | pay as you go | pay first |
| Pay | per call | any amount | $50 | monthly | £15 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 6,250 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 2,500 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | unknown | live | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base over x402 | anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional use | anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the company | anyone 18 or over |
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.
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Most per search | 10 |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Up to 10 ranked web results for a query, each with title, URL and snippet. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Do not use switch402 for anything illegal. Do not use it to fetch, scrape or copy content from sites you do not have the right to access or use, to get around logins, paywalls or other access controls, or to overload or attack any site. You are responsible for what you request and how you use the results. |
| Pay | per call |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q. Optional: limit |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Pay per call (x402) |
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| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base over x402 |
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, result count, position, page title, URL, snippet, response time, attempts