Tako pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /api/v3/search, Search, deep

Tako's site llms.txt Best 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 Tako's 4 plans

Call: POST /api/v3/search, Search, deep one of Tako's 6 calls for this API

API: Web search API one of Tako's 2 APIs

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 2,000 requests.
One call. You send query to POST /api/v3/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: anyone who signs up. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Tako: web search API alternatives

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

	Tako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, deep	Nimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, standard	Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, full	Tavily, $220 monthly, Startup, POST /search, Search, advanced	Social Fetch, pay as you go
$ per 1,000 searches	$12.00	$5.00	$6.00	$11.579	$14.00
Completeness	33%	17%	33%	50%	17%
Billing	pay first	pay as you go	pay first	monthly	pay as you go
Pay	any amount	monthly	$5	$220	per call
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	19,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone who signs up	anyone who signs up	anyone	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, 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.

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
Per	call
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	20

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Real-time search returning webpages, highlights, structured data and visualizations.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	You may not [...] (iii) cache, store, or retain Content for the purpose of responding to a query or request other than the original query or request for which the Content was provided
Use data	You shall not: (a) sublicense, resell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, time-share, or otherwise commercially exploit the Service, (b) use it unlawfully or in violation of data, privacy, or export laws, (c) modify, adapt, hack, reverse engineer, or attempt to discover any source code, (d) use any robots, scraping, or similar data-gathering methods, or (e) violate any local, state, national, or international law. [...] You may not, directly or indirectly, and may not permit any third party to: (i) scrape, download, extract, aggregate, or otherwise use Content to create, compile, maintain, enrich, or supplement any database, dataset, data feed, knowledge graph, search index, or similar collection, (ii) use Content to develop, offer, or improve any product or service that substitutes for or competes with the Service or with the data products or services of Tako's third-party suppliers, (iii) cache, store, or retain Content for the purpose of responding to a query or request other than the original query or request for which the Content was provided, (iv) reverse engineer, decode, or otherwise attempt to derive, reconstruct, or identify any underlying data source, database, dataset, methodology, schema, structure, or system from the Content, or (v) use Content to train, fine-tune, distill, develop, or improve any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model or system. You must clearly attribute the underlying data sources identified by Tako whenever displaying, distributing, or otherwise using Content, including in any outputs derived from Content, and must preserve any source attribution and proprietary notices provided with such Content.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	2,000 requests
Enough for	2,000 calls

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	5.00 s

The call
You send	query. Optional: effort "deep", sources, sources.data.count, sources.data.include_contents, sources.data.node_ids, sources.data.strict, sources.web.count, sources.web.include_contents, sources.web.category, sources.web.include_domains, sources.web.exclude_domains, sources.web.snippet_max_chars, sources.web.highlights, sources.web.article_content_max_chars, sources.web.published_after, sources.web.published_before, country_code, locale, timezone, output_settings, include_related
Method	POST
Path	/api/v3/search

About the plan
Plan	Free
Who can get it	anyone who signs up

The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, page title, URL, snippet, source name, published date, card ID, card title, card description, card semantic description, card URL, card image URL, card embed URL, card sources, card methodologies, card type, relevance, relevance score, data freshness, metric definitions, card nodes, related queries, total cost, compute cost, data cost