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

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33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 399 plans by price. Octen's top-up from $5 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Context.dev, Desearch and ContextFetch are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Free one of Tako's 4 plans

Call: POST /api/v3/search, Search, instant one of Tako's 9 calls

API: Web search API Tako's only API

Web search API

About this item

Stored. You get pages from Tako's index. Tako doesn't say how old the data is.
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 stored data.

	Tako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, instant	ContextFetch, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /tavily/search, Tavily-compatible search, ultra-fast	Desearch, top-up	Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (basic)	Seltz, pay as you go, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/search, Search, pro
$ per 1,000 searches	$7.00	$0.50	$1.00	$5.00	$5.00
Completeness	33%	50%	17%	33%	17%
Billing	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay as you go
Pay	any amount	$10	any amount	any amount	monthly
Enough for	as many as you pay for	20,000 calls	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone who signs up	anyone	anyone	anyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars	anyone 18 or over with a payment method added

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	stored
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	0.30 s

The call
You send	query. Optional: effort "instant", 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