# Telem AI, free: Web search API

> Search (POST /v1/search) sends one query, or a batch of them, to several providers at the same time. You get one result list per provider, in the same format for every provider.

Telem AI's web search API on its "Personal, first sign-in credit" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Telem AI's docs list none of the 6 fields on our checklist: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
In [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt), the best plan from Telem AI scores 44.6 out of 100. Telem AI ranks 39th of 58 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 730 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 per 1,000 searches or less. [See how many web search API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) and [browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/telem-ai/free
- [Web search API: the best of 50+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://telem.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://router.telem.ai/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://telem.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.telem.ai/api/operations/create_search_v1_search_post/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Telem AI (https://telem.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch · Create a monitor

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search (POST /v1/search) sends one query, or a batch of them, to several providers at the same time. You get one result list per provider, in the same format for every provider.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $20

## Rate limit

- Per second: 100
- Batch: 32

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: user_input.query. Optional: session_id, metadata, search.tier, search.fields, search.providers.include, search.providers.exclude, search.provider_overrides, search.num_results, search.topic, search.auto_routing, search.max_routing_providers, search.include_raw, search.rerank, search.include_full_content, search.published_after, search.published_before, search.include_domains
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Personal, first sign-in credit
- Who can get it: anyone with a Google or GitHub account

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, provider, result rank, result URL, result title, result summary, latency in milliseconds, warnings

## Telem AI's plans (3)

- [Telem AI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/telem-ai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [Telem AI, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/telem-ai/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): 0% complete
- [Telem AI, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/telem-ai/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete

## Telem AI's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/search`: [Telem AI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/telem-ai/free/llms.txt)

## Telem AI's APIs (2)

- [Telem AI: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/telem-ai/free/llms.txt)
- [Telem AI: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/telem-ai/free/llms.txt)

## Telem AI: web search API alternatives

- [Clawifi, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [SerpScraper.dev, free, GET /webs-search, Web Search API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, free, POST /api/v2/deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/free-post-api-v2-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AnyCrawler, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anycrawler/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [LangSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/langsearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

- https://docs.telem.ai/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.telem.ai/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.telem.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.telem.ai/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.telem.ai/resources/config-reference/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.telem.ai/resources/search-parameters/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://router.telem.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://telem.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://telem.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing