# Tencent Cloud, pay as you go, 极速版 (Lite): Web search API

> 元宝搜索（Tencent Yuanbao Search）以互联网全网公开资源为基础，叠加腾讯优质内容生态，结合元宝APP联网搜索应用实践，从数据收录到智能检索召回，全链路构建AI友好搜索引擎。

Tencent Cloud's web search API on its 极速版 (Lite) plan. It costs $2.094 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Date.
CNY 14.00 per 1,000 searches is $2.094 at the European Central Bank's rate of $0.14956 for CNY 1.
We haven't run Tencent Cloud through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 569 plans we rank by price cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 64% of the 569 plans.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-lite
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://cloud.tencent.com/product/wsa?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://wsa.tencentcloudapi.com/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://cloud.tencent.com/product/wsa?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://cloud.tencent.com/document/api/1806/121811?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Tencent Cloud (https://cloud.tencent.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Date: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $2.094
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: 元宝搜索（Tencent Yuanbao Search）以互联网全网公开资源为基础，叠加腾讯优质内容生态，结合元宝APP联网搜索应用实践，从数据收录到智能检索召回，全链路构建AI友好搜索引擎。

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "7.1 在本协议项下一方向对方提供的任何资料、技术或技术支持、软件、服务等的知识产权均属于提供一方或其合法权利人所有；除此之外，除非提供方或合法权利人明示同意，另一方无权复制、传播、转让、许可或提供他人使用上述知识产权。" [...] "7.2 腾讯云保留本协议项下服务成果和服务衍生品的知识产权和其他权益；除本协议另有明确规定外，本协议任何内容均不得解释为授予您前述服务成果和服务衍生品的知识产权和其他权益。"

## Plan

- Pay: monthly

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: Query, Action "SearchPro", Version "2025-05-08". Optional: Mode, Site, Cnt, Industry, Freshness, Deeplinks
- Method: POST
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: 极速版 (Lite)
- Who can get it: anyone with a real-name-verified Tencent Cloud account, individual or enterprise, that has activated Yuanbao Search

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

original query, edition, message, request ID, page title, URL, published date, standard summary, site name, site icon

## Tencent Cloud's plans (3)

- [Tencent Cloud, pay as you go, 极速版 (Lite)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-lite/llms.txt): $2.094 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Tencent Cloud, pay as you go, 标准版 (Standard)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-standard/llms.txt): $2.991 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Tencent Cloud, pay as you go, 旗舰版 (Flagship)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-flagship/llms.txt): $3.889 per 1,000, 17% complete

## Tencent Cloud's calls (1)

- `POST /`: [Tencent Cloud, pay as you go, 极速版 (Lite)](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-lite/llms.txt)

## Tencent Cloud's APIs (2)

- [Tencent Cloud: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-lite/llms.txt)
- [Tencent Cloud: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/tencent-cloud/pay-as-you-go-standard/llms.txt)

## Tencent Cloud: web search API alternatives

- [Context.dev, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/20-monthly/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [fastCRW, $177 pack, Growth top-up, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/fastcrw/177-pack-growth-top-up-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $2.02 per 1,000, 33% complete
- [Search1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/4990-yearly-enterprise-annual-post-ask/llms.txt): $2.079 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Anakin, $500 monthly, Business](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/anakin/500-monthly-business/llms.txt): $2.143 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 2026-11-04.

- https://cloud.tencent.com/document/api/1806/121811?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://cloud.tencent.com/document/product/301/1967?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://cloud.tencent.com/product/wsa?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TencentCloud/tencentcloud-sdk-python/master/tencentcloud/wsa/v20250508/models.py?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/TencentCloud/tencentcloud-sdk-python/master/tencentcloud/wsa/v20250508/wsa_client.py?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing