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Thunderbit pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /search, Search and Distill

Thunderbit's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026

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50% complete: 3 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 Thunderbit's 11 plans
Call: POST /search, Search and Distill one of Thunderbit's 2 calls for this API
API: Web search API one of Thunderbit's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the web when you call.
  • 3 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Text. 2 cost extra: Links, Answer.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 600 credits, enough for 600 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". You can also send limit, site, formats and timeout. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Thunderbit: web search API alternatives

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

Thunderbit, $3,000 yearly, Pro, POST /search, Search and DistillContext.dev, $300 monthlyDataBlue, $649 yearlySearch1API, $499 pack, Pay as you go, $499 (+60% bonus), POST /news, NewsSerpex, top-up from $50
$ per 1,000 searches$0.625$0.60$0.601$0.625$0.65
Completeness50%17%33%33%17%
Billingyearlymonthlyyearlypay firstpay first
Pay$3,000$300$649$499$50
Enough for4,800,000 calls a year500,000 calls a month90,000 calls a month798,400 calls76,923 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greateranyone aged 18 or overanyone at least 16 years old and legally able to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyoneanyone

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 2026-10-29.

  1. thunderbit.com/api-pricing
  2. thunderbit.com/docs/api-reference/endpoints/search
  3. thunderbit.com/docs/api-reference/overview
  4. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/faq
  5. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/output-formats
  6. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
  7. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/units
  8. thunderbit.com/docs/llms.txt
  9. thunderbit.com/docs/recipes/search-and-distill
  10. thunderbit.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Linkscosts more
  • Answercosts more
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search10
Extra fieldsfetched page content, page links, images: +$0.00 · summary: +$0.00 · answer: +$0.00 · highlights: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Distill Single Page · Batch Distill · Extract Structured Data · Batch Extract
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPOST a Google search query and get the top results Distilled in one call. Each result returns the search snippet plus optional Markdown, summary, question/answer, highlights, links, and images.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataWhen using the Scraping Services, you agree to the following: (a) Third-Party Service Compliance. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Scraping Services complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and the terms of service of Third-Party Services. [...] (d) Personal Data. You must not use the Scraping Services to collect personal data unless you have a lawful basis for such collection and processing. [...] (e) Authentication and Access. You shall not use the Scraping Services to access content protected by authentication systems unless you have valid, authorized access to such content. [...] (f) Intellectual Property. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of scraped data respects the intellectual property rights of third parties. [...] When using the API or SDK, you agree to the following: (a) You shall not exceed the rate limits or usage quotas applicable to your Account. (b) You shall not share API keys or SDK credentials with unauthorized parties. [...] (e) You shall not use the API or SDK to build services that compete directly with the Services.
Plan
Pay$0
You get600 credits
Enough for600 calls
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: limit, site, formats, timeout
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greater
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, results returned, successful results, credits used, position, page title, URL, snippet, result status

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