TinyFish pricing and alternatives: web search API

17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 27 plans we rank by price is Firecrawl, $399 monthly, at $1.596 per 1,000 searches.

Plan: Pay as you go one of TinyFish's 2 plans

Call: GET / TinyFish's only call

GET /Free$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web search API TinyFish's only API

Web search API

About this item

Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
1 of the 6 key fields we check. Date.
Nothing to pay. You get up to 360,000 calls a month.
One call. You send query to GET /. The call returns the matching web pages.
Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old who can form a legally binding contract. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

TinyFish: web search API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

	This planTinyFish, free	Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, advanced
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00	$0.00
Completeness	17%	17%
Billing	free	free
Pay	$0	$0
Enough for	360,000 calls a month	not published
Freshness	live	live
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old who can form a legally binding contract	anyone, no account and no API key

Web search API pricing: plans compared

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, not in the answer
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

Charges
Also pays for	Fetch API: 150 urls / min and 1,000 urls / day

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	The TinyFish Search API lets you run web searches and get back structured results — titles, snippets, and URLs — ready for LLM consumption or programmatic use.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	not to "store, copy, modify, distribute, or resell any information or material available on the Services" (Site Content) "or compile or collect any Site Content as part of a database or other work", "except as may be expressly permitted by applicable law or expressly permitted by us in writing", the rights in the Outputs the Services generate for you based on your Customer Data are assigned to you, a Custom Agreement controls over these Terms
Use data	"solely for your internal business purposes (or, if you are an individual, your own personal or internal business purposes)", "This license does not include the right to sublicense, resell, or otherwise transfer the Services or any portion thereof to any third party", "Except as may be expressly permitted by applicable law or expressly permitted by us in writing, you will not, and will not permit anyone else to: [...] (b) scrape, index, or compile Site Content, or use any automated means to access the Services other than through the programmatic interfaces Tiny Fish provides, (c) rent, lease, or sublicense your access to the Services, [...] (h) access or use the Services or any Outputs to develop, train, or improve a product or service that competes with the Services, including by training or fine-tuning any machine-learning model for such a purpose"

Plan
Pay	$0
Enough for	360,000 calls a month

Rate limit
Per day	12,000
Per second	0.14

Speed
Median	3.22 s

The call
You send	query. Optional: purpose, location, language, include_domains, exclude_domains, domain_type, after_date, before_date, recency_minutes, pub_year_min, pub_year_max, page, include_thumbnail, fetch
Method	GET
Path	/

About the plan
Plan	Pay as you go
Who can get it	anyone at least 18 years old who can form a legally binding contract

The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, page, results returned, position, site name, page title, URL, snippet, thumbnail URL, published date, publisher, authors, venue, publication year, citation count, PDF URL, fetched page content