# TinyFish, free: Web search API

> 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.

TinyFish's web search API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 6 key fields we check: Date.
You get up to 360,000 calls a month.
The cheapest of the 27 plans we rank by price is [Firecrawl, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/399-monthly/llms.txt), at $1.596 per 1,000 searches.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/free
- Get it: https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api/reference
- Sold by: TinyFish (https://www.tinyfish.ai)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Date: ✓

## 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

## TinyFish's plans (2)

- [TinyFish, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [TinyFish, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/contact-us/llms.txt): 17% complete, live

## TinyFish's calls (1)

- `GET /`: [TinyFish, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt)

## TinyFish's APIs (1)

- [TinyFish: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt)

## TinyFish: web search API alternatives

- [Tavily, free, Keyless access, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/free-keyless-access-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## 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.

- https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/openapi/search
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/error-codes
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api/reference
- https://www.tinyfish.ai
- https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing
- https://www.tinyfish.ai/terms