ToolCall pricing: web search API
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33% complete: 2 of the 6 fields on our checklistSee the 6 fields
$8.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run ToolCall through our web search API benchmark yet.We rank 816 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.00 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 28% of the 816 plans.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. Octen's top-up plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.Levirge's $29 monthly plan covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan.Clawifi, Desearch and SerpScraper.dev are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: x402 pay per call ToolCall's only plan
Call:
GET / t/ web/ search ToolCall's only call for this APIAPI: Web search API one of ToolCall's 7 APIs
- Domain WHOIS API
- Email verification API
- Job postings API
- Local business search API
- News API
- Web scraping API
- Web search API
About this item
- Live. ToolCall searches the web when you call the API.
- 2 of the 6 fields on our checklist. Text, Answer.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. The call returns the matching web pages.t/ web/ search - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
ToolCall: web search API alternatives
ToolCall alternatives: other web search API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| This planToolCall, pay as you go | browserfoundry by keirolabs, $100 pack, Scale Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content | Croma, $799 monthly | Tavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, basic | Agent402 Tools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/search-lite | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 | $7.50 | $8.00 | $8.00 | $8.00 |
| Completeness | 33% | 17% | 50% | 50% | 0% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | monthly | pay as you go | pay as you go |
| Pay | per call | $100 | $799 | monthly | per call |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | about 13,333 calls | 100,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key | anyone who creates an account with an email address | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter the Terms, or authorized to bind the company | anyone at least 18 (or the age of majority where they live, if higher), able to form a binding contract, not barred from receiving services under U.S. or other applicable law, not in an embargoed jurisdiction and not on a U.S. government sanctions list, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC (or USDG on Robinhood Chain) over x402 or MPP |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
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
- Links, not in the answer
- Answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $8.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| Their pitch | Keyless web search for agents: pass a query, get a concise web-grounded answer plus the top source results (title, URL, snippet). Live web access, no API key or account needed. |
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| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | q |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /t/web/search |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key |
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold
query, answer, title, URL, snippet