# ToolCall, pay as you go: Web search API

> 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.

ToolCall's x402 pay per call plan for the web search API costs $8.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. ToolCall's docs list 2: Text, Answer.
We haven't run ToolCall through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. [Octen's top-up plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs less up front than SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://toolcall.click/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://toolcall.click/t/web/search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://toolcall.click/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#/paths/~1t~1web~1search
- Sold by: ToolCall (https://toolcall.click?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Text: ✓
- Answer: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $8.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q
- Method: GET
- Path: /t/web/search

## About the plan

- 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

## ToolCall's plans (1)

- [ToolCall, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## ToolCall's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /t/web/search`: [ToolCall, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ToolCall's APIs (7)

- [ToolCall: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: job postings API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ToolCall: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/toolcall/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ToolCall: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $100 pack, Scale Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/100-pack-scale-pack-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Croma, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/799-monthly/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Tavily, pay as you go, POST /search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tavily/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Agent402 Tools, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/search-lite](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agent402-tools/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-search-lite/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://toolcall.click/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing