# Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced: Web search API

> Need something that is not news? Trawlia searches the wider web too.

Trawlia's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 2 of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Text.
We haven't run Trawlia through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 569 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.992 per 1,000 searches or less.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry by keirolabs](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt), [Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt) and [Exa](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/exa/top-up-from-5-developer-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.trawlia.co/v1/search`, Search, advanced
- API key: with the plan, on https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://trawlia.co/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Trawlia (https://trawlia.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 33%
- Date: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, basic · Search, basic, news · Search, advanced, news · Extract

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Need something that is not news? Trawlia searches the wider web too.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Do not use Trawlia to: break the law, or help anyone else do so, collect personal data about individuals for surveillance, profiling, or harassment, reconstruct a bulk copy of any source we retrieve from, or resell raw results as a competing index, attack, overload, or probe the service or the sites it fetches from, evade credit limits, rate limits, or account suspension."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month
- Expires: unused credits do not roll over

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, search_depth "advanced", topic "general". Optional: max_results, include_raw_content, include_images, include_favicon, include_domains, exclude_domains, time_range, start_date, end_date, country, language, exact_match, include_usage, safe_search
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone old enough to enter a contract where they live, one account per person or organisation

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, page title, URL, page content, relevance score, published date, result ID, fetched, fetch error, redirected from, raw content, result images, favicon, response time, credits used

## Trawlia's plans (2)

- [Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Trawlia, $49 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/49-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt): $12.25 per 1,000, 33% complete, live

## Trawlia's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/search`, Search, advanced: [Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, basic: [Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic/llms.txt)

## Trawlia's APIs (3)

- [Trawlia: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/trawlia/free/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: news API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt)
- [Trawlia: news API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, basic, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic-news/llms.txt)

## Trawlia: web search API alternatives

- [ScrapeGraphAI, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/20-monthly/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Tako, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v3/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tako/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v3-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AgentFetch, $80 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/agentfetch/80-pack/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Kagi, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/kagi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $12.00 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 2026-11-05.

- https://trawlia.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://trawlia.co/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing