# Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, basic: 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-basic
- [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, basic
- 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, advanced · 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: 1,000 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 "basic", topic "general". Optional: max_results, 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 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, query, page title, URL, snippet, relevance score, published date, result ID, response time, credits used

## Trawlia's plans (2)

- [Trawlia, free, POST /v1/search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Trawlia, $49 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/49-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-search-basic/llms.txt): $6.125 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, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/trawlia/free-post-v1-search-search-basic/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

- [Search1API, top-up from $5, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-full/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapegraphai/100-monthly/llms.txt): $6.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $504 yearly, Pro, POST /api/v2/deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/504-yearly-pro-post-api-v2-deep/llms.txt): $6.222 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [AlterLab, $50 pack, Deposit $50, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alterlab/50-pack-deposit-50-post-api-v1-search-search-the-web-full/llms.txt): $6.364 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 2026-11-05.

- 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