# treg, free, $1.00 free to start, POST /call/treg.web.search: Web search API

> Search the open web — provider-native result rows in `results`

treg's web search API on its $1.00 free to start plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns none of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
The cheapest of the 260 plans we rank by price is [Keenable, free, Keyless](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/keenable/free-keyless/llms.txt), at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
[Context.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/300-monthly/llms.txt), [Serpex](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt) and [Search1API](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/499-monthly-enterprise-post-search-search-full/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/free-1-00-free-to-start-post-call-treg-web-search
- [Best web search API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://treg.to/pricing
- Request: `POST https://treg.to/call/treg.web.search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://treg.to/pricing
- Its API docs: https://treg.to/catalog/endpoints/treg.web.search
- Sold by: treg (https://treg.to)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Waterfall

- Waterfall: TinyFish (tinyfish.web.search) $0.00, finds 87% · Crawl4AI (crawl4ai.web.search) $0.15, finds 83%, misses billed · Spider (spidercloud.web.search) $1.00, finds 41% · Search1API (search1api.web.search) $1.00, finds 37% · Perplexity (perplexity.web.search.fast) $1.00, finds 95%, misses billed · Serper (serper.web.search) $1.00, finds 87%, misses billed · Parallel (parallel.web.search) $1.00, finds 76%, misses billed · Diffbot (diffbot.x.web-search) $1.196, finds 59%, misses billed · Context.dev (branddev.web.search) $2.534, finds 86% · Keenable (keenable.web.search) $4.00, finds 96%, misses billed · You.com (you.web.search) $5.00, finds 82%, misses billed · Exa (exa.web.search) $7.00, finds 99%, misses billed · Octen (octen.web.search) $5.00, finds 55%, misses billed · Firecrawl (firecrawl.web.search) $10.00, finds 100% · Olostep (olostep.web.search) $10.00, finds 69%, misses billed · Valyu (valyu.web.search) $15.00, misses billed · Tavily (tavily.web.search) $16.00, finds 94%, misses billed · Linkup (linkup.web.search) $55.00, finds 83% · ScrapeGraphAI (scrapegraphai.web.search) $160.00, finds 68%

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 4,000 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search the open web — provider-native result rows in `results`

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: any but spam or bulk unsolicited email, and not against the terms, rate limits or anti-abuse measures of any upstream API, inside your own product, with your own billing layer and the pass-through attribution mechanics, too

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $1

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: no limit
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 4.01 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: limit, X-Treg-Route-Waterfall, X-Treg-Route-Max-Cost, X-Treg-Route-Prefer, X-Treg-Route-Exclude, X-Treg-Route-Strict-Filters
- Method: POST
- Path: /call/treg.web.search

## About the plan

- Plan: $1.00 free to start
- Who can get it: a new account once its email is verified, for one team (aliases of one inbox share one), 16 or over

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

count, found, amount charged, serving source

## treg's plans (5)

- [treg, free, $1.00 free to start, POST /call/treg.web.search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/free-1-00-free-to-start-post-call-treg-web-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [treg, top-up from $10, Top-up of $10 to $49, POST /call/treg.web.search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/top-up-from-10-top-up-of-10-to-49-post-call-treg-web-search/llms.txt): 0% complete
- [treg, top-up from $50, Top-up of $50 to $99, +5% bonus, POST /call/treg.web.search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/top-up-from-50-top-up-of-50-to-99-5-bonus-post-call-treg-web-search/llms.txt): 0% complete
- [treg, top-up from $100, Top-up of $100 to $199, +10% bonus, POST /call/treg.web.search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/top-up-from-100-top-up-of-100-to-199-10-bonus-post-call-treg-web-search/llms.txt): 0% complete
- [treg, top-up from $200, Top-up of $200 to $2,000, +15% bonus, POST /call/treg.web.search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/top-up-from-200-top-up-of-200-to-2000-15-bonus-post-call-treg-web-search/llms.txt): 0% complete

## treg's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /call/treg.web.search`: [treg, free, $1.00 free to start, POST /call/treg.web.search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/free-1-00-free-to-start-post-call-treg-web-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /call/treg.web.search.news`: [treg, free, $1.00 free to start, POST /call/treg.web.search.news](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/free-1-00-free-to-start-post-call-treg-web-search-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /call/treg.web.search.publications`: [treg, free, $1.00 free to start, POST /call/treg.web.search.publications](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/free-1-00-free-to-start-post-call-treg-web-search-publications/llms.txt)

## treg's APIs (17)

- [treg: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: company open jobs API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: similar companies API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/similar-company-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: email verification API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: phone finder API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/find-phone-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: people search API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: people enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/person-enrichment-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: reverse email lookup API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reverse-email-lookup-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /call/treg.people.email.find](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/treg/free/llms.txt)
- [treg: email finder API pricing, 5 plans, POST /call/treg.people.email.find.personal](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/treg/free-1-00-free-to-start-post-call-treg-people-email-find-personal/llms.txt)
- [treg: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /call/treg.web.search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/free-1-00-free-to-start-post-call-treg-web-search/llms.txt)

## treg: web search API alternatives

- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Serpex, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Search1API, free, Free, POST /ask](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/free-free-post-ask/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Spider Cloud, free, credits, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/free-credits-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [LangSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/langsearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## 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://github.com/superdesigndev/treg
- https://github.com/superdesigndev/treg/blob/main/docs/context/architecture/money.md
- https://github.com/superdesigndev/treg/blob/main/src/treg/application/billing.py
- https://github.com/superdesigndev/treg/blob/main/src/treg/config.py
- https://treg.to/
- https://treg.to/catalog/endpoints/treg.web.search
- https://treg.to/catalog/linkedin
- https://treg.to/catalog/platforms/web
- https://treg.to/integrate.md
- https://treg.to/llms.txt
- https://treg.to/meta
- https://treg.to/pricing
- https://treg.to/skill.md
- https://treg.to/support
- https://treg.to/terms
- https://treg.to/use-cases/get-a-linkedin-profile
- https://treg.to/use-cases/get-a-linkedin-profile.md