# UnSearch, free: Web search API

> Perform web search with optional content scraping from results.

UnSearch's web search API on its Free 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.
We rank 511 plans by price. [browserfoundry's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/29-99-monthly-essential-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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/unsearch/free
- [Best web search API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://unsearch.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.unsearch.dev/api/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://unsearch.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://github.com/Rakesh1002/unsearch/blob/main/docs/tech/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#post-search
- Sold by: UnSearch (https://unsearch.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Perform web search with optional content scraping from results.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 5,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by webhook

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: engines, max_results, scrape_content, scrape_selectors, cache_ttl, language, safe_search, include_images, include_links, timeout, async_mode, js_mode, screenshot, pdf, webhook_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 31 fields the plan's answer can hold

result rank, result title, result URL, result snippet, result engine, result score, result cached, scraped page URL, scraped page title, scraped page text, scraped page HTML, scraped page images, scraped page links, scraped page metadata, extraction success, extraction time, word count, language detected, content quality score, query, engines used, engines succeeded, engines failed, total results, results returned, search time, timestamp, processing time, cached, cache key, request ID

## UnSearch's plans (4)

- [UnSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/unsearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [UnSearch, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/unsearch/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.76 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [UnSearch, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/unsearch/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.49 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [UnSearch, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/unsearch/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.298 per 1,000, 0% complete

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

- `POST /search`: [UnSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/unsearch/free/llms.txt)

## UnSearch's APIs (2)

- [UnSearch: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/unsearch/free/llms.txt)
- [UnSearch: web search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/unsearch/free/llms.txt)

## UnSearch: web search API alternatives

- [treg, top-up from $10, Top-up of $10 to $49, POST /call/treg.web.search.publications](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/treg/top-up-from-10-top-up-of-10-to-49-post-call-treg-web-search-publications/llms.txt): $0.291 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [CrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, GET /customsearch/v1](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/crawlerdata/3750-pack-ultimate-get-customsearch-v1/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Searlo, $74.99 pack, Scale, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/searlo/74-99-pack-scale-post-search-and-scrape-search-and-scrape/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [Context.dev, $9,500 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/9500-yearly/llms.txt): $0.317 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 2026-11-01.

- https://github.com/Rakesh1002/unsearch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://github.com/Rakesh1002/unsearch/blob/main/docs/tech/api.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://unsearch.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing