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Valyu pricing and alternatives: web search API

Valyu's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
0% complete: none of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 161 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: Free one of Valyu's 6 plans
Call: POST /v1/search Valyu's only call
API: Web search API Valyu's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,600 credits, enough for 3,200 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire 12 months after signup.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/search. The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Valyu: web search API alternatives

The table starts with Valyu's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Valyu's.

Valyu, $499 monthlySearlo, $29.99 pack, Builder, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, fullSearch1API, $499 monthly, Enterprise, POST /askContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /v1/search, Search, deepbrowserfoundry, $100 pack, Scale Pack, POST /api/v2/search/fast
$ per 1,000 searches$2.495$2.399$2.495$2.50$2.50
Completeness0%0%17%33%17%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$499$29.99$499$500$100
Enough for200,000 calls a month12,500 calls200,000 calls a month200,000 calls40,000 calls
Freshnessunknownunknownliveliveunknown
Who can get itanyone who is at least 16 years old, with a parent's or guardian's permission if under 18, and the legal authority to enter into the Platform Service Agreementanyone at least 18 years oldanyoneanyoneanyone who creates an account with an email address

Every web search API provider we score, ranked

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.

  1. docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/endpoint/search
  2. docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/openapi.json
  3. docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/overview
  4. docs.valyu.ai/pricing
  5. valyu.ai/pricing
  6. valyu.ai/terms
  7. valyu.ai/valyu-acceptable-use-policy
  8. valyu.ai/valyu-platform-service-agreement

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Date, not in the answer
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answer, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search20
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Contents · Answer · DeepResearch
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchRanked results with full-text excerpts from web and proprietary sources
Data
Keep datano retention period is set in its documentation for what the API answers, "You may temporarily cache Outputs only within the durations specified by Valyu's Documentation. You may not: Store Outputs indefinitely, Store Outputs in volumes sufficient to recreate datasets, Store large batches of outputs from related queries, Store Outputs outside the permitted cache window", "Restricted Content [...] You may not: Cache, Store, Retain, Log, Index, Reformat, Copy any Restricted Content. All Restricted Content must be discarded once the request completes", "Upon termination: you must delete all cached data"
Use data"use Outputs within your applications", "You may not: use any Output for model training, fine-tuning, pre-training, embedding generation, or dataset construction, use Output to recreate the structure of any Valyu dataset or publisher corpus, resell or sublicense Outputs", "You may not use the Services to: circumvent paywalls or access restrictions, recreate datasets or build a competing search/index service, scrape, bulk extract, or systematically harvest content, perform benchmark dumping or bulk export of Outputs, use in regulated decision-making (medical, legal, financial) without human oversight, conduct security testing without permission, violate copyright or intellectual property rights", "use Outputs returned by the Services, provided that any source attribution and/or citation to Valyu or it’s Partners is included in the Output and is displayed clearly. It will not be removed, obscured, or disabled within your service or product", "You may not: Develop search engines, RAG corpora, knowledge bases, embeddings, LLMs, datasets, indexes, or generative models that compete with Valyu, Use Outputs as seeds for synthetic data that replicates licensed or indexed content, Use Outputs to build evaluation datasets for model training without written permission", "You may not: Embed Outputs into a vector store, Create, augment, or curate datasets partially or wholly derived from Outputs, Generate synthetic corpora seeded by Outputs, Store Outputs or derivatives in structured or unstructured datasets"
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,600 credits
Enough for3,200 calls
Expires12 months after signup
Speed
Answerin the call
Median5.24 s
The call
You sendquery. Optional: max_num_results, search_type, max_price, relevance_threshold, included_sources, excluded_sources, scope_policy, source_biases, instructions, category, is_tool_call, response_length, start_date, end_date, country_code, fast_mode, url_only, historical_cache, historical_cache_strict, include_abstracts, include_image_links, hls_coverage
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who is at least 16 years old, with a parent's or guardian's permission if under 18, and the legal authority to enter into the Platform Service Agreement
The 40 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, transaction ID, query, result ID, title, URL, content, description, source, price, length, image URL, relevance score, data type, source type, publication date, crawl date, abstract, DOI, citation, citation count, authors, references, metadata, web result count, proprietary result count, total cost, total characters, warning type, warning message, warning detail, source scope policy, allowed dataset IDs, selected dataset IDs, completed dataset IDs, returned dataset IDs, omitted dataset IDs, selection basis, source scope coverage, exhaustive

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