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WaterCrawl pricing: web search API

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0% complete: none of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesIn our web search API benchmark, WaterCrawl's best plan scores 29.4 out of 100.This plan is free. We rank 534 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.96 per 1,000 searches or less.browserfoundry by keirolabs's $99.99 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.browserfoundry by keirolabs, Context.dev and Exa are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Plan one of WaterCrawl's 6 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/core/search/ WaterCrawl's only call for this API
API: Web search API one of WaterCrawl's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. WaterCrawl searches the web when you call the API.
  • None of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query and search_options to POST /api/v1/core/search/. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WaterCrawl: web search API alternatives

WaterCrawl alternatives: every web search API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planWaterCrawl, freebrowserfoundry by keirolabs, free, POST /api/v2/deepContext.dev, freeContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deepSerpex, freeTinyFish, free
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness0%33%17%50%17%50%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay€0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough fornot published150 calls1,000 pages a monthabout 833 calls, once200 calls360,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone who creates an account with an email addressanyone aged 18 or over, one unpaid organization per personanyone, no signup and no card, one free key per networkanyoneanyone at least 18 years old who can form a legally binding contract

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.

  1. app.watercrawl.dev/api/schema/team/
  2. app.watercrawl.dev/api/v1/plan/plans/
  3. docs.watercrawl.dev/api/documentation
  4. docs.watercrawl.dev/clients/python
  5. watercrawl.dev
  6. watercrawl.dev/pricing
  7. watercrawl.dev/terms

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
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search20
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWeb Search Engine: Perform comprehensive web searches with advanced query capabilities. Get real-time results from across the entire web with power of search engines.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree to use our services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must: Respect website terms of service and robots.txt [...] Maintain reasonable crawling speeds [...] Not attempt to bypass security measures [...] Not use our service for any illegal activities [...] The following activities are strictly prohibited: Scraping personal or sensitive information [...] Denial of service attacks or excessive requests [...] Distribution of malware or harmful code [...] Unauthorized access to protected content
Plan
Pay€0
You get1,000 credits a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
Median5.94 s
The call
You sendquery, search_options. Optional: result_limit, search_options.language, search_options.country, search_options.time_renge, search_options.search_type, search_options.depth
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/core/search/
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, query, language, country, time range, search type, depth, number of results requested, duration, status, result URL, created at

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