# WaterCrawl, free: Web search API

> Web Search Engine: Perform comprehensive web searches with advanced query capabilities. Get real-time results from across the entire web with power of search engines.

WaterCrawl'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.
In [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt), 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](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/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/watercrawl/free
- [Web search API: 30+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://watercrawl.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://app.watercrawl.dev/api/v1/core/search/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://watercrawl.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.watercrawl.dev/api/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#tag/Search-Requests/operation/core_search_create
- Sold by: WaterCrawl (https://watercrawl.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
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 20

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Web 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 get: 1,000 credits a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling
- Median: 5.94 s

## The call

- You send: query, search_options. Optional: result_limit, search_options.language, search_options.country, search_options.time_renge, search_options.search_type, search_options.depth
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/core/search/

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## WaterCrawl's plans (6)

- [WaterCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [WaterCrawl, €9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/9-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [WaterCrawl, €19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/19-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [WaterCrawl, €57.60 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/57-60-yearly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [WaterCrawl, €117.60 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/117-60-yearly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [WaterCrawl, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, live

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

- `POST /api/v1/core/search/`: [WaterCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/free/llms.txt)

## WaterCrawl's APIs (2)

- [WaterCrawl: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/watercrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [WaterCrawl: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/watercrawl/free/llms.txt)

## WaterCrawl: web search API alternatives

- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, free, POST /api/v2/deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/free-post-api-v2-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Context.dev, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/context-dev/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [ContextFetch, free, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/contextfetch/free-starter-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [Serpex, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [TinyFish, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 50% 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://app.watercrawl.dev/api/schema/team/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://app.watercrawl.dev/api/v1/plan/plans/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.watercrawl.dev/api/documentation?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.watercrawl.dev/clients/python?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://watercrawl.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://watercrawl.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://watercrawl.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing