# Webclaw, free: Web search API

> Run a web search and get structured results, with optional page content.

Webclaw's web search API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. Webclaw's docs list none of the 6 key fields we check: Date, Author, Text, Summary and 2 more.
We haven't run Webclaw through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 712 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.80 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/10-pack-starter-pack-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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/free
- [Web search API: the best of 30+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://webclaw.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST /v1/search`, Search
- API key: with the plan, on https://webclaw.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://webclaw.io/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Webclaw (https://webclaw.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 1,000
- Extra fields: result content: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape · Vertical extractors · Crawl · Batch · Map · Endpoints · Extract · Summarize · Diff · Brand

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Run a web search and get structured results, with optional page content.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 hour
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use webclaw to: Extract content from publicly accessible web pages [...] Build applications, tools, and integrations using our API [...] Process content for analysis, indexing, or LLM pipelines [...] You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of extracted content complies with applicable laws, the source website's terms of service, and any relevant intellectual property rights. [...] You agree not to use webclaw to: Scrape content in violation of applicable law (including CFAA, GDPR, or equivalent) [...] Extract personal data for profiling, surveillance, or purposes not permitted by data protection laws [...] Circumvent technical access controls, CAPTCHAs, or authentication mechanisms for unauthorized access [...] Conduct denial-of-service attacks against target websites or our infrastructure [...] Resell or redistribute raw API access without authorization [...] Use the service to generate spam, phishing content, or malicious payloads [...] Violate the intellectual property rights of third parties

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.33
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, scrape "false". Optional: num_results, formats, country, lang, no_cache, max_cache_age, include_domains, exclude_domains, include_url_prefixes, freshness, published_after, published_before, page, location, autocorrect
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who signs up, no card

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

result rank, result title, result URL, result snippet

## Webclaw's plans (22)

- [Webclaw, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $20 pack, Starter credit pack, 5,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/20-pack-starter-credit-pack-5000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $20 pack, Growth credit pack, 10,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/20-pack-growth-credit-pack-10000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $25 pack, Pro credit pack, 25,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/25-pack-pro-credit-pack-25000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $45 pack, Starter credit pack, 12,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/45-pack-starter-credit-pack-12000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $3.75 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $45 pack, Growth credit pack, 24,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/45-pack-growth-credit-pack-24000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $1.875 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $55 pack, Pro credit pack, 60,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/55-pack-pro-credit-pack-60000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.917 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $80 pack, Starter credit pack, 24,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/80-pack-starter-credit-pack-24000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $3.333 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $80 pack, Growth credit pack, 48,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/80-pack-growth-credit-pack-48000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $1.667 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $80 pack, Scale credit pack, 100,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/80-pack-scale-credit-pack-100000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $100 pack, Pro credit pack, 125,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/100-pack-pro-credit-pack-125000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $150 pack, Scale credit pack, 200,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/150-pack-scale-credit-pack-200000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $350 pack, Scale credit pack, 500,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/350-pack-scale-credit-pack-500000-credits-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $19 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/19-monthly-starter-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $49 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/49-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $1.96 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $99 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/99-monthly-pro-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.99 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $399 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/399-monthly-scale-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.798 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $190 yearly, Starter, billed yearly, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/190-yearly-starter-billed-yearly-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $3.167 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $490 yearly, Growth, billed yearly, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/490-yearly-growth-billed-yearly-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $1.633 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $990 yearly, Pro, billed yearly, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/990-yearly-pro-billed-yearly-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.825 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, $3,990 yearly, Scale, billed yearly, POST /v1/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/3990-yearly-scale-billed-yearly-post-v1-search-search/llms.txt): $0.665 per 1,000, 0% complete, 1 hour
- [Webclaw, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, 1 hour

## Webclaw's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/search`, Search: [Webclaw, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/search`, Search, full: [Webclaw, $20 pack, Starter credit pack, 5,000 credits, POST /v1/search, Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/20-pack-starter-credit-pack-5000-credits-post-v1-search-search-full/llms.txt)

## Webclaw's APIs (2)

- [Webclaw: web search API pricing, 22 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/webclaw/free/llms.txt)
- [Webclaw: web scraping API pricing, 22 plans, POST /v1/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webclaw/free-post-v1-batch/llms.txt)
- [Webclaw: web scraping API pricing, 22 plans, POST /v1/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webclaw/free-post-v1-scrape/llms.txt)

## Webclaw: web search API alternatives

- [Search1API, $99 monthly, Professional, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/search1api/99-monthly-professional-post-search-search/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [ScrapeNest, $99 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/search, Web Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-web-search-full/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [XCrawl, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.666 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [AlterLab, $2,000 pack, Deposit $2,000, POST /api/v1/search, Search the web](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/alterlab/2000-pack-deposit-2000-post-api-v1-search-search-the-web/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://webclaw.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://webclaw.io/docs/api/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://webclaw.io/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://webclaw.io/docs/cloud?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://webclaw.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://webclaw.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://webclaw.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing