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WebSearchAPI.ai pricing and alternatives: web search API, POST /ai-search, Search API

WebSearchAPI.ai's sitellms.txtBest web search API in 2026
33% complete: 2 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 260 plans we rank by price is Keenable, free, Keyless, at $0.00 per 1,000 searches.Context.dev, Serpex and Search1API are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of WebSearchAPI.ai's 3 plans
Call: POST /ai-search, Search API one of WebSearchAPI.ai's 2 calls
API: Web search API WebSearchAPI.ai's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
  • 2 of the 6 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: Text. 1 costs extra: Answer.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,000 credits a month, enough for 2,000 calls.
  • One call. You send query to POST /ai-search. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the matching web pages.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WebSearchAPI.ai: web search API alternatives

The table starts with WebSearchAPI.ai's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to WebSearchAPI.ai's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

WebSearchAPI.ai, $1,250 monthly, Expert, POST /ai-search, Search APISocial Fetch, $59 packSearch1API, $4,990 yearly, Enterprise (annual), POST /search, Search, fullContextFetch, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, +20% on top-ups from $500, POST /v1/search, Search, deepSpider Cloud, top-up from $5,000, Pay as you go, $5,000 or more (+15% credits), POST /search, Search and crawl
$ per 1,000 searches$2.50$2.36$2.495$2.50$2.609
Completeness33%17%33%50%17%
Billingmonthlypay firstyearlypay firstpay first
Pay$1,250$59$4,990$500$5,000
Enough for500,000 calls a month25,000 callsabout 166,666 calls a month200,000 callsabout 1,916,666 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who contacts salesanyone, for an organisation, someone with the authority to bind itanyoneanyoneanyone

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. websearchapi.ai
  2. websearchapi.ai/ai-search-api
  3. websearchapi.ai/api-playground
  4. websearchapi.ai/docs/quick-start
  5. websearchapi.ai/docs/scraper-api
  6. websearchapi.ai/docs/search-api
  7. websearchapi.ai/pricing
  8. websearchapi.ai/terms-of-use

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
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Answercosts more
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search10
Extra fieldspage content: +$0.00 · answer: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scraper API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch Google, Bing, Brave, Yandex, Baidu, and DuckDuckGo—plus public conversations on X, Reddit, and Discourse. Fetch, deduplicate, rerank, and return clean content or structured AI output.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataOur API is provided under a non-exclusive, non-transferable license. Usage must comply with our documentation and call volume limits. [...] Users must not use our API to generate outputs that violate intellectual property rights, distribute malware, or attempt unauthorized access.
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,000 credits a month
Enough for2,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: maxResults, includeContent, contentLength, contentFormat, country, language, timeframe, includeAnswer, safeSearch, includeDomains, excludeDomains, siteSearch, exactTerms, excludeTerms, fileType
MethodPOST
Path/ai-search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, page title, URL, description, position, score, response time

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