# WickedAPI, free: Web search API

> Real-time web search for agents: ranked results with title, URL, snippet and score, plus an optional synthesized answer. Pay per search, general or news topic.

WickedAPI's Free API key plan for the web search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. WickedAPI's docs list 1: Text.
WickedAPI limits how many calls you get but gives no number.
We haven't run WickedAPI through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 798 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.756 or less per 1,000 searches. [See the best free web search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
[GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/gadgethumans/15-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches. GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan covers up to 100,000 searches a day. [UAPI's CNY 24.90 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/uapi/cny-24-90-pack/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $3.72.
[Levirge's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/levirge/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of searches. Levirge's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GadgetHumans's $15 monthly plan.
[ScrapeNest](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapenest/99-monthly-growth-post-v1-search-web-search/llms.txt), [Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/wickedapi/free
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://wickedapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.wickedapi.com/v1/web-search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://wickedapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://api.wickedapi.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: WickedAPI (https://wickedapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: GET /v1/status · GET /v1/kalshi-probability · GET /v1/kalshi-market · GET /v1/funding-oi · GET /v1/long-short-ratio · GET /v1/orderbook · GET /v1/basis · GET /v1/hyperliquid · GET /v1/volatility · GET /v1/sentiment · GET /v1/defi-tvl · GET /v1/price · GET /v1/ohlcv · GET /v1/atr · GET /v1/rates · GET /v1/market-clock · GET /v1/market-overview · GET /v1/gas · GET /v1/fvg · GET /v1/liquidity-levels · GET /v1/macro-calendar · GET /v1/earnings-calendar · GET /v1/wallet-portfolio · GET /v1/verdict · GET /v1/momentum-score · GET /v1/chain-balance · GET /v1/chain-token-balance · GET /v1/chain-nonce · GET /v1/chain-block · GET /v1/chain-ens · GET /v1/chain-tx · GET /v1/polymarket · GET /v1/crypto-news · GET /v1/liquidations

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time web search for agents: ranked results with title, URL, snippet and score, plus an optional synthesized answer. Pay per search, general or news topic.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: max_results, topic, include_answer
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/web-search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free API key
- Who can get it: anyone who requests a key from the operator

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

page title, URL, snippet, score, synthesized answer

## WickedAPI's plans (2)

- [WickedAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/wickedapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 17% complete
- [WickedAPI, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/wickedapi/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete

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

- `GET /v1/web-search`: [WickedAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/wickedapi/free/llms.txt)

## WickedAPI's APIs (2)

- [WickedAPI: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/wickedapi/free/llms.txt)
- [WickedAPI: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/wickedapi/free/llms.txt)

## WickedAPI: web search API alternatives

- [DataGait, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /search, Search, balanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datagait/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-balanced/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Spidra, $5 pack, 500 credit top-up, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spidra/5-pack-500-credit-top-up-post-search-search/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 0% complete
- [browserfoundry by keirolabs, $10 pack, Starter Pack, POST /api/v2/search/content](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry-by-keirolabs/10-pack-starter-pack-post-api-v2-search-content/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby, POST /v2/search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 33% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-10.

- https://api.wickedapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.wickedapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://api.wickedapi.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://wickedapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://wickedapi.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing