# XCrawl, free: Web search API

> Search API is a programmatic solution that enables developers and data teams to retrieve real-time search engine results via API. It handles IP rotation, geolocation, anti-bot challenges and returns structured SERP data ready for analysis or AI pipelines.

XCrawl'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.
We rank 511 plans by price. [browserfoundry's $99.99 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/99-99-monthly-startup-post-api-v2-search-lite/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033.
[browserfoundry](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/browserfoundry/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/xcrawl/free
- [Best web search API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.xcrawl.com/buy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://run.xcrawl.com/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.xcrawl.com/buy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.xcrawl.com/doc/api-reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: XCrawl (https://www.xcrawl.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-03

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 100
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Scrape API · Map API · Crawl API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search API is a programmatic solution that enables developers and data teams to retrieve real-time search engine results via API. It handles IP rotation, geolocation, anti-bot challenges and returns structured SERP data ready for analysis or AI pipelines.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Customer shall not use the Services in violation of applicable laws or regulations or any third party rights (including intellectual property rights), or in any manner or for any purpose other than as set out in the intended use case (if applicable) provided to XCrawl", "When using the proxy services, the client shall not use the services to [...] 1.3 Distribute any illegal content or encourage any illegal activity [...] 1.5 Enhance or operate services that compete with the Services, or assist any other party in doing so. 1.6 Access, attack, crawl, or attempt to access any website, application, or system related to financial transactions, banking, securities, cryptocurrency exchanges, etc. 1.7 Access, disseminate, or participate in any content or activities involving pornography, gambling, drugs, violence, or other content that violates public morals, laws, or regulations. 1.8 Conduct any unauthorized scraping, collection, or use of data, especially content involving personal privacy, sensitive data, or protected information. 1.9 Engage in any illegal or criminal activity, such as money laundering, theft of trade secrets, or theft of personal information.", "When using the Data Services, Customer may not distribute, transmit, copy, publish, license, transfer or sell any Data to offer similar or competing products."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls
- Expires: 30-day trial

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: location, language, limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: individuals 18 or older and legal entities represented by natural persons, for personal or business use

## The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, endpoint, version, status, query, started at, ended at, total credits used, credits used, credits breakdown, result title, result URL, result description, result position

## XCrawl's plans (6)

- [XCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [XCrawl, $8 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/8-monthly/llms.txt): $3.20 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [XCrawl, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/49-monthly/llms.txt): $1.633 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [XCrawl, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/199-monthly/llms.txt): $1.137 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [XCrawl, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.832 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [XCrawl, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.666 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [XCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/free/llms.txt)

## XCrawl's APIs (8)

- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data, AP News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-ap-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Baidu News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-baidu-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data, BBC News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-bbc-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Bing News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Duckduckgo News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-duckduckgo-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: news API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data, Naver News Search](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data-naver-news-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Baidu Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-baidu-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Bing Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Duckduckgo Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Naver Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-naver-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Yahoo Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-yahoo-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Bing Images Search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-images-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Images Search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-images-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: image search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Yahoo Image Search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-yahoo-image-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Bing Videos Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-bing-videos-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Video Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-video-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Yahoo Video Search](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-yahoo-video-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: video search API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/data](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-data/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: Trustpilot review API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/trustpilot-review-apis/xcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xcrawl/free/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: search autocomplete API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Autocomplete Search](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-autocomplete-search/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: search autocomplete API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/serp, Google Trends Autocomplete](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-serp-google-trends-autocomplete/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-scrape-scrape-api/llms.txt)
- [XCrawl: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/xcrawl/free-plan-post-v1-scrape-scrape-api-full/llms.txt)

## XCrawl: web search API alternatives

- [Serpex, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpex/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $0.65 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/datablue/59-monthly/llms.txt): $0.656 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [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
- [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 2026-11-03.

- https://docs.xcrawl.com/doc/api-reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://docs.xcrawl.com/doc/developer-guides/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.xcrawl.com/buy/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.xcrawl.com/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://www.xcrawl.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing