# XH Agents, pay as you go: Web search API

> Runs a live web search and returns ranked results (title, URL, domain, snippet), then fetches the top pages and returns their extracted readable text. Content retrieval, not just links.

XH Agents's x402 pay per call plan for the web search API costs $250.00 per 1,000 searches. We check each provider's docs for 6 fields. XH Agents's docs list 1: Text.
We haven't run XH Agents through [our web search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt) yet.
We rank 816 plans for web search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $4.00 or less per 1,000 searches. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 2% of the 816 plans.
[SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. [Octen's top-up plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/octen/top-up-from-5-base-post-pulse-search-pulse-search/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.
[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 less up front than SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan.
[Clawifi](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/clawifi/299-monthly/llms.txt), [Desearch](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/desearch/top-up/llms.txt) and [SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/19-monthly/llms.txt) are the best web search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xh-agents/pay-as-you-go
- [Web search API in 2026: the best of 60+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://xhagents.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://xhagents.xyz/api/web-search`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://xhagents.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1web-search
- Sold by: XH Agents (https://xhagents.xyz?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 17%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $250.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 10
- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Runs a live web search and returns ranked results (title, URL, domain, snippet), then fetches the top pages and returns their extracted readable text. Content retrieval, not just links.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not attack, overload, scrape abusively or attempt to bypass payment on our endpoints, do not use them for anything unlawful.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query. Optional: max_results, fetch_pages, extract_chars
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/web-search

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, result count, pages retrieved, rank, title, URL, domain, snippet, page fetch status, page text length, page text

## XH Agents's plans (1)

- [XH Agents, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xh-agents/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $250.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live

## XH Agents's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/web-search`: [XH Agents, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xh-agents/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## XH Agents's APIs (3)

- [XH Agents: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/xh-agents/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [XH Agents: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/xh-agents/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [XH Agents: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/xh-agents/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## XH Agents: web search API alternatives

- [QuanticData, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/quanticdata/79-monthly/llms.txt): $63.20 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/web/search, Search the web, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/socialcrawl/15-pack-starter-get-v1-web-search-search-the-web-full/llms.txt): $96.012 per 1,000, 33% complete, live
- [Nimble, pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, standard, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/nimble/pay-as-you-go-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-search-search-standard-full/llms.txt): $105.00 per 1,000, 17% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $72 monthly, Pro, POST /search, Search and Distill, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/thunderbit/72-monthly-pro-post-search-search-and-distill-full/llms.txt): $157.20 per 1,000, 50% complete, live
- [IntentCast, $9 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/intentcast/9-pack/llms.txt): $900.00 per 1,000, 17% 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 2026-11-09.

- https://xhagents.xyz?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://xhagents.xyz/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://xhagents.xyz/endpoints.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://xhagents.xyz/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://xhagents.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://xhagents.xyz/privacy.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing
- https://xhagents.xyz/terms.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-search-api-pricing