Find the right search API
93 prices from 16 providers · prices checked
Cheapest search API at 1,000 searches a month
every search APIPer 1,000 searches, bought the cheapest way each provider sells them; each row says its price at 100,000 too.
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DataForSEO · pay as you go · $2 at 100k$2/1k searches - 2
Serper · Starter pack · $0.75 at 100k$8.33/1k searches - 3
SerpApi · Starter plan · $7.25 at 100k$25/1k searches - 4
Scrapingdog · Lite plan · $0.90 at 100k$40/1k searches - 5
SearchApi · Developer plan · $2.50 at 100k$40/1k searches
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Parallel · pay as you go · $1 at 100k · page text$1/1k searches - 2
Perplexity · pay as you go · $1 at 100k · page text$1/1k searches - 3
Exa · pay as you go · $4 at 100k · page text$4/1k searches - 4
Brave Search API · pay as you go · $5 at 100k · page text$5/1k searches - 5
Linkup · pay as you go · $5 at 100k · page text$5/1k searches - 6
You.com · pay as you go · $5 at 100k · page text$5/1k searches - 7
Tavily · pay as you go · $5 at 100k · page text$8/1k searches
- 1You.com · pay as you go · $5 at 100k$5/1k searches
- 2Exa · pay as you go · $5 at 100k$5/1k searches
- 3Linkup · pay as you go · $6 at 100k$6/1k searches
- 4Parallel · pay as you go · $10 at 100k$10/1k searches
- 1Perplexity · pay as you go · $1 at 100k$1/1k searches
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xAI · pay as you go · $5 at 100k$5/1k searches - 3
Anthropic · pay as you go · $10 at 100k$10/1k searches - 4
OpenAI · pay as you go · $10 at 100k$10/1k searches - 5
Google Gemini API · pay as you go · $14 at 100k
$14/1k searches
Pick what you need
Web search
Search the web from code: Google results, an own index, a written answer, or a model's own search. From $1 per 1,000 searches.
Google results
The Google results page as JSON, scraped and parsed for you: titles, links, snippets and the page's other blocks.
Answers
A written answer with its sources, from one call.
Model tools
The search a model makes for itself inside a model call, with the model's tokens billed on top.
Cheapest today
The cheapest web search API with its own index is Parallel Search, fast at $1 per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 a month, against a typical $5.
Cheapest web search API today
Parallel
pay as you go · $1 at 100,000 a month · page text
$1/1k
at 1,000 searches a month
$5
typical own-index search
The least you pay for 1,000 searches over a web index built for a model to read, 80% under the typical one.
The market today
Cheapest at 1,000 a month
$1
per 1,000 searches
Cheapest at 100,000
$0.75
per 1,000 searches
Typical search API
$7
per 1,000, at 1,000 a month
A model's own search
$10
typical, per 1,000, tokens extra
Providers in the index
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What moved this week
every change- You.com · newly listed · $5/1k
- Exa · newly listed · $5/1k
Google SERP Light, Corporate Plus
Scrapingdog · newly listed · $2,500/moGoogle SERP Light, Enterprise Plus
Scrapingdog · newly listed · $5,000/moGoogle SERP Light, Enterprise Starter
Scrapingdog · newly listed · $4,000/mo