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Bing Search APIs
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- Free allowance
- None: retired
- Verdict
- deadthe offer or the service no longer exists
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateno allowance: every instance is decommissioned and no new signup is accepted
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- checked 2026-10-22checked 2026-10-22 (live)
| Free tier | none: retired unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) no allowance: every instance is decommissioned and no new signup is accepted source
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| Identity | card was an Azure subscription |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Retention | not applicable: decommissioned |
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| Interface | rest was a REST API with a subscription key |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | not established |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | Any list that still carries a Bing Web Search free tier is out of date, and the replacement is Grounding with Bing inside Azure AI Agents, which is a different product with a different price. |
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Evidence 1
Unknown values 2
$.reliability_note nothing of this kind was observed$.tooling a source was read and is silent on this field