Mojeek
- Free allowance
- A free credit on the Startup plan, claimed after signup; a bank card is required to open the account; the credit's size and expiry are unverified: not published on any page read
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateStartup: GBP 2 per 1,000 requests, 5 queries a second, 100,000 queries a day, up to 10 results a request; Business: GBP 3 per 1,000 requests, 10 queries a second, 400,000 queries a day, up to 40 results
- Evidence
- documented11 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | a free credit on the Startup plan, claimed after signup; a bank card is required to open the account; the credit's size and expiry are unverified: not published on any page read unit mixed; metered on request-count; The unit is a one-time credit of unstated size against the Startup price of GBP 2 per 1,000 requests. |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
pay-as-you-go with no automatic payments; prices exclude VAT |
| Binding | request-rate identity fails first, since a bank card opens the account; once past it, the 5-a-second Startup cap is the first limit |
| Identity | card registration at the vendor's accounts site asks for an email address and a password; a bank card is required to open an account, even to claim the free credit; payments go through Stripe and none are taken automatically |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a request; up to 10 results a request on Startup |
| Retention | not published: no page read states an expiry for the free credit |
| Interface | rest GET https://api.mojeek.com/search with q and api_key parameters; JSON or XML output; country and language boosting parameters endpoint: https://api.mojeek.com/search |
| Tooling | plain HTTP GET with an api_key query parameter |
| Composes with | An independent crawler index rather than a resale of Google or Bing results, at GBP 2 per 1,000 requests once a card is on file |
| Reliability | a keyless call to the search endpoint answered 403 with an empty body |
| Notes | The card gate is the finding: the credit is real but no account opens without a bank card. The plan buttons link to a contact form rather than a self-serve checkout. |
| Evidence note | documented the card requirement, the Startup price and the rate caps are quoted from the first-party API page; the size of the free credit is behind a card-gated sign-up |
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Evidence 11
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/ | the free credit needs a bank card on the account |
| 2026-10-30 | www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/ | the Startup plan allows 5 queries a second |
| 2026-10-30 | www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/ | the Startup plan allows 100,000 queries a day |
| 2026-10-30 | www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/ | the Startup plan costs GBP 2 per 1,000 requests |
| 2026-10-30 | www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/ | the API serves Mojeek's own index |
| 2026-10-30 | www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/ | part of the text of Limits, above |
| 2026-10-30 | www.mojeek.com/support/api/search/quickstart.html | the search endpoint and its key parameter |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: api.mojeek.com/search | a keyless call answered 403 |
| 2026-11-01 | www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/ | the FAQ offers a free credit after sign-up on the Startup plan and requires a bank card to open an account, and states neither a size nor an expiry for the credit |
| 2026-11-01 | accounts.mojeek.com/register | the account registration form asks for an email address and a password entered twice, and no other field |
| 2026-11-01 | community.mojeek.com/t/web-search-api-trial-and-account-page | a reply from the vendor on its own forum (December 2025) says a signed-up account can claim some credits and try the API for free, and names no amount or expiry |
Unknown values 1
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer