SearchApi
- Free allowance
- 100 free requests on signup, no credit card required; the vendor's launch announcement describes them as complimentary searches for newly registered users; a third-party review states they are granted once, not monthly
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateup to 20% of the plan's credits each hour; on the 100 free requests, 20% of 100 = 20 requests an hour; 100 free requests; Developer plan USD 40 a month for 10,000 searches, USD 4 per 1,000
- Evidence
- reported22 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-17checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-11-17
| Free tier | 100 free requests on signup, no credit card required; the vendor's launch announcement describes them as complimentary searches for newly registered users; a third-party review states they are granted once, not monthly unit requests; metered on request-count; Only searches that answer 200 are charged. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits | |
| Binding | request-rate the 100 free requests run out before the hourly cap matters: 100 / 20 an hour = 5 hours |
| Identity | email the signup form asks for a full name, an email and a password, or GitHub or Google sign-in; no credit card required |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Retention | unverified: no first-party page read states whether the 100 free requests renew; the launch announcement describes them as for newly registered users; third-party pages disagree, one stating one-time and three stating monthly |
| Interface | rest GET https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?engine=google with api_key as a query parameter or a Bearer header; Google verticals, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo and other engines through the engine parameter endpoint: https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search |
| Tooling | plain HTTP GET with an api_key query parameter or an Authorization: Bearer header |
| Composes with | A one-time 100-request test of parsed Google and other engine results; the Developer plan at USD 4 per 1,000 is the paid reference |
| Reliability | a keyless call answered 401 with an invalid-key message; failed requests are not billed |
| Notes | The paid tiers fall from USD 4 to USD 1 per 1,000 searches at 5 million a month. The hourly cap is a share of the plan's credits, so it scales with the plan. |
| Evidence note | reported the 100 free requests, the no-card statement and the hourly cap are first-party; the vendor's launch announcement describes the 100 as complimentary searches for newly registered users, but no first-party page read states whether they renew; that they are granted once and not monthly rests on a third-party review, while three other third-party pages state a monthly free tier; a first-party statement of the cadence would raise it to documented |
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Evidence 22
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | the signup grant is 100 free requests |
| 2026-10-30 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | no credit card is required |
| 2026-10-30 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | at most 20% of a plan's credits can be used in an hour |
| 2026-10-30 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | the Developer plan costs USD 4 per 1,000 searches |
| 2026-10-30 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | only searches that answer 200 are charged |
| 2026-10-30 | www.searchapi.io/users/sign_up | the signup offers GitHub and Google sign-in beside a name, email and password form |
| 2026-10-30 | webscraping.cc/tool/searchapi/ | a third-party review states the 100 requests are one-time |
| 2026-10-30 | www.searchapi.io/docs/google | the Google search endpoint |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search | part of the text of Reliability, above |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/announcements/1 | the vendor's May 2023 launch announcement describes the 100 free searches as complimentary searches that newly registered users can use to test the platform |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | the pricing page offers 100 free requests on signup and states no credit card is required |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | at most 20% of a plan's credits can be used in an hour |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | the Developer plan costs USD 40 a month for 10,000 searches, USD 4 per 1,000 |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/pricing | failed requests are not billed and only searches that answer 200 are charged |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/users/sign_up | the signup form asks for a full name, an email and a password, with GitHub and Google sign-in beside it |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/docs/google | the Google search endpoint is GET /api/v1/search?engine=google |
| 2026-11-01 | www.searchapi.io/docs/google | the search endpoint takes the api_key as a query parameter or in an Authorization Bearer header |
| 2026-11-01 | probe: www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search | a keyless call to the search endpoint answered 401 with an invalid-key message |
| 2026-11-01 | webscraping.cc/tool/searchapi/ | a third-party review states the 100 requests are one-time |
| 2026-11-01 | github.com/Byski/mcp-searchapi | a third-party README states the free tier is 100 searches a month, which conflicts with the one-time statement |
| 2026-11-01 | github.com/Crossmint/worldstore-amazon-e2e | a third-party README states the free tier includes 100 searches per month, which conflicts with the one-time statement |
| 2026-11-01 | pypi.org/project/llama-index-tools-searchapi/ | a third-party package page states the free tier is 100 searches a month, which conflicts with the one-time statement |
Unknown values 2
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer