Best Web Search APIs
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What are Web Search APIs?
Web search APIs enable developers, businesses, and AI applications to programmatically search the internet and retrieve relevant information, webpages, and search results through structured API requests. These services provide access to search engine results, webpage metadata, titles, snippets, URLs, and other web content without requiring developers to build and maintain their own search infrastructure. Web search APIs often include features such as keyword search, semantic search, real-time web retrieval, image and news search, geographic and language filtering, result ranking, structured data extraction, and AI-optimized search results. Many web search APIs integrate with AI agents, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems, research tools, and enterprise applications to provide access to current information from the internet. By simplifying web data retrieval and search integration, web search APIs help organizations build AI-powered search experiences, automate research, enrich applications with external information, and deliver more accurate and up-to-date results. Compare and read user reviews of the best Web Search APIs currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Bright Data
Bright Data
Bright Data is the world's #1 web data, proxies, & data scraping solutions platform. Fortune 500 companies, academic institutions and small businesses all rely on Bright Data's products, network and solutions to retrieve crucial public web data in the most efficient, reliable and flexible manner, so they can research, monitor, analyze data and make better informed decisions. Bright Data is used worldwide by 20,000+ customers in nearly every industry. Its products range from no-code data solutions utilized by business owners, to a robust proxy and scraping infrastructure used by developers and IT professionals. Bright Data products stand out because they provide a cost-effective way to perform fast and stable public web data collection at scale, effortless conversion of unstructured data into structured data and superior customer experience, while being fully transparent and compliant.Starting Price: $0.066/GB -
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Apify
Apify Technologies s.r.o.
Apify is a full-stack web scraping and automation platform helping anyone get value from the web. At its core is Apify Store, a marketplace with over 10,000 Actors where developers build, publish, and monetize automation tools. Actors are serverless cloud programs that extract data, automate web tasks, and run AI agents. Developers build them using JavaScript, Python, or Crawlee, Apify's open-source library. Build once, publish to Store, and earn when others use it. Thousands of developers do this - Apify handles infrastructure, billing, and monthly payouts. Apify Store has ready-made Actors for scraping Amazon, Google Maps, social media, tracking prices, lead-gen, and more. Actors handle proxies, CAPTCHAs, JavaScript rendering, headless browsers, and scaling. Everything runs on Apify's cloud with 99.95% uptime. SOC2, GDPR, and CCPA compliant. Integrate with Zapier, Make, n8n, and LangChain. Apify's MCP server lets AI like Claude dynamically discover and use ActorsStarting Price: $29 per month -
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Oxylabs
Oxylabs
Oxylabs is a market leader in web intelligence with enterprise-grade, ethical, and compliant solutions. Its proxy infrastructure spans one of the largest global networks, offering residential, ISP, mobile, datacenter, & dedicated datacenter proxies, along with Web Unblocker – an AI-driven tool that ensures block-free access to even the most protected sites. On the scraping tools side, the Oxylabs Web Scraper API manages every stage of large-scale data extraction. For dynamic, bot-protected websites, the Agent Browser ensures uninterrupted access. Oxylabs also offers AI Studio, which lets users extract data without writing code. The ready-made datasets provide structured data across industries such as e-commerce, real estate, and more – for data projects without custom scraping. In short, Oxylabs offers 177M+ IPs in 195 countries & is trusted by 4000+ clients worldwide, including Fortune 500 companies. Plus, the 24/7 customer service ensures clients get support when needed.Starting Price: $4 per GB -
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Brave Search
Brave Software
Brave Search is a privacy-focused search engine from the creators of the Brave Browser. Brave Search does not currently show ads. Eventually it will have an ad-supported free model, or a paid model that does not show ads. Brave Search API: Power your search and AI applications with the fastest growing independent search engine since Bing. Access an index of billions of pages with a single API call. All users can get started for FREE for up to 1 query per second, and 2,000 queries per month. Brave is one of only a few global, independent search providers, and it’s the fastest growing search engine since Bing. Get access to high-quality data that’s actually usable. Build everything from search engines to AI apps. As the default engine in the Brave browser, Brave Search is consistently refreshed with new data via its Web Discovery Project contribution framework.Starting Price: Free -
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Bing Custom Search
Microsoft
An easy-to-use, ad-free, commercial-grade search tool that lets you deliver the results you want. Build a customized search that fits your needs. The Bing Custom Search API gives you powerful ranking, a global-scale search index, and document processing with fast, simple setup. The core technology works in four steps—by identifying on-topic sites and images, providing automatic query suggestions, applying the Bing ranker, and delivering relevant search results. Adjust the parameters and access usage insights anytime. Define the parts of the web you want to draw from so users only see relevant results from the domains, subsites, and web pages you choose. Explore site suggestions to expand the scope of your search domain. And harness the full power of Bing’s global-scale search index to get a holistic view of searches and ranking. Create a compelling search experience for content, such as web pages, images, and even autosuggested words.Starting Price: $4 per 1,000 transactions -
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Firecrawl
Firecrawl
Firecrawl is a web data platform that enables developers and AI applications to search, scrape, and interact with websites at scale through a unified API. The platform extracts clean, structured content from web pages and delivers it in formats such as Markdown, JSON, screenshots, and other machine-readable outputs. Designed specifically for AI agents, Firecrawl allows systems to access real-time web information, navigate websites, and automate data collection workflows. It supports advanced features including JavaScript rendering, smart waiting, media parsing, and interactive page actions such as clicking, typing, and scrolling. Developers can integrate Firecrawl quickly using SDKs, APIs, MCP clients, and open-source tools. Trusted by thousands of companies, the platform helps organizations build reliable AI-powered applications that depend on accurate and accessible web data.Starting Price: $16 per month -
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Exa
Exa.ai
The Exa API retrieves the best content on the web using embeddings-based search. Exa understands meaning, giving results search engines can’t. Exa uses a novel link prediction transformer to predict links which match the meaning of a prompt. For queries that need semantic understanding, search with our SOTA web embeddings model over our custom index. For all other queries, we offer keyword-based search. Stop learning how to web scrape or parse HTML. Get the clean, full text of any page in our index, or intelligent embeddings-ranked highlights related to a query. Select any date range, include or exclude any domain, select a custom data vertical, or get up to 10 million results..Starting Price: $100 per month -
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Diffbot
Diffbot
Diffbot provides a suite of products to turn unstructured data from across the web into structured, contextual databases. Our products are built off of cutting-edge machine vision and natural language processing software that's able to parse billions of web pages every day. Our Knowledge Graph product is the world's largest contextual database comprised of over 10 billion entities including organizations, people, products, articles, and more. Knowledge Graph's innovative scraping and fact parsing technologies link up entities into contextual databases, incorporating over 1 trillion "facts" from across the web in nearly live time. Our Enhance product provides information about organizations and people you already hold some information on. Enhance let's users build robust data profiles about opportunities they already hold some data on. Our Extraction APIs can be pointed to a page you want data extracted from. This can be product, people, article, organization page, or more.Starting Price: $299.00/month -
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DataForSEO
DataForSEO
DataForSEO offers a reliable set of API solutions for digital marketers and SEO professionals. Our platform provides SEO data, marketing automation, and no-code apps for tasks like rank tracking, keyword research, backlinks analysis, SERP evaluation, and on-page audits. Whether you're working on large projects or smaller tasks, DataForSEO’s scalable APIs suit any need. With a Pay-As-You-Go model, you only pay for the data you use, helping reduce costs. DataForSEO sources data from trusted channels like proprietary resources, Google Ads, and Clickstream, providing users with the most accurate and up-to-date data on the market for successful decision-making. Trusted worldwide, DataForSEO helps optimize marketing strategies and drive success.Starting Price: $50 top-up, then pay-as-you-go -
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SeekStorm
SeekStorm
SeekStorm - Search as a Service: high-performance search API provides full-text, real-time, instant search & crawling. 20x speed and 200x payload compared to Lucene; 30x more queries & docs per $ spent than other SaaS.Starting Price: $19/month -
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Keenable
Keenable
Keenable is an independent web search infrastructure built for AI labs, inference platforms, agents, and developers that need fast, high-quality access to the live web. Its Search API gives AI systems a web-scale index of more than 100 billion documents and is designed for low-latency retrieval, with performance optimized for production agent workloads. Agents can search web pages and fetch page content through a REST API, MCP server, or command-line interface using the same account and API key. It continuously evaluates and improves search quality using its NEEDLE benchmark, which compares retrieval performance across search providers and measures results against an oracle ranking built from pooled results. For larger AI workloads, Keenable supports dedicated search capacity as well as cloud and on-premises deployment options. Its Time Machine capability extends retrieval beyond the current web by providing point-in-time search across historical versions of pages.Starting Price: $4 / 1000 requests -
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AvesAPI
AvesAPI
Use the Best Google Search API and scrape Top-100 results in real-time with the most reliable, lightning-fast, and lowest-cost SERP API in the world! Our SERP API allows you to retrieve HTML results from Google by any device and location regarding your query. If you already have your own parser then the HTML export option would be the best fit for your business. If you don't have a parser and you need structured data then JSON export would be the best choice for your business. Our structured SERP data contains almost all major SERP features such as videos, images, maps, answer-box etc. We use pay-per-request pricing model. You don’t need to subscribe any package. You only pay upon successful requests. So you save your money. Extracting shopping data is so easy with AvesAPI. You can export shopping data from Google by using our smart SERP data parser. Use JSON export and extract all the features regarding a product like title, description, pricing, category, related products, and more.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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ScrapingBee
ScrapingBee
We manage thousands of headless instances using the latest Chrome version. Focus on extracting the data you need, and not dealing with concurrent headless browsers that will eat up all your RAM and CPU. Thanks to our large proxy pool, you can bypass rate limiting website, lower the chance to get blocked and hide your bots! ScrapingBee web scraping API works great for general web scraping tasks like real estate scraping, price-monitoring, extracting reviews without getting blocked. documentation. If you need to click, scroll, wait for some elements to appear or just run some custom JavaScript code on the website you want to scrape, check our JS scenario feature. If coding is not your thing, you can leverage our Make integration to create custom web scraping engines without writing a single line of code!Starting Price: $49 per month -
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Bing News Search API
Microsoft
Search the web for news articles with Bing News Search API v7. Results include details like the authoritative image of the news article, related news and categories, provider info, article URL, and date added. With the API v7, discover new sorting and filtering options that simplify finding specific results in trending news topics. Turn your app or website into a news search resource. Customize trending news from around the world by category and region. Categorize news searches by topics such as the world, politics, sports, and more. Inform your strategic decisions with the Bing Statistics add-in. Quickly retrieve statistics such as your top queries, call volume, market distribution, response code summary, and many more. Empower your retail search with Microsoft Bing for Commerce. Request a consultation to learn how machine learning and AI-driven search can drive sales. Enable safe, ad-free, location-aware search results, surfacing relevant information from billions of web documents.Starting Price: $7 per 1,000 transactions -
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SerpApi
SerpApi
Leverage our infrastructure (IPs across the globe, full browser cluster, and CAPTCHA solving technology), and exploit our structured SERP data in the way you want. In addition, each API request runs in a full browser, and we'll even solve all CAPTCHAs. Mimicking completely what a human will do. This guarantees that you get what users truly see. SerpApi uses Google’s geolocated, encrypted params and routes your request through the proxy server nearest to your desired location to ensure accuracy. Lots of structured data is available for each result, including links, addresses, tweets, prices, thumbnails, ratings, reviews, rich snippets, and more.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Serpdog
Serpdog
Serpdog's Google Search API allows businesses to extract Google Search Data quickly and effectively using its robust API infrastructure.Starting Price: $30 per month -
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Findkit
Findkit
Findkit is an ultimate site search solution that's adaptable, fast, and exceptionally simple to deploy. Whether you manage a single domain or a network of websites, Findkit's cloud-based crawler and scalable search API can integrate vast amounts of data into a cohesive search index in just minutes. With Findkit, you get a CORS-compatible API and an open-source JavaScript UI library, making it easy to create a seamless search interface tailored to your needs. Plus, it's fully compatible with any framework or CMS, boasting an additional WordPress plugin for even more convenience. Findkit is a white-label product. Take advantage of Findkit's free plan to experience the benefits without upfront costs. Customize your search with language-aware indexing, content tagging, and real-time updates to keep your index aligned with your site's content. As your needs grow, Findkit's simple pricing scales with you, offering larger index sizes and enhanced support at competitive rates.Starting Price: €59/month -
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Context.dev
Context.dev
Context.dev is a developer-focused API platform that provides real-time web data to power AI applications and workflows. It allows users to scrape, extract, and enrich data from websites without maintaining complex scraping infrastructure. The platform enables access to structured content such as HTML, markdown, images, and sitemaps from any URL. Context.dev also delivers company data, including logos, colors, descriptions, and social profiles, for enrichment and personalization. It supports use cases like AI agent web access, onboarding automation, and knowledge base creation. Developers can use the API to build intelligent systems that understand and interact with live web content. By centralizing web data extraction and enrichment, Context.dev simplifies building data-driven applications.Starting Price: $49 per month -
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TinyFish
TinyFish
TinyFish is the web operating layer for AI agents, providing the infrastructure agents need to reliably access and operate across the live web. As AI applications evolve beyond text generation into autonomous systems that gather information, navigate websites, and complete multi-step tasks, fragmented automation stacks and custom-built infrastructure become difficult to maintain. TinyFish unifies web search, content extraction, browser infrastructure, and agentic web interaction within a single platform. Agents can search the live web, extract clean LLM-ready content from modern websites, render JavaScript-heavy pages, and execute authenticated workflows without stitching together multiple vendors or maintaining custom infrastructure. Built for production AI systems, TinyFish emphasizes accuracy, efficiency, freshness, and scalability. By providing clean web context and dependable execution across dynamic web environments, the platform helps developers build AI applications thatStarting Price: $0.016 -
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Crawleo
Crawleo
Crawleo is a privacy-first real-time web search and crawling API for AI applications. It lets developers search the live web, crawl specific URLs, and extract clean AI-ready content through simple API endpoints. The Search API returns structured web results and can optionally auto-crawl result pages. The Crawler API lets users crawl one or multiple URLs directly. Crawleo supports outputs such as Markdown, plain text, cleaned HTML, and raw HTML, making the data easy to use in LLM prompts, RAG pipelines, AI agents, automation workflows, research tools, and internal dashboards. It also supports REST API access, MCP integration for AI assistants and IDEs, and LangChain tools for agentic and RAG-based applications.Starting Price: $20/month -
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CatchAll
NewsCatcher
CatchAll is a recall-first web search API built to find every real-world event, not just the top-ranked result. It searches 2+ billion web pages, including press releases, business announcements, trade publications, industry blogs, and local news, to surface complete answer sets for high-stakes research questions. Each query returns tens of thousands of candidate pages, validated with AI for relevance and credibility, deduplicated through graph-based clustering, and structured into clean datasets with entities, amounts, dates, and citations. In benchmarks, CatchAll surfaced 64.5% more true positives than the next-best competitor and far outpaced generic AI research tools on completeness. Continuous monitoring (daily, weekly, or real-time) turns one-off searches into ongoing intelligence feeds, built for enumeration tasks where recall, not ranking, is what matters.Starting Price: $50/month -
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Zenserp
Zenserp
Our SERP API enables you to scrape search engine result pages in realtime. Through google search API services, you can do Standard search, image search, news search, maps search, news search, etc.Starting Price: $29 per month -
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Yandex Search API
Yandex
Search API provides access to three search types (Russian, Turkish, and international) and can be used to develop a search for a site, a group of sites, or an entire network. Search API provides access to Russian, Turkish, and international search types. The search type determines both the ranking formula and the search database, a set of documents a search is made across. Search API supports the indexing of text pages and documents. The index is updated every few days, and its composition is constantly expanding. The speed of responses to requests is less than one second. The service has virtually no restrictions on the number of requests per day or per month. Save yourself the trouble of developing and maintaining a crawler, and of battling with both. You simply integrate the API into your products without having to configure servers. Search API automatically scales to your workload. -
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LangSearch
LangSearch
Connect your LLM applications to the world, and access clean, accurate, high-quality context. Get enhanced search details from billions of web documents, including news, images, videos, and more. It achieves ranking performance of 280M~560M models with only 80M parameters, offering faster inference and lower cost. -
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Serper
Serper
Serper.dev offers an industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds. The platform supports various search types, including images, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, scholar, patents, and autocomplete. Users can experience unparalleled speed with Serper's API, which provides real-time results without caching, ensuring the most up-to-date information. The service allows customization of search queries by specifying country, language, and more precise areas like cities or neighborhoods. Serper.dev offers a free tier of 2,500 queries with no credit card required, allowing users to test the service before committing. The platform's simple, affordable pricing operates on a top-up model, with no monthly subscriptions; users pay for the credits they need, and the more they order, the lower the cost per query. Serper.dev's API is designed to be user-friendly, with quick integration and high performance.Starting Price: $50 per month -
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Linkup
Linkup
Linkup is an AI tool designed to enhance language models by enabling them to access and interact with real-time web content. By integrating directly with AI pipelines, Linkup provides a way to retrieve relevant, up-to-date data from trusted sources 15 times faster than traditional web scraping methods. This allows AI models to answer queries with accurate, real-time information, enriching responses and reducing hallucinations. Linkup supports content retrieval across multiple media formats including text, images, PDFs, and videos, making it versatile for a wide range of applications, from fact-checking and sales call preparation to trip planning. The platform also simplifies AI interaction with web content, eliminating the need for complex scraping setups and cleaning data. Linkup is designed to integrate seamlessly with popular LLMs like Claude and offers no-code options for ease of use.Starting Price: €5 per 1,000 queries -
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Parallel
Parallel
The Parallel Search API is a web-search tool engineered specifically for AI agents, designed from the ground up to provide the most information-dense, token-efficient context for large-language models and automated workflows. Unlike traditional search engines optimized for human browsing, this API supports declarative semantic objectives, allowing agents to specify what they want rather than merely keywords. It returns ranked URLs and compressed excerpts tailored for model context windows, enabling higher accuracy, fewer search steps, and lower token cost per result. Its infrastructure includes a proprietary crawler, live-index updates, freshness policies, domain-filtering controls, and SOC 2 Type 2 security compliance. The API is built to fit seamlessly within agent workflows: developers can control parameters like maximum characters per result, select custom processors, adjust output size, and orchestrate retrieval directly into AI reasoning pipelines.Starting Price: $5 per 1,000 requests -
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Reserp
Reserp
Reserp is a Google Search API that provides search results for applications, AI agents, research, SEO and data workflows. Developers can access all search verticals such as web, image, news, video and shopping search data. A free tier and usage-based pricing are available.Starting Price: $0.75 per 1,000 requests -
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LTU Visual Search API
LTU Technologies
The integrated object and image processing solution. Because your trade and specific needs are unique, LTU delivers an integrated SaaS solution, open and configurable for visual recognition. This web service is a suite of object and image processing features that includes matching, color palette search and metadata search (coming soon). LTU offers a computer vision solution working without Deep Learning, thanks to the creation of a “unique signature” based on visual characteristics of the image or object. Access a suite of visual search functionalities in web service, open and configurable. This SaaS solution gives you access to our multiple proprietary algorithms, and can also integrate third-party technologies to operate a visual search specifically adapted to your needs. LTU offers a SaaS comparison and change detection solution that is highly configurable to operate tailored processing based on your use case. -
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Perplexity Search API
Perplexity AI
Perplexity has launched the Perplexity Search API, giving developers access to the same global-scale indexing and retrieval infrastructure that powers Perplexity’s public answer engine. The API indexes hundreds of billions of webpages and is optimized for the unique demands of AI workflows; it breaks documents into fine-grained subunits so that responses return highly relevant snippets already ranked against the original query, reducing preprocessing and improving downstream performance. To maintain freshness, the index processes tens of thousands of updates every second using an AI-driven content understanding module that dynamically parses web content and iteratively self-improves via real-time query feedback. The API returns rich, structured responses suitable for both AI agents and traditional apps, rather than limited, document-level outputs. Alongside the API, Perplexity is releasing an SDK, an open source evaluation framework, and detailed research into their design.
