Web Search API Cost Comparison

Billing units differ: Exa is pay-as-you-go per request ($7 / 1k /search auto, $1 / 1k /contents pages; $10 free monthly credit not subtracted). Tavily is credits (basic search 1, basic extract 1 per 5 URLs) priced at the cheapest monthly plan or PAYG $0.008 / credit. Firecrawl is a monthly credit plan (2 credits per search of 10 results, 1 per page; Free 1,000 · Hobby $19 / 5,000 · Standard $99 / 100,000 · Growth $399 / 500,000 · Scale $749 / 1M; annual $16 / $83 / $333 / $599), cheapest plan including $5 overage packs (Hobby 1,000 / Standard 2,000 / Growth 2,500 / Scale 5,000 credits). Brave Search is $5 per 1,000 requests (search results only; it does not scrape pages, so add a scraper for page content). SerpApi and Serper return Google SERP JSON only (no page scraping): SerpApi is a monthly plan (cheapest plan covering your searches, no overage); Serper sells one-time credit packs valid 6 months, amortized here per month. Need full page scraping or Google SERPs through a scraping API? ScraperAPI bills Google requests at 25 credits each (vs per-search SerpApi / Serper); see the web scraping API comparison. Migrating off Google Custom Search? Use the migration calculator below.

Estimates only. Official list prices as of 2026-10-30 (Asia/Shanghai); the provider's pricing page prevails. Sources: Exa pricing · Tavily API credits · Firecrawl pricing · Apify pricing · Bright Data residential pricing · Browserbase plans · Oxylabs residential pricing · Brave Search API pricing · SerpApi pricing · Serper pricing

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