SearchApi
SearchApi sells monthly search allowances starting at $40/mo. Proxy Compare checked these prices on 6 Oct 2026. The plans below use standard speed and show the cost per 1,000 included searches when the full allowance is used.Failed requests are not billed. Search allowances cannot be compared to proxy bandwidth prices per gigabyte.
A search-results API with monthly search allowances and separate standard and enhanced speed plans. Failed requests are not billed.
SearchApi at a glance
- Sign-up
- Unclear
- Pay with
- Card
- Refunds
- We provide a complete refund if requested within 10 days from the date of subscription to a plan, provided that you have not utilized more than 25% of your allotted searches. Refund terms
- Free trial
- Sign up for 100 free requests
- IPs (their number)
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- Won't work for
- Nothing we know of
Plans
| Tier | Per month | Search allowance | Per 1,000 included searches |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer Plan (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $40 | 10,000 searches/month | $4.00 |
| Production Plan (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $100 | 35,000 searches/month | $2.86 |
| BigData Plan (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $250 | 100,000 searches/month | $2.50 |
| Scale Plan (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $500 | 250,000 searches/month | $2.00 |
| Octo 500K (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $900 | 500,000 searches/month | $1.80 |
| Octo 1M (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $1500 | 1,000,000 searches/month | $1.50 |
| Octo 2M (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $2800 | 2,000,000 searches/month | $1.40 |
| Octo 5M (standard speed)Price read 2026-10-06 | $5000 | 5,000,000 searches/month | $1.00 |
Monthly subscriptions, before tax. Annual discounts and extra-credit purchases are excluded. A dash means the page states a price without stating that figure beside it, not that the plan has none.
The last column divides the monthly price by the included search allowance, then multiplies by 1,000. It assumes the full allowance is used. Engine-specific credit costs are not included.
Pricing conditions
Prices below are for standard speed. Enhanced speed is a separate option. The rate per 1,000 included searches assumes the full allowance is used. Hourly usage is limited to 20% of the plan allowance. Engine-specific costs, unused-credit rollover and overage prices are not established here.
Pricing conditions checked on 6 Oct 2026. A price we cannot attribute is one we do not publish. How we check
Whose network is underneath
Not established
A scraping API is a storefront over somebody’s proxy pool. This one does not say whose. We looked twice: through its pricing, about and FAQ pages, and then through the places a supplier has to be named for data-protection reasons — subprocessor, trust, security and privacy pages. Neither names a network. That is not the same as there being no upstream.
It matters because ethics do not stop at the vendor boundary. In July 2026 the FBI seized a residential proxy platform built on roughly two million consumer devices enrolled with little or no meaningful consent, and that network was resold under other brands. A clean storefront can sit on top of one.
- Billed in
- requests
- Failed requests
- States only successful requests are billed
Questions
Does SearchApi ask for ID to sign up?
SearchApi does not state what it asks for at sign-up, and we have not been able to establish it from its own pages. That is a fact about the provider rather than a gap in the roster, and it is shown as one above.
How can you pay SearchApi?
Card. No cryptocurrency option is published, so a card or an equivalent named payment is the route in. Payment methods come off the provider's own checkout and are dated with the rest of the record.
Where does SearchApi get its addresses?
SearchApi is a scraping API rather than a proxy network: you send it a URL and it returns the page, using infrastructure it does not itemise. There is no residential pool of its own to disclose, so this site records no sourcing model for it and does not count it among the providers that will not say.
Does SearchApi offer a trial or a refund?
Trial: Sign up for 100 free requests. Refunds: We provide a complete refund if requested within 10 days from the date of subscription to a plan, provided that you have not utilized more than 25% of your allotted searches.. Both are quoted from the provider's own terms rather than summarised, because a paraphrase of a refund window is the kind of precision nobody should take from us.
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