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Category · Search APIs

Search APIs — agent-ready pricing benchmark

Per-query pricing widely published. Agents can budget and transact in one round-trip.

10 companies
Avg score 58.1 / 100
2 Agent-Ready Verified
4 Approaching Agent-Ready
2 Partially Agent-Ready
2 Not Agent-Ready Yet
#1
Jina AI Reader
jina.ai · Search APIs
82
/ 100
Agent-Ready Verified
Jina Reader is one of the few APIs in batch A that an unauthenticated agent can call directly — the r.jina.ai endpoint accepts requests without a key (rate-limited) and rewards a one-line API-key swap with token-based PAYG at unified jina.ai/api rates. xpay verified the no-key free path, the per-token PAYG model, and a public anonymous landing page documenting both.
#2
SerpApi
serpapi.com · Search APIs
81
/ 100
Agent-Ready Verified
SerpApi publishes a free 250-searches/month plan plus a granular ladder of 54 self-serve monthly tiers from $25 (Starter) up to ~$106K (Cloud 54M), each with explicit search count and throughput, plus a documented refund policy and credit roll-over rules. xpay verified anonymous price visibility, public docs, and Stripe checkout on every paid tier; only an Enterprise band is sales-led.
#3
Tavily
tavily.com · Search APIs
76
/ 100
Approaching Agent-Ready
Tavily publishes Researcher (free, 1K credits/mo) / Pay-As-You-Go ($0.008/credit) / Project (slider) / Enterprise tiers with the lowest-friction PAYG entry in the search-API category. xpay verified the no-card free tier, an explicit per-credit rate, public docs at docs.tavily.com, and self-serve checkout via the dashboard.
#4
Exa
exa.ai · Search APIs
76
/ 100
Approaching Agent-Ready
Exa publishes a per-endpoint pricing table (Search $7, Deep Search $12–15, Contents $1, Monitors $15, Answer $5, all per 1K requests) with a 1,000-request free monthly tier and a $1,000 startup-grant program. xpay verified anonymous price visibility, public docs, true PAYG metering, and self-serve dashboard checkout; only Enterprise is sales-led.
#5
Algolia
algolia.com · Search APIs
73
/ 100
Approaching Agent-Ready
Algolia publishes Build (free, 10K requests/mo) / Grow / Grow Plus / Elevate (request-pricing) tiers with explicit per-1K-request and per-1K-record overage rates ($0.50 / $0.40 on Grow; $1.75 / $0.40 on Grow Plus) and a generous monthly free allowance even on paid plans. xpay verified self-serve signup, public docs, and a true PAYG overage model; only Elevate requires a sales contact.
#6
Brave Search API
brave.com · Search APIs
70
/ 100
Approaching Agent-Ready
Brave Search API publishes a Free / Base AI / Pro AI / Pro Data tier ladder with explicit CPM (cost-per-1K-query) rates and a no-card 2K-query/month free entry, plus self-serve key issuance and a public anonymous documentation portal at api-dashboard.search.brave.com. xpay verified true PAYG metering and self-serve Stripe checkout for every paid tier.
#7
Meilisearch
meilisearch.com · Search APIs
56
/ 100
Partially Agent-Ready
Meilisearch surfaces four plan types (Open Source / Usage-based from $30 / Resource-based from $23 / Enterprise) with a 14-day free trial and explicit billing entry points, though detailed per-tier limits sit on linked /usage-based and /pricing/platform sub-pages rather than the main /pricing page. xpay verified self-serve signup, public docs, Stripe payment, and an open-source path; no machine-readable pricing manifest was observed.
#8
Typesense Cloud
typesense.org · Search APIs
51
/ 100
Partially Agent-Ready
Typesense Cloud uses a configurator-style pricing page where the visitor selects RAM, vCPU, HA, regions and version; the page returns an hourly rate with no contact-sales gate. xpay verified that the configurator produces real prices anonymously, that docs are public, and that signup is self-serve, though the resource-based model lacks a true PAYG-per-search rate and there is no machine-readable manifest.
#9
Elastic Cloud
elastic.co · Search APIs
8
/ 100
Not Agent-Ready Yet
The /pricing landing page is a router that compares Hosted vs. Serverless vs. Self-managed and links out to product-specific calculators (cloud-hosted, serverless-search, serverless-observability) rather than displaying numbers inline. xpay verified that public docs and a self-serve trial exist, and that the linked Serverless and Hosted sub-pages do publish per-VCU and resource rates, but the umbrella page provides no anonymous price list.
#10
You.com API
you.com · Search APIs
8
/ 100
Not Agent-Ready Yet
The api.you.com/plans pricing page returned an HTTP 502 at scrape time, so xpay could not directly verify visible per-request rates; public docs at documentation.you.com confirm the existence of a Smart and Research API with self-serve key issuance. A human should re-verify the live page once the origin server returns 200.
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1
Jina AI Readerjina.ai
82 / 100
Agent-Ready Verified

Jina Reader is one of the few APIs in batch A that an unauthenticated agent can call directly — the r.jina.ai endpoint accepts requests without a key (rate-limited) and rewards a one-line API-key swap…

2
SerpApiserpapi.com
81 / 100
Agent-Ready Verified

SerpApi publishes a free 250-searches/month plan plus a granular ladder of 54 self-serve monthly tiers from $25 (Starter) up to ~$106K (Cloud 54M), each with explicit search count and throughput, plus…

3
Tavilytavily.com
76 / 100
Approaching Agent-Ready

Tavily publishes Researcher (free, 1K credits/mo) / Pay-As-You-Go ($0.008/credit) / Project (slider) / Enterprise tiers with the lowest-friction PAYG entry in the search-API category. xpay verified th…

4
Exaexa.ai
76 / 100
Approaching Agent-Ready

Exa publishes a per-endpoint pricing table (Search $7, Deep Search $12–15, Contents $1, Monitors $15, Answer $5, all per 1K requests) with a 1,000-request free monthly tier and a $1,000 startup-grant …

5
Algoliaalgolia.com
73 / 100
Approaching Agent-Ready

Algolia publishes Build (free, 10K requests/mo) / Grow / Grow Plus / Elevate (request-pricing) tiers with explicit per-1K-request and per-1K-record overage rates ($0.50 / $0.40 on Grow; $1.75 / $0.40 …

6
Brave Search APIbrave.com
70 / 100
Approaching Agent-Ready

Brave Search API publishes a Free / Base AI / Pro AI / Pro Data tier ladder with explicit CPM (cost-per-1K-query) rates and a no-card 2K-query/month free entry, plus self-serve key issuance and a publ…

7
Meilisearchmeilisearch.com
56 / 100
Partially Agent-Ready

Meilisearch surfaces four plan types (Open Source / Usage-based from $30 / Resource-based from $23 / Enterprise) with a 14-day free trial and explicit billing entry points, though detailed per-tier li…

8
Typesense Cloudtypesense.org
51 / 100
Partially Agent-Ready

Typesense Cloud uses a configurator-style pricing page where the visitor selects RAM, vCPU, HA, regions and version; the page returns an hourly rate with no contact-sales gate. xpay verified that the …

9
Elastic Cloudelastic.co
8 / 100
Not Agent-Ready Yet

The /pricing landing page is a router that compares Hosted vs. Serverless vs. Self-managed and links out to product-specific calculators (cloud-hosted, serverless-search, serverless-observability) rat…

10
You.com APIyou.com
8 / 100
Not Agent-Ready Yet

The api.you.com/plans pricing page returned an HTTP 502 at scrape time, so xpay could not directly verify visible per-request rates; public docs at documentation.you.com confirm the existence of a Sma…

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