Live web search for your AI apps.

Web, news and image results as JSON or Markdown, with full page content or a grounded answer in the same request, for up to 83% less than Tavily.

Get 500 free creditsNo credit card. 250 free searches every month.
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  • 500 free credits every month
  • No card to start
  • Failed requests cost nothing
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One request. Results your agent can read.

Send a query and get ranked results with titles, URLs and snippets. Add scrape: true for the full text of the top pages, or groundedAnswer: true for an answer built from them.

request.sh
curl -X POST https://api.geekflare.com/search \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query": "stripe payments api"}'
Recorded response · stripe payments api
{
  "apiStatus": "success",
  "data": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "Stripe API Reference",
      "url": "https://docs.stripe.com/api",
      "snippet": "Our API has predictable resource-oriented URLs, accepts form-encoded request bodies, returns JSON-encoded responses, and uses standard HTTP response codes, authentication, and verbs. You can use the Stripe API in sandboxes without affecting your live data or interacting with banking networks."
    },
    {
      "position": 2,
      "title": "Payment APIs Explained: What Businesses Should Know | Stripe",
      "url": "https://stripe.com/resources/more/payment-apis-101",
      "snippet": "Testing opportunities, such as a sandbox, so you can try out an API before you commit to using it on your site · Clear pricing structures, such as the typical per-transaction fees, which can vary based on payment method, region, or volume · Stripe Payments provides a unified, global payments solution that helps any business—from scaling startups to global enterprises—accept payments online, in person, and around the world."
    },
    {
      "position": 3,
      "title": "Understanding the Stripe API: A Comprehensive Guide",
      "url": "https://apidog.com/blog/mastering-the-stripe-api/",
      "snippet": "It covers key features like payment processing, subscription management, and invoicing, while highlighting the importance of testing with Apidog. ... Stripe is a powerful platform that provides a suite of APIs for handling online payments and financial transactions."
    }
  ]
}
Get your API key to run itRun it with your own query.

Why teams pick Geekflare for search.

Up to 83% less than Tavily

1,000 searches cost $1.38 on Geekflare's Growth plan and $8.00 at Tavily's pay-as-you-go rate.

Pages, not just snippets

Set `scrape: true` to get the full content of up to 10 top results as Markdown, for 2 credits plus each page's Web Scraping cost, from 0.25 credits.

Grounded answers built in

Set `groundedAnswer: true` for an answer synthesized from live results, for 5 credits. No token billing.

Web, news and images

Choose the source, filter by time, and set a country. Credits are shared with scraping and every other Geekflare API.

Live search for your agent, in one command.

Add Geekflare to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client and sign in with your Geekflare account. Your agent searches the web, reads the top pages and grounds its answers on its own. Prefer a workflow? Your API key works in Zapier, Make, n8n and the Python and Node SDKs.

Works with
ClaudeCursorCodexChatGPTWindsurfany MCP client
Also works in
ZapierMaken8nPythonNode.js
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http geekflare https://mcp.geekflare.com/mcp

Run it, then type /mcp to sign in with your Geekflare account. No API key to copy.

Then ask your agent

“Search this week's news on cyber insurance pricing and summarise the top five stories with sources.”

Runs geekflare.search

More per search. A fraction of the price.

Cost per 1,000 searches for each search mode.

Full comparison
RequestGeekflareTavily
Search$1.38 / 1K requests$8.00 / 1K requests
Search with full pages$2.07–$8.28 / 1K requests$8.00 / 1K requests
Search with an AI answer$3.45 / 1K requests$8.00 / 1K requests

Comparison based on Geekflare's 100K credit plan ($69/mo). Geekflare Search + Content covers 1 to 10 pages per search. Tavily rates use its pay-as-you-go price of $0.008/credit at 1 credit per search.

How many searches each plan covers.

Results, full pages or an AI answer: pick what each search needs. Failed searches cost nothing.

2 months free
  • Free
    $0/mo
    No card
    Credits a month
    500
    Searches2 credits
    250
    Searches with 3 full pages5 credits
    100
    Searches with an AI answer5 credits
    100
    Requests per second
    1
  • Starter
    $19/mo
    Credits a month
    20,000
    Searches2 credits
    10,000
    Searches with 3 full pages5 credits
    4,000
    Searches with an AI answer5 credits
    4,000
    Requests per second
    5
  • GrowthMost popular
    $69/mo
    Credits a month
    100,000
    Searches2 credits
    50,000
    Searches with 3 full pages5 credits
    20,000
    Searches with an AI answer5 credits
    20,000
    Requests per second
    10
  • Business 500K
    $299/mo
    Credits a month
    500,000
    Searches2 credits
    250,000
    Searches with 3 full pages5 credits
    100,000
    Searches with an AI answer5 credits
    100,000
    Requests per second
    25
  • Business 1M
    $499/mo
    Credits a month
    1,000,000
    Searches2 credits
    500,000
    Searches with 3 full pages5 credits
    200,000
    Searches with an AI answer5 credits
    200,000
    Requests per second
    25
Start freeCompare plans and credit packsEvery account starts free. Upgrade when you need more, or buy a credit pack from $10.

What customers say.

Read all reviews
“Found Geekflare API to get markdown from URL for my AI agents. It is fast and cheaper and works on almost every website.”
Ram DasiArchitect, PA Consulting
“After trying many scraping services, I selected Geekflare to scrape public directories. Mainly for two reasons - it is cheaper and fast.”
Vishu SharmaCTO
“Documentation was easy to follow. We were scraping dynamic pages within hours. Very reliable service.”
Marco SilvaAnalytics Engineer

Before you sign up.

500 credits every month, which covers 250 searches. No credit card is needed to get your API key.

2 credits for results, 2 plus each page's Web Scraping cost with the content of the top pages (scrape: true), which is 0.25 credits for a page that loads without a browser and 1 for one that needs JavaScript. A grounded answer (groundedAnswer: true) costs 5. Failed searches cost nothing.

Yes. Set scrape: true and scrapeLimit from 1 to 10 to get the full text of the top results, and format: "markdown" to get them as Markdown.

Web, news or images with source, a time window with time, a country with location, and includeDomains or excludeDomains to focus the results.

Yes. Set serp: true for Google's first page as structured JSON, with ranked organic results, ads, AI Overview and People Also Ask.

250 searches a month, free.

Get your API key in less than 30 seconds. No credit card required.