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.
- 500 free credits every month
- No card to start
- Failed requests cost nothing
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.
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"}'{
"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."
}
]
}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 4 credits a search.
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 line of config.
Add the Geekflare MCP server to Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or any MCP client, and your agent searches the web, reads the top pages and grounds its answers on its own. Prefer a workflow? The same key works in Zapier, Make, n8n and the Python and Node SDKs.
Claude
Cursor
CodexChatGPTWindsurfany MCP client
PythonNode.js{
"mcpServers": {
"geekflare": {
"url": "https://mcp.geekflare.com/YOUR_API_KEY/mcp"
}
}
}“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.
| Request | Geekflare | Tavily |
|---|---|---|
| Search | $1.38 / 1K requests | $8.00 / 1K requests |
| Search + Content | $2.76 / 1K requests | $8.00 / 1K requests |
| Search + Grounded Answer | $3.45 / 1K requests | $8.00 / 1K requests |
Comparison based on Geekflare's 100K credit plan ($69/mo). Tavily rates use its pay-as-you-go price of $0.008/credit at 1 credit per search.
2 credits a search. Here is what that buys.
Pick a monthly volume to see the plan that covers it. Failed searches cost nothing.
Growth covers up to ~50,000 searches a month (100K credits), about $1.38 per 1,000 searches. Or $58/mo billed yearly.
- 500 credits / month
- 1 team member
- 7 days log retention
- 1 request per second
- 10K credits / month
- 3 team members
- 30 days log retention
- 5 requests per second
- 100K credits / month
- 5 team members
- 30 days log retention
- 10 requests per second
- 1M credits / month
- 25 team members
- 90 days log retention
- 25 requests per second
What developers say after switching.
“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.”
“Documentation was easy to follow. We were scraping dynamic pages within hours. Very reliable service.”
Before you sign up.
scrape: true), and 5 with a grounded answer (groundedAnswer: true). Failed searches cost nothing.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.source, a time window with time, a country with location, and includeDomains or excludeDomains to focus the results.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.
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