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 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.
claude mcp add --transport http geekflare https://mcp.geekflare.com/mcpRun it, then type /mcp to sign in with your Geekflare account. No API key to copy.
“Search this week's news on cyber insurance pricing and summarise the top five stories with sources.”
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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 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.
| Covered per month | Free $0/mo No card | Starter $19/mo | Most popular Growth $69/mo | Business 500K $299/mo | Business 1M $499/mo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Credits a month | 500 | 20,000 | 100,000 | 500,000 | 1,000,000 |
SearchesWeb, news and images, or Google's results page with serp.2 credits | 250 | 10,000 | 50,000 | 250,000 | 500,000 |
Searches with 3 full pagesThe results plus each page at its Web Scraping cost, counted here at 1 credit a page.5 credits | 100 | 4,000 | 20,000 | 100,000 | 200,000 |
Searches with an AI answerA grounded answer written from the results.5 credits | 100 | 4,000 | 20,000 | 100,000 | 200,000 |
| Requests per second | 1 | 5 | 10 | 25 | 25 |
- Free$0/moNo 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
What customers say.
“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), 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.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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