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📣 schappim

Alternatives to Bing Search API


Bing has increased the cost of their Search API by 10 times[1], which has caused many users to search for alternative options. As a result, I'm wondering if anyone knows of any legitimate alternatives to the Bing API that I can use. I'd prefer not to use fly-by-night web scraping operators.

Thank you in advance for your help!

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing-update

  👤 ColinHayhurst Accepted Answer ✓
Mojeek Web Search API [0]. Fully independent crawler & index. Currently 6.6 billion pages. Pricing and terms bespoke. Self-disclosure: CEO.

[0] https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

👤 vincent_s
The only big legitimate ones are Bing and Yandex.

Those web scraping operators are quite professional these days and they're all competing on price. [0] has a recent list.

[0] https://geekflare.com/serp-api/

👤 hyes
If you want a cheaper alternative you might have to compromise for web scraping. There really isn't an alternative other than the official API offered by Bing. But if you're interested, I've been using https://serply.io for my Google/Bing searches.
👤 freediver
Kagi has a search API. Currently 2.5 cents per search but it is high quality and we will look to bring the price down.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/search-api/overview.html

👤 freediverx
I’ve been using Kagi search for a while now. Is their API an option?