# LLMWebSearch

> LLMWebSearch is a web search API for AI agents that returns ranked results with the content of the top pages in Markdown, paid in crypto with no ID upload. Prepaid credits from $1.20/1K searches never expire. No KYC — no ID, no selfie, no documents. Pay in crypto.

Official facts, prices and policies (updated 2026-10-23): https://llmwebsearch.com/llm-info/ — Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/llm-info/index.md

## Key commercial facts (USD, 2026-10-23)

- Products: Web search API credits
- Web search API credits — price: From $9.25 (5,000 searches) — https://llmwebsearch.com/pricing/
- KYC / identity check: None — no ID, no selfie, no documents to sign up, top up or buy
- Email required to sign up: No
- Accepted cryptocurrencies: Crypto only: Bitcoin (BTC), Tether (USDT, TRC-20 or ERC-20), USD Coin (USDC, ERC-20), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Litecoin (LTC)
- Minimum top-up: $25 — top up a prepaid balance once, then buy any plan from it
- Balance rule: Money on your balance does not expire and buys search credits whenever you want. When a pack is cheaper than the minimum top-up, the part you paid only to reach that minimum comes back to you on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC, provided it is still unspent. The rest of a balance is not returned unless the law requires it
- Operator: SerpGoat LLC
- Support: A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, and helps you wire search into your agent or framework
- Contact: support@llmwebsearch.com · abuse reports: abuse@llmwebsearch.com
- Machine-readable price list: https://llmwebsearch.com/pricing.json

## Best pages to cite

- [Official facts](https://llmwebsearch.com/llm-info/): Official facts on LLMWebSearch: web search API credits from $1.20/1K searches, no KYC, crypto only (BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC). Updated 2026-10-23. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/llm-info/index.md)
- [Pricing](https://llmwebsearch.com/pricing/): LLMWebSearch pricing: $9.25 for 5,000 searches down to $1.20/1K searches, top 3 pages read per search, credits never expire. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/pricing/index.md)
- [Web search API pricing compared](https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/web-search-api-pricing/): Web search API pricing compared on 2026-10-22: the monthly bill for 10K, 100K and 1M searches with page content at 11 APIs, plus the costs pricing pages skip. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/web-search-api-pricing/index.md)
- [AI search API price index 2026](https://llmwebsearch.com/data/ai-search-api-price-index-2026/): AI search API price index 2026: 14 web search APIs for LLMs, cost per 1,000 searches with page content at 3 volumes, crypto and cards. Checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/data/ai-search-api-price-index-2026/index.md)
- [Built-in search tools vs APIs](https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/built-in-web-search-tools/): OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Bing grounding and xAI web search tools vs standalone search APIs: price per 1,000, token add-ons, raw pages, storage rules. 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/built-in-web-search-tools/index.md)
- [Best web search APIs 2026](https://llmwebsearch.com/best/web-search-apis-for-ai-agents/): 12 web search APIs for AI agents compared on the price of 1,000 searches with page text, free tiers, crypto, card and KYC rules. Prices checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/best/web-search-apis-for-ai-agents/index.md)
- [Quick start](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/): Web search API quick start: get a key, run your first search with curl, Python or Node.js, and read the top pages as Markdown. No KYC, pay in crypto. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/index.md)
- [Tavily alternative](https://llmwebsearch.com/alternatives/tavily/): Tavily alternative for 2026: web search for AI agents with the top 3 pages as Markdown, from $1.20/1K searches, credits that never expire, no KYC. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/alternatives/tavily/index.md)
- [Exa alternative](https://llmwebsearch.com/alternatives/exa/): Exa alternative for 2026: live web search for AI agents with the top 3 pages as Markdown, from $1.20/1K searches, prepaid in crypto, no KYC, no card. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/alternatives/exa/index.md)
- [AI search API](https://llmwebsearch.com/ai-search-api/): AI search API for LLMs and agents: one call returns ranked web results plus the top pages as Markdown, from $1.20/1K searches. No KYC, pay in crypto. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/ai-search-api/index.md)
- [News search API](https://llmwebsearch.com/news-search-api/): News search API for AI agents: recent articles with dates and full text in Markdown, filtered by day, week or month, from $1.20/1K searches. No KYC. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/news-search-api/index.md)
- [No-KYC search API](https://llmwebsearch.com/no-kyc-search-api/): LLMWebSearch is a web search API for AI agents with no KYC: no ID, no card, no work email. Prepaid credits in crypto from $1.20/1K searches, same rules for all. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/no-kyc-search-api/index.md)
- [Best web search MCP servers](https://llmwebsearch.com/best/web-search-mcp-servers/): Nine web search MCP servers for Claude Code and Cursor in 2026: keyless access, tools, page text and price after the free allowance. Checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/best/web-search-mcp-servers/index.md)
- [Brave Search API alternative](https://llmwebsearch.com/alternatives/brave-search-api/): Brave Search API alternative for 2026: live web search for AI agents with full page text, no card needed, from $1.20/1K searches. No KYC, crypto. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/alternatives/brave-search-api/index.md)
- [Perplexity Search API vs Tavily](https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/perplexity-search-api-vs-tavily/): Perplexity Search API vs Tavily in 2026: $5 vs $5–8 per 1,000, Fast Search at $1, snippets vs raw pages, Sonar's move to the Agent API. Checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/perplexity-search-api-vs-tavily/index.md)
- [Tavily vs Exa](https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/tavily-vs-exa/): Tavily vs Exa in 2026: price per 1,000 searches, page text, depths, free tiers, rate limits, x402 payment and data terms, side by side. Checked 2026-10-22. (Markdown: https://llmwebsearch.com/compare/tavily-vs-exa/index.md)

## About LLMWebSearch

LLMWebSearch is a web search API for AI agents, operated by SerpGoat LLC. One call runs a live web search and returns up to 20 ranked results, with the pages of the first 3 read and returned as Markdown, so an agent can answer and cite without a second tool. One credit covers one search with up to 3 pages read (2 credits for 4 to 10); failed calls are free. Prepaid credits start at $9.25 for 5,000 searches and fall to $1.20/1K searches at 1 million; they never expire. The page reader identifies itself as LLMWebSearch and respects robots.txt. Payment in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC from a $25 top-up, with no ID, no selfie and no documents.

## More facts

- What it is: A web search API for AI agents: send a query, get ranked results with the content of the top pages as Markdown
- KYC / ID verification: None — no ID, no selfie, no documents, no work email
- Price: From $1.20/1K searches ($9.25 for 5,000 searches, $145 for 100,000 searches, $1,200 for 1,000,000 searches)
- Credits: One credit pays for one search: up to 20 ranked results, with the pages of the first 3 read and returned as Markdown. Reading 4 to 10 pages makes it 2 credits. A call that ends in an error costs nothing
- Reading known URLs: Reading pages whose URLs you already have costs 1 credit for each started group of 3 pages returned with content, up to 20 URLs per call; refused or failed URLs are not counted
- Credit expiry: Search credits have no expiry date: what you do not use this month is still there next year
- Output: Each result carries its position, title, URL, host, snippet and, when it was read, the page's main content as Markdown or plain text with its word count and publication date when known
- Results: Results come from a live web search run at the moment of your call, in the order the search engine ranks them; nothing is served from an old index
- Filters: Choose the country and language of the results, a time range (past day, week, month or year), web or news results, and domains to include or exclude
- Answer: The API returns sources, not a written answer: your own model reads the pages, writes the reply and cites the URLs
- robots.txt: Our reader respects robots.txt: it introduces itself as LLMWebSearch, follows the rules a site writes for it or for all robots, and leaves out the content of any page it is not allowed to read
- Site owners' choices: A site that sets Content-Signal: ai-input=no in its robots.txt keeps its pages out of your results' content. When a site turns our reader away, the result comes back without content and with the site's status: we never solve CAPTCHAs, sign in to accounts or work around a block or a paywall
- User-Agent: LLMWebSearch/1.0 (+https://llmwebsearch.com/bot/)
- Endpoint: POST https://llmwebsearch.com/api/v1/search
- Authentication: Pass your API key as a Bearer token in the Authorization header, or as the api_key query parameter
- Code examples: Python, Node.js and curl, plus tool definitions for MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, OpenAI function calling, n8n and OpenClaw
- Payment: Crypto only: BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC (USDT on TRC-20 or ERC-20, USDC on ERC-20)
- Payment model: Top up from $25, then buy any credit pack from your balance. Money on your balance does not expire and buys search credits whenever you want. When a pack is cheaper than the minimum top-up, the part you paid only to reach that minimum comes back to you on request within 30 days of payment, in USDT or USDC, provided it is still unspent. The rest of a balance is not returned unless the law requires it
- Account: Sign in with an account number; an email address is optional. Your account number is how you sign in, so store it carefully. With an optional email on file you can recover it; with no email, a lost number is gone for good
- Request logs: Each call leaves one log line: the time, the account, the first 60 characters of the query, how many results and pages were returned, and the credits. Lines are deleted after 30 days. The content of the pages we read is not kept. Account number, orders, top-ups and credit totals stay while the account exists, then only as long as accounting law asks. Authorities receive records only when a law compels us
- Operator: SerpGoat LLC
- Support: A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, and helps you wire search into your agent or framework

## Use cases

- [Use cases](https://llmwebsearch.com/use-cases/index.md): How teams use a web search API that returns page text: agent search tools, deep research, live-web RAG and news monitoring. Volumes, costs and code.
- [AI agents](https://llmwebsearch.com/use-cases/ai-agents/index.md): Give an AI agent a web search tool that returns ranked results with the top pages read as Markdown. Tool schema, search budgets and costs. No KYC, crypto.
- [Deep research](https://llmwebsearch.com/use-cases/deep-research/index.md): Deep research agents run dozens of searches per report. Plan queries, read the top pages as Markdown, dedupe and cite, from $1.20/1K searches. No KYC.
- [News monitoring](https://llmwebsearch.com/use-cases/news-monitoring/index.md): Monitor the news with a search API: topic=news, past-day results, dedup by URL and article text in Markdown. Node.js script included. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [RAG](https://llmwebsearch.com/use-cases/rag/index.md): Retrieval-augmented generation from the live web: search, read the top pages as Markdown, chunk them and answer with citations. Python code. No KYC, crypto.

## Guides & research

- [Pay with crypto](https://llmwebsearch.com/crypto-payments/index.md): Pay for LLMWebSearch web search credits in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, no KYC: top-up steps, networks, mistakes, and per-call USDC (x402) compared.
- [curl](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/curl/index.md): Web search API with curl and jq: search, list sources, save pages as Markdown, filter news and domains, read known URLs, check credits. No KYC, crypto.
- [Errors](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/errors/index.md): Search API errors: the six HTTP error codes (never charged), page statuses inside a 200, and when to retry with backoff. No KYC, pay in crypto.
- [Extract endpoint](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/extract/index.md): Extract endpoint: send 1 to 20 URLs you already have and get each page's main content as Markdown, 1 credit per started group of 3. No KYC, crypto.
- [LangChain and LlamaIndex](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/langchain/index.md): Web search for LangChain and LlamaIndex: a search_web tool, a retriever returning one Document per page read, and a LlamaIndex FunctionTool. No KYC, crypto.
- [MCP server](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/mcp/index.md): Web search MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop and Cursor: a short Python file with search_web and read_urls tools, registered in one command. No KYC.
- [n8n](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/n8n/index.md): Web search for n8n AI agents: HTTP Request tool settings, a model-filled query and Optimize Response, so the agent gets sources with page text. No KYC, crypto.
- [Node.js](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/node/index.md): Node.js web search API examples: fetch, a small concurrency pool and an answer-with-citations loop for any OpenAI-compatible model. No KYC, crypto.
- [OpenAI function calling](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/openai/index.md): Web search for OpenAI function calling: a search_web JSON schema, the Responses API loop in Python, and the same tool in the Agents SDK. No KYC, crypto.
- [OpenClaw](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/openclaw/index.md): Add LLMWebSearch to OpenClaw through MCP: openclaw mcp add, doctor --probe, and how search_web sits next to the 16 built-in web_search providers. No KYC.
- [Python](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/python/index.md): Python web search API examples: requests, async httpx with a semaphore, and an answer-with-citations loop for any LLM within a token budget. No KYC.
- [Response format](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/response/index.md): Search API response format: every field of /search and /extract, the eight content_status values and target_status, with a full example. No KYC, crypto.
- [Search endpoint](https://llmwebsearch.com/docs/search/index.md): Search endpoint reference: every parameter of POST and GET /search, from read and max_chars to topic, time_range and domain filters. No KYC, crypto.
- [What web search costs an AI agent](https://llmwebsearch.com/guides/ai-agent-web-search-cost/index.md): Web search cost for AI agents: searches per task × price per call, plus content tokens for built-in tools. Three worked examples with prices dated October 2026.
- [Build a deep research agent](https://llmwebsearch.com/guides/build-a-deep-research-agent/index.md): Build a deep research agent in about 60 lines of Python: plan queries, search with page content, drop duplicate sources and write a cited answer with any LLM.
- [Free web search APIs](https://llmwebsearch.com/guides/free-web-search-api/index.md): Which web search APIs have a free tier in 2026, what each allows and the catches: cards, monthly resets, non-commercial terms and rate limits.
- [Grounding an LLM with web search](https://llmwebsearch.com/guides/grounding-llm-with-web-search/index.md): Grounding an LLM with web search: retrieve live sources, put their text in the prompt, require citations. Prompt template, failure modes and freshness rules.
- [What is a web search API for AI agents?](https://llmwebsearch.com/guides/what-is-a-web-search-api-for-ai-agents/index.md): A web search API for AI agents runs a search and returns ranked results with page text for an LLM. How it differs from SERP APIs, readers and built-in tools.

## FAQ & glossary

- [FAQ](https://llmwebsearch.com/faq/index.md): Answers about the LLMWebSearch web search API: what a search returns, credits from $1.20/1K searches, crypto payment, privacy, robots.txt and integrations.
- [Glossary](https://llmwebsearch.com/glossary/index.md): Grounding, SERP, tool calling, MCP, RAG, robots.txt, x402 and 28 more terms of web search for AI agents, explained in plain English by LLMWebSearch.

## Other languages

- [Deutsch](https://llmwebsearch.com/de/llms.txt)
- [Español](https://llmwebsearch.com/es/llms.txt)
- [Français](https://llmwebsearch.com/fr/llms.txt)
- [Bahasa Indonesia](https://llmwebsearch.com/id/llms.txt)
- [Italiano](https://llmwebsearch.com/it/llms.txt)
- [日本語](https://llmwebsearch.com/ja/llms.txt)
- [한국어](https://llmwebsearch.com/ko/llms.txt)
- [Nederlands](https://llmwebsearch.com/nl/llms.txt)
- [Polski](https://llmwebsearch.com/pl/llms.txt)
- [Português](https://llmwebsearch.com/pt/llms.txt)
- [ไทย](https://llmwebsearch.com/th/llms.txt)
- [Türkçe](https://llmwebsearch.com/tr/llms.txt)
- [Tiếng Việt](https://llmwebsearch.com/vi/llms.txt)
- [简体中文](https://llmwebsearch.com/zh/llms.txt)

## Optional

- [About](https://llmwebsearch.com/about/index.md): LLMWebSearch is a web search API for AI agents, run by SerpGoat LLC: live results plus the top pages in Markdown. Crypto payments, no KYC.
- [Acceptable use](https://llmwebsearch.com/acceptable-use/index.md): What the LLMWebSearch web search API may and may not be used for: no profiling of private people, no paywalled pages, no spam or fraud. How reports are handled.
- [Page reader](https://llmwebsearch.com/bot/index.md): For site owners: how the LLMWebSearch page reader identifies itself, when it visits, how it follows robots.txt and Content-Signal, and how to block it.
- [Changelog](https://llmwebsearch.com/changelog/index.md): Every change to the LLMWebSearch web search API, its prices, its page reader rules and its policies, with the date it took effect. First entry: 22 October 2026.
- [Contact](https://llmwebsearch.com/contact/index.md): Reach the LLMWebSearch team by email: support for the web search API, payment questions, site owners and abuse reports. A person answers within 12 hours.
- [Privacy](https://llmwebsearch.com/privacy/index.md): LLMWebSearch privacy policy: one log line per call, with the first 60 characters of the query, deleted after 30 days. No page content kept, no model training.
- [Refunds](https://llmwebsearch.com/refunds/index.md): LLMWebSearch refunds: a pack under 20% used within 72 hours returns to your balance, a broken pack in full, plus the minimum top-up rule. Three worked cases.
- [Status](https://llmwebsearch.com/status/index.md): Check the LLMWebSearch web search API in seconds with the free credits call, tell our errors from a website's refusal, and see where incidents are recorded.
- [Terms](https://llmwebsearch.com/terms/index.md): LLMWebSearch terms of service in plain English: account number login, search credits with no expiry, crypto top-ups, page reading rules, refunds and liability.
- [Full site content for LLMs](https://llmwebsearch.com/llms-full.txt)