Try
5,000 searches
$9.25
$1.85/1K searches
- Wire it into one agent
- Same API as the largest pack
- Credits never expire
Quick answer
Is there a web search API for AI agents with no KYC?
Yes. LLMWebSearch is a web search API for AI agents that asks for no ID, no selfie, no card and no work email. You get an account number, top up at least $25 in crypto and buy credits from $9.25 for 5,000 searches, down to $1.20/1K searches at volume. Each search returns ranked results with the top pages read as Markdown.
What you need, and what you do not
| Identity document or selfie | Not needed |
|---|---|
| Credit or debit card | Not needed |
| Work email or company papers | Not needed |
| Email address | Optional, only to recover your account number |
| Login | Sign in with an account number; an email address is optional |
| Payment | BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC, minimum top-up $25 |
| Rules | The acceptable use policy, the same for every account |
Why can you skip identity checks?
Because the money arrives before any search runs. Credits are prepaid from a crypto balance, so there is no card that could be charged back and no invoice to chase. The usual reasons for collecting identity do not arise.
No KYC does not mean no record at all. 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.
What do other AI search APIs ask before you can use them?
Requirements stated on each provider's own pages, read on 22 October 2026. A missing row means we found no statement either way.
| Provider | What is asked | Source wording |
|---|---|---|
| LLMWebSearch (ours) | An account number; email optional | No ID, no card, no work email |
| Brave Search API | A credit card, even for the free monthly credit | "To prevent abuse." |
| Parallel | A card for the $5 monthly credit | Credit goes to organizations "with a credit card" |
| Desearch | A card for the $5 starting credit | "after attaching a card in Console" |
| Kagi Search API | A payment method on file; usage invoiced | "will need a payment method on file" |
| Linkup | A professional email for the free credit; nothing for x402 calls | Free credit tied to a professional email |
| Valyu | No card; a company email doubles the free credit | "No card is required" |
| Grounding with Bing Search | A paid or pay-as-you-go Azure subscription | "Only paid and pay-as-you-go Azure subscriptions are eligible" |
| Oxylabs | A KYC questionnaire for every customer | "Every customer has to answer a KYC questionnaire" |
Prices checked on
Tavily, Exa, Firecrawl, Jina and You.com let you start their free tiers without a card. Their paid usage is billed by card, or per call in USDC for some of them, as the crypto payments page shows.
What does the acceptable use policy still forbid?
Searching for or profiling private individuals, child sexual abuse material, spam, fraud, reading content behind a login or a paywall, and any use that is illegal where you or we operate.
Every abuse report is read by a person; accounts that misuse the service are suspended. Paying in crypto changes how you pay, not what the service may be used for. The full text is on the acceptable use page.
What does the service still do for site owners?
Exactly what it does for every customer. 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. 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.
A no-KYC account cannot switch these rules off, and no account can. Site owners can read how the reader works on the page reader page.
Is a no-KYC account a second-class account?
No. It is the only kind of account. The API, the filters, the per-minute limit and the prices are the same for everyone, and support answers every account the same way: A person answers support emails within 12 hours, seven days a week, and helps you wire search into your agent or framework.
Search credits have no expiry date: what you do not use this month is still there next year. There is no free tier: the 5,000-search pack is the way to try it, bought from the minimum top-up; whatever you added only to reach that minimum comes back on request within 30 days, in USDT or USDC, as long as it is unspent.
What does the no-KYC web search API cost?
One price list for every account: 5,000 searches for $9.25, 100,000 searches for $145, and 1,000,000 searches for $1,200. 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.
Production
100,000 searches
$145
$1.45/1K searches
- Agents in production
- Higher rate limit on request
- Credits never expire
Best rate
Volume
1,000,000 searches
$1,200
$1.20/1K searches
- Platforms serving many agents
- Higher rate limit on request
- Credits never expire
In every plan: Top 3 pages read as Markdown · Country, language, time and domain filters · Failed calls not charged · Credits never expire
Every pack is paid from a crypto balance funded with $25 or more. Prices in USD, set on 2026-10-22.
Sources (8)
- Search API plans and FAQ brave.com/search/api — Brave (read 2026-10-22)
- Free tier parallel.ai/blog/free-tier-parallel.md — Parallel (read 2026-10-22)
- Pricing desearch.ai/pricing — Desearch (read 2026-10-22)
- API pricing kagi.com/api/pricing — Kagi (read 2026-10-22)
- Pricing docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing — Linkup docs (read 2026-10-22)
- Pricing docs.valyu.ai/pricing — Valyu docs (read 2026-10-22)
- Grounding with Bing Search — Microsoft Learn (read 2026-10-22)
- KYC and safety page oxylabs.io/kyc-and-safety — Oxylabs (read 2026-10-22)
No-KYC questions
Do I need to give an email address?
No. 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.
Can I pay with a card instead?
No. LLMWebSearch takes crypto only: BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC. The crypto payment guide shows each step.
Will you ask for documents later, when I buy a large pack?
No. The largest pack, 1,000,000 searches, is bought the same way as the smallest. A law could oblige us to hand over the records we hold, which the privacy policy lists.
Do my searches stay private?
Our logs keep the first 60 characters of each query for 30 days, never the pages read. We do not train any model on your queries or on what the API returns, and we add no rule of our own against storing results; the rights of the sites whose pages you read still apply.