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Linkup API pricing

Linkup charges per successful call from a prepaid balance: a flash, fast or standard search is $0.005 ($5.00 per 1,000), $0.006 with an answer or structured output, and a deep search $0.05 ($50.00 per 1,000). Accounts signed up with a professional email get $20 of credit every month, 4,000 standard searches. Fetching a page costs $0.001 to $0.011 and a research task $0.25 to $2.50.

Search

DepthOutputA callPer 1,000
Flash, fast or standardSearch results$0.005$5.00
Flash, fast or standardAnswer or structured output$0.006$6.00
DeepSearch results$0.05$50.00
DeepAnswer or structured output$0.055$55.00

Search results are "Ranked URLs and content snippets for grounding." An answer or structured output costs $0.001 more a call.

Fetch

ModeJavaScriptA pageWith schema1,000 pages
standardOff$0.001$0.002$1.00
standardRendered$0.005$0.006$5.00
proOff$0.005$0.006$5.00
proRendered$0.01$0.011$10.00

Research

Reasoning depthA task1,000 tasks
S$0.25$250
M$0.50$500
L$1.50$1,500
XL$2.50$2,500

Do bigger top-ups make searches cheaper?

Top-upBonusStandard searchesPer 1,000
$1,00010%220,000$4.55
$5,00015%1,150,000$4.35
$10,00020%2,400,000$4.17

From Linkup's change log: "Bulk top-ups earn extra credits at three thresholds: $1,000 (10%), $5,000 (15%), and $10,000 (20%)." We assume bonus credits are spent at the same per-call prices; the rankings on this site use the list price, $5.00 per 1,000.

Quick answers

How much does Linkup cost per search?

$0.005 for a flash, fast or standard search returning results, $0.006 with a sourced answer or structured output; $0.05 and $0.055 for deep searches. That's $5.00 and $50.00 per 1,000 searches.

Is Linkup free?

For accounts signed up with a professional email: "When you first sign up with a professional email address, your account is automatically credited with $20. We will top up eligible accounts back to $20 each month." That's 4,000 standard searches a month.

How much does Linkup's Fetch endpoint cost?

$0.001 in standard mode without JavaScript rendering, $0.005 in standard mode with JavaScript rendering, $0.005 in pro mode without JavaScript rendering and $0.01 in pro mode with JavaScript rendering; a schema for structured output adds $0.001. 1,000 pages cost $1.00 to $11.00.

How much does Linkup Research cost?

$0.25 at depth S, $0.50 at depth M, $1.50 at depth L and $2.50 at depth XL, per task.

Does Linkup charge for failed searches?

No credit is subtracted when an error occurs, whether that is due to a missing parameter, an internal server error, or because we were unable to find anything relevant to your query.

Is Linkup cheaper than Tavily or Exa?

For 10,000 searches a month: Linkup $50, Tavily $78 (basic search) and Exa $70 (auto). Linkup and Exa have no monthly plans; Tavily's plans bring it to $5.00 per 1,000 used in full.

Linkup against the other search APIs

10,000 searches a month, each API's cheapest published option in its default search type:

  1. Serper$10/mo$1.00 per 1,000 searches. Starter pack: 50,000 searches for $50, valid 6 months.
  2. Brave Search API$50/mo$5.00 per 1,000 searches. Search: $5.00 per 1,000, no monthly fee.
  3. Jina Reader search$50/mo$5.00 per 1,000 searches. $50 package: 100,000 searches for $50. Priced at the minimum 10,000 tokens a search; packages count in the month they're bought.
  4. Linkup$50/mo$5.00 per 1,000 searches. Standard search: $5.00 per 1,000, no monthly fee.
  5. Perplexity Search API$50/mo$5.00 per 1,000 searches. Standard search: $5.00 per 1,000, no monthly fee. Up to five queries in one request count once.
  6. You.com$50/mo$5.00 per 1,000 searches. Web Search: $5.00 per 1,000, no monthly fee. Up to 100 results a call at the same price.
  7. Exa$70/mo$7.00 per 1,000 searches. Pay as you go (auto): $7.00 per 1,000, no monthly fee. Up to 10 results; each result above 10 adds $1 per 1,000 searches.
  8. Tavily$78/mo$7.80 per 1,000 searches. Project: $30 a month with 4,000 searches, then $8.00 per 1,000. Credits past a plan's limit at the pay-as-you-go $0.008 a credit.
  9. Firecrawl search$94/mo$9.40 per 1,000 searches. Hobby: $19 a month with 2,500 searches, then $10.00 per 1,000. 2 credits per 10 results, from plans shared with scraping; extra credits in $5 increments.
  10. SerpApi$150/mo$15.00 per 1,000 searches. Production: 15,000 searches a month for $150.

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Sources: Linkup pricing docs and Linkup's pricing page, read on the date below.

Prices checked against each platform's own pricing page on .