Search the web

Linkup

Web search API with its own index that returns ranked sources and snippets, cited answers or structured JSON.

Billing

Pricing model: Pay as you go from a prepaid credit balance; each successful call deducts from it1
Free tier: $20 credit on sign-up with a professional email address; eligible accounts topped up back to $20 each month1
Card required for free tier: Not published
Minimum spend: Not published
Billing period: Monthly top-up of the free credit; otherwise prepaid, no billing period stated1

Prices

Per call, so $0.005 per call = $5 per 1,000 requests; $0.05 = $50; $0.006 = $6; $0.055 = $55.

Search depth	Output	$ per 1,000 requests
`flash` (alpha), `fast`, `standard`	`searchResults`	$5
`flash`, `fast`, `standard`	`sourcedAnswer` or `structured`	$6
`deep`	`searchResults`	$50
`deep`	`sourcedAnswer` or `structured`	$55

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Other charges

Fetch endpoint: $1 to $10 per 1,000 calls depending on mode and renderJs; schema adds $1 per 1,0001
Research endpoint: $0.25 to $2.50 per call by reasoningDepth (S to XL)1
Extract endpoint (closed beta): Most completed tasks cost $2 to $10; $10 minimum balance to submit1
Failed requests: No credit is subtracted on error or when nothing relevant is found1
Out of credit: API responds with 4291

Pay per call

x402 (USDC on Base): Flat $10 per 1,000 requests on /v1/search and /v1/fetch; no account needed11
x402 (other page): Same per-request costs as listed for the API, with a minimum charge of $0.01 per request1

Read from Linkup’s own pages on 2026-11-04. Every number links to the page a value came from. For agents, the same facts as markdown: /tools/search-the-web/linkup.md