Free web search for my local agent stopped working. What are you paying per 1,000 queries now?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 10/29/26, 06:29 PM Tools

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Summary

A developer asks what others now pay per 1,000 web search API queries after a free search API broke and a self-hosted SearXNG setup kept getting Google/Bing suspended for captchas.

My research agent ran on a free search API for months until every call started failing last week and the SearXNG box I set up instead keeps getting its Google and Bing engines suspended for captchas, so I'm going to have to pay for one. It's maybe 3,000 to 5,000 searches a month, mostly docs and GitHub issues and I'd like snippets plus the page text when a result looks useful. The search threads I found here are mostly about keeping everything local, so what are you paying per 1,000 queries now and are the cheap providers fine for docs lookups or is it worth spending more?

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