If you actually did 10k queries a day with any free search service you'd quickly find yourself banned.
ChatGPT deep research does a lot of searches, but it's also heavily rate-limited even on paid accounts.
Building a search index, running a lot of servers, storing and querying all that data costs money. Even a cheap search API is gonna cost a bit for 10k queries if the results are any good.
Kagi charges me 15 USD and last month I've done 863 searches with it, more than worth it for the result quality. For me the Google API would be cheaper. I'm pretty sure Kagi would kick me out if I did 10k searches a day even if I'm paying for "unlimited searches".
A similar API from Bing costs between 15-25 USD for 1000 searches. Exa.ai costs 5 dollars for 1000 searches, and it goes up to 25 dollars if you want more than 25 results for your query.
If you actually did 10k queries a day with any free search service you'd quickly find yourself banned.
ChatGPT deep research does a lot of searches, but it's also heavily rate-limited even on paid accounts.
Building a search index, running a lot of servers, storing and querying all that data costs money. Even a cheap search API is gonna cost a bit for 10k queries if the results are any good.
Kagi charges me 15 USD and last month I've done 863 searches with it, more than worth it for the result quality. For me the Google API would be cheaper. I'm pretty sure Kagi would kick me out if I did 10k searches a day even if I'm paying for "unlimited searches".
A similar API from Bing costs between 15-25 USD for 1000 searches. Exa.ai costs 5 dollars for 1000 searches, and it goes up to 25 dollars if you want more than 25 results for your query.
Good web search is quite expensive.