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Search1API web access for AI agents, $1.5K MRR: many interfaces
Search1API provides search, crawling, extraction, screenshots, sitemap discovery, news, and trends for AI agents and developers. Its $1.5K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.
What it actually sells
Search1API sells web access infrastructure for AI agents, including search, crawling, extraction, news, screenshots, sitemaps, and trends. Its stated audience includes AI agents and developers building live-web access workflows.
Developers can search Google, Bing, YouTube, GitHub, and other sources through one endpoint. Search1API also crawls webpages and linked site content, extracts structured data through natural-language prompts, and provides screenshots and website sitemap discovery.
How it charges
Pay-as-you-go credits start at $5, while subscriptions start at $19 monthly. Search1API lists Basic, Professional, and Enterprise plans and says, “Top up from $5, or subscribe from $19/month.”
Month by month
Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.
| Month | Revenue (USD) |
|---|---|
| 2025-10 | $7,055 |
| 2025-11 | $809 |
| 2025-12 | $868 |
| 2026-01 | $1,421 |
| 2026-02 | $1,030 |
| 2026-03 | $1,016 |
| 2026-04 | $3,142 |
| 2026-05 | $1,223 |
| 2026-06 | $681 |
| 2026-07 | $1,838 |
| 2026-08 | $1,282 |
| 2026-09 | $1,332 |
Where customers come from
The founder lists Blog, Newsletter, SEO, and X / Twitter as growth channels. Search1API publishes public documentation, service health information, policies, source repositories, machine-readable discovery files, an API reference, SDKs, a CLI, MCP support, and agent integrations.
Search1API maintains open-source projects and integrations. Developers can call the public REST API directly, generate clients from the OpenAPI 3.1 contract, contact the business through its official email, or join its Discord community.
What stands out
The Search endpoint supports 17 search engines, and residential proxies cover 220+ countries and regions. Search results are typically delivered within 1-2 seconds. Search1API also provides 100 free credits without a credit card.
Search1API supports REST API, MCP server, CLI, and Agent Skills. Its documented functions also include search, crawling, natural-language extraction, screenshots, website sitemap discovery, news, and trends.
From the official site
Simply enter a link to quickly crawl all linked content within a site and save it locally.
Choose the way you already use: API, MCP, CLI, or Skills.
Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.
Where it sits in the data
Search1API's $1.5K MRR is higher than 79% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Dev Tools” category (717 projects) it is higher than 82% (category median $100). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.
Currency
All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.
Could you build something like this?
In my view, this needs real work. The buyer is a developer or team building an AI agent that needs current information from the web. Distribution would need to come through developer search, technical content, open-source integrations, API communities, and direct outreach to relevant teams.
The difficult parts are maintaining reliable search and crawling infrastructure, supporting several developer interfaces, handling proxy coverage and delivery performance, and providing technical support. The market includes established developer tools and infrastructure services, so differentiation would have to come from reliability, documentation, integrations, pricing, or another specific product choice.
Verdict: Needs real work.
One thing to take from it
Search1API puts search, crawling, extraction, screenshots, sitemap discovery, news, and trends behind several developer interfaces, including REST API, MCP server, CLI, and Agent Skills. Its pricing combines pay-as-you-go credits with monthly subscriptions.
Sources
- Search1API official website, fetched October 1, 2026
- Search1API pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
- Search1API about page, fetched October 1, 2026
- TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026
Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure