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Ceramic.ai pricing
100,000 standard searches a month cost $25.00, pay as you go, on Ceramic.ai.
Checked Oct 17, 2026 on Ceramic.ai's own pricing page
- Pay As You Go
- Pro
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Every Ceramic.ai plan
| Plan | Covers | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Included | Past the allowance | Concurrent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Go fits your volume | 10K to 250K search calls | not published | not offered | pay per use | $0.25 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Pro | 500K to 1M search calls | $99.00 | not offered | 495,000 requests | $0.20 per 1,000 requests | not published |
Your job
What Ceramic.ai bills you for
What you pay
About this price and its sources
Ceramic.ai's web search API costs $0.25 per 1,000 queries pay as you go, or $99 a month for 495,000 on Pro, with 1,000 free queries. Also sold through Cloudflare.
Cite this price
100,000 standard searches a month cost $25.00, pay as you go, on Ceramic.ai. Price read from https://www.ceramic.ai/pricing on Oct 17, 2026. Scraping API Prices, https://scrapingapiprices.com/ceramic-ai-pricing
How the bill builds up
- Base rate1 requestper request
- × JavaScript renderingNot requiredNot part of this workload
- × Premium proxyNot required
- ÷ Success rate1Failure billing is not published; this is an assumption
- = Billed units per search1 requestFrom this bill’s calculation
- = per 1,000 searches$0.25Pay As You Go
Credits and multipliers
JavaScript rendering
Billed failures
Success rate
Concurrency
Free tier
Renews monthly The bill at your volume
100,000 search calls · $25.00
Read the chart as a table
| Volume | Bill | Offer |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $2.50 | Pay As You Go |
| 25,000 | $6.25 | Pay As You Go |
| 50,000 | $12.50 | Pay As You Go |
| 100,000 | $25.00 | Pay As You Go |
| 250,000 | $62.50 | Pay As You Go |
| 500,000 | $100.00 | Pro |
| 1,000,000 | $200.00 | Pro |
Follow each billed unit
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Successes you want
100,000 standard searches
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
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Attempts you are billed for
100,000 standard searches
Failure billing is not published. This workload assumes no failures, so the missing rule does not change the bill.
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What the meter counts
100,000 requests
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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Metered cash this month
$25.00 /mo
Pay As You Go: the cheapest way to buy this volume, not just the first plan big enough.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
100,000 standard searches → 100,000 requests → Pay As You Go $25.00/mo = $0.25 per 1,000 searches
What makes it cost more
One page is not always one billed unit. These are Ceramic.ai's published charges for each kind of work.
| Work | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| A search | 1 request | request | source |
Limits and terms
What Ceramic.ai publishes beyond the price: the limits a job runs into and the terms that change what a plan is worth. Each line links the page it comes from and the day it was read.
Speed, concurrency and sessions
- Pay as you go allows 20 queries a second across an organization and Pro 50; Enterprise reserves custom throughput. source, read Oct 17, 2026
Credits, renewal and billing
- Ceramic.ai is also sold through Cloudflare's Web Search API, in open beta through AI Gateway, where it is the default provider and is billed from AI Gateway credits at its list price of $0.25 per 1,000 requests with no markup. source, read Oct 17, 2026
Other terms
- Ceramic covers English web pages only for now. source, read Oct 17, 2026
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call, ranked by what you would actually be billed. APIs without a full public price aren't ranked.
What Ceramic.ai does not publish
- Whether a failed or empty search is billed outside Cloudflare's payment gateway is not published.
What Ceramic.ai is
Ceramic.ai is a web search API for AI agents and LLM pipelines that searches its own index of more than 40 billion pages, built from publisher partnerships and crawling rather than by scraping another engine. It is a lexical search engine: it matches the words in your query, so it works best with keyword queries rather than conversational questions, and Ceramic recommends rewriting questions into several keyword variants. It covers English pages only for now. A search returns each result’s title, URL and a long description (Ceramic.ai FAQ; Ceramic docs FAQ, checked Oct 17, 2026).
How billing works
Pay as you go costs $0.25 per 1,000 queries with no monthly fee, and a new account gets 1,000 free queries without a credit card. Pro costs $99 a month, includes 495,000 queries, and bills anything past them at $0.20 per 1,000, a fifth off the pay-as-you-go rate. Included queries reset each billing period; credits you top up carry over (Ceramic.ai pricing, checked Oct 17, 2026).
So 100,000 searches a month cost $25 on pay as you go. Pro only pays off from 396,000 queries a month, the point where pay as you go also reaches $99; at a million queries Pro costs $200 against $250. Enterprise prices are by quote (Ceramic.ai pricing, checked Oct 17, 2026).
Three ways to buy it
Besides an account with Ceramic, you can buy the same search through Cloudflare’s Web Search API, now in open beta, where Ceramic.ai is the default provider. Paid with AI Gateway credits, each search is billed at Ceramic’s list price of $0.25 per 1,000 requests with no Cloudflare markup, and the searches show up in AI Gateway’s logs beside your model calls (Cloudflare Web Search API providers, checked Oct 17, 2026). An agent can also pay per search with no account or key, in USDC on Base through Cloudflare’s Monetization Gateway; the price per search comes in the gateway’s payment request, and failed searches are not charged that way (Ceramic agentic payments, checked Oct 17, 2026).
Before you buy
Throughput is 20 queries a second across your organization on pay as you go and 50 on Pro (Ceramic rate limits, checked Oct 17, 2026). Outside the payment gateway, Ceramic does not say whether a failed or empty search is billed. The pricing page compares Ceramic with competitors at “$14 per 1,000 queries”; that is its own benchmark, and most web search APIs here cost less, so compare on the web search API table rather than on that figure.
Who it suits
Ceramic.ai suits agents that run many keyword searches per task, where search would otherwise cost more than the model calls, and teams already on Cloudflare’s AI Gateway who want one bill. It suits less well a product whose users ask long natural-language questions, or one that needs pages in languages other than English.
Ceramic.ai head to head
Both bills for the same job, and the volume where the cheaper one changes.