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Valyu pricing

100,000 standard searches a month cost $449.00 on Valyu's Serious Business plan.

Checked Oct 12, 2026 on Valyu's own pricing page

100,000
  1. Ridiculously Cheap
  2. Comfortably Pro
  3. Serious Business
Your workloadType an exact volume or copy a link to this jobEdit
Depth and variants

one page of results per search

Fixed for this page; volume is the control.

Every available option was priced in advance from published vendor rules. Changing a control only switches between those checked options; nothing is sent anywhere and no account is needed.

The Valyu plans from 10K to 1M

3 of 4 published plans, with the volumes on the scale each one covers; the plan this job selects is marked
PlanCoversBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per month IncludedConcurrent
Ridiculously Cheap 10K search calls $29.00 not offered 36 credits not published
Comfortably Pro 25K to 50K search calls $89.00 not offered 130 credits not published
Serious Business fits your volume 100K to 1M search calls $449.00 not offered 750 credits not published

All 4 Valyu plans, with what each charges past its allowance, are further down.

Your job

Workload100,000 search calls
Depth and variantsone page of results per search
Bills failed fetchesnot published
per 1,000 searches$4.49

What Valyu bills you for

1standard searches: 1.5 credits per 1000 results
2standard searches: a search returns 5 results unless more are asked for, so one search costs 0.0075 credits
=You consume 750 credits

What you pay

$449.00 Published bill Every figure is published; the arithmetic below is checkable. Serious Business, monthly list price Check Valyu's official pricing

Every Valyu plan

Published plans; the plan this job selects is marked
PlanBilled monthlyBilled yearly, per month IncludedPast the allowanceConcurrent requests
Pay-as-you-go $10.00one-time pack not offered 10 credits $1,000.00 per 1,000 credits not published
Ridiculously Cheap $29.00 not offered 36 credits $1,000.00 per 1,000 credits not published
Comfortably Pro $89.00 not offered 130 credits $1,000.00 per 1,000 credits not published
Serious Business fits your volume $449.00 not offered 750 credits $1,000.00 per 1,000 credits not published

Valyu is also sold as one of the AI extraction APIs (100,000 AI extraction operations a month: $159.00 on Comfortably Pro).

About this price and its sources

How Valyu shares credits across search, contents, answers, and research, including a conflict buyers need resolved.

Published bill Price checked Oct 12, 2026 Checked Oct 12, 2026 2 vendor sources See the calculation

Cite this price

100,000 standard searches a month cost $449.00 on Valyu's Serious Business plan. Price read from https://www.valyu.ai/pricing on Oct 12, 2026. Scraping API Prices, https://scrapingapiprices.com/valyu-pricing

How the bill builds up

  1. Base rate1.5 creditsper 1000 results
  2. × JavaScript renderingNot requiredNot part of this workload
  3. × Premium proxyNot required
  4. ÷ Success rate1Failure billing is not published; this is an assumption
  5. = Billed units per search0.0075 creditsFrom this bill’s calculation
  6. = per 1,000 searches$4.49Serious Business, billed monthly
Credits and multipliersJavaScript renderingBilled failuresSuccess rateConcurrencyFree tierRenews monthly

The bill at your volume

100,000 search calls · $449.00

Monthly bill or prepaid purchase$3,449.00
25,000Search calls500,000
Solid steps show published plan prices. Dashed segments include metered usage or overage. Gaps mean no complete published bill. These are the same dated prices as the calculation above.
Read the chart as a table
Valyu bills at the available volumes
VolumeBillOffer
10,000$68.00Ridiculously Cheap
25,000$146.50Comfortably Pro
50,000$334.00Comfortably Pro
100,000$449.00Serious Business
250,000$1,574.00Serious Business
500,000$3,449.00Serious Business
1,000,000$7,199.00Serious Business
Follow each billed unit

  1. Successes you want

    100,000 standard searches

    Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.

  2. ÷ 1

    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.

  3. × 0.01

    What the meter counts

    750 credits

    One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.

  4. =

    Cash per month

    $449.00 /mo

    Serious Business: 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 → 750 credits → Serious Business $449.00/mo = $4.49 per 1,000 searches

The arithmetic, line by line
  1. standard searches: 1.5 credits per 1000 results source
  2. standard searches: a search returns 5 results unless more are asked for, so one search costs 0.0075 credits source
  3. consumes 750 credits per month
  4. cheapest way to buy that: Serious Business, 750 included = $449.00 per month source

What makes it cost more

One page is not always one billed unit. These are Valyu's published charges for each kind of work.

Every published way Valyu charges
WorkCostsPerSource
A search 1.5 credits 1,000 results5 results a search by default source
A standard page 0.001 credits page source
AI extraction 0.001 credits page source

Limits and terms

What Valyu 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.

Credits, renewal and billing

  • Monthly overage is billed at the pay-as-you-go rate of $1 per credit. source, read Jul 26, 2026

Other terms

  • Search can use max_price to exclude sources priced above a caller-defined CPM cap. source, read Jul 26, 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. Showing 6 of 9; see the rest.

TinyFish $0.00 cheapest way to buy that: Search, pay as you go at $0 per unit = $0.00 per month Parallel Web Systems Search API $95.00 cheapest way to buy that: Turbo Search, pay as you go at $0.001 per unit, $100.00 less $5.00 of the $5.00 free credit each month = $95.00 per month Search1API $99.00 50,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 33% of what you buy Perplexity Search API $100.00 cheapest way to buy that: Search API with Fast Search, pay as you go at $0.001 per unit = $100.00 per month Nimble $110.00 cheapest way to buy that: Pay as you go, $110.00 of metered usage = $110.00 per month Desearch $179.00 cheapest way to buy that: Starter, $179.00 minimum against $100.00 of usage = $179.00 per month

What Valyu does not publish

What Valyu is

Valyu is an AI search and data API for knowledge-work applications and agents. Its account balance spans Search, Answer, Contents, and DeepResearch, while higher plans unlock specialized and proprietary sources across finance, academic, health, legal, government, and other datasets. It is for teams that need cited web retrieval and domain datasets through one API family, not only general web links. Sources: Valyu and Valyu pricing documentation, checked Jul 27, 2026.

Tavily, Exa, and Parallel are the three nearest named competitors, and Valyu publishes a comparison page for each. Valyu is easiest to distinguish by its source-class pricing, its plan-gated specialized datasets, and a shared balance that also pays for content processing and research tasks. Sources: Valyu versus Tavily, Valyu versus Exa, Valyu versus Parallel, and Valyu pricing documentation, checked Jul 27, 2026.

How billing works

One unit is a credit shared across the API family. Search consumption is driven by the number of returned results and the selected data class, with different schedules for open web or database material, financial data, and proprietary data. Contents charges per successfully extracted URL and adds another content-processing charge when summarization or structured extraction is requested. Answer combines retrieval charges with token usage, while DeepResearch uses a fixed replacement charge for the selected task tier. The mistake to avoid is budgeting by API-call count alone. Results, source class, content processing, tokens, and research tier can all change consumption. Source: Valyu pricing documentation, checked Jul 27, 2026.

What Valyu does not publish clearly

  • One authoritative included allowance for the entry subscription. The marketing pricing page lists 50 monthly credits, while the pricing documentation lists 36. Sources reviewed: Valyu pricing and Valyu pricing documentation, checked Jul 27, 2026.
  • A failed-request billing rule for Search and Answer. The documentation says failed Contents URLs are free, but does not extend that statement to those other APIs (Valyu pricing documentation, Jul 27, 2026).
  • Whether unused subscription credits roll over. Sources reviewed: Valyu pricing and Valyu pricing documentation, checked Jul 27, 2026.
  • Standard retention terms equivalent to the zero-data-retention option advertised for enterprise buyers (Valyu pricing documentation, Jul 27, 2026).

Who it suits

Valyu suits retrieval products that need both public web material and its listed specialist datasets and can record result class, result count, content processing, and tokens. It is less suitable for a buyer expecting one fixed cost per search call or needing an uncontested entry-plan allowance from the public pages. The allowance conflict should be resolved in writing before procurement uses it in a capacity model. Sources: Valyu pricing and Valyu pricing documentation, checked Jul 27, 2026.