Best Bing Search API alternatives in 2026

Your v7 code keeps working

Every other row in the table is a new integration: a new address, new parameters, a new reply to parse. SpecStream answers the call your code already sends. The address changes, and the key.

import requests

# Before: the retired Bing Web Search API
# ENDPOINT = "https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search"

# After: the same call, answered by SpecStream
ENDPOINT = "https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search"

reply = requests.get(
    ENDPOINT,
    headers={"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": SPECSTREAM_KEY},
    params={"q": "Who founded Mistral AI and when?", "count": 10, "mkt": "en-US"},
).json()

for page in reply["webPages"]["value"]:
    print(page["name"], page["url"], page["snippet"])

The reply is Bing's: _type SearchResponse, queryContext, webPages.value[] and rankingResponse. mkt, setLang, cc and safeSearch are accepted, so the request needs no edit. Microsoft's own SDKs build {endpoint}/bing/v7.0/search, and that path answers too.

The price at 1,000,000 searches a month

On SpecStream, 1,000,000 searches of up to 10 results cost $1,000, paid from your balance with no plan. At the prices each company prints today, the same month is $14,000 on Grounding with Bing, $5,000 on Brave, $3,750 on SerpApi's Cloud 1M plan, and $2,000 on DataForSEO's Live mode. DataForSEO's $600 Standard queue answers in about 5 minutes on average, too slow for a user waiting on a search.

Results your code reads, from the live web

Microsoft's replacement hands the results to a model, and its documentation says developers have no access to the raw content. SpecStream returns them to your code, read from the live web at the moment of the call. Its Search API is the most accurate web search API in the world: 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct) and 64.0 item F1 on all 200 WideSearch tasks, on the benchmarks page.

The test: run the same queries on each API

Comparison pages quote rate cards. This script times the same 10 queries on SpecStream, SerpApi's Bing engine and Brave, and counts the results each returns. Set the keys you hold as environment variables; an API with no key is skipped. On SpecStream the run costs 1¢ of your $10 credit.

import os, statistics, time, requests

QUERIES = [
    "who founded mistral ai and when",
    "python 3.13 release date",
    "largest container ports in europe",
    "nvidia h200 memory bandwidth",
    "bing search api retirement date",
    "population of lagos",
    "rust 2024 edition stable release",
    "eu ai act general purpose model obligations",
    "how many moons does saturn have",
    "boiling point of water at 2000 meters",
]

def specstream(q, key):
    r = requests.get("https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search",
                     headers={"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": key},
                     params={"q": q, "count": 10}, timeout=60)
    return r.json().get("webPages", {}).get("value", [])

def serpapi_bing(q, key):
    r = requests.get("https://serpapi.com/search",
                     params={"engine": "bing", "q": q, "api_key": key}, timeout=60)
    return r.json().get("organic_results", [])

def brave(q, key):
    r = requests.get("https://api.search.brave.com/res/v1/web/search",
                     headers={"X-Subscription-Token": key},
                     params={"q": q, "count": 10}, timeout=60)
    return r.json().get("web", {}).get("results", [])

APIS = [("SpecStream", specstream, "SPECSTREAM_API_KEY"),
        ("SerpApi engine=bing", serpapi_bing, "SERPAPI_KEY"),
        ("Brave Search API", brave, "BRAVE_KEY")]

for name, call, env in APIS:
    key = os.environ.get(env)
    if not key:
        continue
    seconds, counts = [], []
    for q in QUERIES:
        start = time.perf_counter()
        counts.append(len(call(q, key)))
        end = time.perf_counter()
        seconds.append(end-start)
    answered = sum(1 for c in counts if c > 0)
    print(f"{name}: median {statistics.median(seconds):.2f} s, "
          f"{answered}/{len(QUERIES)} answered, {statistics.mean(counts):.1f} results a query")

Our own run on production on November 9, 2026: 718 of 720 searches answered, with a median of 0.82 seconds at one search a second and 1.07 seconds at 20 searches a second. Every call is in your request log with its latency_ms and price_usd, at GET https://api.specstream.ai/v1/account/requests.

One key for search, pages and datasets

A Bing integration often read the top URLs next. On SpecStream the same key reads them: POST /v1/extract returns page text for $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and a page with no text is not charged. When the product needs a whole dataset in place of a results page, Deep Search takes the request in plain words, quotes the most it can cost, and delivers structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. See the Search API.

SpecStream

The live web data engine. It answers Bing's /v7.0/search call in Bing's JSON at $1 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, with $10 of credit on sign-up and no card. The same key reads pages for $0.80 per 1,000 and returns full datasets as rows.

Bright Data SERP API

A SERP API that collects structured results from Google, Bing and other engines, in under 1 second per request by its own docs. It is priced per 1,000 successful requests, and failed requests are not billed. Its reply is Bright Data's own shape, so Bing code is rewritten for it. SpecStream answers the Bing call as it is.

ScrapingBee

A scraping API sold in monthly credit plans. Hobby is $19 a month for 75,000 API credits, and a request with JavaScript rendering costs 5 credits. SpecStream returns search results as JSON your code reads, at $1 per 1,000, with nothing to render or parse.

Parallel

A search API for agents priced by mode: $1 per 1,000 requests for its fastest modes, $5 per 1,000 for basic and advanced, and a call that names no mode runs advanced. Its reply has its own shape. SpecStream keeps your Bing code at $1 per 1,000.

Tavily

A search API for agents, billed in credits. Pay as you go costs $0.008 a credit, and the free Researcher plan has 1,000 credits a month. Its reply has its own shape. On SpecStream, 1,000 searches in Bing's JSON cost $1.