# Free Bing SERP API in 2026: 10,000 searches free on the Bing v7 call Compared on Nov 12, 2026. The page: https://specstream.ai/free-bing-serp-api Microsoft's free Bing Search API tier gave 1,000 transactions a month. It was retired with the paid tiers on August 11, 2025. Today SerpApi gives 250 free Bing searches a month, DataForSEO a $1 trial credit and Serpent 10 free calls. SpecStream answers the Bing Web Search v7 call at `https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search` in Bing's JSON. A new account gets $10 of credit with no card: 10,000 searches, then $1 per 1,000. [Get an API key](https://specstream.ai/signup?src=alternatives-free-bing-serp-api&utm_source=alternatives-md&utm_campaign=free-bing-serp-api&returnTo=%2Fworkspace%2Fsearch%3Froute%3Dbing) New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. It covers 10,000 searches. ## What each free Bing API gives before you pay | | SpecStream | Bing Search API Free tier (retired) | SerpApi Bing Search API | DataForSEO Bing Organic SERP API | |---|---|---|---|---| | Free use | $10 of credit on a new account, no card: 10,000 searches. It does not reset and does not expire | 1,000 free transactions a month, until the retirement on August 11, 2025 | 250 searches a month on the Free plan | A $1 trial credit, about 833 SERPs at high priority, and a sandbox whose every value is dummy data | | Price after the free part | $1 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, $0.001 each | $25 per 1,000 transactions on S1, until the retirement | $25 a month for 1,000 searches on Starter, $75 for 5,000 on Developer | $0.60 per 1,000 in the Standard queue, $1.20 in the Priority queue, $2.00 in Live mode | | To start paying | A top-up from $10. Credit you buy never expires | No sign up: every existing instance was decommissioned and new customer signup ended | A monthly plan | A minimum account top-up of $50 | | Limits on the free part | No daily limit and no limit per key. A busy call gets a `429` with `Retry-After` and is not charged | The Free tier, F1, was retired with S1 to S9 | 50 searches an hour on the Free plan | The sandbox returns dummy data. Live data comes from the $1 credit | | The call | `GET https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search?q=` with the key in `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key`, as Bing's v7 took it | `GET https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search?q=` with the key in `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key` | `GET https://serpapi.com/search?engine=bing&q=` with `api_key` | A task posted to `/v3/serp/bing/organic/`, in the Standard queue, the Priority queue or Live mode | | What a call returns | Bing's JSON: `webPages.value[]` with `name`, `url`, `displayUrl` and `snippet`, `queryContext` and `rankingResponse`. Errors come as `ErrorResponse` with Bing's codes | `webPages.value` with `name`, `url` and `snippet` for each result | `organic_results` in SerpApi's own JSON | Rankings, URLs, titles and descriptions, with ads, related searches and other SERP elements | | Speed | One call that answers in a few seconds | One call, until the retirement | One call | About 5 minutes on average in the Standard queue, about a minute in Priority, about 6 seconds in Live | | What the key also buys | The Search API on the whole live web, the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages and Deep Search at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row | Microsoft now sells Grounding with Bing Search at $14 per 1,000 transactions, which returns a model's answer and no raw results | The same page as raw HTML or Markdown, with `output=html` or `output=md` | SERP APIs for other engines, such as Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Naver and Seznam | ## Why start your free Bing searches on SpecStream ### Your first free call, in Bing's JSON ``` curl -G https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search \ -H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \ --data-urlencode "q=coffee roasters in portland" -d count=10 ``` The reply carries `_type`, `queryContext.originalQuery`, `webPages` with `value[]` (`name`, `url`, `displayUrl`, `snippet`) and `rankingResponse`, as the v7 API returned them. A call of up to 10 results takes $0.001 from the $10, so the credit covers 10,000 of them. ### Code written for Bing runs unchanged Change `https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search` to `https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search` and put the SpecStream key where the Bing key was. `q`, `count` (1 to 50), `offset` and `freshness` work as before, and `mkt`, `setLang`, `cc` and `safeSearch` are accepted. Microsoft's SDKs build `{endpoint}/bing/v7.0/search`, and that path answers too. News and images answer on the same credit: Bing News v7 at `/v7.0/news/search` and Bing Image Search v7 at `/v7.0/images/search`, each in Bing's shape. The [Bing Web Search v7](https://specstream.ai/migrate/bing-web-search-v7?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=free-bing-serp-api) page lists every field. ### No card, no reset, no queue The $10 comes with a new account and asks for no card. It does not reset at the end of the month, so a project you start this week still has its searches next quarter. There is no sandbox of dummy data: the first call is a live search, and so is the 10,000th. ### After the free credit Each search of up to 10 results costs $0.001, and `count=50` costs $0.0058. A top-up starts at $10, and there is no monthly plan to pick. A $5,000 search pack holds 7,500,000 searches on the v7 address, $0.67 per 1,000, and never expires. Every rate is on the [pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=free-bing-serp-api) page. ### The top score on the free credit A free search is the same search a paying account gets. The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions (978 correct), and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 WideSearch tasks. Every score and its method is on the [benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=free-bing-serp-api) page. ## Other free Bing API options ### Bright Data SERP API A free tier of 5K records a month with no credit card, then $1.5 per 1,000 requests pay as you go. Its Bing SERP API takes a `https://www.bing.com/search?q=` address through a SERP zone you create. SpecStream takes the v7 call your code already sends, with 10,000 searches on the free credit. ### Serpent API 10 free calls on a free account and one free demo run a day, then a $10 minimum first deposit. SpecStream's free credit covers 10,000 searches with no deposit. ### Grounding with Bing Search Microsoft's replacement for the Bing Search APIs, at $14 per 1,000 transactions inside Azure AI Foundry. Developers and end users have no access to the raw content it returns. See [Grounding with Bing Search alternative](https://specstream.ai/grounding-with-bing-search-alternative?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=free-bing-serp-api). ### Brave Search API $5 in free credits every month, then $5 per 1,000 requests, on Brave's own index and in Brave's shape, so Bing code is rewritten for it. SpecStream answers Bing's call and Brave's call on one key, at $1 per 1,000. ## How to get 10,000 free Bing v7 searches 1. Sign up at specstream.ai and open Agents & API in the workspace. A new account gets $10 of credit, no card. 2. Create a key. Give it a name and, if you want one, a spending limit, so a loop in your code cannot spend past it. 3. Send the v7 call with the key in `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key`. In Python: ``` import requests ENDPOINT = "https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search" # was https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/search reply = requests.get( ENDPOINT, headers={"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key": SPECSTREAM_KEY}, params={"q": "coffee roasters in portland", "count": 10}, ).json() for page in reply.get("webPages", {}).get("value", []): print(page["name"], page["url"], page["snippet"]) ``` 4. Read the rest of the rates with `GET https://api.specstream.ai/v1/capacity/catalog`, or on the [pricing](https://specstream.ai/pricing?utm_source=alternatives&utm_campaign=free-bing-serp-api) page. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is there a free Bing Search API in 2026? Not from Microsoft. Its Free tier gave 1,000 transactions a month and was retired with the paid tiers on August 11, 2025. A new SpecStream account gets $10 of credit with no card, which covers 10,000 searches on the same v7 call. ### What replaced the free Bing Search API? Microsoft points customers to Grounding with Bing Search, at $14 per 1,000 transactions on both of its plans, and it returns a model's answer rather than results. SpecStream returns `webPages.value[]` in Bing's JSON, with 10,000 searches free. ### Does SerpApi have a free Bing API? Yes: its Free plan gives 250 searches a month, up to 50 an hour, then plans start at $25 a month for 1,000. SpecStream's free credit covers 10,000 searches, and after it each search costs $0.001. ### Is DataForSEO's Bing API free? No. New accounts get a $1 trial credit and a sandbox whose values are dummy data, and the first top-up is at least $50. Bing Organic costs $0.60 to $2.00 per 1,000 SERPs by mode. ### Can I use my old Bing code with a free key? Yes. Change the address to `https://api.specstream.ai/v7.0/search` and put a SpecStream key in `Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key`. The parameters and the parser stay, and the first 10,000 searches come out of the free $10. ### What does a search cost after the free credit? $1 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results, with no monthly plan, and $0.67 per 1,000 through a $5,000 search pack. Credit you buy never expires. ## Sources SpecStream wrote this page. Each figure about Microsoft and other providers comes from that company's own page, read on the date shown. - [Microsoft, Bing Search API retirement](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/bing-search-api-retirement), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Microsoft, Azure Retail Prices API, MS Bing Search v7 S1](https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?$filter=productName%20eq%20%27MS%20Bing%20Search%20v7%27%20and%20skuName%20eq%20%27S1%27), read Nov 12, 2026 - [TechRadar, Bing Search API price hike](https://techradar.com/news/microsoft-is-giving-bing-search-apis-a-huge-price-hike-as-it-continues-ai-push), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Microsoft, Grounding with Bing pricing](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/grounding-pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Microsoft Learn, Grounding with Bing tools](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/foundry/agents/how-to/tools/bing-tools), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SerpApi, Bing Search API](https://serpapi.com/bing-search-api.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SerpApi pricing](https://serpapi.com/pricing.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [DataForSEO, Bing Organic SERP API pricing](https://dataforseo.com/pricing/serp/bing-organic-serp-api), read Nov 12, 2026 - [DataForSEO, free testing of the Bing API](https://dataforseo.com/help-center/how-to-use-bing-search-engine-api-with-python-free-testing-with-dataforseo), read Nov 12, 2026 - [DataForSEO pricing](https://dataforseo.com/pricing), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data SERP API pricing](https://brightdata.com/pricing/serp.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Bright Data, Bing SERP API](https://docs.brightdata.com/products/serp-api/get-started-bing-serp-api.md), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Serpent, Free Bing SERP API](https://apiserpent.com/blog/free-bing-serp-api), read Nov 12, 2026 - [Brave Search API](https://brave.com/search/api/), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream benchmarks](https://specstream.ai/benchmarks), read Nov 12, 2026 - [SpecStream for agents](https://specstream.ai/agents.md), read Nov 12, 2026