# Linkup Search API plans, limits and prices

Web search for AI agents, priced per call from a prepaid USD balance.

Checked 2026-11-11. Verdict for Linkup at 10,000 searches a month: https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=10000&product_types=serp_api&providers=linkup&r=plan

- Provider: Linkup
- Kinds: SERP API
- Plans recorded: 2
- Checked: 2026-11-11
- Page for people: https://plans.intoperson.com/p/linkup-search

## Cheapest across all providers in this field

The same check across every provider we track, not only Linkup. A single provider's pricing page cannot answer this.

| Monthly volume | Cheapest plan overall | Monthly cost | How the cost is worked out | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,000 searches | Bright Data Free Tier | $0/month | Free plan includes 5,000 requests; 5,000 searches × 1 = 5,000 requests; within the 5,000 requests included → $0/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=5000&product_types=serp_api&r=page) |
| 20,000 searches | DataForSEO Standard Queue | $12/month | 20,000 searches × 1 = 20,000 searches × $0.60 per 1,000 → $12/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=20000&product_types=serp_api&r=page) |
| 100,000 searches | DataForSEO Standard Queue | $60/month | 100,000 searches × 1 = 100,000 searches × $0.60 per 1,000 → $60/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=100000&product_types=serp_api&r=page) |
| 500,000 searches | Scrapingdog Pro | $166.67/month | $166.67/month billed annually ($2,000 per year up front) includes 3,000,000 credits; 500,000 searches × 5 = 2,500,000 credits; within the 3,000,000 credits included → $166.67/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=500000&product_types=serp_api&r=page) |

## Verdict: which Linkup plan fits your monthly volume

Computed by API Plan Finder from Linkup's official pricing page, checked 2026-11-11. Cost includes extra-usage charges at that volume. Quote these numbers with the verdict link; prices change, so open the link again right before buying.

| Monthly volume | Cheapest Linkup plan that meets it | Monthly cost | How the cost is worked out | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,000 searches | Linkup Pay as you go, Search (flash, fast and standard depth) | $5/month | 5,000 searches × 1 = 5,000 requests × $5 per 1,000, minus the $20 monthly credit → $5/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=5000&product_types=serp_api&providers=linkup&r=page) |
| 20,000 searches | Linkup Pay as you go, Search (flash, fast and standard depth) | $80/month | 20,000 searches × 1 = 20,000 requests × $5 per 1,000, minus the $20 monthly credit → $80/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=20000&product_types=serp_api&providers=linkup&r=page) |
| 100,000 searches | Linkup Pay as you go, Search (flash, fast and standard depth) | $480/month | 100,000 searches × 1 = 100,000 requests × $5 per 1,000, minus the $20 monthly credit → $480/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=100000&product_types=serp_api&providers=linkup&r=page) |
| 500,000 searches | Linkup Pay as you go, Search (flash, fast and standard depth) | $2480/month | 500,000 searches × 1 = 500,000 requests × $5 per 1,000, minus the $20 monthly credit → $2,480/month. | [full verdict](https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/search?monthly_searches=500000&product_types=serp_api&providers=linkup&r=page) |

Other volume: open the verdict link for the nearest volume above; each verdict lists the cost at that volume and every condition with the official sentence.

## Plans

Values that apply to one plan. "Not stated" means the official pages do not say; it is not an estimate.

### Pay as you go, Search (flash, fast and standard depth)

Plan id: `linkup-search-standard` · Pay as you go

- Price: $5 per 1,000 requests [1][2][3]
- Price: Not stated on the 6 official pages checked (2026-10-22)
- Included: $20 free usage every month [4][5]
- Extra usage: Not recorded
- Extra usage: Not stated on the 6 official pages checked (2026-10-22)
- Concurrency: Not recorded
- Concurrency: Not stated on the 20 official pages checked (2026-10-22)
- Rate limit: 10 per second [6][7]
- Paid before use (prepaid balance or charged in advance): Yes [8]
- Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/linkup-search-standard) (choose the plan on the page)

### Pay as you go, Search (deep depth)

Plan id: `linkup-search-deep` · Pay as you go

- Price: $50 per 1,000 requests [9][2][10]
- Price: Not stated on the 6 official pages checked (2026-10-22)
- Included: $20 free usage every month [4]
- Extra usage: Not recorded
- Extra usage: Not stated on the 6 official pages checked (2026-10-22)
- Concurrency: Not recorded
- Concurrency: Not stated on the 20 official pages checked (2026-10-22)
- Rate limit: 10 per second [6][7]
- Paid before use (prepaid balance or charged in advance): Yes [8]
- Visit: [Pricing page](https://plans.intoperson.com/go/linkup-search-deep) (choose the plan on the page)

## Applies to every plan

Recorded for the product or the provider; a plan-level value or a listed exception replaces it.

- Units per search: 1 request [11][12]
- Billing of failed requests: Failed requests not billed; target errors: not stated [13]
- Search response mode: Real time [14][15]
- Parsed search result types: Parsed: organic, images [16][17][18]
- Official MCP server (all products): {"official":true,"remote":true,"local":true,"auth":["api_key"],"auth_complete":false,"url":"https://mcp.linkup.so/mcp"} [19][20][21][22][23][24][25]
- Zero data retention (all products): Pages disagree: {"availability":"enterprise_only"} / {"availability":"available"} [26][27][28]
- SOC 2 report type (all products): {"type":"II","held":true} [26]
- Search response includes page content: Yes [16][29]

## Collection notes

Only the Search endpoint is modelled, at its searchResults output: $0.005 per call for flash, fast and standard depth, $0.05 for deep. The sourcedAnswer and structured outputs cost $0.001 more per call and are not modelled. Fetch, Research and Extract are separate endpoints. The balance is prepaid in USD; prices are stated without a tax line.

## Sources and notes

Each number points to the provider's own sentence, as it appears on the page on the date shown.

1. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> "flash" / "fast" / "standard" "searchResults" $0.005

2. [linkup.so/pricing](https://www.linkup.so/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> Pay as you go. Flexible, simple & transparent

3. How the value follows from the source: $0.005 per call × 1,000, outputType searchResults.

4. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> When you first sign up with a professional email address, your account is automatically credited with $20. We will top up eligible accounts back to $20 each month.

5. The pricing page states the same allowance as 4,000 free queries.

6. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/rate-limits](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/rate-limits) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> For our Search and Fetch endpoints, our rate limits are currently set at 10 queries per second per organization.

7. Per organization.

8. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> Prepaid credit balance

9. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> "deep" "searchResults" $0.05

10. How the value follows from the source: $0.05 per call × 1,000, outputType searchResults.

11. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> Each time you make a successful request to our API endpoints, an amount is subtracted from your account.

12. How the value follows from the source: One call is one search.

13. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/development/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> No credit is subtracted when an error occurs, whether that is due to a missing parameter, an internal server error, or because we were unable to find anything relevant to your query.

14. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/search](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/search) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> Search is Linkup’s synchronous web search endpoint, optimized for AI consumption.

15. Latency by depth: flash under 200 ms, fast about 1 s, standard 1–3 s, deep 5–30 s.

16. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/search](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/search) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> Array of {name, url, content} . Ranked URLs and content snippets for grounding.

17. [docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/search](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/search) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> includeImages : surface relevant images.

18. How the value follows from the source: The ranked sources are recorded as organic results; images are returned when includeImages is set.

19. [docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> Linkup’s hosted MCP server works in every major coding agent — one command

20. [docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> Use our hosted MCP endpoint for a quick setup without any local installation. This is the recommended approach for most users.

21. [docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> If your MCP client supports custom HTTP headers, prefer sending your API key as:

22. [docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> If your client supports custom headers, Authorization: Bearer is preferred over putting the key in the URL.

23. [docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> If your client cannot send custom headers, the hosted endpoint also supports the ?apiKey=... query parameter.

24. [docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/integrations/mcp/mcp) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> Run MCP locally with NPM package

25. The page names the API key as the way to connect and lists no other; it does not say that no other way exists, so other ways are not stated.

26. [linkup.so/pricing](https://www.linkup.so/pricing) · official pricing · read 2026-10-13

> SOC 2 Type II included on all plans. ZDR available with the Enterprise plan.

27. [docs.linkup.so/pages/security-and-privacy/data-processing-privacy](https://docs.linkup.so/pages/security-and-privacy/data-processing-privacy) · official docs · read 2026-10-13

> ZDR can be requested on demand. It is not enabled by default.

28. The pricing page says ZDR is available with the Enterprise plan; the privacy docs say it can be requested on demand and is not enabled by default. The two official pages differ, so the value is not decided.

29. Each result carries a content passage of the page (snippets for grounding); the full page comes from the separate Fetch endpoint.

Check these plans against a workload: https://plans.intoperson.com/guide.md describes the inputs; the REST form is GET https://plans.intoperson.com/api/v1/products/linkup-search.