A free alternative to DuckDuckGo Search API
DuckDuckGo Search API is a privacy search engine with no official general search API. FreeSerp is a free, keyless web search API for AI agents on our own 3.1B+ page web index — a drop-in alternative you can call with no key, no signup and no per-request bill.
curl 'https://freeserp.ai/api.php?index=web&q=best+crm+for+small+business&size=5'FreeSerp is not a wrapper around DuckDuckGo Search API or anyone else: it runs its own web index, FreeSerp Global — 3.1B+ pages in every language (1.25B+ English, 228M+ Russian, 187M+ German, 162M+ French, 160M+ Japanese…), ranked by text relevance, link authority and domain trust, and returns the capture date and digest behind every result.
Point your agent at FreeSerp’s JSON endpoint with index=web and it searches 3.1B+ pages — url, title, snippet, language, publication date and a site card (Domain Rating, category, live date) per result. The default index gives you 20M+ site profiles with LLM summaries, filterable and sortable on every field. Same shape you would wire DuckDuckGo Search API into, minus the account and the invoice.
FreeSerp vs DuckDuckGo Search API
| FreeSerp | DuckDuckGo Search API | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Paid |
| API key / signup | None | Required |
| Index | Own, 3.1B+ pages + 20M site profiles | privacy and instant answers |
| Site metadata (DR, summary, niche) | Yes | — |
| MCP connector | Yes | — |
| Reproducible citation per result | Yes | — |
When does DuckDuckGo Search API still win? When you specifically need privacy and instant answers. Reach for FreeSerp when you want free, agent-native web search without a key — for retrieval, grounding, monitoring or tool-calls where cost-per-request and signup are the real blockers.
FAQ
Is there a free alternative to DuckDuckGo Search API?
Yes — FreeSerp is a free, keyless web search API on our own 3.1B+ page web index, built for AI agents.
Does FreeSerp need an API key like DuckDuckGo Search API?
No. FreeSerp has no key and no signup; an agent can call it directly.
Does FreeSerp use results?
No. FreeSerp runs its own index and ranking; results are independent and reproducible down to the crawl record.
Can an AI agent use FreeSerp instead of DuckDuckGo Search API?
Yes — via the JSON endpoint at /api.php (index=web for the open web) or the MCP server at /mcp.
