# Compare API pricing and marketplaces

> Cross-vendor comparisons, each read from the vendors’ own pages and dated: search API prices, LLM API prices, and API marketplaces for AI agents.

Every figure on these pages was read from the vendor's own page on the date the page states, and links to it. upAPI is a party on each page, so each one also says where upAPI is behind.

## Cross-vendor pages

- [API marketplaces for AI agents (2026)](https://upapi.io/compare/api-marketplaces-for-ai-agents): RapidAPI, Apify, ApyHub, Zyla and upAPI compared on MCP support, one key, pricing, free tier, who runs the APIs and agent docs. Last checked 2026-10-07. Last checked 2026-10-07.
- [Search API pricing compared (October 2026)](https://upapi.io/compare/search-api-pricing): Price per 1,000 requests, free tier, rate limit and auth for 9 web search APIs, each from the vendor's own pricing page, with upAPI's web search alongside. Last checked 2026-10-22.
- [LLM API pricing compared (October 2026)](https://upapi.io/compare/llm-api-pricing): Input and output price per million tokens for 18 models from 7 vendors, each read from the vendor's own pricing page, with the free tiers they state. Last checked 2026-10-22.

## One vendor at a time

- [upAPI alternatives, compared honestly](https://upapi.io/alternatives): one page per competitor (Apify, Bright Data, ScraperAPI, Serper, ApyHub, RapidAPI, ScrapingBee, Firecrawl, ScreenshotOne), each stating where they win.

Verified 2026-11-08 by the upAPI team.