It's $4/1000 queries, but the rate is increasing in May to $18/1000 queries. The Bing API is available through Azure.
Is it just me or does this seem insanely expensive already?
Is it easy for you to rely on more search index providers, what are your options?
I have a few options:
* Switch index providers. For example, Mojeek has an index with 6bn pages and has a web search API; may be more sustainable to switch to their index in the long run.
* Build my own index. This is my preferred option and I've already started to work on this.
* Look for funding sources to offset the price hike.
marginalia put out the news yesterday getting a NLnet grant with one of the sub-goals "to produce and offer portable data in order to bolster adjacent efforts in the search and discovery space", maybe talk?
As an end user I profit from the many licensees to the bing index, different interfaces and ideas can compete with less effort required.