Microsoft Bing Search APIs allows developers to build web-connected apps and services that find webpages, images, news, videos, and more without advertisements. It includes Bing Web Search API, Bing Image Search API, Bing News Search API and more.
Today, Microsoft sent shockwaves to the developers who rely on Microsoft Bing Search APIs by announcing price increase. This is not a usual nominal price increase update. With the new changes, pricing of some of the APIs have gone up to 10x. Yes, 10x.
Take a look at some of the price changes:
- Bing Web Search on S1 instance which used to cost $7 per 1,000 transactions will now cost $25 per 1,000 transactions.
- Bing Web Search on S6 instance which used to cost $3 per 1,000 transactions will now cost $15 per 1,000 transactions.
- Optional Bing Statistics Add-in which used to cost $1 per 1,000 transactions will now cost $10 per 1,000 transactions.
Microsoft now also offers Bing APIs with large language models with the following pricing:
| Tier 1: less than 1M requests per day | Tier 2: over 1M requests per day |
|---|---|
| $28.00 per 1,000 transactions | $200.00 per 1,000 transactions |
The above pricing equates to $0.028/query for less than 1M requests/day and a whopping $.20/query for over 1M requests/day.
You can find the new Bing Search APIs prices in the table below.
| INSTANCE | TRANSACTIONS PERÂ SECOND (TPS) | FEATURES | CURRENT PRICE | NEW PRICE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 3 TPS | Bing Image Search Bing News Search Bing Video Search Bing Visual Search Bing Web Search Bing Entity Search Bing Autosuggest Bing Spell Check | 1,000 transactions free per month for all markets | 1,000 transactions free per month for all markets |
| S1 | 250 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing Image Search Bing News Search Bing Video Search Bing Entity Search Bing Autosuggest* Bing Spell Check* Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $7 per 1,000 transactions $7 per 25,000 transactions*
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $25 per 1,000 transactions $25 per 25,000 transactions*
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S2 | 100 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing Autosuggest* Bing Spell Check* Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $3 per 1,000 transactions $3 per 10,000 transactions*
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $15 per 1,000 transactions $15 per 10,000 transactions*
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S3 | 100 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing Image Search Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $4 per 1,000 transactions
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $18 per 1,000 transactions
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S4 | 100 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing Video Search Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $4 per 1,000 transactions
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $18 per 1,000 transactions
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S5 | 100 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing News Search Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $4 per 1,000 transactions
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $18 per 1,000 transactions
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S6 | 100 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing Entity Search Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $3 per 1,000 transactions
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $15 per 1,000 transactions
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S7 | 150 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing Image Search Bing Video Search Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $5 per 1,000 transactions
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $20 per 1,000 transactions
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S8 | 150 TPS | Bing Web Search Bing Image Search Bing News Search Bing Video Search Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $6 per 1,000 transactions
$1 per 1,000 transactions | $22 per 1,000 transactions
$10 per 1,000 transactions |
| S9 | 30 TPS | Bing Visual Search Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $3 per 1,000 transactions $1 per 1,000 transactions | $15 per 1,000 transactions $10 per 1,000 transactions |
The new Microsoft Bing Search APIs pricing will be effective from May 1, 2023 and the price increase will apply to all markets.
Here’s the reason Microsoft provided for increasing the Bing Search APIs pricing:
We periodically assess the value and pricing of our services to meet market demands and align the pricing of our products and services with customer consumption trends and preferences. The new pricing model reflects more accurately the technology investments Bing continues to make to improve Search.
