Bing Search API Now On Paid Platform

About a month ago, Microsoft informed us the Bing API would no longer be free and today is the day they migrated the Bing Search API to the paid platform. Microsoft said for the time being, the Bing API will still be free – to try out. But those with over 5,000 queries per month […]

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Windows Azure MarketplaceAbout a month ago, Microsoft informed us the Bing API would no longer be free and today is the day they migrated the Bing Search API to the paid platform.

Microsoft said for the time being, the Bing API will still be free – to try out. But those with over 5,000 queries per month will have to start paying after the free trial is over. The pricing structure is posted here and currently reads:

  • 2,500,000 queries for $5,000.00
  • 2,000,000 queries for $4,000.00
  • 1,500,000 queries for $3,000.00
  • 1,000,000 queries for $2,000.00
  • 500,000 queries for $1,000.00
  • 250,000 queries for $500.00
  • 100,000 queries for $200.00
  • 50,000 queries for $100.00
  • 20,000 queries for $40.00
  • 10,000 queries for $20.00
  • 5,000 queries for $0.00

The old Bing Search API will sunset on August 1, 2012.

For more details see the Bing Search blog.


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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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