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OpenWebSearch

Last updated 2026-08-17 · benchmark measured 2026-08-17 — deterministic & reproducible

A single API key for accessing multiple web search providers in one unified format.

Is OpenWebSearch production-ready?

Legit.Show scores OpenWebSearch 73 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on OpenWebSearch (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 42/100
• Accessibility — 96/100
• Security — 45/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 100/100
• Standards — 100/100
• Discoverability — 100/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: HSTS.
• No Content-Security-Policy.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 141 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who it's for

AI agents · Developers · LLM applications · Enterprise teams · API integrators

Pricing

$1.50–$30 per 1K requests depending on provider; 5% fee on credit purchases

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