Cognitive Services pricing—Bing Search API
Use intelligence APIs to enable vision, language and search capabilities
The Bing Search APIs are moving from Cognitive Services Platform to new surface area under Microsoft.com. Starting from 30 ctober 30 2020 , existing instances of Bing Search APIs provisioned via Cognitive Services will be continuously supported for next 3 years or till the end of respective Enterprise Agreement, whichever happens first. Any new instances of Bing Search Services will need to be provisioned as documented here.
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Bing Spell Check API v7 is available as a standalone service and also through the Bing Search plans.
Pricing details
| Instance | Transactions Per Second (TPS) | Features | Price |
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| Free | 5 TPS | Bing Spell Check | 1,000 transactions free per month |
| Standard | 100 TPS | Bing Spell Check | $5 per 10,000 transactions |
| Bing Spell Check API is also available as a part of Bing Search Plans that provide greater value and flexibility. See pricing details for relevant Bing Search Plans below - | |||
| Bing Search v7 S1 | 250 TPS |
Bing Web Search Bing Image Search Bing News Search Bing Video Search Bing Entity Search Bing Autosuggest* Bing Spell Check* |
$7 per 1,000 transactions $7 per 25,000 transactions* |
| Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $1 per 1,000 transactions | ||
| Bing Search V7 S2 | 100 TPS |
Bing Web Search Bing Autosuggest* Bing Spell Check* |
$3 per 1,000 transactions $3 per 10,000 transactions* |
| Optional Bing Statistics Add-in | $1 per 1,000 transactions | ||
Bing Search v7 S1 offering
Web Search responses will incorporate and rank query appropriate web results, image, news, video, entity and related search answers. Spell checking will be included in the query response.
This bundle also includes additional answers such as time zone, unit conversion, translation and calculator when appropriate.
This tier also offers higher transactions per second (TPS) limits and the ability to call Auto Suggest * and Spell Check * APIs.
Bing Search v7 S2 offering
Web Search responses will automatically incorporate and rank query appropriate web results and include spell checking in the query response.
This tier also offers the ability to call Auto Suggest * and Spell Check * APIs.
Support & SLA
- Free billing and subscription management support are included.
- We guarantee that Cognitive Services running in the standard tier will be available at least 99.9 percent of the time. No SLA is provided for the free trial. Read the SLA.
Frequently asked questions
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Below table provides a list of available end-points for each API. The response for the same end-point of Bing Web Search API may vary depending on the Tier purchased. Refer to the next question for details.
Included APIs Endpoints Available in Tiers Bing Web Search https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/search S1-S8 Bing Image Search https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/images/search S1, S3, S7, S8 Bing News Search https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/news/search S1, S5, S8 Bing Video Search https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/videos/search S1, S4, S7, S8 https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/entities S1, S6 Bing Autosuggest https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/Suggestions S1, S2 Bing Spell Check https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/spellcheck S1, S2 Bing Visual Search https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bing/v7.0/images/visualsearch S9 -
No, the Bing Web Search API is curtailed to meet specific offering of each Tier. For example, Tier S3 is meant for customers wanting to utilise only web search results and images in their applications. The customers also have an option of calling just a specific end point within a tier and their transactions will count against the overall bundle transactions (for example in Tier S3 a customer can just call Image API end point and make 400 transactions and can call Web Search API end point for 600 transactions and the total will be counted as 1,000 transactions).
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No, both the APIs could potentially return different results even if you are only looking for images. For example, for a certain type of query, Bing Web Search API may return a combination of web results, videos, news but may not return images. However, for the same query, Bing Image Search API may return images.
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Tiers are priced based on the number of transactions. As an example, for Tier S3, price per 1,000 transactions is $4. At the end of billing period if 12,000 transactions are logged for the Bing Web Search API and 1,000 transactions are logged for the Bing Image Search API, then you will have billed for $52 calculated as $4*(13,000/1000).
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Bing Spell Check and Bing Autosuggest APIs are billed at 25,000 transactions increment in Tier S1. Whereas, other APIs are billed at 1,000 transactions increment in Tier S1.
For example, if you are subscribed to Tier S1 and at the end of the billing period 15,000 transactions are logged for the Bing Web Search API, 3,000 transactions logged for Bing Video Search API and 25,000 for Bing Autosuggest API. In this case, the approximate bill would be $133 calculated by $7*((15,000+3,000)/1,000) + $7*(25,000/25,000).
Note: For billing, only the end-point is considered and not the requested response. For example, calling the Bing Web Search API only for image response will be counted towards the Bing Web Search API and not towards the Bing Image Search API.
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Bing Statistics is an add-in that you can purchase from Azure Portal along with one of the S1 to S9 Tiers of Bing APIs. This add-in is charged at $1 per 1 unit of subscribed Tier. For example, if you subscribe to S1 Tier with the Bing Statistics Add-in and make 2,000 calls to the Bing Web Search API and 25,000 calls to Bing Spell Check, you will be charged $24 for 3 units - 2 for Bing Web Search API and 1 for Bing Spell Check - including $1 extra on top of $7 price of the Bing S1 bundle.
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Bing Statistics Add-in is only available with the Bing APIs' Tiers S1 to S9. It is not available for the standalone API offerings. However, Bing Statistics does provide metrics for all the endpoints included in various Tiers. It is also not available for any other APIs on Cognitive Services apart from the Bing APIs (through S1 to S9 Tiers).
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