unlob vs Linkup

Linkup is a well-regarded grounding API with a sub-second tier and native parallel search. unlob owns its index and publishes a flat rate.

Verified 5 August 2026·Figures from vendors' own pages

Price

Provider	Own index?	$ / 1,000 queries	Source
unlob — Build $29 per month for 50,000 requests.	Yes Our own crawl and index	$0.58	This page
unlob — Scale $199 per month for 500,000 requests.	Yes Our own crawl and index	$0.40	This page

Rates are the cheapest directly comparable web search call — roughly ten results, no extraction and no summarisation — because that is the only way a table across credit systems, token pricing and per-request pricing means anything. Where a vendor does not publish a flat per-1,000 rate they are omitted from this table and covered in full on the landscape page. Figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026.

When Linkup is the better choice

A comparison page that cannot name a scenario where the competitor wins is an advertisement. Here are the real ones.

Choose Linkup

Native parallel search for agentic workflows, which is a real architectural advantage.
The /fast tier, when sub-second grounding is a hard requirement.
Reported accuracy on verified question-answering benchmarks.
European data residency, if that matters to your compliance position.

Choose unlob

A published flat rate you can model before you integrate.
An index we operate end to end.
Graph traversal and coverage auditing.

The substantive differences

	Linkup	unlob
Index	A retrieval layer over partner and web sources.	Our own crawl and index.
Pricing transparency	Per plan and per search depth; no single public per-1,000 rate.	A published rate per tier, computed from the plan table.

Sources

Every figure on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page or funding announcement on the date shown.

Linkup: Linkupread 5 August 2026
Linkup: Linkup raises $10M seedread 5 August 2026

Frequently asked questions

Has Linkup raised funding?

Yes — a $10 million seed round led by Gradient in February 2026, with Elaia, Seedcamp, Axeleo and Motier participating, plus angels including Olivier Pomel of Datadog, Arthur Mensch of Mistral and Florian Douetteau of Dataiku.

Check the claims yourself

The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card. That is enough to test coverage, latency and result quality against your own queries — which is a better comparison than this page.

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