Tools & keys · Search
Linkup setup
A generous second search engine, built for AI agents.
Optional
Updated
Free tier
At the time of writing, Linkup gives every account a free monthly credit (around $20, roughly 4,000 standard searches), with no card required.checked September 2026
Larvabot's cap
Stops at 3,500 a month (free: 4,000). Change it in Settings → Free-quota guard.Fallback position
#2 of 9 for search. See the orderWhat it does
Linkup is a web search API designed for AI applications. It returns ranked results with page titles, URLs and text snippets.
- Finding list posts, resource pages and directories when Tavily's monthly credits are spent
- Finding Reddit threads through web search
Get set up
- Create an account at app.linkup.so
- Copy your API key into Settings → Search → Linkup API key
Where it goes
In the dashboard, open Settings and find the Search section. Secret values are encrypted before they're saved and only their last four characters are ever shown again.
Settings → Search
Linkup API keyencrypted
LINKUP_API_KEY••••••••••••
Staying free
Larvabot caps Linkup at 3,500 searches a month and uses it right after Tavily, before any one-time credits.
How the quota guard works →Fallback order
For search, Larvabot tries these in order and skips any that aren't set up, are out of free quota or are busy.
- 1Tavily
- 2Linkup
- 3Exa
- 4Brave Search API
- 5SearXNG (your server)
- 6Larvabot search server
- 7Serper (Google results)
- 8Jina Search
- 9DuckDuckGo HTML
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