Crawling: rejected and dead
Offers that fail on identity, egress or quota, and services that no longer exist. Each keeps its evidence, because a dead end is a finding.
Key
- ★ qualifies
- usable as stated; the read path was probed
- caveat
- usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- trial
- a time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- paid
- no free allowance; listed for its price
- fails: identity
- the identity required is not reachable without it
- fails: egress
- data cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- fails: quota
- the free allowance is too small to matter
- dead
- the offer or the service no longer exists
- self-hosted, last resort
- software or a node that the user installs, runs and maintains. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- free tier, no free tier
- the record states a free allowance, or states that it has none
- identity email
- what a signup asks for. A question mark after it: a placeholder, not read from a source
- no card, card, card?
- a payment card is not asked, is asked, or the record does not say
- limit
- the limit that runs out first, for example request-rate or volume-quota
- evidence
- how the record is backed, strongest first: measured, documented, reported, inferred, unverified
- fresh until, stale since
- the check is inside its window, or past it, on today's date
- inherited, checked live
- inherited: the record was carried from an earlier source, and its check date is an upper bound. Checked live: the record was checked against the service. The chip filters on it
- verdict
- a judgement of the whole offer for the need of its topic. The data holds no number as a cut-off. Read the free allowance and the limits of the record, and decide for your own need
- duplicate, disagrees
- another record holds the same offer, or a sibling record states another value
Rejected 3
fails: identity 2
- fails: identityBrave Search API
why An email address and a password open the account, and a credit card is asked at the second step, when a plan is activated; the card is checked with a USD 0 or USD 1 hold that is refunded, some cards fail that check...
free tieridentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
- fails: identityMojeek
why Registration at the vendor's accounts site asks for an email address and a password; a bank card is required to open an account, even to claim the free credit; payments go through Stripe and none are taken automatically
free tieridentity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
fails: quota 1
- fails: quotaScrapingdog
why 20 Google searches is spent before the 1-request concurrency limit matters
free tieridentity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-03
Dead 8
dead 8
- dead12ft.io
why SEC_E_UNTRUSTED_ROOT on 2026-10-22; no HTTP status was received
identity anonymousno cardlimit request-rateevidence measuredchecked 2026-10-22
- deadarchive.today
why The 2035 timestamp in the redirect is the finding worth keeping: a caller that trusts the redirect records a capture that does not exist.
identity anonymousno cardlimit request-rateevidence measuredchecked 2026-10-22
- deadDuckDuckGo HTML endpoint
why 202 is the shape to distrust: not a 429, not a 403, and the body carries no results.
identity anonymousno cardlimit request-rateevidence measuredchecked 2026-10-22
- deadMarginalia Search
why Three routes, three failures, and the middle one is the expensive shape: a 200 with the wrong content type.
identity anonymousno cardlimit request-rateevidence measuredchecked 2026-10-22
- deadSearXNG public instances
why Every public instance probed answered format=json with 429, a refusal or a challenge page, and none answered JSON; a plain HTML query was refused with 429 too.
identity anonymousno cardlimit request-rateevidence measuredchecked 2026-11-02
- deadurlreader.dev
why Curl exit 6, could not resolve host, on 2026-10-22
identity anonymousno cardlimit request-rateevidence measuredchecked 2026-10-22
- deadBing Search APIs
why Any list that still carries a Bing Web Search free tier is out of date, and the replacement is Grounding with Bing inside Azure AI Agents, which is a different product with a different price.
identity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22
- deadGoogle Programmable Search / Custom Search JSON API
why Two closures in one page: closed to new customers now, discontinued in 2027.
identity cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedchecked 2026-10-22