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26 Alibaba Cloud IQS alternatives in 2026

Other providers sell image search APIs like Alibaba Cloud IQS's. x402serps costs $3.64 per 1,000 searches, SerpApi $3.75 and Scrapa $3.80.

Image search API alternatives

On our Alibaba Cloud IQS plan pages, we compare each Alibaba Cloud IQS plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
x402serps, $5 pack$3.64
SerpApi, $3,750 monthly, Cloud 1M, GET /search, Bing Images API$3.75
Scrapa, $19 pack$3.80
SerpWow, $11,520 yearly, Volume (annual), GET /search, Bing Images$3.84
API.SH, $1,000 monthly, Business, GET /google/v1/images$4.00
Pullbay, $199 monthly$4.00
SearchApi, $1,000 monthly, Scale Plan, Enhanced speed, GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_images$4.00

Compare every image search API plan: Image search API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Web search API alternatives

On our Alibaba Cloud IQS plan pages, we compare each Alibaba Cloud IQS plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
Diffbot, $299 monthly, Startup, POST /api/v1/web_search$1.20
Alibaba Cloud, pay as you go, CN Edition (Lite)$1.20
Firecrawl, $7,190 yearly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search$1.20
Searlo, $799 pack, Enterprise, POST /search-and-scrape, Search and Scrape, full$1.20
Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up$2.67
Spider Cloud, top-up from $2,000, Pay as you go, $2,000 or more (+12% credits), POST /search, Search and crawl$2.68
fastCRW, $47 pack, Standard top-up, POST /v1/search, Search$2.68
Anspire, top-up, Standard Search, domestic, region_mode 0, Pay as you go$4.49
Bocha, CNY 3,000 pack$4.49
Zhipu, top-up, Prepaid balance, POST /paas/v4/web_search, Search-Pro$4.49
Parallel, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/search, Search (basic)$5.00
ScrapeNest, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/search/deep, Deep Search, full$5.08
Search1API, $19 pack, Pay as you go, $19 (+5% bonus), POST /search, Search, full$5.71
Tavily, $220 monthly, Startup, POST /search, Search, basic$5.79
browserfoundry by keirolabs, $504 yearly, Pro, POST /api/v2/deep$6.22
AIsa, $19 monthly, Builder, POST /apis/v1/scholar/search/web$6.33
SocialCrawl, £15 pack, Starter, GET /v1/tavily/search$8.00
Databar, $995 monthly$8.29
Spidra, $10 pack, 1,200 credit top-up, POST /search, Search$8.33

Compare every web search API plan: Web search API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

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