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Best SERP API in 2026

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We benchmarked 6 SERP API providers and rank the 5 we score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 searches cost. We rank 572 plans by price. The cheapest plan is Searlo, $199.99 pack, Pro, at $0.111 per 1,000 searches.

Every SERP API provider we score, ranked

  1. SearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale Plan: Overall score 65.2, Data score 84, $2.00 per 1,000 searches
  2. ScrapingBee, $249 monthly, Business: Overall score 53.2, Data score 41, $0.83 per 1,000 searches
  3. Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go: Overall score 43.8, Data score 59, $1.50 per 1,000 searches
  4. Scavio, $500 monthly, Growth, monthly: Overall score 40.3, Data score 43, $2.50 per 1,000 searches
  5. Nimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go: Overall score 30.6, Data score 35, $3.00 per 1,000 searches

  1. #1 SearchApi: SERP API

    SearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale Plan

    It returns all 11 key fields we check: Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, AI overview, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches, News, Images and videos, Shopping.

    Overall score
    65.2
    $ per 1,000
    $2.00
    Price score
    30
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 572
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 374
    Data score
    84
    Cost to get started score
    62
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $500
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 174 other calls
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 27 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.809 s
    • SearchApi, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.809 s
    • On 27 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 14 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.8361 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 84.

  2. #2 ScrapingBee: SERP API

    ScrapingBee, $249 monthly, Business

    It returns 8 of the 11 key fields we check: Organic results, Ads, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches, News, Images and videos.

    Overall score
    53.2
    $ per 1,000
    $0.83
    Price score
    54
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 572
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 219
    Data score
    41
    Cost to get started score
    67
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $249
    Bundle score
    90
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Google Search API, regular request · Fast Search API · HTML API · Amazon API · Walmart API and 4 more
    Performance score
    49
    • This call's median time on 27 October 2026, minus the baseline: 3.727 s
    • SearchApi, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.809 s
    • On 27 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 14 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.4112 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 41.

  3. #3 Bright Data: SERP API

    Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go

    It returns all 11 key fields we check: Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, AI overview, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches, News, Images and videos, Shopping.

    Overall score
    43.8
    $ per 1,000
    $1.50
    Price score
    37
    • $ per 1,000 searches that find nothing: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 572
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 searches than this plan: 332
    Data score
    59
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: no minimum, you top up any amount
    Bundle score
    0
    • Also pays for: nothing else
    Performance score
    6
    • This call's median time on 27 October 2026, minus the baseline: 32.643 s
    • SearchApi, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.809 s
    • On 27 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 14 searches as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.5914 out of 1 in our benchmark, so its Data score is 59.

The Data score on SERP APIs

Out of 100: how much of Google's results page the call returns. For each search, we count the parts of the page: each result, each ad, each other part like People also ask and Related searches, and each field inside them. We count a part as held when the answer has it. A value that differs from the page counts as missing. We take the share of parts held in each search and average them. Each search weighs the same. A search that found no results counts as 0. Google blocks our own requests. So we read the copy of the page that each provider fetched for the same search. If one provider's copy of the page shows a part, we expect every provider to return it. We leave out fields the provider works out or adds, like positions, domains, tokens and details about the search itself. We don't judge which results Google picked.

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