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Scavio pricing and alternatives: cached SERP API, GET /customsearch/v1

Scavio's sitellms.txtBest Google SERP API in 2026
9% complete: 1 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 13 plans we rank by price is Scrape.do, $249 monthly, at $0.711 per 1,000 searches.Litescrape, Scrapeless and HasData are the best Google SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Scavio's 11 plans
Call: GET /customsearch/v1 one of Scavio's 2 calls for this API
API: Cached SERP API one of Scavio's 15 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 24 hours old. You get results from Scavio's copy.
  • 1 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 credits, enough for 50 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /customsearch/v1. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scavio: cached SERP API alternatives

The table starts with Scavio's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Scavio's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.

Scavio, $4,788 yearly, Growth, yearly, GET /customsearch/v1Scrape.do, $29 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.995$1.16
Completeness9%82%
Billingyearlymonthly
Pay$4,788$29
Enough for200,000 calls a month25,000 calls a month
Freshness24 hours6 hours
Who can get itanyoneanyone

Cached SERP API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-27.

  1. scavio.dev
  2. scavio.dev/docs/google-custom-search-api
  3. scavio.dev/docs/rate-limits
  4. scavio.dev/docs/search-api
  5. scavio.dev/llms.txt
  6. scavio.dev/pricing
  7. scavio.dev/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Organic results
  • Ads, not in the answer
  • Featured snippet, not in the answer
  • AI overview, not in the answer
  • Knowledge graph, not in the answer
  • People also ask, not in the answer
  • Local pack, not in the answer
  • Related searches, not in the answer
  • News, not in the answer
  • Images and videos, not in the answer
  • Shopping, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 388 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchA drop-in replacement for the Google Custom Search JSON API (cse.list).
Data
Freshness24 hours
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party rights. Scrape, redistribute, or resell raw search results as a competing search API service. Circumvent rate limits, authentication mechanisms, or other technical restrictions. Send automated queries designed to overload or degrade the Service. Use the Service for any activity that could cause harm to minors. Transmit malware, viruses, or any destructive code through API requests. Misrepresent your identity or the source of API requests. [...] Search results returned by the API originate from third-party platforms. You are responsible for complying with those platforms' terms of service when using the data.
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 credits
Enough for50 calls
Rate limit
Concurrent1
Speed
Median44.42 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: cx, num, start, gl, hl, lr, cr, safe, filter, dateRestrict, siteSearch, siteSearchFilter, exactTerms, excludeTerms, orTerms, hq, fileType, googlehost, location, device, nfpr, no_cache
MethodGET
Path/customsearch/v1
About the plan
PlanFree
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

kind, search URL template, search parameters, pagination, time taken, formatted search time, total results, formatted total results, organic result kind, organic result title, organic result HTML title, organic result link, organic result displayed link, organic result snippet, organic result HTML snippet, organic result formatted URL, organic result HTML formatted URL, organic result thumbnail, cached, response time, credits used, credits remaining

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