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SearchApi pricing and alternatives: ChatGPT scraper API

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42% complete: 5 of the 12 key fields we checkSee the 12 fields
$0.00per 1,000 answersWe rank 58 plans by price. Scrapingdog's $500 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 answers: $0.556.Decodo, DataForSEO and Bright Data are the best ChatGPT scraper API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 100 Free Requests one of SearchApi's 17 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/search?engine=chatgpt SearchApi's only call for this API
API: ChatGPT scraper API one of SearchApi's 40 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SearchApi asks ChatGPT when you call the API.
  • 5 of the 12 key fields we check. Citations, Search results, Search queries, Images, Model.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/v1/search?engine=chatgpt. You can also send country, web_search, expand_entities and zero_retention. The call returns ChatGPT's answer.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SearchApi: ChatGPT scraper API alternatives

The table starts with SearchApi's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 answers closest to SearchApi's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

SearchApi, $5,000 monthlyScrapeUnblocker, €29 monthlyScrapeBadger, $1,499 monthlyScrapingBee, $1,599 monthlyDecodo, $19 monthly
$ per 1,000 answers$1.00$0.96$0.999$0.999$1.00
Completeness42%25%42%33%33%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$5,000€29$1,499$1,599$19
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month34,000 calls a month1,500,000 calls a month1,600,000 calls a month19,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")anyone 18 or overany natural person aged at least 18 years old with full and complete legal capacity acting in the scope of their professional activity or being the legal representative of a legal entity empowered to enter into legally binding commitmentsanyone

Every ChatGPT scraper API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

  1. searchapi.io/docs/chatgpt-api
  2. searchapi.io/docs/linkedin-jobs-api
  3. searchapi.io/legal/terms
  4. searchapi.io/linkedin-jobs-api
  5. searchapi.io/openapi/chatgpt.yaml
  6. searchapi.io/openapi/linkedin_jobs.yaml
  7. searchapi.io/pricing

Product details

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

  • Citations
  • Search results
  • Search queries
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Brands, not in the answer
  • Products, not in the answer
  • Places, not in the answer
  • Ads, not in the answer
  • Images
  • Tables, not in the answer
  • Model
  • Follow-up prompts, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 answers$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 174 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe ChatGPT API lets you query ChatGPT programmatically and get its answers as structured JSON.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSome public-domain content accessible through SearchApi may also be subject to intellectual property rights. In such cases, you may only use the content if you have the appropriate license or are otherwise permitted by law. Unless required by law or explicitly allowed by the owner, you must not, and must not allow your end-users or others acting on your behalf, to engage in the following activities with the Data obtained from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or source of the Data. Alter, remove, or conceal any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices associated with the Data. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels that indicate the origin or source of the material. [...] In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in these Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using our Services or any data obtained from it in any of the following ways: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial, or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, (f) to submit false or misleading information, (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of our Services or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of our Services or any related website, other websites, or the Internet, including accessing restricted features, content, or functionality by manipulating technical controls beyond your authorized access level, (i) to resell, redistribute or offer our Services to a third-party without prior written consent from us. [...] You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Services, use of the Services, or access to the Services without the express written permission by the Company.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests
Enough for100 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: country, web_search, expand_entities, zero_retention
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/search?engine=chatgpt
About the plan
Plan100 Free Requests
Who can get itanyone
The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, time taken, search parameters, answer blocks, answer markdown, references, citations, search results, images, entity cards, search queries, model, conversation ID, message ID, web search used, answer truncated

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