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SearchApi pricing and alternatives: Google Play search API

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57% complete: 4 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 13 plans by price. DataForSEO's top-up from $50 costs the least per 1,000 searches: $1.20.
Plan: 100 Free Requests one of SearchApi's 17 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_play_store SearchApi's only call for this API
API: Google Play search API one of SearchApi's 18 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SearchApi reads Google Play's results when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 7 key fields we check. Rating, Price, Category, Icon.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests.
  • One call. You send a query as q to GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_play_store. You set store to "apps". You can also send category, chart, gl, hl, store_device, price, age and next_page_token. The call returns Google Play's results page.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SearchApi: Google Play search API alternatives

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

SearchApi, $5,000 monthlySerpApi, $106,050 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00$1.964
Completeness57%86%
Billingmonthlymonthly
Pay$5,000$106,050
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month54,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence

Google Play search 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 2026-10-29.

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

Product details

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

  • Developer, not in the answer
  • Rating
  • Rating count, not in the answer
  • Installs, not in the answer
  • Price
  • Category
  • Icon
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 174 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSearch apps, games, movies, and books. Scrape daily top charts in any country. Get Google Play Store localized results in JSON format
Data
Freshnesslive
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 (a query), store "apps". Optional: category, chart, gl, hl, store_device, price, age, next_page_token
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/search?engine=google_play_store
About the plan
Plan100 Free Requests
Who can get itanyone
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, search parameters, section title, app name, app URL, app ID, video, category, rating, icon, price, original price, next page

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