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Shifter pricing: Google Play search API

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$8.80per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Shifter through our Google Play search API benchmark yet.Half of the 135 plans we rank by price cost $1.688 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 18% of the 135 plans.Zapi's Rp399,000 (about $22) monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.022. Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.Scrappa, Stophy and AsoBeast are the best Google Play search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Shifter plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Starter one of Shifter's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1 Shifter's only call for this API
API: Google Play search API one of Shifter's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Shifter reads Google Play's results when you call the API.
  • Returns none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Installs and 3 more.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $44 a month for 5,000 requests.
  • One call. You send store and q to GET /v1. You set engine to "google_play" and type to "search". You can also send hl and gl. The call returns Google Play's results page.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Shifter: Google Play search API alternatives

Shifter alternatives: other Google Play search API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planShifter, $44 monthlySonar, $20 packSearchApi, $80 monthlySerpApi, $275 monthlyAsolytics, top-up, Token top-up (Expert)
$ per 1,000 searches$8.80$8.00$8.00$9.167$9.44
Completeness0%71%57%86%86%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$44$20$80$275any amount
Enough for5,000 calls a month2,500 calls10,000 calls a month30,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who has reached the age of majority (18, or the age of majority where they live)anyoneanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone on the Expert plan

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. shifter.io/docs/api/google-serp-api/api-response/
  2. shifter.io/docs/api/google-serp-api/search-apis/google-play-api/
  3. shifter.io/docs/products/serp-api/faq/
  4. shifter.io/docs/resources/billing
  5. shifter.io/pricing/serp-api
  6. shifter.io/services/serp-api
  7. shifter.io/terms-and-conditions

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, not in the answer
  • Rating count, not in the answer
  • Installs, not in the answer
  • Price, not in the answer
  • Category, not in the answer
  • Icon, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$8.80
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$44
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: google · google_autocomplete · google_images · google_maps · google_maps_reviews · google_maps_photos · google_news · google_shopping · google_product · google_jobs · google_jobs_listing · google_trends · google_scholar · google_scholar_author · google_scholar_cite · google_scholar_profiles · google_events · google_finance · google_reverse_image · google_local_services · bing · yandex
In their words
Their pitchRetrieve structured data from the Google Play Store. Set engine=google_play and use type=product with a product_id to fetch a single listing, or type=search with a q query to search the store.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"Customer agrees to abide by all laws, foreign and domestic, local, state, and federal." "Clients are strictly prohibited from using our scraping services to scrape data from Twitter, X, or any affiliated websites."
Plan
Pay$44
You get5,000 requests a month
Enough for5,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendengine "google_play", type "search", store, q. Optional: hl, gl
MethodGET
Path/v1
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone who has reached the age of majority (18, or the age of majority where they live)
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, processed at, request URL, HTML URL, time taken, search parameters, total results

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