# Shifter, $44 monthly: Google Play search API

> Retrieve 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.

Shifter's Starter plan for the Google Play search API costs $8.80 per 1,000 searches. Shifter's docs list none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Developer, Rating, Rating count, Installs and 3 more.
We haven't run Shifter through [our Google Play search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-play-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/zapi/rp399000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.022. [Zapi's Rp49,000 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/zapi/rp49000-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: about $2.72.
[Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/scrappa/50-pack/llms.txt), [Stophy](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/stophy/top-up-from-500/llms.txt) and [AsoBeast](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/asobeast/10-monthly/llms.txt) are the best Google Play search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/shifter/44-monthly
- [Google Play search API: the 7 best of 40+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-play-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://shifter.io/pricing/serp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://serp.shifter.io/v1`
- API key: with the plan, on https://shifter.io/pricing/serp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://shifter.io/docs/api/google-serp-api/search-apis/google-play-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Shifter (https://shifter.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $8.80
- Per: call
- Billing: monthly
- $ a month: $44

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 pitch: Retrieve 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no 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 get: 5,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 5,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: engine "google_play", type "search", store, q. Optional: hl, gl
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1

## About the plan

- Plan: Starter
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Shifter's plans (4)

- [Shifter, $44 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/shifter/44-monthly/llms.txt): $8.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Shifter, $114 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/shifter/114-monthly/llms.txt): $7.60 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Shifter, $224 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/shifter/224-monthly/llms.txt): $7.467 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Shifter, $449 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/shifter/449-monthly/llms.txt): $4.49 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

## Shifter's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1`: [Shifter, $44 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/shifter/44-monthly/llms.txt)

## Shifter's APIs (2)

- [Shifter: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1, Bing SERP API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/shifter/44-monthly-starter-get-v1-bing-serp-api/llms.txt)
- [Shifter: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1, Google Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/shifter/44-monthly-starter-get-v1-google-search-api/llms.txt)
- [Shifter: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, GET /v1, Yandex SERP API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/shifter/44-monthly-starter-get-v1-yandex-serp-api/llms.txt)
- [Shifter: Google Play search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/shifter/44-monthly/llms.txt)

## Shifter: Google Play search API alternatives

- [Sonar, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/sonar/20-pack/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $80 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/searchapi/80-monthly/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [SerpApi, $275 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/serpapi/275-monthly/llms.txt): $9.167 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Asolytics, top-up, Token top-up (Expert)](https://datacircle.dev/google-play-search-apis/asolytics/top-up-token-top-up-expert/llms.txt): $9.44 per 1,000, 86% complete, live

## 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.

- https://shifter.io/docs/api/google-serp-api/api-response/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://shifter.io/docs/api/google-serp-api/search-apis/google-play-api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://shifter.io/docs/products/serp-api/faq/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://shifter.io/docs/resources/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://shifter.io/pricing/serp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://shifter.io/services/serp-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing
- https://shifter.io/terms-and-conditions?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-play-search-api-pricing