# String Web, free: Google Shopping search API

> Search Google, DuckDuckGo, or Brave and get the top organic results as structured JSON.

String Web's Free plan for the Google Shopping search API costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. String Web's docs list 6 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Original price, Merchant, Other offers, Delivery, Rating, Rating count.
We haven't run String Web through [our Google Shopping search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-shopping-search-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 201 plans for Google Shopping search APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.50 per 1,000 searches or less. [See the best free Google Shopping search API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-shopping-search-api.txt)
[SerpData's $200 pack](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/serpdata/200-pack/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.08. [PrismCrawl's $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/prismcrawl/5-pack-micro-post-v1-google-shopping/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $5.00.
[SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack/llms.txt), [ScrapeUnblocker](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/scrapeunblocker/299-monthly/llms.txt) and [PrismCrawl](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/prismcrawl/10-pack-lite-post-v1-google-shopping/llms.txt) are the best Google Shopping search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/free
- [Google Shopping search API: the 7 best providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-google-shopping-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://usestring.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://request.usestring.ai/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://usestring.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/api-reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing#search-type
- Sold by: String Web (https://usestring.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 86%
- Original price: ✓
- Merchant: ✓
- Other offers: ✓
- Delivery: ✓
- Rating: ✓
- Rating count: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: page of 55
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Most per search: 55
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch a URL · Approve a sitemap quote and start the crawl · Connect to a remote CDP browser (WebSocket)

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google, DuckDuckGo, or Brave and get the top organic results as structured JSON.

## Data

- Keep data: until your access ends ("Upon termination, all rights granted to you cease, and you must stop using and delete all String-provided data unless otherwise authorized")
- Use data: Subject to these Terms and any applicable Order Form, String grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Services solely for your internal business purposes. You may not: reverse-engineer or copy our software or data-collection infrastructure, resell, sublicense, or redistribute data obtained through the Services without written permission, use the Services to access sources that require payment or login credentials, or to circumvent technical access controls, except as the Services are designed to operate under our acceptable use policy, use the Services to circumvent authentication on any system you do not own or are not authorized to test, or to gain unauthorized access to financial, banking, healthcare, or government authentication systems, regardless of the exception above, use the Services for credential stuffing, brute-force login attempts, or unauthorized automated account creation, direct the Services at destination categories that are restricted under our acceptable use policy without prior approval, use the Services for unlawful, fraudulent, or competitive purposes, including identity theft, unauthorized data collection, distributing malware, or deliberately disrupting or harming any person, system, or service, bypass or tamper with the licensing, security, or technical controls of the Services or of the software our providers supply for them. [...] Data delivered through the Services is licensed, not sold, and may be used only within the scope defined in your contract or subscription plan.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: about 4,166 pages, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 15
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, searchType "shopping", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: engine, country, language, location, coordinates, solveCaptcha, safeSearch, includeOmittedResults, autocorrect, restrictCountry
- Method: POST
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract ("You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract"), no card needed

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

result position, product title, product ID, price, original price, merchant, more merchants, delivery, return policy, rating, ratings count

## String Web's plans (6)

- [String Web, free](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [String Web, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [String Web, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [String Web, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [String Web, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [String Web, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/contact-us/llms.txt): 86% complete

## String Web's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /search`: [String Web, free](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)

## String Web's APIs (6)

- [String Web: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search, Search the web (Brave)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/string-web/free-post-search-search-the-web-brave/llms.txt)
- [String Web: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search, Search the web (DuckDuckGo)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/string-web/free-post-search-search-the-web-duckduckgo/llms.txt)
- [String Web: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search, Search the web](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/string-web/free-post-search-search-the-web/llms.txt)
- [String Web: Google AI Mode scraper API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-mode-scraper-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: image search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: video search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: Google Shopping search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)

## String Web: Google Shopping search API alternatives

- [CrustAPI, top-up from $1,999](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/crustapi/top-up-from-1999/llms.txt): $0.41 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $108,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/valueserp/108000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $2,500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/scrapingdog/2500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.455 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Searlo, $9.99 pack](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/searlo/9-99-pack/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 14% complete

## 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://portal.usestring.ai/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/api-reference/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/api-reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/get-started/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=google-shopping-search-api-pricing