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DataForSEO pricing and alternatives: image search API, live/advanced

DataForSEO's sitellms.txtBest image search API in 2026

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60% complete: 3 of the 5 key fields we checkSee the 5 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 206 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Litescrape, SerpKite and PrismCrawl are the best image search API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: $1 trial credit one of DataForSEO's 3 plans
Call: POST /v3/serp/google/images/live/advanced one of DataForSEO's 3 calls for this API
API: Image search API one of DataForSEO's 22 APIs

About this item

  • Live. DataForSEO reads the search engine's image results when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 5 key fields we check. Image, Thumbnail, Page.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit once, enough for 500 calls. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You call POST /v3/serp/google/images/live/advanced. You send keyword, location_code and language_code. The call returns the images that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

DataForSEO: image search API alternatives

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

DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/images/live/advancedSerply, $5 packScrapingdog, $40 monthlySearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=bing_imagesSerpApi, $52,000 monthly, Cloud 26M, GET /search, Bing Images API
$ per 1,000 searches$2.00$2.00$2.00$2.00$2.00
Completeness60%100%100%100%100%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$50$5$40$500$52,000
Enough for25,000 calls2,500 calls20,000 calls a month250,000 calls a month26,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence

Every image search 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 2026-10-30.

  1. dataforseo.com/apis/domain-analytics-api
  2. dataforseo.com/help-center/how-does-your-free-unlimited-trial-work
  3. dataforseo.com/pricing
  4. dataforseo.com/pricing/google-serp/google-images-serp-api
  5. dataforseo.com/terms-of-service/
  6. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/domain_analytics/technologies/domain_technologies/live/
  7. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/images/live/advanced/
  8. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/images/overview/

Product details

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

  • Image
  • Size, not in the answer
  • Thumbnail
  • Page
  • Site, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Most per search200
Also pays forfrom the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API · Live Google Organic SERP Advanced · Live Google Organic SERP Regular · Live Google Organic SERP HTML · Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (standard queue) · Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (priority queue) · Live Bing Organic SERP Advanced · Setting Google News SERP Tasks (standard queue) · Setting Google News SERP Tasks (priority queue) · Live Google News SERP Advanced · Setting Google Images SERP Tasks (standard queue) · Setting Google Images SERP Tasks (priority queue)
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle Images SERP API delivers results from the Images tab of Google search: the top 100 images for any keyword and location, parsed into structured data, including image positions, URLs, titles, source domains, and thumbnails.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataany search engine results page (SERP) data or content obtained through the Service, including but not limited to data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine providers, shall not be used to compete with or adversely affect the business interests of the search engine providers from which such data originates
Plan
Pay$0
You get$1
Enough for500 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second166.67
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendkeyword, location_code, language_code. Optional: location_name, location_coordinate, language_name, depth, os, se_domain, search_param, max_crawl_pages, tag, url
MethodPOST
Path/v3/serp/google/images/live/advanced
About the plan
Plan$1 trial credit
Who can get itnew accounts, one each, not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, search engine domain, location code, language code, check URL, datetime, spell, refinement chips, item types, total results, items count, carousel, image result rank group, image result rank absolute, image result XPath, image result title, image result subtitle, image result alt text, image result link, image result original, image result thumbnail, related searches

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