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DataForSEO pricing and alternatives: image search API, task_post, Setting Google Images SERP Tasks (standard queue)

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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/task_post, Setting Google Images SERP Tasks (standard queue) one of DataForSEO's 3 calls for this API
API: Image search API one of DataForSEO's 22 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 5 key fields we check. Image, Thumbnail, Page.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit once, enough for about 1,666 calls. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You call POST /v3/serp/google/images/task_post. You send keyword, location_code and language_code. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • 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.

DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/images/task_post, Setting Google Images SERP Tasks (standard queue)FlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtimeSerpKite, $300 pack, Pro, POST /v1/images, Bing ImagesSearchCans, $597 packValueSERP, $6,000 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.60$0.599$0.60$0.60$0.60
Completeness60%100%100%100%0%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$50$499$300$597$6,000
Enough forabout 83,333 callsabout 833,333 calls a month500,000 calls995,000 calls10,000,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)businesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or overanyone

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/overview/
  8. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/images/task_get/advanced/
  9. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/images/task_post/

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$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Most per search700
Also pays forfrom the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API · Live Google Organic SERP Advanced · Live Google Organic SERP Regular · Live Google Organic SERP HTML · Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (standard queue) · Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (priority queue) · Live Bing Organic SERP Advanced · Live Google News SERP Advanced · Setting Google News SERP Tasks (priority queue) · Setting Google News SERP Tasks (standard queue) · Live Google Images SERP Advanced · Setting Google Images SERP Tasks (priority queue)
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$ 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
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 forabout 1,666 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second166.67
Batch100
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendkeyword, location_code, language_code. Optional: priority "1", location_name, location_coordinate, language_name, depth, os, se_domain, search_param, tag, pingback_url, postback_url, postback_data, max_crawl_pages, url
MethodPOST
Path/v3/serp/google/images/task_post
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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