# FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime: Image search API

> Search Google Images and retrieve original image URLs, thumbnails, dimensions and source pages as JSON.

FlashData's image search API on its Free trial plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns all 5 key fields we check: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page, Site.
We rank 206 plans by price. [Litescrape's top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-bing-images/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.15.
[Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-bing-images/llms.txt), [SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt) and [PrismCrawl](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/prismcrawl/500-pack-scale-post-v1-google-images-light/llms.txt) are the best image search API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime
- [Best image search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://flashdata.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://data.flashdata.dev/v1/queries/realtime`
- API key: with the plan, on https://flashdata.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://flashdata.dev/docs/sources/google_images
- Sold by: FlashData (https://flashdata.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-28

## In the answer

- Completeness: 100%
- Image: ✓
- Size: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓
- Page: ✓
- Site: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search API · Google News API · Google Shopping API · Google Videos API · Google Places API · YouTube Search API · YouTube Extended Search API · YouTube Video Metadata API · YouTube Transcript API · YouTube Captions API · YouTube Channel API · YouTube Suggestions API · YouTube Trainability API · YouTube Download API · Google Images API (Async) · Google Images API (Batch)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Images and retrieve original image URLs, thumbnails, dimensions and source pages as JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "FlashData grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable right to access and use the Service for your internal or customer-facing business purposes during the applicable subscription, trial, or PAYG entitlement." "This license permits you to use Results only to the extent you have a lawful right to use the underlying third-party material." "You may not copy or mirror the Service as a competing service, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract non-public source code except where law expressly permits, remove proprietary notices, evade technical restrictions, register or coordinate multiple accounts to bypass limits, or provide raw account or API-key access to an unaffiliated third party without written permission."

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.87 s

## The call

- You send: source "google_images", query. Optional: params.gl, params.hl, params.location, params.num, params.page, params.tbs, params.autocorrect
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/queries/realtime

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

search status, created at, credits consumed, search parameters, image result title, image result original, image result original width, image result original height, image result thumbnail, image result thumbnail width, image result thumbnail height, image result link, image result source, image result source domain, image result position, image result Google URL

## FlashData's plans (8)

- [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FlashData, top-up from $10, Pay as you go, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FlashData, $49 monthly, Micro, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/49-monthly-micro-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.784 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FlashData, $199 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/199-monthly-starter-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.647 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FlashData, $499 monthly, Pro, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/499-monthly-pro-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.599 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FlashData, $999 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/999-monthly-scale-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/1999-monthly-business-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [FlashData, contact us, Pay-as-you-go volume pricing, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/contact-us-pay-as-you-go-volume-pricing-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## FlashData's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/queries`: [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/batch`: [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/batch](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/queries/realtime`: [FlashData, free trial, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)

## FlashData's APIs (4)

- [FlashData: image search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: news API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: news API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: news API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Places API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-places-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Places API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-places-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Places API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-places-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-search-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Search API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-search-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Search API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-search-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, Google Shopping API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-google-shopping-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google Shopping API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-google-shopping-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Shopping API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-google-shopping-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries, YouTube Search API (Async)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-youtube-search-api-async/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch, YouTube Search API (Batch)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch-youtube-search-api-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime, YouTube Search API (Realtime)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime-youtube-search-api-realtime/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: video search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: video search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/batch](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-batch/llms.txt)
- [FlashData: video search API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/queries/realtime](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/flashdata/free-trial-post-v1-queries-realtime/llms.txt)

## FlashData: image search API alternatives

- [SerpBase, $50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpbase/50-pack/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 80% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapingdog/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $3,229.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/ujeebu/3229-20-yearly/llms.txt): $0.449 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $108,000 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/valueserp/108000-yearly/llms.txt): $0.45 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-10-28.

- https://flashdata.dev
- https://flashdata.dev/docs/errors
- https://flashdata.dev/docs/sources/google_images
- https://flashdata.dev/legal/terms
- https://flashdata.dev/pricing
- https://flashdata.dev/pricing/google-search