Kakao pricing: image search API
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Kakao through our image search API benchmark yet.Half of the 376 plans we rank by price cost $0.817 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan has the lowest price per 1,000 searches of the 376 plans.SerpScraper.dev, SerpKite and Litescrape are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free quotas Kakao's only plan
Call:
GET / Kakao's only call for this APIAPI: Image search API one of Kakao's 3 APIs
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- All 5 key fields we check. Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page, Site.
- Nothing to pay. You get 30,000 requests a day.
- One call. You send
querytoGET /. You can also sendv2/ search/ image sort,pageandsize. The call returns the images that match. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.
Kakao: image search API alternatives
Kakao alternatives: every image search API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.
| This planKakao, free | SerpScraper.dev, free | SerpKite, free, POST /v1/images, Bing Images | Litescrape, free, 5 free calls, GET /api/bing/images | PrismCrawl, free credits, POST /v1/microsoft/images/search | JustSerpAPI, free | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Completeness | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 20% |
| Billing | free | free | free | free | free | free |
| Pay | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Enough for | 30,000 calls a day | 5,000 calls, once | 1,000 calls a month | 5 calls, once | 100 calls | not published |
| Freshness | unknown | unknown | live | unknown | live | live |
| Who can get it | Kakao Developers members with an app, game applications and websites, game-related applications and websites, and virtual asset-related services are restricted from using the Service | anyone | anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked) | anyone | anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Image
- Size
- Thumbnail
- Page
- Site
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Most per search | 4,000 |
|---|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search web document · Search video · Search blog · Search book · Search cafe |
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Returns image search results for the query from the Daum Search service. |
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| Keep data | Cache data Kakao provided for purposes other than improving user's environment in the app, or failing to retain the data with the most recently updated data |
|---|---|
| Use data | Besides the violations and examples of violations specified in this Agreement, you shall not allow any third party, including your end user, to conduct any of the following activities. [...] Sell, trade or resell Kakao Platform Services for unauthorized commercial purposes [...] Cache data Kakao provided for purposes other than improving user's environment in the app, or failing to retain the data with the most recently updated data [...] Copy, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, broadcast, input into a search engine or directory, or otherwise use or provide to others any information (e.g., data, secret key, access token, etc.) obtained through the Service or Kakao Developers without prior approval from Kakao, provided, however, that, such information may be shared with agents under a confidentiality agreement [...] Use the service in excess of the provision limit outlined in Article 6 (e.g., daily quota, monthly quota, MAU limit), provided, however, that the daily quota may be exceeded when using paid services |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 30,000 requests a day |
| Enough for | 30,000 calls a day |
| Per day | 30,000 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | query. Optional: sort, page, size |
|---|---|
| Method | GET |
| Path | /v2/search/image |
| Plan | Free quotas |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | Kakao Developers members with an app, game applications and websites, game-related applications and websites, and virtual asset-related services are restricted from using the Service |
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold
total results, pageable results, is last page, image result collection, image result thumbnail, image result original, image result original width, image result original height, image result source, image result link, image result creation time