# Scale SERP, free: Image search API

> Get Real-Time Data with the Most Complete Google Search API – Scale Serp API

Scale SERP's image search API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns none of the 5 key fields we check: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page and 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/scale-serp/free
- [Best image search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.scaleserp.com/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/images
- Sold by: Scale SERP (https://www.scaleserp.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search · Google News · Google Videos · Google Scholar · Google Autocomplete · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Map Place Details · Google Place Photos · Google Place Reviews · Google Place Products · Google Place Posts · Google Shopping · Google Product · Google Product Details · Google Product Reviews · Google Product Online Sellers · Google Product Specifications

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Get Real-Time Data with the Most Complete Google Search API – Scale Serp API

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control. [...] You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 125 credits a month
- Enough for: 125 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q, search_type "images". Optional: location, location_auto, uule, google_domain, gl, hl, lr, cr, images_page, images_color, images_size, images_type, images_usage, time_period, time_period_min, time_period_max, safe, tbs, device, mobile_type, tablet_type, include_html, skip_on_incident, hide_base64_images, cookie, include_fields, exclude_fields
- Method: GET
- Path: /search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, created at, processed at, total time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, location auto message, search parameters, time taken, query displayed, images, refinement chips

## Scale SERP's plans (14)

- [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/29-monthly/llms.txt): $29.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $83 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/83-monthly/llms.txt): $8.30 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/199-monthly/llms.txt): $3.98 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $599 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/599-monthly/llms.txt): $2.396 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $1,699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/1699-monthly/llms.txt): $1.699 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $4,999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/4999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.9998 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $276 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/276-yearly/llms.txt): $23.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $792 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/792-yearly/llms.txt): $6.60 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $1,908 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/1908-yearly/llms.txt): $3.18 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $5,748 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/5748-yearly/llms.txt): $1.916 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $16,308 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/16308-yearly/llms.txt): $1.359 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, $47,988 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/47988-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scale SERP, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, live

## Scale SERP's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /search`: [Scale SERP, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)

## Scale SERP's APIs (7)

- [Scale SERP: image search API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: news API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: search autocomplete API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: video search API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company discovery API pricing, 14 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/scale-serp/free/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Map Place Details](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-map-place-details/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Place Details](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-place-details/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: company enrichment API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Place Details, full](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-place-details-full/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Places](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-places/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-scholar/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-search/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Search, full](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-search-full/llms.txt)
- [Scale SERP: SERP API pricing, 14 plans, GET /search, Google Shopping](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scale-serp/free-tier-get-search-google-shopping/llms.txt)

## Scale SERP: image search API alternatives

- [SerpKite, $50 pack, Growth, POST /v1/images, Bing Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/50-pack-growth-post-v1-images-bing-images/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrapeless, $399 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapeless/399-monthly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Zenserp, $4,799.88 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/zenserp/4799-88-yearly/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $19,440 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/valueserp/19440-yearly/llms.txt): $0.81 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 2026-10-27.

- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/response-codes
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/results/google/images
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/common
- https://docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/images
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/
- https://trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
- https://trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
- https://www.scaleserp.com