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SerpApi pricing and alternatives: image search API, GET /search, Google Images API

SerpApi's sitellms.txtBest image search API in 2026

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100% complete: all 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: Free one of SerpApi's 63 plans
Call: GET /search, Google Images API one of SerpApi's 2 calls for this API
API: Image search API one of SerpApi's 19 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SerpApi reads the search engine's image results when you call the API.
  • All 5 key fields we check. Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page, Site.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 250 requests a month. Unused requests expire at renewal.
  • One call. You send q to GET /search. You set engine to "google_images". The call returns the images that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SerpApi: image search API alternatives

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

SerpApi, $106,050 monthly, Cloud 54M, GET /search, Google Images APIZenserp, $49.99 monthlySerply, $5 packScrapingdog, $40 monthlyValueSERP, $600 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.964$1.9996$2.00$2.00$2.00
Completeness100%0%100%100%0%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlyyearly
Pay$106,050$49.99$5$40$600
Enough for54,000,000 calls a month25,000 calls a month2,500 calls20,000 calls a month25,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone

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. serpapi.com/
  2. serpapi.com/faq
  3. serpapi.com/google-images-api
  4. serpapi.com/google-images-api.md
  5. serpapi.com/legal
  6. serpapi.com/pricing
  7. serpapi.com/pricing.md

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
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free1 hour
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchScrape Google Images results with SerpApi's Google Images API. Title, link, source and more in code friendly JSON format.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws). You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us. In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, (f) to submit false or misleading information, (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet. [...] For all recurring plans except the Free, Starter, and Developer plans, SerpApi will assume the liabilities of scraping and parsing search engine results [...] provided your use of the data or service is not illegal.
Plan
Pay$0
You get250 requests a month
Enough for250 calls a month
Expiresat renewal
Rate limit
Per second0.014
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, engine "google_images". Optional: location, uule, google_domain, gl, hl, cr, period_unit, period_value, start_date, end_date, chips, tbs, imgar, imgsz, image_color, image_type, licenses, safe, nfpr, filter, ijn, device, no_cache, async, zero_trace, output, json_restrictor
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence
The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, processed at, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, time taken, search parameters, image results state, shopping ads, suggested searches, image result position, image result thumbnail, image result related content ID, image result source, image result source logo, image result title, image result link, image result original, image result original height, image result original width, image result is product, related searches, pagination

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