Serpent API pricing and alternatives: image search API, GET /api/images, Yahoo Image Search

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 292 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Litescrape, PrismCrawl and SerpBase are the best image search API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Free calls one of Serpent API's 6 plans

Call: GET /api/images, Yahoo Image Search one of Serpent API's 5 calls for this API

API: Image search API one of Serpent API's 25 APIs

About this item

Live. Serpent API 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 up to 10 calls in all. Unused calls expire after 12 months of account inactivity.
One call. You send q to GET /api/images. You set engine to "yahoo". You can also send num, country, size, type, color, aspect, license, people, time, language and timeout. The call returns the images that match.
Who can get it: one account per person or organisation, for evaluation. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Serpent API: image search API alternatives

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

	Serpent API, top-up from $500, Scale, GET /api/images, Yahoo Image Search	Scrapingdog, $220,000 yearly, Titan Pro, GET /google_images	PrismCrawl, $25 pack, Starter, POST /v1/microsoft/images/search	SerpBase, $100 monthly	Ujeebu, $10,789.20 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.25	$0.248	$0.25	$0.25	$0.30
Completeness	100%	100%	100%	80%	100%
Billing	pay first	yearly	pay first	monthly	yearly
Pay	$500	$220,000	$25	$100	$10,789.20
Enough for	2,000,000 calls	74,000,000 calls a month	100,000 calls	400,000 calls a month	3,000,000 calls a month
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone	anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement	anyone	anyone who is 18 or older, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission

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 2026-10-31.

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
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Most per search	100
Also pays for	from the same budget: Quick Search · Deep Search · News · Videos · AI Ranking Combined · AI Ranking Single Engine · LinkedIn Company · LinkedIn Posts · LinkedIn Job Search · LinkedIn Job Details · LinkedIn Profile · LinkedIn Full Profile · LinkedIn Profile Search · Google Maps Quick Place Search · Google Maps Deep Place Search · Google Maps Place Details · Google Maps Reviews · YouTube Search · YouTube Video Details · YouTube Channel Details · YouTube Playlist Videos · Instagram · Amazon Search · Amazon Product · Amazon Bestsellers · TikTok Profile · TikTok Video · TikTok Hashtag · TikTok Search · TikTok Music · X Post · X Profile · Reddit Subreddit Listing · Reddit Comments · Reddit Search · Reddit User · Reddit Community · eBay Search listings · eBay Item details · eBay Seller profile · eBay Seller listings · eBay Product reviews · eBay Seller feedback

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Get ranked image results from five engines with thumbnails, full-size URLs, dimensions and source pages.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit, "You agree NOT to use the Service to: [...] Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms"
Use data	You may use the API for lawful purposes in accordance with these Terms and applicable laws. [...] You agree NOT to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights of others, Distribute malware, spam, or harmful content, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers, Resell or redistribute the Service without authorization, Use automated means to abuse or overload the Service, Deliberately obtain discounted volume pricing for a completed workload and then seek a refund of the qualifying payment to retain that discount without paying the applicable Default rate. Refund requests alone, or ordinary API usage, are not abuse, any request is reviewed individually under our Cancellation & Refund Policy and applicable law, Open or operate more than one account in order to claim free searches, introductory pricing, or any promotional benefit more than once, Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms, Submit sensitive personal data in query strings, including health, financial account, government identification, biometric, or similar special-category information [...] Free searches are for evaluation purposes only. [...] You retain ownership of any content you create using data obtained through the Service, subject to third-party rights.

Plan
Pay	$0
Enough for	10 calls, once
Expires	after 12 months of account inactivity

Rate limit
Per day	10,000
Per second	0.028
Concurrent	1
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	q, engine "yahoo". Optional: num, country, size, type, color, aspect, license, people, time, language, timeout
Method	GET
Path	/api/images

About the plan
Plan	Free calls
Who can get it	one account per person or organisation, for evaluation

The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, engine, country code, items count, time taken, datetime, image result position, image result title, image result thumbnail, image result original, image result original width, image result original height, image result source, image result link