# SerpKite, free, POST /v1/images, Google Images: Image search API

> Google Images results as JSON: the original image URL, width and height, thumbnail, title, and the page and domain it was found on, by country and language.

SerpKite's image search API on its Free 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/serpkite/free-post-v1-images-google-images
- [Best image search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://serpkite.com/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.serpkite.com/v1/images`, Google Images
- API key: with the plan, on https://serpkite.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://serpkite.com/docs/endpoints/images
- Sold by: SerpKite (https://serpkite.com)
- 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

- Most per search: 1,000
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google News · Google Videos · Google Maps · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Reviews · Google Shopping · Google Scholar · Google Patents · Google Autocomplete · Webpage to Markdown · Custom Search (CSE-compatible) · Answer · Extract · Map · Crawl · Research · Monitors · Google Search · Batch requests

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Google Images results as JSON: the original image URL, width and height, thumbnail, title, and the page and domain it was found on, by country and language.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Terms of Service, 6: "Results. Results reflect third-party content (titles, snippets, links, image URLs). We don't grant you any rights in that content beyond what the law allows. You are responsible for how you use, store and publish results, including any personal data or copyrighted material they contain." Acceptable Use Policy (part of the Terms), "You may not": "Resell, sublicense or provide raw API access (or a thin wrapper around it) to third parties, including as a competing search, SERP or scraping API." "Build a public search engine or bulk dataset of results that substitutes for the underlying search engine." [...] "Create multiple accounts, or use disposable emails or aliases, to obtain additional free credits." [...] "Stalking, harassment, doxxing, or people-search that profiles private individuals without a lawful basis." [...] "Building contact lists for cold outreach, bulk email or SMS, or other unsolicited marketing." "Running an OSINT or people-search service that aggregates, searches or exposes data about individuals, or reselling or distributing personal data found through results." [...] "Infringing intellectual property, for example republishing copyrighted content or licensed images found through results." "Use the Service, including /webpage, to access content behind a login, paywall or access control" [...] "Use SerpKite to extract content from sites whose content the search engine displays under license, for example bulk-extracting Reddit threads through search results." "Using results inside your own product, where results are part of a larger service you provide, is fine."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.11 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: country, language, num, page, time, tbs, safe, max_age, engine, include_domains, exclude_domains, start_date, end_date
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/images

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)

## The 18 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, image result position, image result title, image result original, image result original width, image result original height, image result thumbnail, image result source, image result source domain, image result link, request ID, credits used, cached, cached at, engine used, provider route, response time, parse quality

## SerpKite's plans (5)

- [SerpKite, free, POST /v1/images, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-images-google-images/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $10 pack, Starter, POST /v1/images, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/10-pack-starter-post-v1-images-google-images/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $50 pack, Growth, POST /v1/images, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/50-pack-growth-post-v1-images-google-images/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SerpKite, $300 pack, Pro, POST /v1/images, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-google-images/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [SerpKite, contact us, Volume, POST /v1/images, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/contact-us-volume-post-v1-images-google-images/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## SerpKite's calls for this API (4)

- `POST /v1/images`, Bing Images: [SerpKite, free, POST /v1/images, Bing Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-images-bing-images/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/images`, Brave Images: [SerpKite, free, POST /v1/images, Brave Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/images`, DuckDuckGo Images: [SerpKite, free, POST /v1/images, DuckDuckGo Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-images-duckduckgo-images/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/images`, Google Images: [SerpKite, free, POST /v1/images, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-images-google-images/llms.txt)

## SerpKite's APIs (6)

- [SerpKite: image search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/images, Google Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-images-google-images/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: video search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/videos, Bing Videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-videos-bing-videos/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: video search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/videos, Brave Videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-videos-brave-videos/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: video search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/videos, DuckDuckGo Videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-videos-duckduckgo-videos/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: video search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/videos, Google Videos](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serpkite/free-post-v1-videos-google-videos/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: company discovery API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: company enrichment API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serpkite/free/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/shopping](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-shopping/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Bing Search API)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-batches-batch-requests-bing-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Brave Search API)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-batches-batch-requests-brave-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (DuckDuckGo Search API)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-batches-batch-requests-duckduckgo-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Google Search)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-batches-batch-requests-google-search/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Yahoo Search API)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-batches-batch-requests-yahoo-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Yandex Search API)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-batches-batch-requests-yandex-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Bing Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-search-bing-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Brave Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-search-brave-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, DuckDuckGo Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-search-duckduckgo-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/patents](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-patents/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-scholar/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-search-google-search/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Yahoo Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-search-yahoo-search-api/llms.txt)
- [SerpKite: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Yandex Search API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/free-free-post-v1-search-yandex-search-api/llms.txt)

## SerpKite: image search API alternatives

- [Ujeebu, $119 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/ujeebu/119-monthly/llms.txt): $0.595 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
- [SearchCans, $597 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/searchcans/597-pack/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [ValueSERP, $6,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/valueserp/6000-monthly/llms.txt): $0.60 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://serpkite.com
- https://serpkite.com/docs/caching
- https://serpkite.com/docs/credits-and-billing
- https://serpkite.com/docs/endpoints/images.md
- https://serpkite.com/docs/providers.md
- https://serpkite.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://serpkite.com/legal/acceptable-use
- https://serpkite.com/legal/terms
- https://serpkite.com/pricing