# Serply, free: Image search API

> Search Google Images to retrieve image results with thumbnails, dimensions, and metadata in JSON format. Perfect for building image discovery applications.

Serply's image search API on its Free to start 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/serply/free
- [Best image search API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://serply.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.serply.io/v1/image/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://serply.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://serply.io/docs/resources/google-images
- Sold by: Serply (https://serply.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## 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: 20
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Google Search · Bing Search · Google Video · Google Jobs · Google Scholar · Google News · Google Product · Google Maps · Request · eBay Search · GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/{subreddit} · GET /v1/reddit/subreddit/{subreddit}/about · GET /v1/reddit/user/{username} · GET /v1/reddit/post/{id} · GET /v1/reddit/comments/{id}

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Search Google Images to retrieve image results with thumbnails, dimensions, and metadata in JSON format. Perfect for building image discovery applications.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,500 credits
- Enough for: 2,500 calls
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.55 s

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: X-Proxy-Location header, X-User-Agent header
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/image/

## About the plan

- Plan: Free to start
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

image result title, image result link, image result source domain, image result alt text, image result thumbnail, image result thumbnails, image result original, image result original width, image result original height, image result format, items count, time taken, device region, device type, keyword

## Serply's plans (8)

- [Serply, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serply, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/5-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serply, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/15-pack/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serply, $49 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/49-pack/llms.txt): $0.98 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serply, $375 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/375-pack/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serply, $1,875 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/1875-pack/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serply, $7,500 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/7500-pack/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Serply, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/contact-us/llms.txt): 100% complete, live

## Serply's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/image/`: [Serply, free](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/free/llms.txt)

## Serply's APIs (5)

- [Serply: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/b/search/](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serply/free-to-start-get-v1-b-search/llms.txt)
- [Serply: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/maps/search/{query}](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serply/free-to-start-get-v1-maps-search-query/llms.txt)
- [Serply: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/product/search/](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serply/free-to-start-get-v1-product-search/llms.txt)
- [Serply: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/scholar/](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serply/free-to-start-get-v1-scholar/llms.txt)
- [Serply: SERP API pricing, 8 plans, GET /v1/search/](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serply/free-to-start-get-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [Serply: image search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serply/free/llms.txt)
- [Serply: job postings API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/job-posting-apis/serply/free/llms.txt)
- [Serply: news API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serply/free/llms.txt)
- [Serply: video search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/serply/free/llms.txt)

## Serply: image search API alternatives

- [Serper, $375 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serper/375-pack/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Autom, $375 pack, Standard, GET /v1/brave/images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/autom/375-pack-standard-get-v1-brave-images/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [Scrapeless, $699 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapeless/699-monthly/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $900 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/scrapingdog/900-yearly/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 100% 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://app.serply.io/users/sign_up?source=pricing-free
- https://serply.io
- https://serply.io/docs
- https://serply.io/docs/resources/google-images
- https://serply.io/docs/resources/reddit
- https://serply.io/google-images-api
- https://serply.io/pricing
- https://serply.io/pricing.md
- https://serply.io/terms
- https://serply.io/web-scraping-api