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Yandex Search API pricing: image search API

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$7.50per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run Yandex Search API through our image search API benchmark yet.Half of the 439 plans we rank by price cost $0.909 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 searches than 8% of the 439 plans.SerpScraper.dev's $499 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. SerpBase's $3 monthly plan costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.SerpScraper.dev, SerpKite and Litescrape are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Yandex Search API plan for that many searches. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Image search requests Yandex Search API's only plan
Call: POST /v2/image/search Yandex Search API's only call for this API
API: Image search API one of Yandex Search API's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 4 of the 5 fields on our checklist. Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page.
  • Nothing to buy first. You pay at a threshold.
  • One call. You call POST /v2/image/search. You send query.searchType, query.queryText and folderId. The call returns the images that match.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a Yandex Cloud account and a billing account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Yandex Search API: image search API alternatives

Yandex Search API alternatives: other image search API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches.

This planYandex Search API, pay as you goSerpApi, $725 monthly, Searcher, GET /search, Google Images APIJisuAPI, CNY 50 packOpenSERP, top-up, Credits, GET /v1/mega/image, Any and Fast image searchSerpWow, $4,788 yearly, BigData (annual), GET /search, Bing Images
$ per 1,000 searches$7.50$7.25$7.478$7.83$7.98
Completeness80%100%80%80%40%
Billingpay as you gomonthlypay firstpay firstyearly
Payat a threshold$725CNY 50any amount$4,788
Enough foras many as you pay for100,000 calls a month1,000 callsas many as you pay for50,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveunknownlivelive
Who can get itanyone with a Yandex Cloud account and a billing accountanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone who registers a JisuAPI account, as an individual user (个人用户) or a business user (单位用户), each real-name verified (实名认证) with ID card photos or business licence photosanyone with a valid email addressanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.

  1. github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi/blob/master/yandex/cloud/searchapi/v2/img_search_service.proto
  2. raw.githubusercontent.com/yandex-cloud/docs/master/en/_includes/search-api-limits.md
  3. web.archive.org/web/20251116001105/https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/pricing
  4. yandex.cloud/en/docs/billing/concepts/billing-threshold
  5. yandex.cloud/en/docs/billing/concepts/personal-account
  6. yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/concepts/
  7. yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/concepts/image-search
  8. yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/pricing
  9. yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/quickstart/
  10. yandex.com/legal/cloud_terms_search_api/

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, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$7.50
Percall
Billingpay as you go
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
In their words
Their pitchWith the API, you can use text queries to search for images. Image search is only available in synchronous mode.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataIt is allowed to send requests and use search results for the purpose of their use on the Customer’s product. The placement of search results is allowed in any design (design), but without alteration of results order. [...] The use of the Service is prohibited: in order to create a similar product of the Yandex search engine (TIN: 7736207543/ OGRN: 1027700229193), using automatic and semiautomatic solutions designed to change browser default search engine settings and/or browser default home page settings in favor of a page, that uses Yandex.XML or redirects to a page. [...] It is prohibited to make automatic Requests to the search engine of the Limited Liability Company "YANDEX" (Registration number: 1027700229193 / Tax number: 7736207543) in any other way without the prior consent of Yandex.
Plan
Payat a threshold
Rate limit
Per second2.78
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery.searchType, query.queryText, folderId. Optional: query.familyMode, query.page, query.fixTypoMode, imageSpec.format, imageSpec.size, imageSpec.orientation, imageSpec.color, site, docsOnPage, userAgent
MethodPOST
Path/v2/image/search
About the plan
PlanImage search requests
Who can get itanyone with a Yandex Cloud account and a billing account
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, total results, image results, image result original, image result thumbnail, image result source link, image result original width, image result original height, image result file size, pagination

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