# Yandex Search API, pay as you go: Image search API

> With the API, you can use text queries to search for images. Image search is only available in synchronous mode.

Yandex Search API's Image search requests plan for the image search API costs $7.50 per 1,000 searches. Yandex Search API's docs list 4 of the 5 fields on our checklist: Image, Size, Thumbnail, Page.
We haven't run Yandex Search API through [our image search API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/499-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.033. [SerpBase's $3 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpbase/3-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 searches a month: $3.00.
[SerpScraper.dev](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpscraper-dev/39-monthly/llms.txt), [SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-images-brave-images/llms.txt) and [Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-bing-images/llms.txt) are the best image search API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/yandex-search-api/pay-as-you-go
- [Image search API: the 16 best of 80+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-image-search-api.txt)
- Get it: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://searchapi.api.cloud.yandex.net/v2/image/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/concepts/image-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- Sold by: Yandex Search API (https://yandex.cloud/en/services/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 80%
- Image: ✓
- Size: ✓
- Thumbnail: ✓
- Page: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $7.50
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: With the API, you can use text queries to search for images. Image search is only available in synchronous mode.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: It 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

- Pay: at a threshold

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2.78
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query.searchType, query.queryText, folderId. Optional: query.familyMode, query.page, query.fixTypoMode, imageSpec.format, imageSpec.size, imageSpec.orientation, imageSpec.color, site, docsOnPage, userAgent
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/image/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Image search requests
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Yandex Search API's plans (1)

- [Yandex Search API, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/yandex-search-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $7.50 per 1,000, 80% complete

## Yandex Search API's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v2/image/search`: [Yandex Search API, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/yandex-search-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Yandex Search API's APIs (2)

- [Yandex Search API: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/yandex-search-api/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Yandex Search API: SERP API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/yandex-search-api/pay-as-you-go-night-time-deferred-requests/llms.txt)

## Yandex Search API: image search API alternatives

- [SerpApi, $725 monthly, Searcher, GET /search, Google Images API](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpapi/725-monthly-searcher-get-search-google-images-api/llms.txt): $7.25 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [JisuAPI, CNY 50 pack](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/jisuapi/cny-50-pack/llms.txt): $7.478 per 1,000, 80% complete
- [OpenSERP, top-up, Credits, GET /v1/mega/image, Any and Fast image search](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/openserp/top-up-credits-get-v1-mega-image-any-and-fast-image-search/llms.txt): $7.83 per 1,000, 80% complete, live
- [SerpWow, $4,788 yearly, BigData (annual), GET /search, Bing Images](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/serpwow/4788-yearly-bigdata-annual-get-search-bing-images/llms.txt): $7.98 per 1,000, 40% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://github.com/yandex-cloud/cloudapi/blob/master/yandex/cloud/searchapi/v2/img_search_service.proto?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yandex-cloud/docs/master/en/_includes/search-api-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://web.archive.org/web/20251116001105/https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/billing/concepts/billing-threshold?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/billing/concepts/personal-account?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/concepts/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/concepts/image-search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://yandex.cloud/en/docs/search-api/quickstart/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing
- https://yandex.com/legal/cloud_terms_search_api/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image-search-api-pricing