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Serper pricing and alternatives: news API

Serper's sitellms.txtBest news API in 2026

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67% complete: 4 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 321 plans by price. Litescrape's top-up from $10 is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 searches: $0.15.Scrappa, SerpBase and Serper are the best news API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 2,500 free queries one of Serper's 5 plans
Call: POST /news Serper's only call for this API
API: News API one of Serper's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider searches the news when you call.
  • 4 of the 6 key fields we check. Source, Date, Snippet, Image.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,500 credits, enough for 2,500 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to POST /news. You can also send num, gl, hl and location. The call returns the news articles that match.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Serper: news API alternatives

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

Serper, $3,750 packSerpBase, $3 monthlyPrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/newsCrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /v1/jobsAutom, $3,750 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$0.30$0.30$0.30$0.30$0.30
Completeness67%67%83%67%50%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstpay firstpay first
Pay$3,750$3$5$3,750$3,750
Enough for12,500,000 calls10,000 calls a month16,667 calls12,500,000 calls12,500,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itbusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"anyoneanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreementanyone 18 or older using it for a business or professionprofessionals: the service is ordered for a trade, business, craft or profession, by someone at least 18 and able to contract

Every news 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 2026-10-27.

  1. docs.crewai.com/en/tools/search-research/serperdevtool
  2. github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/blob/main/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/serper_dev_tool/serper_dev_tool.py
  3. serper.dev
  4. serper.dev/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Source
  • Date
  • Author, not in the answer
  • Snippet
  • Image
  • Full text, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Images · Maps · Places · Videos · Shopping · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExperience unparalleled speed with our industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds, at an unbeatable price.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataUnless applicable by law or expressly permitted by the owner, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do any of the following with the Data returned from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or the source. Obscure, remove or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material. [...] Data accessible through Serper may contain third-party content (such as text, images, and videos). This content will remain the sole responsibility of those who make it available. In some cases, public-domain content accessible to Serper may also be subject to intellectual property rights. If this is the case you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so or are otherwise permitted by law. [...] Permission is granted to download the materials (information or software) on the Serper website and Service for as long as your use case requires. This constitutes the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not: Modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on the serper.dev website. Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials. Register more than one account at any point in time. Mirror the materials on any other server as-is with no-value-added. Attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your Serper API key or account.
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,500 credits
Enough for2,500 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.36 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: num, gl, hl, location
MethodPOST
Path/news
About the plan
Plan2,500 free queries
Who can get itbusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, credits consumed

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