# Automated SEO, pay as you go: Perplexity scraper API

> Perplexity brand mentions: ask Perplexity a buyer's question and report whether it mentions your brand, which sources it cites, and whether your domain is cited.

Automated SEO's Perplexity scraper API on its Pay per call (MPP) plan. It costs $90.00 per 1,000 answers. It returns 2 of the 10 key fields we check: Citations, Model.
We haven't run Automated SEO through our Perplexity scraper API benchmark yet.
Half of the 89 plans we rank by price cost $3.00 per 1,000 answers or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 answers than 21% of the 89 plans.
[Surfeo's $39 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/surfeo/39-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 answers: as little as $0.13. Surfeo's $39 monthly plan covers up to 300,000 answers a month at no extra cost.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go
- Get it: https://docs.crakseo.com/pricing/pay-per-call?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://crakseo.com/api/v1/mpp/check_perplexity_brand_mentions`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://docs.crakseo.com/pricing/pay-per-call?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing#endpoints
- Sold by: Automated SEO (https://crakseo.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 20%
- Citations: ✓
- Model: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 answers: $90.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Perplexity brand mentions: ask Perplexity a buyer's question and report whether it mentions your brand, which sources it cites, and whether your domain is cited.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: prompt, brand. Optional: domain
- Method: POST
- Path: /check_perplexity_brand_mentions

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call (MPP)
- Who can get it: anyone with a Machine Payments Protocol wallet, no account or API key (Tempo stablecoin USDC for every call, a card through a shared payment token for calls of $0.50 or more)

## The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

prompt, engine, brand mentioned, website cited, answer text, citations, cached

## Automated SEO's plans (4)

- [Automated SEO, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $90.00 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [Automated SEO, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/5-pack/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Automated SEO, $20 pack](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/20-pack/llms.txt): 20% complete
- [Automated SEO, $100 pack](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/100-pack/llms.txt): 20% complete

## Automated SEO's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /check_perplexity_brand_mentions`: [Automated SEO, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- `POST /mcp/ai-visibility`: [Automated SEO, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/5-pack/llms.txt)

## Automated SEO's APIs (4)

- [Automated SEO: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, POST /get_bing_serp](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-mpp-post-get-bing-serp/llms.txt)
- [Automated SEO: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, POST /get_google_serp](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-mpp-post-get-google-serp/llms.txt)
- [Automated SEO: ChatGPT scraper API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/chatgpt-scraper-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Automated SEO: Google AI Overview scraper API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-overview-scraper-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Automated SEO: Perplexity scraper API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/automated-seo/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Automated SEO: Perplexity scraper API alternatives

- [DemandSphere, $2,496 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/demandsphere/2496-yearly/llms.txt): $27.354 per 1,000, 10% complete, 24 hours
- [AuditAE, top-up from $5, Top-up, POST /api/v1/audits](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/auditae/top-up-from-5-top-up-post-api-v1-audits/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 20% complete
- [Foglift, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/foglift/49-monthly/llms.txt): $61.25 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [Otterly.ai, $189 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/otterly-ai/189-monthly/llms.txt): $94.50 per 1,000, 40% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://crakseo.com/api/v1/mpp/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://crakseo.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://crakseo.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://docs.crakseo.com/mcp-servers/ai-visibility.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://docs.crakseo.com/pricing/api-credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://docs.crakseo.com/pricing/pay-per-call?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing