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AlterLab pricing and alternatives: SERP API, Scrape a search engine results page (Google)

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100% complete: all 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 1,662 plans by price. Infatica's $400 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Litescrape, Scrappa and SerpKite are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of AlterLab's 10 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/serp, Scrape a search engine results page (Google) one of AlterLab's 3 calls for this API
API: SERP API one of AlterLab's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. AlterLab reads the search engine's results when you call the API.
  • All 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, AI overview, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches, News, Images and videos, Shopping.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for 250 calls. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You send query to POST /api/v1/serp. You set search_engine to "google". The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

AlterLab: SERP API alternatives

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

AlterLab, $2,000 pack, Deposit $2,000, POST /api/v1/serp, Scrape a search engine results page (Google)Pangolinfo, $950.40 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /api/v2/scrape, AI Overview SERP APISocialCrawl, £299 packZenserp, $899 monthly, Enterprise, GET /api/v2/search, Google Search, fullIrmu, $90 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$2.667$2.64$2.658$2.697$2.70
Completeness100%27%9%45%9%
Billingpay firstyearlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$2,000$950.40£299$899$90
Enough for750,000 calls30,000 calls a month150,000 pagesabout 333,333 calls a monthabout 33,333 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacityanyone outside Mainland China (its terms: the Service "is exclusively intended for users located outside the People’s Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan Region)")anyone 18 or overanyoneanyone

Every SERP 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 2026-11-01.

  1. alterlab.io
  2. alterlab.io/acceptable-use
  3. alterlab.io/api/v1/pricing
  4. alterlab.io/docs/api/serp
  5. alterlab.io/docs/reference/limits
  6. alterlab.io/openapi.json
  7. alterlab.io/pricing
  8. alterlab.io/terms

Product details

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

  • Organic results
  • Ads
  • Featured snippet
  • AI overview
  • Knowledge graph
  • People also ask
  • Local pack
  • Related searches
  • News
  • Images and videos
  • Shopping
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape a web page · Search the web · Map API · Crawl API · Extract API
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExecute a Google or Bing SERP scrape with browser-tier rendering. Captures organic results, paid ads (text, shopping, local), rich results (featured snippets, knowledge panels, PAA), and vertical results.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou retain all rights to the data you scrape using our Service, subject to the rights of the original content owners. We do not claim ownership of your scraped data. However, you are solely responsible for ensuring you have the legal right to scrape and use such data. [...] You agree NOT to use the Service for any of the following purposes. This list is not exhaustive, and we reserve the right to determine what constitutes a violation at our sole discretion. [...] Accessing password-protected, login-required, or authentication-gated content without authorization [...] Collecting personal information in violation of privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) [...] Collecting sensitive information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, or health data [...] Scraping social media platforms in violation of their terms (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) [...] Violating intellectual property rights, including copyright, trademark, or trade secret laws [...] Reselling or redistributing scraped data without proper licensing [...] Attempting to reverse-engineer, decompile, or create competing products using the Service [...] Reselling, sublicensing, or providing access to the Service to third parties without our written consent
Plan
Pay$0
You get$1
Enough for250 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second0.5
Concurrent3
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery, search_engine "google". Optional: device, country, city, language, num_results, page, start, safe_search, formats, extraction_schema, raw_html, advertiser, scrape_results, include_ads, brand_domain, resolve_redirects, solve_captchas, session_id, webhook_url, webhook_secret
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/serp
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity
The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, query, search engine, engine used, from cache, engines attempted, device type, country code, language code, organic results, organic result position, organic result link, organic result title, organic result snippet, organic result displayed link, organic result date, organic result sitelinks, number of organic results, total results, cost breakdown, response time, search status, message, warnings, ads, number of ads, ads by placement, competitive metrics, featured snippet, knowledge graph, people also ask, related searches, did you mean, local results, video results, news results, image results, shopping results, AI overview, session ID, captcha stats

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