AnswerLine pricing and alternatives: SERP API, async/ task, Submit an async task, Google News
0% complete: none of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 1,816 plans we rank by price is Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET / bing/ suggest, at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.Litescrape, Scrappa and SerpKite are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: 100 free requests one of AnswerLine's 7 plans
- Free, 100 free requests100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $1, StarterStarter$0.20 per 1,000
- Top-up from $95, GrowthGrowth$0.19 per 1,000
- Top-up from $240, ProPro$0.18 per 1,000
- Top-up from $475, BusinessBusiness$0.16 per 1,000
- Top-up from $950, ScaleScale$0.15 per 1,000
- Top-up from $1,900, MaxMax$0.14 per 1,000
Call:
POST / v1/ async/ task, Submit an async task, Google News one of AnswerLine's 10 callsPOST /, Submit an async task, Google NewsFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ async/ task POST /, Submit an async task, Google SearchFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ async/ task POST /, Submit an async task, Google Search, fullFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ async/ task POST /, Submit async tasks in a batch, Google NewsFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ async/ task/ batch POST /, Submit async tasks in a batch, Google SearchFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ async/ task/ batch POST /, Submit async tasks in a batch, Google Search, fullFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ async/ task/ batch POST /Free, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ monitor/ aimode POST /Free, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ monitor/ google/ news POST /, Track Google Search resultsFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ monitor/ google POST /, Track Google Search results, fullFree, 100 free requests$0.00 per 1,000v1/ monitor/ google
API: SERP API AnswerLine's only API
About this item
- Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
- None of the 11 key fields we check: Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, AI overview and 7 more.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests. Calls stop once your requests run out.
- One call. You send
payload.querytoPOST /. You setv1/ async/ task taskTypeto "GOOGLE_NEWS". The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
AnswerLine: SERP API alternatives
The table starts with AnswerLine's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to AnswerLine's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| AnswerLine, top-up from $1,900, Max, POST /v1/async/task, Submit an async task, Google News | Infatica, $65 monthly | PrismCrawl, $1,000 pack, Volume, POST /v1/google/search | Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 10M requests a month, GET /, from the 740,668th call a month | FlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/realtime, YouTube Search API (Realtime) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.14 | $0.13 | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.20 |
| Completeness | 0% | 45% | 27% | 36% | 9% |
| Billing | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay as you go | monthly |
| Pay | $1,900 | $65 | $1,000 | monthly | $1,999 |
| Enough for | about 13,571,428 calls | 500,000 calls a month | 6,666,667 calls | as many as you pay for | 10,000,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 with a valid email address | anyone, the Client may be required to pass compliance reviews such as Know Your Client verification | anyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreement | anyone | anyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an account |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Organic results, not in the answer
- Ads, not in the answer
- Featured snippet, not in the answer
- AI overview, not in the answer
- Knowledge graph, not in the answer
- People also ask, not in the answer
- Local pack, not in the answer
- Related searches, not in the answer
- News, not in the answer
- Images and videos, not in the answer
- Shopping, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
|---|
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Track ChatGPT answers · Track Gemini answers · Track Perplexity answers · Track Copilot answers · Track Grok answers · Track AI Mode answers · Track Google Search results · Track Google News results · Submit async tasks in a batch |
|---|
| Units cap | hard |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Scheduled news monitoring belongs in tasks: $0.0002 per page-one task, queued and posted to your webhook. |
|---|
| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "Between you and us, you may use the results we return for your internal or commercial purposes, subject to section 5 and the rights of the engines: that includes keeping them for as long as you choose, building your own analytics on them, and showing or exporting them to your own customers in your products and reports." "You may not use the service to: break any applicable law or regulation, or to build a service that does, infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity or other rights of third parties, generate, store or distribute unlawful, deceptive or harmful content, spam or malware, probe, overload or attack our infrastructure or the engines we query, or circumvent their or our access controls, resell raw access to the API without our written agreement, misrepresent results as coming directly from a third-party service, or use its or our trademarks misleadingly." "Third-party services' own terms may restrict what their content may be used for, complying with those terms is your responsibility." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 100 requests |
| Enough for | 100 calls |
| Per second | 1000 |
|---|---|
| Concurrent | n/a |
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | by polling or webhook |
|---|
| You send | taskType "GOOGLE_NEWS", payload.query. Optional: priority, idempotencyKey, webhook.url, payload.country, payload.gl, payload.hl, payload.pages, payload.include.html, payload.include.rawWire |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/async/task |
| Plan | 100 free requests |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | every new account at signup, no card, anyone at least 18 with a valid email address |
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold
success, result position, result title, Google News URL, publisher name, published at, page number, HTML URL, raw provider response
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