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AnswerLine pricing and alternatives: SERP API, monitor/aimode

AnswerLine's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026
36% complete: 4 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
Call: POST /v1/monitor/aimode one of AnswerLine's 10 calls
API: SERP API AnswerLine's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Ads, AI overview, Images and videos, Shopping.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/monitor/aimode. You send prompt, one of country or gl. You can also send hl, location, uule, device, include.html, include.markdown, include.rawWire and include.screenshot. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • 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, Starter, POST /v1/monitor/aimodecloro, $2,000 monthly, Enterprise 2K, POST /v1/monitor/aimodePiloterr, $799 monthly, Enterprise, GET /v2/google/searchSerpApi, $28,850 monthly, Cloud 14M, GET /search, Bing Search APIScraperAPI, $21,330 yearly, Advanced, GET /structured/google/search
$ per 1,000 searches$2.06$2.044$2.049$2.061$2.067
Completeness36%36%27%100%36%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$1$2,000$799$28,850$21,330
Enough forabout 485 callsabout 978,504 calls a month390,000 calls a month14,000,000 calls a month860,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 with a valid email addressanyoneprofessional use only: the service is offered for professional use, to a person 18 or over and able to contract who orders it for a trade, business, craft, or professionanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone

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 2026-10-28.

  1. answerline.dev/docs/coverage
  2. answerline.dev/docs/credits
  3. answerline.dev/docs/output-formats
  4. answerline.dev/docs/rate-limits
  5. answerline.dev/docs/reference
  6. answerline.dev/engines/ai-mode
  7. answerline.dev/legal/terms
  8. answerline.dev/pricing
  9. answerline.dev/use-cases/web-search-api

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
  • Featured snippet, not in the answer
  • AI overview
  • 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
  • Shopping
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Track ChatGPT answers · Track Gemini answers · Track Perplexity answers · Track Copilot answers · Track Grok answers · Track Google Search results · Track Google News results · Submit an async task · Submit async tasks in a batch
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle's conversational AI Mode answer with citation pills, places, shopping cards and videos.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano 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."
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests
Enough for100 calls
Rate limit
Per second1000
Concurrentn/a
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendprompt, one of country or gl. Optional: hl, location, uule, device, include.html, include.markdown, include.rawWire, include.screenshot
MethodPOST
Path/v1/monitor/aimode
About the plan
Plan100 free requests
Who can get itevery new account at signup, no card, anyone at least 18 with a valid email address
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, AI Mode response text, AI Mode answer markdown, AI Mode references, AI Mode citations, AI Mode places, AI Mode shopping results, ads, AI Mode inline products, videos, AI Mode map, HTML URL, raw provider response

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