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API Direct pricing and alternatives: SERP API, POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests

API Direct's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026

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9% complete: 1 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 2,112 plans by price. Crawlora's $499 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 tier one of API Direct's 2 plans
Call: POST /v1/batch, Batch Requests one of API Direct's 4 calls for this API
API: SERP API one of API Direct's 12 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider reads the search engine's results when you call.
  • 1 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 50 requests a month. Requests are reset on the 1st of each month.
  • One call. You send requests[].params.query to POST /v1/batch. You set requests[].endpoint to "/v1/web/search". The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: at least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API Direct: SERP API alternatives

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

API Direct, pay as you go, Pay per request, POST /v1/batch, Batch RequestsSearchApi, $40 monthly, Developer Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=googleGeekflare, $10 packlobstr.io, $4,800 yearlycloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/google
$ per 1,000 searches$4.00$4.00$4.00$4.00$4.00
Completeness18%100%55%36%73%
Billingpay as you gomonthlypay firstyearlymonthly
Payat a threshold$40$10$4,800$30
Enough foras many as you pay for10,000 calls a month2,500 calls100,000 calls a month7,500 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Termsanyoneanyoneprofessionals, not consumersanyone

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 2026-10-27.

  1. apidirect.io/docs/batch
  2. apidirect.io/docs/pricing
  3. apidirect.io/docs/rate-limits
  4. apidirect.io/docs/web-search
  5. apidirect.io/dpa
  6. apidirect.io/endpoints/linkedin-person
  7. apidirect.io/openapi.json
  8. apidirect.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, 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
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Most per search100
Also pays for143 other calls: 50 requests a month each, 20 for Places Search, Place Reviews and Place Photos
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchInstead of looping an endpoint over a list of IDs, URLs or usernames, send up to 100 requests in a single call
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws, regulations, or third-party rights, Infringe upon intellectual property rights of others, Engage in any activity that could damage, disable, or impair the Service, Attempt to gain unauthorised access to any part of the Service, Use the Service for any illegal, harmful, or fraudulent purposes, Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limits, usage limits, or security measures, Use automated means to create accounts or generate API keys, Harass, abuse, or harm individuals using data obtained through the Service, Scrape our Service [...] You acknowledge that: [...] You are responsible for complying with the terms of service of the underlying platforms (LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Reddit, YouTube, Instagram, etc.) when using data obtained through our Service [...] You agree that: You have a lawful basis for requesting, receiving, and using the data you obtain through the Service [...] You will comply with applicable data protection law, including providing any notices and honouring any rights owed to individuals by you as controller [...] You will not use the Service to identify or target individuals on the basis of special categories of personal data
Plan
Pay$0
You get50 requests a month
Enough for50 calls a month
Expiresreset on the 1st of each month
Rate limit
Per second1.39
Concurrent10
Batch100
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendrequests[].endpoint "/v1/web/search", requests[].params.query. Optional: requests[].params.pages, requests[].params.country, requests[].params.language, requests[].params.time, requests[].params.location, requests[].params.device, requests[].params.include_ai_overview, requests[].tag
MethodPOST
Path/v1/batch
About the plan
PlanFree tier
Who can get itat least 18 years old, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

organic result position, organic rank absolute, organic result title, organic result link, organic result snippet, organic result source, organic domain, organic result displayed link, pages count, organic results count

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