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cloro pricing and alternatives: SERP API, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News

9% complete: 1 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 985 plans we rank by price is Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest, at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.Litescrape, Scrappa and Scrapeless are the best Google SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of cloro's 11 plans
Call: POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News one of cloro's 6 calls
API: SERP API cloro's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 1 of the 11 key fields we check. News.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits a month, enough for about 166 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/async/task. You send payload.query, one of payload.country or payload.gl. You set taskType to "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.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

cloro: SERP API alternatives

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

cloro, $5,000 monthly, Enterprise 5K, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google NewsScrapeless, $49 monthly, Growth, POST /api/v1/scraper/request, Google SearchProWebLook, $9 monthlyOxylabs, $2,500 monthly, Enterprise, POST /v1/scrape/google/search, Google search, JavaScript renderingCrawlbase, $1,089 yearly, Starter, GET /, Google SERP
$ per 1,000 searches$0.915$0.90$0.90$0.90$0.907
Completeness9%27%9%91%55%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$5,000$49$9$2,500$1,089
Enough forabout 5,463,927 calls a monthabout 54,444 calls a month10,000 calls a monthabout 2,777,777 calls a month100,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyonebuyers who ask for an offer ("Get an offer"), plans start at $2,500 a monthanyone

Every Google 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. cloro.dev
  2. cloro.dev/docs/api-reference/endpoint/create-async-task
  3. cloro.dev/docs/guides/billing
  4. cloro.dev/docs/guides/concurrency
  5. cloro.dev/docs/guides/providers
  6. cloro.dev/openapi.json
  7. cloro.dev/pricing
  8. cloro.dev/terms

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
  • Images and videos, not in the answer
  • Shopping, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Extract Google Search · Extract Google AI Mode · Extract ChatGPT · Extract Google Gemini · Extract Perplexity · Extract Microsoft Copilot · Get a Google shopping card product · Create async task, Google Search · Create async task, Google AI Mode · Create batch tasks
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe search API for the AI era. One API for Google and every AI search engine. Real-time structured JSON for tracking visibility or powering search in your own product.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use datasolely for your own purposes that do not include any transfer or sublicense of access to the Services and that do not otherwise permit you to commercialize access to or use of the Services by or on behalf of any third party [...] You shall not: (a) sell, resell, license, sublicense, distribute, rent, or lease the Services, or make the Services available to any third party [...] (e) access the Services for the purpose of building a competing product or service, or for purposes of benchmarking or competitive analysis
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits a month
Enough forabout 166 calls a month
Expiresend of the billing cycle
Rate limit
Per second1000
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendtaskType "GOOGLE_NEWS", payload.query, one of payload.country or payload.gl. Optional: payload.hl, payload.device, payload.pages, payload.include.html, priority, idempotencyKey, webhook.url
MethodPOST
Path/v1/async/task
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, news result position, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, page number, news result thumbnail, news result Google link, HTML URL

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