# cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News: SERP API

> The 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.

cloro's SERP API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 11 key fields we check: News.
The cheapest of the 985 plans we rank by price is [Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawlora/499-monthly-enterprise-get-bing-suggest/llms.txt), at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.
[Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-google-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrappa/50-pack-standard-get-api-bing-search/llms.txt) and [Scrapeless](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapeless/top-up-basic-top-up-post-api-v1-scraper-request-google-search/llms.txt) are the best Google SERP API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news
- [Best Google SERP API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-serp-api.txt)
- Get it: https://cloro.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.cloro.dev/v1/async/task`, Create async task, Google News
- API key: with the plan, on https://cloro.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://cloro.dev/docs/api-reference/endpoint/create-async-task
- Sold by: cloro (https://cloro.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- News: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from 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 cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: solely 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 get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: about 166 calls a month
- Expires: end of the billing cycle

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1000
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: taskType "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
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/async/task

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## 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

## cloro's plans (11)

- [cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/30-monthly-lite-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $2.40 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $100 monthly, Hobby, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/100-monthly-hobby-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $250 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/250-monthly-starter-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $1.154 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $500 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/500-monthly-growth-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $1.111 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $1,000 monthly, Business, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/1000-monthly-business-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $1.071 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $2,000 monthly, Enterprise 2K, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/2000-monthly-enterprise-2k-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $1.022 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $3,000 monthly, Enterprise 3K, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/3000-monthly-enterprise-3k-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $0.967 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $4,000 monthly, Enterprise 4K, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/4000-monthly-enterprise-4k-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $0.941 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, $5,000 monthly, Enterprise 5K, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/5000-monthly-enterprise-5k-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): $0.915 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [cloro, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt): 9% complete, live

## cloro's calls (6)

- `POST /v1/async/task`, Create async task, Google AI Mode: [cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google AI Mode](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-ai-mode/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/async/task`, Create async task, Google News: [cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/async/task`, Create async task, Google Search: [cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-search/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/monitor/aimode`: [cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/monitor/aimode](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-monitor-aimode/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/monitor/google/news`: [cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/monitor/google/news](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-monitor-google-news/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/monitor/google`: [cloro, free, Free, POST /v1/monitor/google](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-monitor-google/llms.txt)

## cloro's APIs (1)

- [cloro: SERP API pricing, 11 plans, POST /v1/async/task, Create async task, Google News](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/free-free-post-v1-async-task-create-async-task-google-news/llms.txt)

## cloro: SERP API alternatives

- [Scrapeless, $49 monthly, Growth, POST /api/v1/scraper/request, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapeless/49-monthly-growth-post-api-v1-scraper-request-google-search/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [ProWebLook, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/proweblook/9-monthly/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [Oxylabs, $2,500 monthly, Enterprise, POST /v1/scrape/google/search, Google search, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/oxylabs/2500-monthly-enterprise-post-v1-scrape-google-search-google-search-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.90 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $1,089 yearly, Starter, GET /, Google SERP](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawlbase/1089-yearly-starter-get-google-serp/llms.txt): $0.907 per 1,000, 55% complete, live

## 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.

- https://cloro.dev
- https://cloro.dev/docs/api-reference/endpoint/create-async-task
- https://cloro.dev/docs/guides/billing
- https://cloro.dev/docs/guides/concurrency
- https://cloro.dev/docs/guides/providers
- https://cloro.dev/openapi.json
- https://cloro.dev/pricing
- https://cloro.dev/terms