CrustAPI pricing: SERP API, GET / v1/ search, Scholar
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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe haven't run CrustAPI through our SERP API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 2,108 plans for SERP APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.13 per 1,000 searches or less.Morningscore's $69 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 searches. Morningscore's $69 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many searches as Morningscore's rate limit allows.Collabim's CZK 360 monthly plan (/ keywords) covers any number of searches. Collabim's CZK 360 monthly plan costs less up front than Morningscore's $69 monthly plan.Scrappa, SerpKite and SerpScraper.dev are the best SERP API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of CrustAPI's 10 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- $5 pack, Agent pack (x402)Agent pack (x402)
- Top-up from $10, $10+ deposit$10+ deposit$1.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $149, $149+ deposit$149+ deposit$0.76 per 1,000
- Top-up from $549, $549+ deposit$549+ deposit$0.56 per 1,000
- Top-up from $1,999, $1,999+ deposit$1,999+ deposit$0.41 per 1,000
- Top-up from $6,500, $6,500+ deposit$6,500+ deposit$0.33 per 1,000
- Top-up from $27,500, $27,500+ deposit$27,500+ deposit$0.28 per 1,000
- Top-up from $50,000, $50,000+ deposit$50,000+ deposit$0.26 per 1,000
- Top-up from $100,000, $100,000+ deposit$100,000+ deposit$0.20 per 1,000
Call:
GET / v1/ search, Scholar one of CrustAPI's 3 calls for this APIGET /, LensFree$0.00 per 1,000v1/ search GET /, PatentsFree$0.00 per 1,000v1/ search GET /, ScholarFree$0.00 per 1,000v1/ search
API: SERP API one of CrustAPI's 15 APIs
- Web scraping API
- Image search API
- Search autocomplete API
- Local business reviews API
- News API
- Google Shopping search API
- LinkedIn company post API
- LinkedIn profile post API
- LinkedIn people search API
- LinkedIn job details API
- LinkedIn job search API
- LinkedIn company data API
GET /v1/ linkedin - LinkedIn company data API
POST /v1/ linkedin/ batch - SERP API
- Local business search API
GET /, Mapsv1/ search - Local business search API
GET /, Placesv1/ search - LinkedIn profile API
GET /, People refreshv1/ linkedin - LinkedIn profile API
POST /, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, profilev1/ linkedin/ batch - LinkedIn profile API
POST /, Process a list of LinkedIn URLs, refreshv1/ linkedin/ batch - LinkedIn profile API
GET /, Profilev1/ linkedin
About this item
- Live. CrustAPI reads the search engine's results when you call the API.
- 1 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results.
- Nothing to pay. You get $6 of credit a month, enough for 6,000 calls. Unused credit expires each month.
- One call. You send
qtoGET /. You setv1/ search typeto "scholar". You can also sendgl,hl,pageandfresh. The call returns the search engine's results page. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
CrustAPI: SERP API alternatives
CrustAPI alternatives: other SERP API providers by price
The table starts with CrustAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to CrustAPI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| CrustAPI, top-up from $100,000, $100,000+ deposit, GET /v1/search, Scholar | Scrappa, $1,000 pack, Ultimate, GET /api/search-advanced, Google Search Advanced | Reserp, top-up, Paid: after 3M requests, POST /v2/serp/search | Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 10M requests a month, GET /, from the 555,501st call a month | Scrapingdog, $6,000 monthly, Enterprise Pro, GET /google, Google Search API | |
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| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.20 |
| Completeness | 9% | 100% | 0% | 55% | 18% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay as you go | monthly |
| Pay | $100,000 | $1,000 | $2,000 | monthly | $6,000 |
| Enough for | 500,000,000 calls | 5,000,000 calls | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 30,000,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | businesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only) | anyone 18 or over | anyone legally capable of entering into the Terms of Service | anyone | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
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
| $ per 1,000 searches | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Aggregators | none |
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| Also pays for | from the same budget: People refresh · Profile · Company · Jobs · Posts · People search · Maps · Places · News · Shopping · Images · Reviews · Patents · Autocomplete · Webpage · Lens · Process a list of LinkedIn URLs |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Google Scholar papers and citations |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | "The Service is for business and professional use only. It is a business-to-business product. It is not a consumer or end-user service, and you may not use it for personal, household, or consumer purposes." "We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable right to use the Service for your own business purposes" [...] "Do not resell or redistribute the raw data as a competing dataset or API without adding meaningful value." "Do not use CrustAPI for anything illegal, and comply with all laws that apply to you and to your use of the data." |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | $6 a month |
| Enough for | 6,000 calls a month |
| Expires | month |
| Concurrent | 1 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | type "scholar", q. Optional: gl, hl, page, fresh |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /v1/search |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | businesses and professionals, 18 or older (its terms: business and professional use only) |
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold
organic results, organic title, organic URL, scholar article cited by count, scholar article year, scholar article publication info