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DataForSEO pricing and alternatives: SERP API

DataForSEO's sitellms.txt
100% complete: all 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 51 plans we rank by price is Serper, $375 pack, at $0.75 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: $1 trial credit one of DataForSEO's 3 plans
Call: POST /v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced DataForSEO's only call for this API
API: SERP API one of DataForSEO's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • All 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, AI overview, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches, News, Images and videos, Shopping.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit once, enough for 500 calls. Credit never expires.
  • One call. You call POST /v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced. You send keyword, location_code and language_code. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

DataForSEO: SERP API alternatives

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

DataForSEO, top-up from $50Serper, $50 packSearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale PlanSerpApi, $52,000 monthly, Cloud 26M, GET /search, Google Search APISerpstack, $2,039.88 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$2.00$1.00$2.00$2.00$3.40
Completeness100%36%100%91%64%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$50$50$500$52,000$2,039.88
Enough for25,000 calls50,000 calls250,000 calls a month26,000,000 calls a month50,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukrainebusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"anyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone

SERP API pricing: plans compared

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. dataforseo.com/apis/domain-analytics-api
  2. dataforseo.com/help-center/how-does-your-free-unlimited-trial-work
  3. dataforseo.com/pricing
  4. dataforseo.com/pricing/google-serp/google-organic-serp-api
  5. dataforseo.com/terms-of-service/
  6. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/domain_analytics/technologies/domain_technologies/live/
  7. docs.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced/

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Organic results
  • Ads
  • Featured snippet
  • AI overview
  • Knowledge graph
  • People also ask
  • Local pack
  • Related searches
  • News
  • Images and videos
  • Shopping
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat freenever
Most per search200
Also pays forfrom the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLive SERP provides real-time data on top search engine results for the specified keyword, search engine, and location.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataany search engine results page (SERP) data or content obtained through the Service, including but not limited to data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and other search engine providers, shall not be used to compete with or adversely affect the business interests of the search engine providers from which such data originates
Plan
Pay$0
You get$1
Enough for500 calls, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second33.33
Concurrent30
The call
You sendkeyword, location_code, language_code. Optional: location_name, location_coordinate, language_name, depth, device, os, se_domain, search_param, load_async_ai_overview, tag
MethodPOST
Path/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced
About the plan
Plan$1 trial credit
Who can get itnew accounts, one each, not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraine
The 77 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, search engine domain, location code, language code, check URL, datetime, spell, refinement chips, item types, results count, pages count, items count, organic rank group, organic rank absolute, organic page, organic position, organic XPath, organic domain, organic title, organic URL, organic cache URL, organic related search URL, organic breadcrumb, organic website name, organic description, organic pre snippet, organic extended snippet, organic images, organic rating, organic price, organic highlighted, organic links, organic timestamp, organic rectangle, organic checks, answer box, app, carousel, multi carousel, featured snippet, Google Flights, Google reviews, third party reviews, images, jobs, knowledge graph, local pack, hotels pack, map, paid, people also ask, related searches, people also search, shopping, top stories, Twitter, video, events, recipes, top sights, scholarly articles, popular products, questions and answers, find results on, stocks box, commercial units, local services, Google Hotels, math solver, currency box, product considerations, short videos, refine products, perspectives, discussions and forums, compare sites, AI overview

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