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DataForSEO pricing and alternatives: SERP API, google/organic/live/html

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0% complete: none 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: $1 trial credit one of DataForSEO's 3 plans
Call: POST /v3/serp/google/organic/live/html one of DataForSEO's 6 calls for this API
API: SERP API one of DataForSEO's 8 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider reads the search engine's results when you call.
  • None of the 11 key fields we check: Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, AI overview and 7 more.
  • 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/html. 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 $50, Pay as you go, POST /v3/serp/google/organic/live/htmlScrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/search-advanced, Google Search Advanced, fullSearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale Plan, GET /api/v1/search?engine=googleSerply, $5 pack, Micro Pack, GET /v1/search/Geekflare, $50 pack
$ per 1,000 searches$2.00$2.00$2.00$2.00$2.00
Completeness0%100%100%82%55%
Billingpay firstpay as you gomonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$50per call$500$5$50
Enough for25,000 callsas many as you pay for250,000 calls a month2,500 calls25,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone

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. 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/html/

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, not in the answer
  • Images and videos, not in the answer
  • Shopping, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat freenever
Most per search200
Also pays forfrom the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API · Keywords Data API · OnPage API · Merchant API · App Data API · Business Data API · Reviews API · Domain Analytics API · Live Google Organic SERP Advanced · Live Google Organic SERP Regular · Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (standard queue) · Setting Google Organic SERP Tasks (priority queue) · Live Bing Organic SERP Advanced
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchLive SERP HTML provides a raw HTML page of 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 second166.67
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
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, stop_crawl_on_match, stop_crawl_on_match[].match_type, stop_crawl_on_match[].match_value, max_crawl_pages, expand_ai_overview, url, target_search_mode, find_targets_in, ignore_targets_in
MethodPOST
Path/v3/serp/google/organic/live/html
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 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

keyword, search engine domain, location code, language code, datetime, items count, page number, HTML scanned at, full HTML

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