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FlashData pricing and alternatives: SERP API, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google News API (Batch)

FlashData's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026
9% complete: 1 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 1,816 plans we rank by price is Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest, at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.Litescrape, Scrappa and SerpKite are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free trial one of FlashData's 8 plans
Call: POST /v1/queries/batch, Google News API (Batch) one of FlashData's 21 calls
API: SERP API FlashData's only API

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 11 key fields we check. News.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send queries[].query to POST /v1/queries/batch. You set queries[].source 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.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FlashData: SERP API alternatives

The table starts with FlashData's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to FlashData's.

FlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/batch, Google News API (Batch)Searlo, $29.99 pack, Builder, GET /search/advancedScrappa, $1,000 pack, Ultimate, GET /api/search-advanced, Google Search Advanced, fullSerpKite, $50 pack, Growth, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Google Search)Decodo, $1,499 monthly, $1,499, POST /v1/search
$ per 1,000 searches$0.40$0.40$0.40$0.40$0.40
Completeness9%9%100%73%45%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$1,999$29.99$1,000$50$1,499
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month75,000 calls2,500,000 calls125,000 calls3,747,500 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownlivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyone at least 18 years oldanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyone

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 2026-10-28.

  1. flashdata.dev
  2. flashdata.dev/docs/errors
  3. flashdata.dev/docs/guides/async-batch
  4. flashdata.dev/docs/sources/google_news
  5. flashdata.dev/legal/terms
  6. flashdata.dev/pricing
  7. flashdata.dev/pricing/google-search

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: Google Search API · Google Images API · Google Shopping API · Google Videos API · Google Places API · YouTube Search API · YouTube Extended Search API · YouTube Video Metadata API · YouTube Transcript API · YouTube Captions API · YouTube Channel API · YouTube Suggestions API · YouTube Trainability API · YouTube Download API · Google News API (Realtime) · Google News API (Async)
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet Google search results, YouTube metadata, and video files through one API. No scrapers to maintain. No proxies to manage.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use data"FlashData grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, and revocable right to access and use the Service for your internal or customer-facing business purposes during the applicable subscription, trial, or PAYG entitlement." "This license permits you to use Results only to the extent you have a lawful right to use the underlying third-party material." "You may not copy or mirror the Service as a competing service, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to extract non-public source code except where law expressly permits, remove proprietary notices, evade technical restrictions, register or coordinate multiple accounts to bypass limits, or provide raw account or API-key access to an unaffiliated third party without written permission."
Plan
Pay$0
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendqueries[].source "google_news", queries[].query. Optional: queries[].params.gl, queries[].params.hl, queries[].params.location, queries[].params.num, queries[].params.page, queries[].params.tbs, queries[].params.autocorrect, queries[].callback_url
MethodPOST
Path/v1/queries/batch
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

search status, created at, credits consumed, search parameters, news result title, news result link, news result snippet, news result source, news result date, news result thumbnail, news result position

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