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FlashData pricing and alternatives: SERP API, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Search API (Realtime)

FlashData's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026
45% complete: 5 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/realtime, Google Search API (Realtime) one of FlashData's 21 calls
API: SERP API FlashData's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 5 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Featured snippet, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Related searches.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/queries/realtime. You set source to "google_search". You can also send params.gl, params.hl, params.location, params.num, params.page, params.tbs and params.autocorrect. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • 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. Each plan in the table gives live data.

FlashData, $1,999 monthly, Business, POST /v1/queries/realtime, Google Search API (Realtime)Scrappa, $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/searchSerpBase, $50 pack, Growth, POST /google/search
$ per 1,000 searches$0.40$0.40$0.40$0.40$0.40
Completeness45%100%73%45%91%
Billingmonthlypay firstpay firstmonthlypay first
Pay$1,999$1,000$50$1,499$50
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month2,500,000 calls125,000 calls3,747,500 calls a month125,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with legal capacity to enter into the agreement, a person under 16 may not create or use an accountanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyoneanyone

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/sources/google_search
  4. flashdata.dev/legal/terms
  5. flashdata.dev/pricing
  6. 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
  • Ads, not in the answer
  • Featured snippet
  • AI overview, not in the answer
  • Knowledge graph
  • People also ask
  • Local pack, not in the answer
  • Related searches
  • News, not in the answer
  • Images and videos, not in the answer
  • Shopping, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Images API · Google News API · Google Shopping API · Google Videos API · Google Places API · YouTube Search API · YouTube Extended Search API · YouTube Video Metadata API · YouTube Transcript API · YouTube Captions API · YouTube Channel API · YouTube Suggestions API · YouTube Trainability API · YouTube Download API · Google Search API (Async) · Google Search API (Batch)
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$ 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
Freshnesslive
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
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.78 s
The call
You sendsource "google_search", query. Optional: params.gl, params.hl, params.location, params.num, params.page, params.tbs, params.autocorrect
MethodPOST
Path/v1/queries/realtime
About the plan
PlanFree trial
Who can get itanyone with a verified email account eligible for trial Credits
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

search status, created at, credits consumed, search parameters, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result snippet, people also ask, related searches, knowledge graph, answer box

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