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Irmu pricing and alternatives: SERP API

Irmu'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 1,996 plans we rank by price is Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest, at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.Scrappa, Litescrape and SerpKite are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Irmu's 8 plans
Call: GET /google-ai-overview Irmu's only call for this API
API: SERP API one of Irmu's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 1 of the 11 key fields we check. AI overview.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits a month, enough for about 6 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send query to GET /google-ai-overview. You can also send domain, premium, country and city. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone, one free account per person and per organisation. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Irmu: SERP API alternatives

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

Irmu, $200 monthlyScrappa, 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
Completeness9%100%100%82%55%
Billingmonthlypay as you gomonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$200per call$500$5$50
Enough for100,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for250,000 calls a month2,500 calls25,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 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 2026-10-29.

  1. irmu.com
  2. irmu.com/api-reference/googleAiOverview
  3. irmu.com/docs
  4. irmu.com/legal/acceptable-use-policy
  5. irmu.com/legal/privacy-policy
  6. irmu.com/legal/terms-of-service
  7. irmu.com/pricing
  8. irmu.com/products/google-ai-overview-api
  9. irmu.com/products/scraping-api

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
  • 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
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Crawl a url · Run a recipe · Ask ChatGPT · Screenshot a url · Search Booking.com · Read a Booking.com property
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWhat Google's AI tells searchers, as data.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataPermitted use: Collecting publicly accessible information for price monitoring, market research, SEO, lead generation, brand protection, academic research, AI training on lawfully accessible content, and testing your own properties. Prohibited use: Accessing content behind authentication you are not authorised to use, defeating paywalls, or bypassing access controls on systems you do not own. Collecting personal data without a lawful basis, scraping content protected by copyright for redistribution, or targeting sites that have contractually prohibited your access. Sending volumes designed to degrade a target's service, distributing malware, or conducting credential stuffing, fraud or any criminal activity. Circumventing plan limits, including creating or using multiple free accounts, sharing keys across organisations, or otherwise obtaining free credits beyond the one account permitted per person and per organisation. [...] Irmu is neutral infrastructure: you choose which URLs are requested and what you do with the response, and you are responsible for holding the rights or a lawful exception for that use. Extracting facts such as prices and availability is generally lawful, reproducing substantial portions of protected expression for republication is not, absent a licence or exception. [...] Free accounts may not be used to resell or sublicense the service, to provide production workloads on behalf of third parties, to run automated stress or capacity testing, or to publish benchmarks without our prior written consent.
Plan
Pay$0
You get200 credits a month
Enough forabout 6 calls a month
Expirescredits reset at the start of each billing period and do not roll over unless your plan states otherwise
Rate limit
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendquery. Optional: domain, premium, country, city
MethodGET
Path/google-ai-overview
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, one free account per person and per organisation
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, search engine domain, request URL, AI overview text, AI overview references, credits consumed, credits remaining, request ID, search status

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