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lobstr.io pricing and alternatives: SERP API

lobstr.io's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026
36% complete: 4 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 862 plans we rank by price is Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest, at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.Litescrape, SearchApi and ScrapingBee are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of lobstr.io's 9 plans
Call: POST /v1/runs lobstr.io's only call for this API
API: SERP API one of lobstr.io's 15 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Ads, People also ask, Related searches.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 10 calls.
  • One call. You call POST /v1/runs with the inputs in Product details. 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: professionals, not consumers. Keep data: no limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans. Use data: with conditions.

lobstr.io: SERP API alternatives

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

lobstr.io, $4,800 yearlySearlo, $9.99 pack, Starter, GET /serp/html, SERP HTML, renderedSerpstack, $199.99 monthlySearchApi, $40 monthlycloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/google
$ per 1,000 searches$4.00$3.996$4.00$4.00$4.00
Completeness36%0%64%100%73%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$4,800$9.99$199.99$40$30
Enough for100,000 calls a month2,500 calls50,000 calls a month10,000 calls a month7,500 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itprofessionals, not consumersanyone at least 18 years oldanyoneanyoneanyone

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. api.lobstr.io/v1/plans
  2. docs.lobstr.io/docs/concepts
  3. docs.lobstr.io/docs/configure-webhook-delivery
  4. docs.lobstr.io/docs/pricing
  5. docs.lobstr.io/docs/rate-limiting
  6. docs.lobstr.io/docs/start-run
  7. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/add-tasks
  8. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/credit-cost
  9. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/get-geolocation
  10. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/get-results
  11. docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/update-settings
  12. help.lobstr.io/billing/reset-billing-cycle
  13. help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/credits
  14. lobstr.io/legal/terms-of-use
  15. lobstr.io/pricing
  16. lobstr.io/store/google-search-scraper
  17. lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-scraper

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, not in the answer
  • AI overview, not in the answer
  • Knowledge graph, not in the answer
  • 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
Most per search30
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 73 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGive it a keyword, get the results: title, description, page, is paid, price, rating, date, URL and 16 more fields, in a spreadsheet, in your tools, through the API or from your AI agent.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans
Use dataThe User hereby asserts and affirms that the utilization of the Platform is solely for professional activities, thereby exempting the User from being classified as a "consumer" under the governing law. [...] Squiders are obligated to: (i) Procure requisite permissions for accessing websites through Squids, (ii) Abstain from extracting substantial portions of databases, whether in terms of quality or quantity, (iii) Refrain from unauthorized access to confidential or proprietary information, (iv) Observe all third-party rights, including but not limited to copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property or proprietary rights, (v) Comply with all pertinent laws, statutes, ordinances, and regulations, inclusive of those related to the protection of personal data. [...] a global, non-exclusive, non-transferrable, and non-sublicensable right to employ the Platform for the duration of the User's active account on said Platform [...] Absent express written consent from LOBSTR, the User shall abstain—and shall prohibit any third parties acting on their behalf, including but not limited to employees, agents, affiliates, and subcontractors—from: (i) Decompiling, disassembling, or reverse-engineering the Platform, or attempting to discern its source code, foundational ideas, algorithms, file formats, or interoperability features [...], (ii) Independently or with third-party assistance, rectifying any Platform defects to render it compliant with its intended use [...], (iii) Removing or altering any notifications, labels, or references pertaining to the intellectual property rights of LOBSTR or any third parties, (iv) Engaging in the transfer, utilization, or exportation of the Platform in a manner that contravenes applicable laws, (v) Integrating, associating, or amalgamating the Platform with any other software or documents, or generating derivative works based in whole or part on the Platform, (vi) Conducting any activities with the Platform other than those explicitly sanctioned by these Terms and Conditions
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits a month
Enough for10 calls a month
Expirescredits refresh each month and don't roll over at renewal, only a paid billing-cycle reset carries unused credits over, for 30 days
Rate limit
Per second2
Concurrent1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendsquid (a Google Search Scraper squid, crawler f588385d11c48f8af51560e561077238, holding keywords as its tasks (keyword)). Optional: max_pages, max_unique_results_per_run, country, location, language, collect_shopping_results
MethodPOST
Path/v1/runs
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itprofessionals, not consumers
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

organic result title, organic result link, organic result displayed link, organic result snippet, organic result snippet segments, people also ask, related searches, result is organic, ads, total results, organic result date, organic result highlighted words, page number

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