# lobstr.io, free: SERP API

> Give 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.

lobstr.io's SERP API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 4 of the 11 key fields we check: Organic results, Ads, People also ask, Related searches.
The cheapest of the 862 plans we rank by price is [Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawlora/499-monthly-enterprise-get-bing-suggest/llms.txt), at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.
[Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-google-search/llms.txt), [SearchApi](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchapi/500-monthly-scale-plan/llms.txt) and [ScrapingBee](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrapingbee/249-monthly-business-get-api-v1-google-google-search-api-light-request/llms.txt) are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/free
- [Best SERP API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-serp-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.lobstr.io/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.lobstr.io/v1/runs`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.lobstr.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.lobstr.io/docs/start-run
- Sold by: lobstr.io (https://www.lobstr.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 36%
- Organic results: ✓
- Ads: ✓
- People also ask: ✓
- Related searches: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Most per search: 30
- Also pays for: from the same budget: 73 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Give 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit, results stay on lobstr.io 7 days on Free, 28 days on paid plans
- Use data: The 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 get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 10 calls a month
- Expires: credits 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 second: 2
- Concurrent: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: squid (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
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/runs

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: professionals, 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

## lobstr.io's plans (9)

- [lobstr.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly/llms.txt): $20.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/100-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/500-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $1,000 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/1000-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $192 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/192-yearly/llms.txt): $16.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $960 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/960-yearly/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, $4,800 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/4800-yearly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 36% complete, live
- [lobstr.io, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/contact-us/llms.txt): 36% complete, live

## lobstr.io's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/runs`: [lobstr.io, free](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)

## lobstr.io's APIs (15)

- [lobstr.io: SERP API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn post comment API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-comment-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn post reaction API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-reaction-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Company Employees Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-company-employees-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Leads Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-leads-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Leads Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-leads-scraper-full/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-search-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-search-scraper-full/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn people search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, Sales Navigator Leads Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-people-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-sales-navigator-leads-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Jobs Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Jobs Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-jobs-scraper-full/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Jobs Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Jobs Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-jobs-scraper-full/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Profile Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-profile-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, Sales Nav Profile Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-sales-nav-profile-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: email finder API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Profile Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-profile-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: email finder API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, Sales Nav Profile Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/find-email-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-sales-nav-profile-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-search-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-search-scraper-full/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn company search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, Sales Navigator Companies Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-sales-navigator-companies-scraper/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/lobstr-io/free/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: LinkedIn post search API pricing, 9 plans, POST /v1/runs, LinkedIn Search Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-search-apis/lobstr-io/free-free-post-v1-runs-linkedin-search-scraper-full/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: cached phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/runs, Sales Nav Profile Scraper](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-phone-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly/llms.txt)
- [lobstr.io: cached phone finder API pricing, 8 plans, POST /v1/runs, Sales Nav Profile Scraper, full](https://datacircle.dev/find-cached-phone-apis/lobstr-io/20-monthly-starter-post-v1-runs-sales-nav-profile-scraper-full/llms.txt)

## lobstr.io: SERP API alternatives

- [Searlo, $9.99 pack, Starter, GET /serp/html, SERP HTML, rendered](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searlo/9-99-pack-starter-get-serp-html-serp-html-rendered/llms.txt): $3.996 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Serpstack, $199.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpstack/199-99-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 64% complete, live
- [SearchApi, $40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/searchapi/40-monthly/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 100% complete, live
- [cloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/google](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/cloro/30-monthly-lite-post-v1-monitor-google/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## 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.

- https://api.lobstr.io/v1/plans
- https://docs.lobstr.io/docs/concepts
- https://docs.lobstr.io/docs/configure-webhook-delivery
- https://docs.lobstr.io/docs/pricing
- https://docs.lobstr.io/docs/rate-limiting
- https://docs.lobstr.io/docs/start-run
- https://docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/add-tasks
- https://docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/credit-cost
- https://docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/get-geolocation
- https://docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/get-results
- https://docs.lobstr.io/examples/google-search-scraper/update-settings
- https://help.lobstr.io/billing/reset-billing-cycle
- https://help.lobstr.io/core-concepts/credits
- https://www.lobstr.io/legal/terms-of-use
- https://www.lobstr.io/pricing
- https://www.lobstr.io/store/google-search-scraper
- https://www.lobstr.io/store/linkedin-profile-scraper