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PerceptLayer pricing and alternatives: SERP API, GET /v1/duckduckgo/search

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18% complete: 2 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 1,662 plans by price. Infatica's $400 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.10.Litescrape, Scrappa and SerpKite are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of PerceptLayer's 11 plans
Call: GET /v1/duckduckgo/search one of PerceptLayer's 4 calls for this API
API: SERP API one of PerceptLayer's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Live. PerceptLayer reads the search engine's results when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Knowledge graph.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1/duckduckgo/search. You can also send kl, df, safe and start. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

PerceptLayer: SERP API alternatives

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

PerceptLayer, $2,999 pack, Volume, GET /v1/duckduckgo/searchSerpKite, $300 pack, Pro, POST /v1/search, Google SearchDecodo, $499 monthly, $499, POST /v1/scrape, Google AdsSerpBase, $3 monthly, Starter Boost, POST /google/shoppingSearchCans, $597 pack, Pro, POST /api/v1/search, Google Search API
$ per 1,000 searches$0.60$0.60$0.60$0.60$0.60
Completeness18%73%91%0%55%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlymonthlypay first
Pay$2,999$300$499$3$597
Enough for5,000,000 calls500,000 calls831,666 calls a month5,000 calls a month995,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itdevelopers and businesses, at least 18 years oldanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyoneanyonebusinesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or over

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 2026-11-01.

  1. docs.perceptlayer.com/credits
  2. docs.perceptlayer.com/errors
  3. docs.perceptlayer.com/rate-limits
  4. perceptlayer.com
  5. perceptlayer.com/apis/duckduckgo
  6. perceptlayer.com/blog/duckduckgo-search-api-json
  7. perceptlayer.com/legal/restricted-endpoints
  8. perceptlayer.com/legal/terms
  9. perceptlayer.com/llms.txt
  10. perceptlayer.com/pricing

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, not in the answer
  • AI overview, not in the answer
  • Knowledge graph
  • 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: 1,658 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchDuckDuckGo's Instant Answer API returns topic summaries, not ranked links. GET /v1/duckduckgo/search returns organic results and paging at 1 credit per query.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou are responsible for how you use results: having a lawful basis and any permissions you need, and meeting the laws and third-party terms that apply to your use, including rules on attribution, retention, deletion, republishing and text-and-data-mining or AI opt-outs. Within those limits, you may use results in your own applications, websites, reports and analysis: store and cache them, show them to your users, combine them with other data and analyse them, including with AI. You may not sell or redistribute results as a standalone dataset or data feed without our written agreement. [...] Some endpoints return social media content, data about identifiable people, or SEO and traffic data. They are marked "Needs terms" and only work after you accept these terms in your dashboard. [...] What you confirm: you have a lawful basis, such as legitimate interest, for processing any personal data you receive, and you collect only what you need for that purpose, you will not use the data to identify, track or contact individuals without their consent where consent is required, you will keep personal data only as long as you need it, keep it secure, and act on access, correction, deletion and objection requests as the law requires, you will respect the rights of content creators and the platform terms that legally apply to you when you store or republish content. What you may not do: use the data to decide a person's eligibility for credit, employment, housing, insurance or education, or for background or tenant screening, monitor or track a specific individual's location, movements or activity, build or sell profiles of private individuals, use the data for surveillance, or supply it to anyone for that purpose.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: kl, df, safe, start
MethodGET
Path/v1/duckduckgo/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itdevelopers and businesses, at least 18 years old, one free account per person or company
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, search parameters, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result snippet, organic result displayed link, organic result favicon, pagination, knowledge graph

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