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Scale SERP pricing and alternatives: SERP API, GET /search, Google News

Scale SERP'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 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 tier one of Scale SERP's 14 plans
Call: GET /search, Google News one of Scale SERP's 9 calls
API: SERP API Scale SERP's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 1 of the 11 key fields we check. News.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 125 credits a month, enough for 125 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to GET /search. You set search_type to "news". The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scale SERP: SERP API alternatives

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

Scale SERP, $47,988 yearly, 5,000,000 searches, annual, GET /search, Google NewsSearlo, $29.99 pack, Builder, GET /serp/html, SERP HTMLCrawleo, $200 monthly, Scale, GET /google-search, Google Search APIZenserp, $4,799.88 yearly, Premium, GET /api/v2/search, Google SearchScrapeless, $399 monthly, Business, POST /api/v1/scraper/request, Google Local
$ per 1,000 searches$0.80$0.80$0.80$0.80$0.80
Completeness9%0%73%45%27%
Billingyearlypay firstmonthlyyearlymonthly
Pay$47,988$29.99$200$4,799.88$399
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month37,500 calls250,000 calls a month500,000 calls a month498,750 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 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. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/response-codes
  2. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/results/google/news
  3. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/common
  4. docs.trajectdata.com/scaleserp/search-api/searches/google/news
  5. trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/
  6. trajectdata.com/serp/scale-serp-api/pricing/
  7. trajectdata.com/traject-data-terms-of-service/
  8. scaleserp.com

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, not in the answer
  • 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
  • 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 Search · Google Images · Google Videos · Google Scholar · Google Autocomplete · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Place Photos · Google Place Reviews · Google Place Products · Google Place Posts · Google Shopping · Google Product · Google Product Details · Google Product Reviews · Google Product Online Sellers · Google Product Specifications
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGet Real-Time Data with the Most Complete Google Search API – Scale Serp API
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataa limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, non-assignable license to access and use the Service [...] solely for your personal use on a Device that you own or control. [...] You may not: (i) cause, permit or authorize the modification, copying, creation of derivative works, translation, reverse engineering, decomplication, disassembly, or hacking of the Service, (ii) sell, assign, rent, lease, or grant rights in the Service, including, without limitation, through sublicense, to any other person or entity, or (iii) use the Service for any unlawful, prohibited, abnormal, or unusual activity as determined by ScraperAPI [...] All products and services sold by or received from ScraperAPI are intended to be used for personal purposes only, and you may not sell or resell any products or services you purchase or otherwise receive from ScraperAPI.
Plan
Pay$0
You get125 credits a month
Enough for125 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, search_type "news". Optional: location, location_auto, uule, google_domain, gl, hl, lr, cr, time_period, time_period_min, time_period_max, nfpr, filter, safe, page, max_page, tbs, sort_by, show_duplicates, exclude_if_modified, device, mobile_type, tablet_type, include_html, skip_on_incident, hide_base64_images, cookie, include_fields, exclude_fields
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree tier
Who can get itanyone
The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits used, credits consumed, credits remaining, credits reset at, created at, processed at, total time taken, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, location auto message, search parameters, total results, time taken, query displayed, original query yields zero results, top stories, news results, pagination

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