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SearchApi pricing and alternatives: SERP API

SearchApi's sitellms.txt
100% complete: all 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 51 plans we rank by price is Serper, $375 pack, at $0.75 per 1,000 searches.
Plan: 100 Free Requests one of SearchApi's 17 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/search?engine=google SearchApi's only call for this API
API: SERP API one of SearchApi's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • All 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, AI overview, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches, News, Images and videos, Shopping.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/v1/search?engine=google. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SearchApi: SERP API alternatives

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

SearchApi, $5,000 monthlySerper, $50 packSerpApi, $106,050 monthly, Cloud 54M, GET /search, Google Search APIDataForSEO, top-up from $50Serpstack, $2,039.88 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00$1.00$1.964$2.00$3.40
Completeness100%36%91%100%64%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$5,000$50$106,050$50$2,039.88
Enough for5,000,000 calls a month50,000 calls54,000,000 calls a month25,000 calls50,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyonebusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"anyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyone

SERP API pricing: plans compared

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. searchapi.io/
  2. searchapi.io/docs/google
  3. searchapi.io/docs/linkedin-jobs-api
  4. searchapi.io/legal/terms
  5. searchapi.io/linkedin-jobs-api
  6. searchapi.io/openapi/linkedin_jobs.yaml
  7. searchapi.io/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
  • Featured snippet
  • AI overview
  • Knowledge graph
  • People also ask
  • Local pack
  • Related searches
  • News
  • Images and videos
  • Shopping
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 174 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReal-time SERP API for easy SERP scraping
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataSome public-domain content accessible through SearchApi may also be subject to intellectual property rights. In such cases, you may only use the content if you have the appropriate license or are otherwise permitted by law. Unless required by law or explicitly allowed by the owner, you must not, and must not allow your end-users or others acting on your behalf, to engage in the following activities with the Data obtained from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or source of the Data. Alter, remove, or conceal any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices associated with the Data. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels that indicate the origin or source of the material. [...] In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in these Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using our Services or any data obtained from it in any of the following ways: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial, or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, (f) to submit false or misleading information, (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of our Services or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of our Services or any related website, other websites, or the Internet, including accessing restricted features, content, or functionality by manipulating technical controls beyond your authorized access level, (i) to resell, redistribute or offer our Services to a third-party without prior written consent from us. [...] You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Services, use of the Services, or access to the Services without the express written permission by the Company.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests
Enough for100 calls
Speed
Median1.81 s
The call
You sendq. Optional: device, location, uule, latitude, longitude, gl, hl, lr, cr, nfpr, filter, safe, time_period, time_period_min, time_period_max, verbatim, page, optimization_strategy, link, zero_retention
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/search?engine=google
About the plan
Plan100 Free Requests
Who can get itanyone
The 43 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, search parameters, query displayed, total results, time taken, detected location, knowledge graph, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result source, organic result snippet, organic result date, organic result sitelinks, organic result favicon, ads, local ads, shopping ads, inline shopping, local results, local map, discussions and forums, questions and answers, related questions, AI overview, answer box, inline videos, sports results, weather result, train results, jobs, salary estimates, related searches, inline images, top stories, explore brands, from sources across the web, pagination

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