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SearchApi pricing and alternatives: SERP API, GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_scholar

SearchApi's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026

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18% complete: 2 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 1,966 plans by price. Crawlora's $499 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: 100 Free Requests one of SearchApi's 17 plans
Call: GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_scholar one of SearchApi's 24 calls for this API
API: SERP API one of SearchApi's 6 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SearchApi reads the search engine's results when you call the API.
  • 2 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Related searches.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests.
  • One call. You send q to GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_scholar. 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 monthly, Octo 5M, GET /api/v1/search?engine=google_scholarScrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/search-advanced, Google Search AdvancedSerpKite, $10 pack, Starter, POST /v1/search, Google SearchScrapeless, top-up, Basic, top-up, POST /api/v1/scraper/request, Google LocalDecodo, $19 monthly, $19, POST /v1/scrape, Google Ads
$ per 1,000 searches$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00
Completeness18%100%73%27%91%
Billingmonthlypay as you gopay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$5,000per call$10any amount$19
Enough for5,000,000 calls a monthas many as you pay for10,000 callsas many as you pay for19,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or overanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyoneanyone

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 2026-10-28.

  1. searchapi.io/docs/google-scholar
  2. searchapi.io/docs/linkedin-jobs-api
  3. searchapi.io/legal/terms
  4. searchapi.io/linkedin-jobs-api
  5. searchapi.io/openapi/google_scholar.yaml
  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, 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
  • 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: 174 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchGoogle Scholar API lets users search for academic content like articles, theses, and books from various sources. It ranks these items based on their text, author, where they're published, and how often they're cited.
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
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: cites, cluster, hl, lr, scisbd, as_ylo, as_yhi, as_rr, as_vis, as_sdt, filter, source, num, page, zero_retention
MethodGET
Path/api/v1/search?engine=google_scholar
About the plan
Plan100 Free Requests
Who can get itanyone
The 37 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, time taken, search parameters, query displayed, total results, page number, time taken displayed, did you mean, scholar profiles, scholar organizations, scholar article position, scholar article title, scholar article link, scholar article ID, scholar article case ID, scholar article type, scholar article publication info, scholar article snippet, scholar article authors, scholar article resource title, scholar article resource format, scholar article resource URL, scholar article cited by count, scholar article cited by URL, scholar article cites ID, scholar article versions count, scholar article versions URL, scholar article cluster ID, scholar article related URL, scholar article cached page URL, related searches, pagination

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