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SearchCans pricing and alternatives: SERP API, POST /api/v1/search, Google Search API

SearchCans's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026
55% complete: 6 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 1,576 plans we rank by price is Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest, at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.Litescrape, Scrappa and SerpKite are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SearchCans's 6 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/search, Google Search API one of SearchCans's 7 calls
API: SERP API SearchCans's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 6 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Related searches, News, Images and videos.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits once, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send s to POST /api/v1/search. You set t to "google" and the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: businesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SearchCans: SERP API alternatives

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

SearchCans, $1,680 pack, Ultimate, POST /api/v1/search, Google Search APICrawlbase, $6,589 yearly, Growth, GET /, Google SERPDecodo, $999 monthly, $999, POST /v1/scrape, Google SearchMapleSerp, $16,560 yearly, Business, GET /api/serp/search, Google VideosScrappa, $50 pack, Standard, GET /api/search-advanced, Google Search Advanced, full
$ per 1,000 searches$0.56$0.549$0.55$0.552$0.556
Completeness55%55%91%9%100%
Billingpay firstyearlymonthlyyearlypay first
Pay$1,680$6,589$999$16,560$50
Enough for3,000,000 calls1,000,000 calls a month1,816,363 calls a month2,500,000 calls a month90,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itbusinesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or overanyoneanyoneanyone who is at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering into a binding agreementanyone 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 2026-10-27.

  1. searchcans.com/account-api
  2. searchcans.com/google-search-api
  3. searchcans.com/pricing
  4. searchcans.com/rate-limits
  5. searchcans.com/terms

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
  • Local pack, not in the answer
  • Related searches
  • News
  • Images and videos
  • Shopping, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google Shopping API · Google Images API · Google News API · Google Videos API · Google Short Videos API · Bing Search API · Reader API · File Extraction API · Web Screenshot API
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchBuilt for AI agents and RAG pipelines that need real-time Google grounding. One POST returns organic results, Knowledge Graph, AI Overview, and People Also Ask in clean JSON — no scraping, no rate limits.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataData accessible through SearchCans may contain third-party content (such as text, images, and videos). [...] In some cases, public-domain content accessible to SearchCans may also be subject to intellectual property rights. If this is the case, you may not use it unless you are licensed to do so or are otherwise permitted by law. [...] Unless applicable by law or expressly permitted by the owner, you will not, and will not permit your end users or others acting on your behalf to, do any of the following with the Data returned from the API: Misrepresent the ownership or the source of the Data. Obscure, remove or change any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. Falsify or delete any author attributions, legal notices, or other labels of the origin or source of material.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 calls, once
Rate limit
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.21 s
The call
You sendt "google", s, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: country, language, p, page, d, html, aiSummary, knowledgeGraph, newsAggregation, peopleAlsoAsk, videoAggregation, peopleAlsoSearchFor
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itbusinesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or over
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, knowledge graph, organic result position, organic page, organic result title, organic result link, organic result snippet, organic result displayed link, organic result source, people also ask, top stories, inline videos, related searches

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