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SerpApi pricing and alternatives: SERP API

SerpApi's sitellms.txt
36% complete: 4 of the 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: Free one of SerpApi's 125 plans
Call: GET /search one of SerpApi's 5 calls
API: SERP API SerpApi's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 4 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Ads, Knowledge graph, Images and videos.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 250 requests a month. Unused requests expire at renewal.
  • One call. You send text to GET /search. You set engine to "yandex". You can also send yandex_domain, lang, lr, family_mode, fix_typo, groups_on_page, sort_mode, period and p. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: anyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SerpApi: SERP API alternatives

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

SerpApi, $106,050 monthly, Cloud 54M, GET /search, 54,000,000 requests a monthSerper, $50 packSearchApi, $500 monthly, Scale PlanDataForSEO, top-up from $50Serpstack, $2,039.88 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$1.964$1.00$2.00$2.00$3.40
Completeness36%36%100%100%64%
Billingmonthlypay firstmonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$106,050$50$500$50$2,039.88
Enough for54,000,000 calls a month50,000 calls250,000 calls a month25,000 calls50,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residencebusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"anyoneanyone 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. serpapi.com/
  2. serpapi.com/faq
  3. serpapi.com/legal
  4. serpapi.com/pricing
  5. serpapi.com/pricing.md
  6. serpapi.com/yandex-search-api

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, 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
  • Shopping, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Repeat free1 hour
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchScrape Google and other search engines from our fast, easy, and complete API.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws). You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us. In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site or its content: (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 the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet. [...] For all recurring plans except the Free, Starter, and Developer plans, SerpApi will assume the liabilities of scraping and parsing search engine results [...] provided your use of the data or service is not illegal.
Plan
Pay$0
You get250 requests a month
Enough for250 calls a month
Expiresat renewal
Rate limit
Per second0.014
The call
You sendtext, engine "yandex". Optional: yandex_domain, lang, lr, family_mode, fix_typo, groups_on_page, sort_mode, period, p
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence
The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, processed at, request URL, HTML URL, JSON URL, time taken, search parameters, query displayed, organic results state, ads, inline images, inline videos, knowledge graph, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result displayed link, organic result snippet, spell check, pagination

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