Serpent API pricing and alternatives: SERP API, GET /api/search/quick, Brave Quick Search

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$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 1,601 plans by price. Infatica's $400 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: Free calls one of Serpent API's 6 plans

Call: GET /api/search/quick, Brave Quick Search one of Serpent API's 15 calls for this API

API: SERP API one of Serpent API's 25 APIs

About this item

Live. Serpent API reads the search engine's results when you call the API.
1 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results.
Nothing to pay. You get up to 10 calls in all. Unused calls expire after 12 months of account inactivity.
One call. You send q to GET /api/search/quick. You set engine to "brave". You can also send num, pages, country, freshness, safe, language, timeout and include_video_stats. The call returns the search engine's results page.
Who can get it: one account per person or organisation, for evaluation. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Serpent API: SERP API alternatives

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

	Serpent API, top-up from $1,000, Enterprise, GET /api/search/quick, Brave Quick Search	FetchLayer, $900 monthly, Dedicated platform with 1 block, POST /bing/search	Crawlbase, pay as you go, beyond 1,111,111,000 requests a month, GET /, from the 740,740,668th call a month	Infatica, $1,776 monthly	Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /google, Google Search API
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.03	$0.017	$0.03	$0.08	$0.114
Completeness	9%	73%	36%	45%	18%
Billing	pay first	monthly	pay as you go	monthly	yearly
Pay	$1,000	$900	monthly	$1,776	$300,000
Enough for	about 33,333,333 calls	54,432,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for	22,200,000 calls a month	220,000,000 calls a month
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)	anyone	anyone, the Client may be required to pass compliance reviews such as Know Your Client verification	anyone

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 2026-10-31.

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, not in the answer
News, not in the answer
Images and videos, not in the answer
Shopping, not in the answer

Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Most per search	100
Also pays for	from the same budget: Deep Search · News · Images · Videos · AI Ranking Combined · AI Ranking Single Engine · LinkedIn Company · LinkedIn Posts · LinkedIn Job Search · LinkedIn Job Details · LinkedIn Profile · LinkedIn Full Profile · LinkedIn Profile Search · Google Maps Quick Place Search · Google Maps Deep Place Search · Google Maps Place Details · Google Maps Reviews · YouTube Search · YouTube Video Details · YouTube Channel Details · YouTube Playlist Videos · Instagram · Amazon Search · Amazon Product · Amazon Bestsellers · TikTok Profile · TikTok Video · TikTok Hashtag · TikTok Search · TikTok Music · X Post · X Profile · Reddit Subreddit Listing · Reddit Comments · Reddit Search · Reddit User · Reddit Community · eBay Search listings · eBay Item details · eBay Seller profile · eBay Seller listings · eBay Product reviews · eBay Seller feedback

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Query Brave search and read structured web, news, image and video results in JSON.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit, "You agree NOT to use the Service to: [...] Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms"
Use data	You may use the API for lawful purposes in accordance with these Terms and applicable laws. [...] You agree NOT to use the Service to: Violate any applicable laws or regulations, Infringe on intellectual property rights of others, Distribute malware, spam, or harmful content, Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, Interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers, Resell or redistribute the Service without authorization, Use automated means to abuse or overload the Service, Deliberately obtain discounted volume pricing for a completed workload and then seek a refund of the qualifying payment to retain that discount without paying the applicable Default rate. Refund requests alone, or ordinary API usage, are not abuse, any request is reviewed individually under our Cancellation & Refund Policy and applicable law, Open or operate more than one account in order to claim free searches, introductory pricing, or any promotional benefit more than once, Scrape, copy, or store data in violation of third-party terms, Submit sensitive personal data in query strings, including health, financial account, government identification, biometric, or similar special-category information [...] Free searches are for evaluation purposes only. [...] You retain ownership of any content you create using data obtained through the Service, subject to third-party rights.

Plan
Pay	$0
Enough for	10 calls, once
Expires	after 12 months of account inactivity

Rate limit
Per day	10,000
Per second	0.028
Concurrent	1
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	q, engine "brave". Optional: num, pages, country, freshness, safe, language, timeout, include_video_stats
Method	GET
Path	/api/search/quick

About the plan
Plan	Free calls
Who can get it	one account per person or organisation, for evaluation

The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

query, engine, country code, number of organic results, time taken, datetime, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result snippet, organic result displayed link