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Serper pricing and alternatives: SERP API

Serper'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: 2,500 free queries one of Serper's 5 plans
Call: POST /search Serper's only call
API: SERP API Serper'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, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Related searches.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,500 credits, enough for 2,500 calls.
  • One call. You send q to POST /search. You can also send num, gl, hl and location. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Serper: SERP API alternatives

The table starts with Serper's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 searches closest to Serper's.

Serper, $3,750 packSocialListeningAPI, freeSearchApi, $5,000 monthlySerpApi, $106,050 monthly, Cloud 54M, GET /search, Google Search APIDataForSEO, top-up from $50Serpstack, $2,039.88 yearly
$ per 1,000 searches$0.30$0.00$1.00$1.964$2.00$3.40
Completeness36%9%100%91%100%64%
Billingpay firstfreemonthlymonthlypay firstyearly
Pay$3,750$0$5,000$106,050$50$2,039.88
Enough for12,500,000 calls100 calls5,000,000 calls a month54,000,000 calls a month25,000 calls50,000 calls a month
Freshnessliveunknownlivelivelivelive
Who can get itbusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"anyone at least 13 years old and legally able to enter into the termsanyoneanyone 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. docs.crewai.com/en/tools/search-research/serperdevtool
  2. github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/blob/main/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/serper_dev_tool/serper_dev_tool.py
  3. serper.dev
  4. serper.dev/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, 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
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExperience unparalleled speed with our industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds, at an unbeatable price.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataUnless 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. 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. [...] Data accessible through Serper may contain third-party content (such as text, images, and videos). This content will remain the sole responsibility of those who make it available. In some cases, public-domain content accessible to Serper 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. [...] Permission is granted to download the materials (information or software) on the Serper website and Service for as long as your use case requires. This constitutes the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license, you may not: Modify, copy, prepare derivative works of, decompile, or reverse engineer any materials and software contained on the serper.dev website. Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials. Register more than one account at any point in time. Mirror the materials on any other server as-is with no-value-added. Attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limits placed on your Serper API key or account.
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,500 credits
Enough for2,500 calls
The call
You sendq. Optional: num, gl, hl, location
MethodPOST
Path/search
About the plan
Plan2,500 free queries
Who can get itbusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, knowledge graph, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result snippet, organic result date, organic result sitelinks, organic result attributes, people also ask, related searches, credits consumed

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