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Serper pricing and alternatives: SERP API, POST /scholar

Serper's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026

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9% complete: 1 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: 2,500 free queries one of Serper's 5 plans
Call: POST /scholar one of Serper's 2 calls for this API
API: SERP API one of Serper's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Serper 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 2,500 credits, enough for 2,500 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to POST /scholar. 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. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Serper, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /scholarSerpKite, $300 pack, Pro, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Google Search)SerpBase, $3 monthly, Starter Boost, POST /google/searchPrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/searchCrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /v1/jobs, Google Search
$ per 1,000 searches$0.30$0.30$0.30$0.30$0.30
Completeness9%73%91%27%73%
Billingpay firstpay firstmonthlypay firstpay first
Pay$3,750$300$3$5$3,750
Enough for12,500,000 calls1,000,000 calls10,000 calls a month16,667 calls12,500,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
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 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyoneanyone at least 18 and legally able to enter the agreementanyone 18 or older using it for a business or profession

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. 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, 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
Percall
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search · Images · News · Maps · Places · Videos · Shopping · Patents · Autocomplete
Overage
Units caphard
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
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq. Optional: num, gl, hl, location
MethodPOST
Path/scholar
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 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

scholar article title, scholar article link, scholar article publication info, scholar article snippet, scholar article year, scholar article cited by count

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