# Serper, free, 2,500 free queries, POST /scholar: SERP API

> Experience unparalleled speed with our industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds, at an unbeatable price.

Serper's SERP API on its "2,500 free queries" plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 searches. It returns 1 of the 11 key fields we check: Organic results.
We rank 1,966 plans by price. [Crawlora's $499 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawlora/499-monthly-enterprise-get-bing-suggest/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 searches: $0.10.
[Litescrape](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/litescrape/top-up-from-10-usage-based-get-api-google-search/llms.txt), [Scrappa](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/scrappa/250-pack-professional-get-api-search-advanced-google-search-advanced/llms.txt) and [SerpKite](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-search-google-search/llms.txt) are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/free-2500-free-queries-post-scholar
- [Best SERP API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-serp-api.txt)
- Get it: https://serper.dev
- Request: `POST https://google.serper.dev/scholar`
- API key: with the plan, on https://serper.dev
- Its API docs: https://serper.dev
- Sold by: Serper (https://serper.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-27

## In the answer

- Completeness: 9%
- Organic results: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 searches: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Aggregators

- Aggregators: none

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Images · News · Maps · Places · Videos · Shopping · Patents · Autocomplete

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Experience unparalleled speed with our industry-leading SERP API, delivering lightning-fast Google search results in 1-2 seconds, at an unbeatable price.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 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. 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 get: 2,500 credits
- Enough for: 2,500 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: q. Optional: num, gl, hl, location
- Method: POST
- Path: /scholar

## About the plan

- Plan: 2,500 free queries
- Who can get it: businesses: 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

## Serper's plans (5)

- [Serper, free, 2,500 free queries, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/free-2500-free-queries-post-scholar/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [Serper, $50 pack, Starter, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/50-pack-starter-post-scholar/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [Serper, $375 pack, Standard, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/375-pack-standard-post-scholar/llms.txt): $0.75 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [Serper, $1,250 pack, Scale, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/1250-pack-scale-post-scholar/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 9% complete, live
- [Serper, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/3750-pack-ultimate-post-scholar/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 9% complete, live

## Serper's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /scholar`: [Serper, free, 2,500 free queries, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/free-2500-free-queries-post-scholar/llms.txt)
- `POST /search`: [Serper, free, 2,500 free queries, POST /search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/free/llms.txt)

## Serper's APIs (2)

- [Serper: news API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/serper/free/llms.txt)
- [Serper: SERP API pricing, 5 plans, POST /scholar](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serper/free-2500-free-queries-post-scholar/llms.txt)

## Serper: SERP API alternatives

- [SerpKite, $300 pack, Pro, POST /v1/batches, Batch requests (Google Search)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpkite/300-pack-pro-post-v1-batches-batch-requests-google-search/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 73% complete, live
- [SerpBase, $3 monthly, Starter Boost, POST /google/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/serpbase/3-monthly-starter-boost-post-google-search/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 91% complete, live
- [PrismCrawl, $5 pack, Micro, POST /v1/google/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/prismcrawl/5-pack-micro-post-v1-google-search/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 27% complete, live
- [CrawlerData, $3,750 pack, Ultimate, POST /v1/jobs, Google Search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawlerdata/3750-pack-ultimate-post-v1-jobs-google-search/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 73% complete, live

## 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.

- https://docs.crewai.com/en/tools/search-research/serperdevtool
- https://github.com/crewAIInc/crewAI/blob/main/lib/crewai-tools/src/crewai_tools/tools/serper_dev_tool/serper_dev_tool.py
- https://serper.dev
- https://serper.dev/terms