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SerpKite pricing and alternatives: SERP API, POST /v1/search, DuckDuckGo Search API

SerpKite's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026
18% complete: 2 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 1,576 plans we rank by price is Crawlora, $499 monthly, Enterprise, GET /bing/suggest, at $0.10 per 1,000 searches.Litescrape, Scrappa and SerpKite are the best SERP API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SerpKite's 5 plans
Call: POST /v1/search, DuckDuckGo Search API one of SerpKite's 24 calls for this API
API: SERP API one of SerpKite's 3 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 2 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Related searches.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send q to POST /v1/search. You set engine to "duckduckgo". The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SerpKite: SERP API alternatives

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

SerpKite, $300 pack, Pro, POST /v1/search, DuckDuckGo Search APIDecodo, $499 monthly, $499, POST /v1/scrape, Google AdsSerpBase, $3 monthly, Starter Boost, POST /google/shoppingSearchCans, $597 pack, Pro, POST /api/v1/search, Google Search APIValueSERP, $6,000 monthly, 10,000,000 searches, monthly, GET /search, Google Search
$ per 1,000 searches$0.60$0.60$0.60$0.60$0.60
Completeness18%91%0%55%100%
Billingpay firstmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$300$499$3$597$6,000
Enough for500,000 calls831,666 calls a month5,000 calls a month995,000 calls10,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)anyoneanyonebusinesses and developers, including individual developers, aged 18 or overanyone

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 2026-10-28.

  1. serpkite.com
  2. serpkite.com/apis/duckduckgo-search-api
  3. serpkite.com/docs/caching
  4. serpkite.com/docs/credits-and-billing
  5. serpkite.com/docs/include-content.md
  6. serpkite.com/docs/providers.md
  7. serpkite.com/docs/rate-limits
  8. serpkite.com/legal/acceptable-use
  9. serpkite.com/legal/terms
  10. serpkite.com/pricing

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
  • 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
Extra fieldsorganic result content, organic result highlights: +$0.00 · answer text, answer citations: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Google News · Google Images · Google Videos · Google Maps · Google Places · Google Place Details · Google Reviews · Google Shopping · Google Scholar · Google Patents · Google Autocomplete · Webpage to Markdown · Custom Search (CSE-compatible) · Answer · Extract · Map · Crawl · Research · Monitors · Google Search · Batch requests
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchDuckDuckGo's full web results list as JSON, the part its Instant Answer API doesn't give you. Add engine: "duckduckgo" to /v1/search.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataTerms of Service, 6: "Results. Results reflect third-party content (titles, snippets, links, image URLs). We don't grant you any rights in that content beyond what the law allows. You are responsible for how you use, store and publish results, including any personal data or copyrighted material they contain." Acceptable Use Policy (part of the Terms), "You may not": "Resell, sublicense or provide raw API access (or a thin wrapper around it) to third parties, including as a competing search, SERP or scraping API." "Build a public search engine or bulk dataset of results that substitutes for the underlying search engine." [...] "Create multiple accounts, or use disposable emails or aliases, to obtain additional free credits." [...] "Stalking, harassment, doxxing, or people-search that profiles private individuals without a lawful basis." [...] "Building contact lists for cold outreach, bulk email or SMS, or other unsolicited marketing." "Running an OSINT or people-search service that aggregates, searches or exposes data about individuals, or reselling or distributing personal data found through results." [...] "Infringing intellectual property, for example republishing copyrighted content or licensed images found through results." "Use the Service, including /webpage, to access content behind a login, paywall or access control" [...] "Use SerpKite to extract content from sites whose content the search engine displays under license, for example bulk-extracting Reddit threads through search results." "Using results inside your own product, where results are part of a larger service you provide, is fine."
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendq, engine "duckduckgo". Optional: country, language, location, uule, num, page, time, tbs, device, safe, autocorrect, include_content, max_age, ads, include_domains, exclude_domains, boost_domains, start_date, end_date, highlights, include_answer
MethodPOST
Path/v1/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked)
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

search parameters, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result hostname, organic result displayed link, organic result snippet, organic result date, organic result published at, related searches, request ID, credits used, cached, cached at, engine used, provider route, response time, parse quality, resolved URL

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