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Serpstack pricing and alternatives: SERP API

Serpstack's sitellms.txt
64% complete: 7 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: Free one of Serpstack's 8 plans
Call: GET /search Serpstack's only call
API: SERP API Serpstack's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call reads the search engine's results when you make it.
  • 7 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 100 requests a month. Unused requests expire: not carried over from one monthly period to the next.
  • One call. You send query to GET /search. You can also send device, location and google_domain. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: anyone, for non-commercial use. Keep data: until the agreement ends. Use data: with conditions.

Serpstack: SERP API alternatives

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

Serpstack, $2,039.88 yearlySerper, $50 packDataForSEO, top-up from $50SearchApi, $1,800 monthlySerpApi, $3,750 monthly, Cloud 1M, GET /search, Google Search API
$ per 1,000 searches$3.40$1.00$2.00$3.60$3.75
Completeness64%36%100%100%91%
Billingyearlypay firstpay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$2,039.88$50$50$1,800$3,750
Enough for50,000 calls a month50,000 calls25,000 calls500,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyonebusinesses: its terms say "Serper is a business-to-business service and does not provide end-user (consumer) services"anyone not in Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Myanmar, North Korea or Russian-occupied Ukraineanyoneanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence

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.apilayer.com/serpstack/docs/getting-started
  2. docs.apilayer.com/serpstack/docs/quickstart-guide
  3. marketplace.apilayer.com/serpstack-api
  4. serpstack.com
  5. serpstack.com/billing-overages-documentation
  6. serpstack.com/faq
  7. serpstack.com/pricing
  8. serpstack.com/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
  • Featured snippet
  • AI overview, not in the answer
  • Knowledge graph
  • People also ask
  • Local pack
  • 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 pitchLightning-fast JSON REST API for SERP data
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datauntil the agreement ends
Use dataYou are hereby permitted to receive, process, and display serpstack API Data & Services to individual end-users of your application(s), provided such end users use serpstack API Data & Services strictly for their own personal use, You do not permit Your end users to store, distribute, or otherwise exploit serpstack API Data & Services for any other purposes. For clarity, and without limiting the forgoing, You are permitted solely to use serpstack API Data & Services for reference by Your end users. Except as expressly provided herein, under no circumstances whatsoever may You transfer or permit the transfer of serpstack API Data & Services outside of your application(s). [...] You shall not: reproduce, copy, modify, distribute, market, display, transfer, sublicense, assign, prepare derivative work(s) or adaptation(s) based on, sell, exchange, barter or transfer, rent, lease, loan, time-share, resell, or in any other manner exploit serpstack API Data & Services or the serpstack API, make access to serpstack API Data & Services or the serpstack API available to unauthorized parties, or otherwise post or distribute serpstack API Data & Services in any public forum including, but not limited to, print, newsletters, radio, television, or internet, [...] disassemble, translate, reverse engineer or otherwise decompile serpstack API Data & Services or the serpstack API, [...] use, store, or access any serpstack API Data & Services, or the serpstack API after the termination of this Agreement, use or permit others to use, market, distribute, or export serpstack API Data & Services, or the serpstack API, or, use serpstack API Data & Services or the serpstack API in any manner or for any purpose that violates any law, regulation or right of any person.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 requests a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresnot carried over from one monthly period to the next
The call
You sendquery. Optional: device, location, google_domain
MethodGET
Path/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone, for non-commercial use
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, processed at, check URL, total time taken, search parameters, total results, time taken, query displayed, ads, local map, local results, knowledge graph, related searches, related questions, answer box, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result displayed link, organic result snippet, organic result date, organic result sitelinks, organic result rich snippet, organic result cached page link, organic result related pages link, organic domain, organic result prerender, pagination

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