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Shifter pricing and alternatives: SERP API, GET /v1, Google Search API

Shifter's sitellms.txtBest SERP API in 2026: pricing compared

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73% complete: 8 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$8.80per 1,000 searchesHalf of the 1,513 plans we rank by price cost $1.00 per 1,000 searches or less. This plan is cheaper than 9% of the 1,513 plans.Infatica's $400 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: Starter one of Shifter's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1, Google Search API one of Shifter's 3 calls
API: SERP API Shifter's only API

About this item

  • Live. Shifter reads the search engine's results when you call the API.
  • 8 of the 11 key fields we check. Organic results, Ads, Featured snippet, Knowledge graph, People also ask, Local pack, Related searches, Images and videos.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $44 a month for 5,000 requests.
  • One call. You send q to GET /v1. You set engine to "google". The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Shifter: SERP API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 searches. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planShifter, $44 monthly, Starter, GET /v1, Google Search APIScale SERP, $83 monthly, 10,000 searches, monthly, GET /search, Google SearchSerpWow, $2,999 monthly, Infrastructure, GET /search, Google Search, fullOpenSERP, top-up, Credits, GET /v1/baidu/searchSerpApi, $275 monthly, Big Data, GET /search, Bing Search API
$ per 1,000 searches$8.80$8.30$8.997$9.00$9.167
Completeness73%100%100%45%100%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlypay firstmonthly
Pay$44$83$2,999any amount$275
Enough for5,000 calls a month10,000 calls a monthabout 333,333 calls a monthas many as you pay for30,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who has reached the age of majority (18, or the age of majority where they live)anyoneanyoneanyone with a valid email addressanyone at the age of majority in their state or province of residence

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. shifter.io/docs/api/google-serp-api/api-response/
  2. shifter.io/docs/api/google-serp-api/search-apis/google-search-api/
  3. shifter.io/docs/products/serp-api
  4. shifter.io/docs/products/serp-api/faq/
  5. shifter.io/docs/products/serp-api/google/
  6. shifter.io/docs/resources/billing
  7. shifter.io/pricing/serp-api
  8. shifter.io/services/serp-api
  9. shifter.io/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
  • Shopping, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 searches$8.80
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$44
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: google_autocomplete · google_images · google_maps · google_maps_reviews · google_maps_photos · google_news · google_shopping · google_product · google_jobs · google_jobs_listing · google_trends · google_scholar · google_scholar_author · google_scholar_cite · google_scholar_profiles · google_events · google_play · google_finance · google_reverse_image · google_local_services · bing · yandex
In their words
Their pitchReal-time, structured search results from Google, Bing, Yandex and more. City-level geo-targeting, desktop and mobile SERPs, you only pay for successful queries.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"Customer agrees to abide by all laws, foreign and domestic, local, state, and federal." "Clients are strictly prohibited from using our scraping services to scrape data from Twitter, X, or any affiliated websites."
Plan
Pay$44
You get5,000 requests a month
Enough for5,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendengine "google", q. Optional: cookie, tbm, sort_by, time_period, time_period_min, time_period_max, flatten_results, empty_results, device, location, google_domain, uule, lr, hl, gl, start, num, ijn, safe, filter, nfpr, tbs, ludocid, lsig
MethodGET
Path/v1
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone who has reached the age of majority (18, or the age of majority where they live)
The 28 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, search status, created at, processed at, request URL, HTML URL, total time taken, search parameters, query displayed, total results, time taken, organic result position, organic result title, organic result link, organic result displayed link, organic result snippet, organic result favicon, organic result sitelinks, pagination, ads, answer box, knowledge graph, related questions, related searches, inline images, inline videos, local results, local map

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