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SocialCrawl pricing and alternatives: SERP API

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9% complete: 1 of the 11 key fields we checkSee the 11 fields
$0.00per 1,000 searchesWe rank 1,644 plans by price. 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: Free one of SocialCrawl's 5 plans
Call: GET /v1/google/search SocialCrawl's only call for this API
API: SERP API one of SocialCrawl's 90 APIs

About this item

  • Live. SocialCrawl 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 100 credits once, enough for 100 pages. Credits never expire.
  • One call. You send query to GET /v1/google/search. You can also send region, date_posted, page, max_pages, max_items and max_credits. The call returns the search engine's results page.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

SocialCrawl: SERP API alternatives

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

SocialCrawl, £299 packWebScrapingAPI, $130 monthly, Grow, GET /v2, Google Search Async APIPangolinfo, $950.40 yearly, Professional (annual), POST /api/v2/scrape, AI Overview SERP APIZenserp, $899 monthly, Enterprise, GET /api/v2/search, Google Search, fullIrmu, $90 monthly
$ per 1,000 searches$2.658$2.60$2.64$2.697$2.70
Completeness9%91%27%45%9%
Billingpay firstmonthlyyearlymonthlymonthly
Pay£299$130$950.40$899$90
Enough for150,000 pages50,000 calls a month30,000 calls a monthabout 333,333 calls a monthabout 33,333 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyoneanyone outside Mainland China (its terms: the Service "is exclusively intended for users located outside the People’s Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR and Taiwan Region)")anyoneanyone

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 2026-11-01.

  1. socialcrawl.dev/docs/caching.md
  2. socialcrawl.dev/docs/credits.md
  3. socialcrawl.dev/docs/endpoint-pricing.md
  4. socialcrawl.dev/docs/rate-limits.md
  5. socialcrawl.dev/legal/terms-and-conditions
  6. socialcrawl.dev/llms-google.txt
  7. socialcrawl.dev/llms.txt
  8. socialcrawl.dev/openapi/google.json
  9. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/google/search
  10. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/google/search.md
  11. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/linkedin
  12. socialcrawl.dev/platforms/linkedin.md
  13. socialcrawl.dev/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, 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
Perpage of 10
Billingfree
Aggregators
Aggregatorsnone
Charges
Repeat free2 minutes
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 678 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns Google search results for a query. Each result includes title, URL, and a text snippet.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the Service for lawful purposes that comply with these Terms, applicable laws, and the terms of service of the social media platforms from which data is retrieved. [...] You must not: Resell raw data: You may not redistribute, resell, or sublicense raw Platform Data retrieved through the Service without adding meaningful transformation, analysis, or value. You must not operate a service that merely proxies or mirrors SocialCrawl responses. Violate platform terms: You must not use the Service in a manner that violates the terms of service of any social media platform from which data is retrieved. Harass or harm: You must not use the Service to stalk, harass, doxx, or otherwise harm any individual. Surveillance and identification of individuals: You must not use the Service or Platform Data to (a) perform facial recognition, biometric identification, or biometric verification of any individual, or build or enrich any facial-recognition or biometric database, (b) conduct surveillance, tracking, or behavioural monitoring of identified or identifiable individuals, including for law-enforcement, intelligence, or employment-vetting purposes, (c) re-identify individuals from aggregated, pseudonymised, or anonymised data, (d) profile individuals based on special categories of personal data (such as health, religion, political opinions, or sexual orientation), or (e) compile databases of individuals' personal data for sale or licensing as such. Circumvent restrictions: You must not attempt to bypass any usage limits, access controls, or security measures of the Service. Reverse engineer: You must not reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble any part of the Service or its underlying infrastructure. Overload the Service: You must not engage in activity designed to degrade, disrupt, or place an unreasonable burden on the Service or its infrastructure. Illegal activity: You must not use the Service for any purpose that violates applicable law, including but not limited to data protection legislation, intellectual property law, or export control regulations. Automated abuse: You must not use automated systems to create accounts, generate API Keys, or consume Credits in a manner intended to exploit the Service. [...] You are solely responsible for: Ensuring your use of Platform Data complies with all applicable laws, including data protection and privacy legislation (such as the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018). Respecting the intellectual property rights of content creators whose data is accessed through the Service. [...] Complying with the terms of service of the social media platforms from which data originates. [...] Subject to your compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your internal business or personal purposes. You retain ownership of any data, applications, or materials that you create using Platform Data retrieved through the Service, subject to: The intellectual property rights of the original content creators on social media platforms. Any applicable terms of service of the social media platforms from which the data originates. The restrictions set out in Section 7 (Acceptable Use Policy) of these Terms.
Plan
Pay$0
You get100 credits
Enough for100 pages, once
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second10
Concurrent50
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: region, date_posted, page, max_pages, max_items, max_credits
MethodGET
Path/v1/google/search
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, credits consumed, credits remaining, request ID, from cache, replayed, next cursor, has more, page size, organic result title, organic result link, organic result snippet

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