Serpex pricing and alternatives: web search API

Serpex's site llms.txt Best web search API in 2026

17% complete: 1 of the 6 key fields we checkSee the 6 fields

$0.00per 1,000 searchesThe cheapest of the 177 plans we rank by price is Ceramic, $99 monthly, at $0.20 per 1,000 searches.Search1API, Firecrawl and Valyu are the best web search API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: Free credits one of Serpex's 5 plans

Call: GET /api/search Serpex's only call

GET /api/searchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web search API Serpex's only API

Web search API

About this item

Live. The call searches the web when you make it.
1 of the 6 key fields we check. Text.
Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits, enough for 200 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Credits never expire.
One call. You send q to GET /api/search. You can also send include_content and content_results. The call returns the matching web pages.
Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Serpex: web search API alternatives

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

	Serpex, top-up from $500	Search1API, $499 monthly, Enterprise, POST /search, Search	Context.dev, $500 monthly	Oxylabs, $30 monthly	Nimble, pay as you go, Pay as you go, POST /v2/search, Search, lite
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.50	$0.499	$0.50	$1.00	$1.10
Completeness	17%	33%	17%	17%	17%
Billing	pay first	monthly	monthly	monthly	pay as you go
Pay	$500	$499	$500	$30	monthly
Enough for	1,000,000 calls	1,000,000 calls a month	1,000,000 calls a month	30,000 calls a month	as many as you pay for
Freshness	live	live	live	live	live
Who can get it	anyone	anyone	anyone aged 18 or over	anyone	anyone who signs up

Every web search 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 2026-10-27.

Product details

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Price
$ per 1,000 searches	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Aggregators
Aggregators	none

Charges
Repeat free	5 minutes
Most per search	10
Extra fields	page content, page content error, page content requested, page content delivered: +$0.00
Also pays for	from the same budget: Extract API

Overage
Units cap	hard

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	The Best search API for AI & Agents. Powering the future of AI with fast, high-quality, and structured web search.

Data
Freshness	live
Keep data	no limit
Use data	While your paid subscription is active, Serpex grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide license to access, store, display, analyze, and redistribute—commercially or otherwise—the publicly available data returned by Serpex's API ("Licensed Data"). [...] You may present, transform, or combine the Licensed Data in any manner, provided that you do not add or alter data points in a way that would misrepresent the information actually returned by Serpex's API or cause harm to third parties. [...] You agree not to use any data obtained through Serpex in a manner that (a) discloses private or sensitive personal information, or (b) harms individual or public sentiments, violates applicable laws, or otherwise causes injury.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	200 credits
Enough for	200 calls
Expires	never

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	q. Optional: include_content, content_results
Method	GET
Path	/api/search

About the plan
Plan	Free credits
Who can get it	anyone

The 20 fields the plan's answer can hold

search ID, query, engines used, page title, URL, snippet, position, result engine, image URL, duration, relevance score, credits used, from cache, status, response time, timestamp, number of results, no results verified, charged, message