SERP API cost calculator
Published Google search API prices, checked 2026-10-19. Compare eight providers using their stated billing units.
USD before tax. Rates below divide plan price by its full search allowance; your cost per used search can be higher. Entry and volume mean the first paid tier and lowest unit rate among captured tiers, respectively. This is a price comparison, not a reliability ranking.
| Provider | Entry / 1k | Volume / 1k | Free tier / trial | Source / checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SerpApi | $25.000 (Starter) | $9.167 (Big Data) | 250 searches/month | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
| DataForSEO | $0.600 (Standard queue) | $0.600 (Standard queue) | $1 trial credit; no recurring free searches | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
| Bright Data SERP | $1.500 (Pay as you go) | $1.313 (Scale) | 5,000 requests/month | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
| ScraperAPI | $12.250 (Hobby) | $2.351 (Advanced) | 5,000 credits / 7-day trial (200 Google searches at 25 credits/search) | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
| Scrapingdog | $1.000 (Lite) | $0.222 (Enterprise Starter) | 100 trial credits per FAQ (20 Light searches); comparison table instead says 200 credits (40 searches) | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
| Serper.dev | $1.000 (Starter) | $0.300 (Ultimate) | 2,500 trial queries | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
| SearchAPI.io | $4.000 (Developer) | $1.500 (Octo 1M) | 100 trial searches | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
| Zenserp | $2.000 (Small) | $0.900 (Enterprise) | 50 searches/month | Pricing 2026-10-19 |
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| Provider | Monthly cost / pack purchase | Selected tier |
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Chooses the cheapest single captured tier that fits. Monthly subscriptions charge the whole plan; Serper charges a whole prepaid pack. Pay-as-you-go shows consumed usage; DataForSEO still requires a $50 deposit. Recurring free plans are used alone when sufficient; one-time trials are excluded. Bright Data paid estimates do not combine free credits. Unknown overages, repeated renewals, pack combinations and custom quotes are excluded. Features, result depth, speed and quotas differ. No estimate guarantees throughput.
SerpApi: assumptions and tiers
Monthly plans. Larger published plans appeared in search indexing but were absent from the fetched page; beyond captured tiers requires a quote.
DataForSEO: assumptions and tiers
Google Organic: 10 results/page. Standard queue is cheapest (~5 min average; 45 min target). Priority $1.20/1k; Live $2/1k. Operators and deeper results cost extra. Usage estimate excludes $50 minimum top-up; balance never expires. Billing source.
Bright Data SERP: assumptions and tiers
Paid estimates do not subtract free allowance: whether it combines with paid plans is unverified. Scale includes 380k, then $1.30/1k. Only the visible Scale tier is captured.
ScraperAPI: assumptions and tiers
Google endpoint: 25 credits/search, without optional extras. Monthly billing; promotional bonus credits excluded. Published overage rates not captured; above plan limits needs a quote. Billing source.
- Hobby: 4,000 searches; $49.00 subscription; source
- Startup: 40,000 searches; $149.00 subscription; source
- Business: 120,000 searches; $299.00 subscription; source
- Scaling: 200,000 searches; $475.00 subscription; source
- Professional: 400,000 searches; $975.00 subscription; source
- Advanced: 840,000 searches; $1,975.00 subscription; source
Scrapingdog: assumptions and tiers
Google SERP Light: 5 credits/search; Advance costs 10. Free allowance conflicts on the pricing page; excluded from calculator. Monthly plans.
- Lite: 40,000 searches; $40.00 subscription; source
- Standard: 200,000 searches; $90.00 subscription; source
- Pro: 600,000 searches; $200.00 subscription; source
- Premium: 1,200,000 searches; $350.00 subscription; source
- Business: 1,800,000 searches; $500.00 subscription; source
- Business Plus: 3,800,000 searches; $1,000.00 subscription; source
- Business Pro: 5,800,000 searches; $1,500.00 subscription; source
- Corporate: 8,400,000 searches; $2,000.00 subscription; source
- Corporate Plus: 11,000,000 searches; $2,500.00 subscription; source
- Corporate Pro: 13,000,000 searches; $3,000.00 subscription; source
- Enterprise Starter: 18,000,000 searches; $4,000.00 subscription; source
Serper.dev: assumptions and tiers
Prepaid packs expire after 6 months. Calculator chooses one cheapest pack that covers the month, not amortized usage or a combination of packs; trial excluded.
SearchAPI.io: assumptions and tiers
Standard speed, monthly plans. Rates computed from allowance rather than rounded advertised rates. Captured tiers through 1M; larger volumes require checking provider.
- Developer: 10,000 searches; $40.00 subscription; source
- Production: 35,000 searches; $100.00 subscription; source
- BigData: 100,000 searches; $250.00 subscription; source
- Scale: 250,000 searches; $500.00 subscription; source
- Octo 500K: 500,000 searches; $900.00 subscription; source
- Octo 1M: 1,000,000 searches; $1,500.00 subscription; source
Zenserp: assumptions and tiers
Current homepage monthly plans; older blog posts show different allowances. Above 1M requires quote.
- Free: 50 searches; $0.00 subscription; source
- Small: 25,000 searches; $49.99 subscription; source
- Medium: 100,000 searches; $149.99 subscription; source
- Large: 250,000 searches; $299.99 subscription; source
- Premium: 500,000 searches; $499.99 subscription; source
- Enterprise: 1,000,000 searches; $899.99 subscription; source
Legal context
Google announced a lawsuit against SerpApi on December 19, 2025, alleging circumvention of security measures protecting copyrighted content in search results. These are allegations, not findings of liability. This comparison does not determine whether any particular use is lawful. Users are responsible for target-site terms and applicable law. Google’s announcement (a party’s account).
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