APIs that return Google search results as JSON, compared on what 1,000 searches cost, which engines they cover and how much you get free.
Of the SERP APIs compared here, SerpApi covers the most engines and Google verticals and is also the most expensive per search ($25 to $5.90 per 1,000). For low-cost Google results, Serper ($1.00 to $0.30 per 1,000 on prepaid credits) and Ujeebu ($0.82 to $0.33 per 1,000 on monthly plans) are the cheapest we found, with Bright Data and Oxylabs in between at about $0.80 to $1.50. Pick by the engines you need and your monthly volume, and check whether you also need to scrape the result pages.
Disclosure: Ujeebu publishes this page and its SERP API is one of the options. Competitor prices link to each vendor's pricing page.
A dedicated search API covering Google and many other engines and verticals, with a free plan and per-search pricing.
A Google search API sold as prepaid credit packs, popular for LLM and agent tools that need quick web search.
Google web, news, images and places results as JSON at 5 credits per search, from the same credit pool as Ujeebu's scraping, extraction and ChatGPT and Gemini answer APIs.
Search results from Google, Bing and other engines through Bright Data's proxy network, billed per successful request.
Oxylabs' scraper API has dedicated Google targets priced per result, lower than its rate for other sites.
A pay-as-you-go SEO data provider whose SERP API is priced per task, with cheaper rates when you accept a slower queue.
ScraperAPI's Google endpoint returns structured results from the same credits as its scraping API.
| API | Entry level | High volume | Free allowance | Engines |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SerpApi | $25.00 (Starter $25) | $5.90 (Volume $1,475) | 250 searches a month | Google and many others |
| Serper | $1.00 ($50 pack) | $0.30 ($3,750 pack) | 2,500 queries | |
| Ujeebu | $0.82 (Starter $49) | $0.33 (Business $999) | 5,000 credits (1,000 searches) | |
| Bright Data | $1.50 (pay as you go) | $1.30 (Scale $499) | 5,000 records a month | Google, Bing and others |
| Oxylabs | $1.00 (Micro $49) | $0.80 (Advanced $249) | Up to 2,000 results | Google and others |
| DataForSEO | Per task, by queue | Per task, by queue | See pricing page | Google, Bing and others |
| ScraperAPI | $12.25 (Hobby $49) | $2.49 (Business $299) | 7-day trial, 5,000 credits |
How we normalized: plan price divided by included searches, or for credit-based APIs, by included credits times the credits one Google search costs (Ujeebu 5, ScraperAPI 25). AI search APIs such as Tavily and Exa return summarized or semantic results for LLMs rather than raw Google pages, so they are not in this table.
Prices and features come from each vendor's public pricing and documentation pages, checked on . Prices change; check the vendor page before you buy.
Ujeebu publishes this page and sells one of the products on it. We do our best to keep it accurate and fair; if you see an error or a price that changed, please let us know.
Benchmarks and price tables only go so far. Run your real URLs through two or three of these APIs during their free trials and compare success rate and cost per successful page.
