SERP API pricing: what 1,000 Google searches cost
The same top-10 Google results cost $3 or $150 for 10,000 searches a month, depending on who serves them and how they bill. Seven providers, every price checked on November 2, 2026.
10,000 Google searches a month, top 10 each
- SerpApi, Production plan$150
- Brave Search API$50
- DataForSEO, live$20
- Serper$10
- AnyAPI, cheapest source$5
- Searlo, web search$3
SERP API cost by monthly volume
One search is one query's top 10 Google results; list prices, before free allowances.
| Provider | 1k | 10k | 100k | 1M |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SerpApi | $25 | $150 | $725 | $3,750 |
| Brave Search API | $5 | $50 | $500 | $5,000 |
| DataForSEO, live | $2.00 | $20 | $200 | $2,000 |
| GoAnyAPI, serp-stable | $1.00 | $10 | $100 | $1,000 |
| Serper | $1.00 | $10 | $75 | $500 |
| DataForSEO, standard queue | $0.60 | $6 | $60 | $600 |
| AnyAPI, cheapest source | $0.50 | $5 | $50 | $500 |
| Searlo, web search | $0.30 | $3 | $30 | $300 |
- SerpApi is the cheapest monthly plan that covers the volume (Starter, Production, Searcher, Cloud 1M); its free plan adds 250 searches a month.
- Serper uses the per-1,000 rate of the pack you would buy at that volume; credits last six months and the smallest pack is $50.
- Brave includes $5 of free credit each month and searches its own index, not Google's.
- Searlo's $0.30 tier returns web results only; the full results page is $0.90 per 1,000.
How each SERP API bills
The unit, the minimum spend and what happens to unused credit matter as much as the rate.
| Provider | How you pay | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| SerpApi | Monthly plan from $25; unused searches do not roll over; failed and cached searches are free | $25 → $3.75 |
| Serper | Prepaid packs from $50; credits valid 6 months; 2,500 free queries | $1.00 → $0.30 |
| DataForSEO | Prepaid balance that does not expire, $50 minimum top-up; results from the queue arrive minutes later | $0.60 / $1.20 / $2.00 |
| Brave Search API | Prepaid credits, $5 free each month, 50 queries per second | $5.00 |
| Searlo | Pay as you go from $3.99; credits valid 1 year; 3,000 free queries | $0.30 / $0.90 |
| AnyAPI | Prepaid, per call; three sources at $0.50, $0.90 and $2.00 per 1,000 | $0.50 → $2.00 |
| GoAnyAPI | Prepaid credits, $10 for 10,000; failed and empty calls are free | $1.00 → $3.00 |
Sources: SerpApi, Serper, DataForSEO, Brave, Searlo, AnyAPI's live price API, GoAnyAPI's public catalog.
Where a SERP API bill grows
- Asking for 100 results
- Google stopped serving 100 results per page in September 2025, so most APIs bill 100 results as 10 searches.
- Search operators
- DataForSEO multiplies the price by 5 for each operator such as
site:orintitle:. - Live instead of queued
- DataForSEO live costs 3.3× its standard queue. Use the queue when results can wait a few minutes.
- Silent failover
- AnyAPI retries a failed cheap source on a dearer one by default, up to 4× the price for Google search and 28× for X (Twitter) API search. Pin the source and turn failover off.
- Plans you do not use up
- A SerpApi plan bills the same whether you use 10% or 100% of it; prepaid credits only cost what you spend, until they expire.
Which SERP API fits which job
- Rank tracking that can wait a few minutes
- DataForSEO standard queue at $0.60 per 1,000, with a balance that never expires.
- Real-time answers for an app or agent
- AnyAPI pinned to its cheapest source, Searlo or Serper; compare them on your own queries first.
- Many engines and result types in one schema
- SerpApi, at a higher price per search, with failed searches not charged.
- Bing results
- Microsoft retired the Bing Search API in August 2025. AnyAPI
bing.searchis $0.85 per 1,000, GoAnyAPI $2.00. - Google Custom Search JSON API users
- It is closed to new customers, and existing ones have until January 1, 2027 to move.
Result quality, freshness and the SERP features each API returns differ; we compare prices only. Prices exclude tax. Pulling social data as well? See X (Twitter) API pricing and Reddit API pricing and shutdown dates.
Check any price yourself, free
getcheapapi is an open-source agent skill. Its quote prices your query on every route it knows and spends nothing. Paste this into Claude Code or Codex to add it:
Read https://getcheapapi.com/llms.txt and install the getcheapapi skill for this agent by following its install steps.
Then ask your agent:
Quote serp.google for “your keyword” in the US. Don’t run it.
serp.google: 1 input(s), prices per run
anyapi google.search
$0.00050 x1.0 1 call ok
goanyapi serp-stable
$0.00100 x2.0 1 call ok
dataforseo serp/google/organic/live
$0.00200 x4.0 1 call ok
would run: anyapi google.search $0.00050
SERP API pricing questions
Q.001 / What is the cheapest SERP API?
On published prices checked November 2, 2026, Searlo's web-search tier at $0.30 per 1,000, then AnyAPI's cheapest Google source at $0.50 and DataForSEO's standard queue at $0.60. Serper drops to $0.30 per 1,000 on its largest pack. Which is cheapest for you depends on volume, speed and the result fields you need.
Q.002 / How much does SerpApi cost?
Monthly plans from $25 for 1,000 searches ($25 per 1,000) to $3,750 for 1 million ($3.75 per 1,000), with a free plan of 250 searches a month. Failed, errored and cached searches are not counted; unused searches do not roll over.
Q.003 / Is there a free SERP API?
Free allowances, not free APIs: SerpApi 250 searches a month, Brave $5 of credit a month, Serper 2,500 queries once, Searlo 3,000 queries once, DataForSEO $1 of trial credit. Google's own Custom Search JSON API is closed to new customers.
Q.004 / Is Google's Custom Search JSON API still available?
Not for new customers. Google says existing customers have until January 1, 2027 to move to another solution. Until then it costs $5 per 1,000 queries after 100 free a day, up to 10,000 a day.
Q.005 / How much do 100 results per query cost?
Since Google stopped honoring 100 results per page in September 2025, most providers bill 100 results as 10 pages. On AnyAPI that is about $0.005 by paging, against $0.024 for its single-call top-100 endpoint.
Q.006 / Where do these prices come from?
Each provider's own pricing page, and AnyAPI's live per-source price API, checked on November 2, 2026. Run getcheapapi quote serp.google to price your own query across routes; it spends nothing. Providers are ranked by price only.
Q.007 / Is the Bing Search API still available?
No. Microsoft retired the Bing Search API in August 2025. Bing results are still sold by third parties: AnyAPI bing.search at $0.85 per 1,000 searches and GoAnyAPI at $2.00.
Q.008 / Do SERP APIs charge for failed searches?
It depends. SerpApi does not count failed, errored or cached searches, and GoAnyAPI does not charge failed or empty calls. Check each provider's rule before running large batches.