#1 SerpApi Alternative

import httpx

response = httpx.get(
    "https://serpapi.com/search.json",
    params={
        "engine": "google",
        "q": "coffee grinders",
        "gl": "us",
        "hl": "en",
        "api_key": SERPAPI_KEY,
    },
    timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
results = response.json()["organic_results"]

import httpx

response = httpx.get(
    "https://api.litescrape.com/api/google/search",
    params={"q": "coffee grinders", "gl": "us", "hl": "en"},
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {LITESCRAPE_KEY}"},
    timeout=60,
)
response.raise_for_status()
results = response.json()["organic_results"]

• Drop engine and api_key; send the key as an Authorization: Bearer header.
• organic_results, knowledge_graph, ads, related_questions and pagination keep their names.
• location, uule, lat and lon work as they do on SerpApi.

SerpApi request reference →Litescrape API docs →

1. 01 Pricing

   $0.15 per 1,000, no plan tiers

   SerpApi's Starter plan is $25 a month for 1,000 searches, and 100,000 searches need the $725 Searcher plan. The same 100,000 cost $15 on Litescrape, from a $10 top-up.

   Starter, $25 / month. 1,000 searches per month. 200 throughput per hour.SerpApi pricing page, read September 14, 2026. serpapi.com/pricing

2. 02 Limits

   No searches-per-hour cap

   Every SerpApi plan carries an hourly throughput figure: 200 on Starter, 50 on the free plan. Litescrape has one limit, 25 requests at a time per key, and we raise it on request.

   200 successful searches per hour is the guaranteed throughput for this plan.SerpApi pricing page, read September 14, 2026. serpapi.com/pricing

3. 03 Honest take

   SerpApi has the wider catalog

   SerpApi runs a status page with per-API incident history and sells engines Litescrape does not, Google Trends, Jobs, Flights and Lens among them. If you need those, SerpApi is the broader tool.

   Google Trends API, Google Jobs API, Google Flights API, Google Lens APISerpApi engine list, read September 14, 2026. serpapi.com

4. 04 Cost at scale

   Rank tracking at $0.15 per 1,000

   10,000 keywords checked once a day is 300,000 calls a month, which costs $45 on Litescrape. The rate is the same at 300,000 as at 1,000, so a longer keyword list costs only what the extra calls cost.

   Pricing is relatively high for continuous keyword tracking; small projects often end up overpaying just to keep data flowing.SerpBear user, GitHub issue 338, April 19, 2026. github.com/towfiqi/serpbear