Among providers with public request-based pricing, Litescrape is the cheapest at $0.15 per 1,000 calls for ordinary Google SERP, Bing SERP, Google Maps search, and Google Maps Reviews. The rate stays flat whether you make 10,000 or 10,000,000 requests a month.
Ranked table
Cheapest SERP APIs ranked by price per 1,000 requests
Ranked at 100,000 Google Search requests a month on month-to-month billing, using each provider's cheapest eligible public plan. Use the calculator below to re-rank at your own volume, endpoint, and commitment.
| Rank | Provider | Plan modeled | Per 1,000 requests | Monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Litescrape | Flat prepaid rate | $0.15 | $15.00 |
| 2 | Searlo | Scale | $0.30 | $30.00 |
| 3 | DataForSEO (queue) | Standard Queue · 1 organic SERP | $0.60 | $60.00 |
| 4 | Serper | Standard | $0.75 | $75.00 |
| 5 | Scrapingdog | Standard | $0.90 | $90.00 |
| 6 | HasData | Business | $0.99 | $99.00 |
| 7 | ScrapingBee | Startup | $0.99 | $99.00 |
| 8 | Zenserp | Medium | $1.50 | $149.99 |
| 9 | ValueSERP | 200K Credits | $2.40 | $240.00 |
| 10 | cloro | Starter | $2.50 | $250.00 |
| 11 | SearchAPI | BigData | $2.50 | $250.00 |
| 12 | ScraperAPI | Business | $2.99 | $299.00 |
| 13 | ScaleSERP | 50K Credits | $5.97 | $597.00 |
| 14 | SerpApi | Searcher | $7.25 | $725.00 |
| 15 | Serpstack | Business Pro | $10.00 | $999.95 |
| 16 | SerpWow | Volume | $12.00 | $1,200.00 |
Interactive cost model
Compare your effective monthly cost
We select the least-expensive eligible public plan for every provider, including credit multipliers and overages.
Endpoint
Billing
- LitescrapeFlat prepaid rate · usage only$11.25$0.15 / 1KLowest
- SearloScale · 3-month credit expiry$25.00$0.33 / 1K
- DataForSEO (queue)Standard Queue · 1 organic SERP · usage only$45.00$0.60 / 1K
- SerpHouseRegular · month-to-month$49.99$0.67 / 1K
- SerperStandard · 6-month credit expiry$62.50$0.83 / 1K
- ScrapingdogStandard · month-to-month$90.00$1.20 / 1K
- HasDataBusiness · month-to-month$99.00$1.32 / 1K
- ScrapingBeeStartup · month-to-month$99.00$1.32 / 1K
- cloroHobby · month-to-month$100.00$1.33 / 1K
- ZenserpMedium · month-to-month$149.99$2.00 / 1K
- ValueSERP200K Credits · month-to-month$240.00$3.20 / 1K
- SearchAPIBigData · month-to-month$250.00$3.33 / 1K
- ScraperAPIBusiness · month-to-month$299.00$3.99 / 1K
- ScaleSERP50K Credits · month-to-month$398.00$5.31 / 1K
- SerpstackBusiness Pro · month-to-month$599.97$8.00 / 1K
- SerpApiSearcher · month-to-month$725.00$9.67 / 1K
- SerpWowBigData · month-to-month$998.00$13.31 / 1K
Annual prices are monthly equivalents and only change providers with a published annual option. Free trials, taxes, custom contracts, and record-priced services are excluded.
Methodology
How we calculate effective cost
Comparing the sticker price is misleading. A "credit" may equal one request, five credits may equal one request, or a plan may charge a different rate after its included allowance. We convert each public plan to the monthly-equivalent cost of the requested workload, then choose the cheapest eligible plan from that provider.
Normalization rules
- Only recurring paid pricing is compared; free trials and signup credits are excluded.
- Search means one ordinary Google web SERP request, not advanced AI or Top 100 modes.
- Maps means one search or result-page request, not every business record returned.
- Reviews means one reviews-page call. DataForSEO's published Reviews rate is normalized to its standard batch of 10 reviews.
- Published per-request credit multipliers are applied separately for each endpoint.
- Annual prices are divided by 12 for display, but still require the annual commitment.
- For DataForSEO, the cheapest Standard Queue mode is used; faster modes cost more.
- Taxes, negotiated contracts, failed-call policies, and optional priority modes are excluded.
Coverage
Search, Maps, and Reviews endpoints by provider
We included 20 providers with public pricing for at least one comparable Google data product. Record-priced products stay in the coverage table but are excluded from the request-cost graph.
| Provider | Search | Maps | Reviews | Billing unit | In graph? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Litescrape$10.00 minimum top-up buys 66,667 calls. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Per request | Yes |
| DataForSEO (queue)Cheapest queue mode can take up to 45 minutes; faster priorities cost more. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Per request | Yes |
| SerperPrepaid credits expire after six months; no dedicated Maps Reviews endpoint. | ✓ | ✓ | × | Expiring prepaid credits | Yes |
| SearloOne-time credit packs; new-user grants expire after 90 days. | ✓ | × | × | Expiring prepaid credits | Yes |
| cloroGoogle Search costs 3 credits per request; unused monthly credits do not roll over. | ✓ | × | × | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| ScrapingdogGoogle SERP Light and Maps endpoints consume five shared credits per request; annual billing gives two months free. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| HasDataGoogle SERP Light, Maps, and Maps Reviews each consume five shared credits per request. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| SearchAPIOne successful Search, Maps, or Maps Reviews request uses one included search. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| ValueSERPAnnual prices are monthly equivalents of the required annual commitment. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| ScaleSERPOverage rates are included; annual billing is advertised at 20% off. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| SerpWowOverage rates are included; annual billing is advertised at 20% off. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| SerpApiAll 61 published paid tiers are modeled; only successful searches count. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| ZenserpOne successful SERP response uses one search; annual billing is advertised at 20% off. | ✓ | × | × | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| SerpstackOne successful SERP request uses one search; published overage rates are modeled. | ✓ | × | × | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| SerpHouseOrdinary Web SERP requests consume 10 shared credits; Top 100 requests cost more. | ✓ | × | × | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| ScraperAPIGoogle Search requests consume 25 API credits; annual billing is advertised at 10% off. | ✓ | × | × | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| ScrapingBeeDedicated Google pricing lists 25K to 800K searches, equivalent to 10 plan credits each. | ✓ | × | × | Tiered subscription | Yes |
| OutscraperA single API request can return many billable records, so request volume alone cannot determine cost. | × | ✓ | ✓ | businesses or reviews returned $3 / 1K records, then $1 / 1K after 100K | No |
| Bright DataSearch, Maps listings, and Maps reviews are separate record-producing products. | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | records delivered $1.50 / 1K PAYG; $499 includes 384K records | No |
| OxylabsThe public Google Maps target is result-priced and no dedicated Maps Reviews endpoint is listed. | ✓ | ✓ | × | successful Google results $1 / 1K Google results on the $49 Micro plan | No |
FAQ
Cheapest SERP API: frequently asked questions
- Is there a free SERP API?
- Several providers offer trial credits. Litescrape gives every new key 5 free calls with no card; Serper gives 2,500 and Searlo 3,000 signup credits. None of the free tiers are meant for production volume, so compare paid rates.
- What is the cheapest SERP API per 1,000 requests?
- In this benchmark, Litescrape is the cheapest at $0.15 per 1,000 requests, followed by DataForSEO's Standard Queue at $0.60. Serper advertises $0.30, but that rate needs its 12.5-million-credit pack; its entry pack is $1.00 per 1,000.
- Why do "cheapest" claims differ so much?
- Providers quote their largest tier, count credits instead of requests, or leave out expiry. A credit can be one request or five, prepaid packs can expire before you use them, and subscriptions charge for the whole allowance whether or not you consume it. This benchmark converts every plan to the monthly cost of a fixed workload so the numbers are comparable.
- Does cheap mean unreliable?
- Not by itself, but check what the price buys: queue latency, credit expiry, per-request credit multipliers, and how failed requests are billed. Litescrape's docs describe the response structure and stable error bodies, and 5 free calls let you evaluate it before paying.
- How do Serper, Searlo, and SerpApi compare?
- Serper sells prepaid packs from $50 for 50,000 credits that expire in six months. Searlo sells one-time packs from $3.99 for 5,000 credits, with new-user credits valid for 90 days. SerpApi is a subscription from $25 a month for 1,000 searches. Litescrape charges $0.15 per 1,000 at every volume, and credits last six months.
- Should I build my own SERP scraper?
- You can; our guide to building a Google SERP API with Python and Playwright shows what it takes: browser concurrency, robot-check detection, and pagination. Price that infrastructure and proxy time against $0.15 per 1,000 requests before deciding.
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