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Serper vs SerpAPI

Two Google SERP APIs, twenty-five times apart on price.

Verified 5 August 2026·Figures from vendors' own pages

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Price

  • Serper$1
  • SerpAPI$25
Per 1,000 comparable web searches — about ten results, no extraction, no summarisation. Log scale, because the spread is over an order of magnitude.
ProviderOwn index?$ / 1,000 queriesSource
SerpAPI

Approximately $25 per 1,000 searches on the Starter plan; the rate falls on higher-volume plans.

No

Scrapes Google, Bing, Baidu and others

$25SerpApi pricing
Serper

$1 per 1,000 on the Starter plan, falling to about $0.30 per 1,000 at high volume.

No

Google SERP wrapper

$1Serper pricing
unlob — Build

$29 per month for 50,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.58This page
unlob — Scale

$199 per month for 500,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.40This page
Rates are the cheapest directly comparable web search call — roughly ten results, no extraction and no summarisation — because that is the only way a table across credit systems, token pricing and per-request pricing means anything. Where a vendor does not publish a flat per-1,000 rate they are omitted from this table and covered in full on the landscape page. Figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026.

Where each one wins

Neither product on this page is ours. This comparison exists because it is asked often and answered badly.

Serper

  • Serper: price, simplicity, and speed for plain organic results.
  • SerpAPI: SERP features, multiple engines, and a mature ecosystem.

SerpAPI

  • SerpAPI: SERP features, multiple engines, and a mature ecosystem.

The substantive differences

SerperSerpAPI
PriceSerper: $1 per 1,000, to ~$0.30 at volume.SerpAPI: ~$25 per 1,000 on Starter.
CoverageSerper: Google, organic-focused.SerpAPI: Google, Bing, Baidu and more, with full SERP features.

Sources

Every figure on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page or funding announcement on the date shown.

Frequently asked questions

Is Serper just a cheaper SerpAPI?

Roughly, if all you need is organic results. SerpAPI parses knowledge panels, local packs, shopping results and People Also Ask across several engines; Serper is deliberately narrower and prices accordingly.

Check the claims yourself

The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card. That is enough to test coverage, latency and result quality against your own queries — which is a better comparison than this page.

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