SerpApi pricing
SerpApi sells monthly plans: 250 searches a month free, then Starter at $25 for 1,000 searches ($25.00 per 1,000) up to Infrastructure at $2,750 for 500,000 ($5.50). Cloud plans go from 1 million searches ($3,750, $3.75 per 1,000) to 54 million ($106,050, $1.96). Prices are for its default Best Effort speed; Ludicrous Speed costs more, $50 a month for Starter.
Every SerpApi plan, per 1,000 searches
| Plan | A month | Searches | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 250 | Free |
| Starter | $25 | 1,000 | $25.00 |
| Developer | $75 | 5,000 | $15.00 |
| Production | $150 | 15,000 | $10.00 |
| Big Data | $275 | 30,000 | $9.17 |
| Searcher | $725 | 100,000 | $7.25 |
| Volume | $1,475 | 250,000 | $5.90 |
| Infrastructure | $2,750 | 500,000 | $5.50 |
| Cloud 1M | $3,750 | 1,000,000 | $3.75 |
| Cloud 2M | $5,675 | 2,000,000 | $2.84 |
| Cloud 3M | $7,600 | 3,000,000 | $2.53 |
| Cloud 5M | $11,475 | 5,000,000 | $2.30 |
| Cloud 10M | $21,125 | 10,000,000 | $2.11 |
| Cloud 20M | $40,425 | 20,000,000 | $2.02 |
| Cloud 30M | $59,725 | 30,000,000 | $1.99 |
| Cloud 40M | $79,025 | 40,000,000 | $1.98 |
| Cloud 54M | $106,050 | 54,000,000 | $1.96 |
Monthly billing, Best Effort speed, with the plan's searches used in full. Cloud plans come in steps of 1 million searches from Cloud 1M to Cloud 54M; the table shows 9 of the 54.
Which plan does my volume need?
| Searches a month | Plan | A month | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | Starter | $25 | $25.00 |
| 5,000 | Developer | $75 | $15.00 |
| 10,000 | Production | $150 | $15.00 |
| 15,000 | Production | $150 | $10.00 |
| 20,000 | Big Data | $275 | $13.75 |
| 30,000 | Big Data | $275 | $9.17 |
| 50,000 | Searcher | $725 | $14.50 |
| 100,000 | Searcher | $725 | $7.25 |
| 250,000 | Volume | $1,475 | $5.90 |
| 500,000 | Infrastructure | $2,750 | $5.50 |
| 1,000,000 | Cloud 1M | $3,750 | $3.75 |
| 5,000,000 | Cloud 5M | $11,475 | $2.30 |
The cheapest plan with at least that many searches; per 1,000 is the month's price over the searches you run, so a plan bigger than you need costs more per search.
Quick answers
How much does SerpApi cost?
Starter $25 a month for 1,000 searches; Developer $75 for 5,000; Production $150 for 15,000; Big Data $275 for 30,000; Searcher $725 for 100,000; Volume $1,475 for 250,000; Infrastructure $2,750 for 500,000. Above that, Cloud plans from $3,750 for 1,000,000 searches to $106,050 for 54,000,000.
How much does SerpApi cost per search?
$25.00 per 1,000 on Starter, $5.50 on Infrastructure and $1.96 on Cloud 54M, with each plan's searches used in full: $0.025 down to $0.00196 a search.
Is SerpApi free?
Up to a point: its free plan has 250 searches a month at $0. Past that, the cheapest plan is Starter, $25 a month for 1,000 searches.
What counts as a search on SerpApi?
"Only successful searches are counted toward your monthly searches. Cached, errored, and failed searches are not." "The number of results returned per response will not affect the number of credits used—responses with 100 results or empty result sets will both count as 1 search."
What does SerpApi's Ludicrous Speed cost?
More than the default Best Effort mode: the Starter plan is $50 a month with Ludicrous Speed instead of $25.
Is SerpApi cheaper than Serper?
Not at any volume in the table above, 1,000 to 5,000,000 searches a month. 10,000 searches a month cost $150 on SerpApi (Production) and $10 on Serper, whose Starter credit pack lasts six months.
SerpApi against the other SERP APIs
10,000 Google searches a month, each API's cheapest published option:
Every SERP API at your own volume: SERP API pricing. Search APIs built for AI, from Tavily to Exa: web search APIs for LLMs. Head to head: Serper vs SerpApi, SerpApi vs DataForSEO. Switching? See SerpApi alternatives.
Scraping Google Maps? SerpApi's Maps searches are priced per 1,000 places in Google Maps scraper pricing.
Source: SerpApi pricing, read on the date below.
Prices checked against each platform's own pricing page on .