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Serper pricing

Serper sells prepaid credit packs, with no subscription: Starter $50 for 50,000 searches ($1.00 per 1,000), Standard $375 for 500,000 searches ($0.75 per 1,000), Scale $1,250 for 2,500,000 searches ($0.50 per 1,000) and Ultimate $3,750 for 12,500,000 searches ($0.30 per 1,000). Credits last 6 months, so a pack used up in time covers 8,333 to 2,083,333 searches a month. New accounts get 2,500 free queries with no card.

Every Serper credit pack

PackPriceSearchesPer 1,000A month, over 6 months
Starter$5050,000$1.008,333
Standard$375500,000$0.7583,333
Scale$1,2502,500,000$0.50416,666
Ultimate$3,75012,500,000$0.302,083,333

"Credits valid for 6 months"; "Excluding sales tax/VAT/GST". The last column is the most searches a month that use a pack up before its credits expire.

Which pack does my volume need?

Searches a monthPackA monthPer 1,000
1,000Starter$8.33$8.33
10,000Starter$10$1.00
50,000Starter$50$1.00
100,000Standard$75$0.75
250,000Standard$187.50$0.75
500,000Scale$250$0.50
1,000,000Scale$500$0.50
2,500,000Ultimate$750$0.30

A pack bought again when it runs out or its credits expire, whichever comes first: below a pack's monthly share you pay for credits you don't use.

Quick answers

How much does Serper cost?

$50 for 50,000 searches, $375 for 500,000 searches, $1,250 for 2,500,000 searches and $3,750 for 12,500,000 searches, prepaid: $1.00 down to $0.30 per 1,000. No monthly subscriptions; simply pay for the credits you need. Prices exclude sales tax and VAT.

Is Serper free?

To try: new accounts get 2,500 free queries, with no credit card required. After that, the smallest pack is $50 for 50,000 searches.

Do Serper credits expire?

Yes: "Credits valid for 6 months". Spread over that time, the Starter pack costs $8.33 a month and covers up to 8,333 searches a month; at fewer, you pay for credits that expire.

What counts as a search on Serper?

"Every time you receive successful responses to queries, we will deduct credits from your account balance." A query is one credit.

Is Serper cheaper than SerpApi?

10,000 searches a month cost $10 on Serper and $150 on SerpApi (Production plan).

Is Serper cheaper than Tavily?

For Google results, yes: 10,000 searches a month cost $10 on Serper and $78 on Tavily. They return different things: Serper returns Google's titles, links and snippets; Tavily, up to 20 results, each with snippets from the page; optionally each page's cleaned content and an LLM-written answer.

Serper against the other SERP APIs

10,000 Google searches a month, each API's cheapest published option:

  1. DataForSEO$6/mo$0.60 per 1,000 searches. Standard Queue: $0.60 per 1,000, no monthly fee. Standard Queue results take 5 minutes on average; Priority Queue, up to 1 minute on average, costs $1.20 per 1,000; Live Mode, up to 6 seconds on average, costs $2.00 per 1,000. $50 minimum payment.
  2. Serper$10/mo$1.00 per 1,000 searches. Starter pack: 50,000 searches for $50, valid 6 months.
  3. Bright Data SERP API$15/mo$1.50 per 1,000 searches. Pay as you go: $1.50 per 1,000, no monthly fee.
  4. ScrapingAnt$19/mo$1.90 per 1,000 searches. Enthusiast: 10,000 searches a month for $19.
  5. Scrape.do$29/mo$2.90 per 1,000 searches. Hobby: 25,000 searches a month for $29.
  6. Oxylabs$30/mo$3.00 per 1,000 searches. Starter: $30 a month, used at $1.00 per 1,000. Google results without JavaScript rendering. Each plan's fee is a balance shared with Oxylabs' other products; Enterprise starts at $2,500 a month through sales.
  7. ScrapingBee$49/mo$4.90 per 1,000 searches. Freelance: 25,000 searches a month for $49.
  8. ScraperAPI$149/mo$14.90 per 1,000 searches. Startup: 40,000 searches a month for $149.
  9. SerpApi$150/mo$15.00 per 1,000 searches. Production: 15,000 searches a month for $150.

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: Tavily vs Serper, Serper vs SerpApi.

Source: Serper, read on the date below.

Prices checked against each platform's own pricing page on .