Tavily vs Serper pricing
For 10,000 searches a month in each one's default search type, Tavily costs $78 (Project) and Serper $10 (Starter). Tavily is cheaper at 1,000 searches a month, Serper at 5,000 to 1,000,000. Free: Tavily, 1,000 credits a month, no card needed (1,000 searches a month); Serper, 2,500 searches to try, no card needed.
Cheapest for 10,000 searches a month: Serper at $10 ($1.00 per 1,000). Most expensive: Tavily at $78.
Each one's cheapest published way to run that many searches in a month, in its default search type, before VAT and free credits.
Which is cheaper at my volume?
| Searches a month | Tavily | Serper |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $8 $8.00 per 1,000 | $8.33 $8.33 per 1,000 |
| 5,000 | $38 $7.60 per 1,000 | $8.33 $1.67 per 1,000 |
| 10,000 | $78 $7.80 per 1,000 | $10 $1.00 per 1,000 |
| 50,000 | $316 $6.32 per 1,000 | $50 $1.00 per 1,000 |
| 100,000 | $500 $5.00 per 1,000 | $75 $0.75 per 1,000 |
| 500,000 | $3,700 $7.40 per 1,000 | $250 $0.50 per 1,000 |
| 1,000,000 | $7,700 $7.70 per 1,000 | $500 $0.50 per 1,000 |
Default search type, cheapest published option a month; bold marks the cheaper. "Custom" means more than the largest published plan.
How do they compare?
What is one search?
- Tavily: One search request of up to 20 results: 1 credit for a basic, fast or ultra-fast search, 2 for an advanced one.
- Serper: One successful query; prepaid credits last six months.
Search types and prices
- Tavily: Basic, fast or ultra-fast search, 1 credit: $5.00 to $8.00 per 1,000; Advanced search, 2 credits: $10.00 to $16.00 per 1,000.
- Serper: Starter pack: 50,000 searches for $50, valid 6 months; Standard pack: 500,000 searches for $375, valid 6 months; Scale pack: 2,500,000 searches for $1,250, valid 6 months.
What does a search return?
- Tavily: Up to 20 results, each with snippets from the page; optionally each page's cleaned content and an LLM-written answer. Cleaned page content on request (include_raw_content); Tavily prices a search by its depth alone.
- Serper: Google's results page as structured data: titles, links and snippets. No page text; scraping the result pages is a separate request.
Free allowance
- Tavily: 1,000 credits a month, no card needed (1,000 searches a month).
- Serper: 2,500 searches to try, no card needed.
Tavily or Serper: quick answers
Is Tavily cheaper than Serper?
Tavily is cheaper at 1,000 searches a month, Serper at 5,000 to 1,000,000, in each one's default search type: 1,000, $8 against $8.33; 5,000, $38 against $8.33; 10,000, $78 against $10; 50,000, $316 against $50; 100,000, $500 against $75; 500,000, $3,700 against $250; 1,000,000, $7,700 against $500.
What do 10,000 searches a month cost on Tavily and Serper?
Tavily: $78, $7.80 per 1,000 (Project: $30 a month with 4,000 searches, then $8.00 per 1,000). Serper: $10, $1.00 per 1,000 (Starter pack: 50,000 searches for $50, valid 6 months).
Which has the bigger free tier, Tavily or Serper?
Serper, counted in searches. Tavily: 1,000 credits a month, no card needed (1,000 searches a month). Serper: 2,500 searches to try, no card needed.
Do Tavily and Serper return page content?
Tavily: Up to 20 results, each with snippets from the page; optionally each page's cleaned content and an LLM-written answer. Cleaned page content on request (include_raw_content); Tavily prices a search by its depth alone. Serper: Google's results page as structured data: titles, links and snippets. No page text; scraping the result pages is a separate request.
One at a time: Tavily pricing and Serper pricing. Leaving one? See Tavily alternatives. Every search API at your volume: web search APIs for LLMs.
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