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Buyer's guides
Serper alternatives in 2026
Why people leave Serper: credits that expire after 6 months and no official SDKs or MCP server. Every pick below is judged against Serper, including where Serper is still the better deal.
SerpApi alternatives in 2026
SerpApi is excellent and expensive: $15–25 per 1k at entry, monthly resets and hourly throughput caps. Every alternative below is judged against SerpApi: what you save, and what you give up.
The best SERP APIs in 2026
There's no single best SERP API; there's a best one per workload. This guide picks one per use case from published features and list prices, and says what each pick costs you. Measured latency and success rates will be added when our first public benchmark run ships.
Head to head
SerpKite vs…
SerpKite vs Serper
Both are cheap, fast Google SERP APIs. The differences are in terms, agent features, tooling and what happens to unused credits.
SerpKite vs SerpApi
SerpApi is the most complete SERP API on the market and priced like it. SerpKite covers the Google workloads most teams actually run, for a fraction of the list price.
SerpKite vs Tavily
Both are built for agents. Tavily searches its own index and returns cleaned content; SerpKite returns what Google shows, formatted for LLMs.
SerpKite vs DataForSEO
DataForSEO is the SEO industry's data back end. SerpKite is a real-time Google API with a cheap batch lane. Both have credits that never expire.
SerpKite vs Scrapingdog
Scrapingdog is one of the cheapest Google APIs at volume. SerpKite costs more at volume and adds non-expiring credits and agent features.
SerpKite vs SearchApi
SearchApi offers a broad SerpApi-style catalogue at a lower price, including AI answer engines. SerpKite is narrower and cheaper for Google.
SerpKite vs Brave Search API
Brave runs a genuinely independent index. SerpKite returns Google. The choice mostly comes down to which results you want and what you'll pay.
SerpKite vs Exa
Exa is a neural search engine over its own index. SerpKite is Google's results page for agents. They answer different questions.
At a glance
Price per 1,000 searches
| SerpKite | Serper | SerpApi | SearchApi | Scrapingdog | Tavily | Brave Search API | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free tier | 2,500 on signup + 1,000/mo, no card | 2,500 once, no card | 250/mo | 100 requests | 100 credits | 1k/mo | $5 credit, card required |
| Entry, ~$50 pack $ per 1k searches | $0.80 | $1.00 | $15–25 | $4.00 | $1.00 | $7.50 | $5.00 |
| ~100k searches / month $ per 1k | $0.60 | $0.75 | $7.25 | $2.50 | $0.45 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| ~1M searches / month $ per 1k | $0.60 | $0.50 | $3.75 | $1.50 | $0.29 | enterprise | $5.00 |
| Best public list price $ per 1k | $0.60 | $0.30 | $1.96 | $1.00 | $0.14 | $5.00 (no volume discount) | |
| Credit expiry | Never | 6 months | Monthly reset | Not stated | Monthly | Monthly | Monthly |
Public list prices, verified on vendor pages on 2026-09-28.
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