Pricing
Pay for searches you use. Ever.
Buy a credit pack once and use it whenever: credits never expire, failed and empty requests are free, and every SERP feature comes in the same search credit.
Free
$0
Enough for side projects
- 2,500 credits at signup
- 1,000 free every month
- 5 requests/sec
Volume
Custom
>500K cr · from $0.18/1k at 25M+/mo
- Quoted for your volume
- Custom rate limits
- SLA and invoice billing
- Credits never expire, packs stack
- Every endpoint and the MCP server
- Knowledge graph, PAA and answer box in the search credit
- Failed and empty requests are free
- Cost and balance in every response header
- Per-key monthly credit limits and spend caps
Prices in USD. VAT or GST is included in most countries; US, Canadian and Indian sales tax is added at checkout. Polar, our merchant of record, calculates it.
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What will it cost you?
Set your monthly volume and workload. The estimate uses the pack price that fits about six months of usage, and compares the same volume at other providers' list prices.
What you call (credits per request)
search, news, images, videos, maps, places, shopping, scholar, patents, webpage, CSE
include_content (fetch result pages as Markdown, +1 credit each)
Share on the batch lane (0.5×)
Share served from cache via max_age (0.5×)
Batch jobs finish within minutes and suit rank trackers. Cache hits are results up to max_age seconds old. We assume the two discounts apply to different requests. Failed and empty results are refunded and not counted here.
Your SerpKite cost
Credits never expire$59.40 /month
$0.59 per 1,000 requests effective
- Recommended pack
- Pro · $300
- $0.60/1k credits
- Credits per month
- 100K
- 1 per request, −1,000 free
One Pro pack (500K credits) lasts about 5.1 months at this rate. Unused credits carry over forever.
Get the Pro packSame volume elsewhere
- SerpKite$59.40/mo
Your mix at the recommended pack, after 1,000 free monthly credits
- Serper$100/mo
$0.75/1k list (~100k/mo); credits expire after 6 months, so small buyers pay for unused credits
- SerpApi$725/mo
$7.25/1k list (~100k/mo); monthly reset credits
- Tavily$500/mo
$5.00/1k list (~100k/mo); monthly credits
Competitor figures price 100K standard 10-result searches at public list prices (verified 2026-09-28). Depth, Lens and content fetching aren't priced the same way across vendors, so compare the standard mix for a like-for-like number.
Credit costs
What one credit buys
Every endpoint is priced in credits, so one pack covers everything. The cost of each call is also returned in the X-Credits-Used header.
| Request | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Google Search (/v1/search), per page of 10 | 1 | Knowledge graph, answer box, PAA and related searches included |
| News, Images, Videos, Maps, Places, Shopping, Scholar, Patents | 1 | Per page of results |
| Reviews | 1 | Per 10 reviews returned |
| Webpage to Markdown (/v1/webpage) | 1 | Per URL fetched |
| Custom Search compatible (/customsearch/v1) | 1 | Same as a search page |
| num=100 depth bundle (top 100) | 7 | 10 pages for the price of 7 |
| Autocomplete (/v1/autocomplete) | 0.5 | Per call |
| Google Lens (/v1/lens) | 2 | Per image |
| include_content=N | +1 per page | Fetches the top N results (up to 5) as Markdown |
| Batch lane (POST /v1/batches) | 0.5× | Queued, results by poll or webhook |
| Cache hit (max_age) | 0.5× | Result up to max_age seconds old |
| Failed, empty or blocked request | 0 | Refunded automatically |
Example: num=100 with include_content=3 costs 7 + 3 =
10 credits. The same request on the batch lane costs 5. See the
docs for every parameter.
Free tier
Free, with no card and no trial clock
1,000
credits when you verify your email
+1,500
more when you link GitHub or Google
1,000
free credits every month after that
5/s
request rate on free keys
The free tier includes every endpoint, all output formats and the MCP server. Buying a pack lifts the rate limit. To limit abuse we block disposable email addresses and may ask for a quick Turnstile check at signup.
Sign-up and account-linking credits come from a monthly free budget. If that budget runs out in a given month, accounts created later that month get 250 credits at sign-up and at most 250 for linking GitHub or Google. The 1,000 monthly credits for verified accounts are not affected.
Enterprise
25M+ searches a month? Let's talk.
Committed volume from $0.18 per 1,000, with an SLA, DPA, invoice billing and custom rate limits. SOC 2 Type I is planned, not done yet.
- From $0.18/1k on committed volume
- 99.9% uptime SLA
- DPA, no query logs and an EU region
- Invoice billing
- Dedicated IP pools and geos, custom rate limits
Compare
Per-1,000 price at every pack
| Pack | Price | Credits | Per 1k | Rate limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $10 | 10,000 | $1.00 | 20/s |
| Growth | $50 | 62,500 | $0.80 | 50/s |
| Pro | $300 | 500,000 | $0.60 | 100/s |
Comparing? See SerpKite vs Serper, vs SerpApi, the Serper alternatives and SerpApi alternatives guides, the best SERP APIs by use case, and the migration guides.
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