DataForSEO SERP API pricing

Live mode at half the price

DataForSEO's Live mode costs $2.00 per 1,000 SERPs and answers in up to 6 seconds on average. SpecStream answers the same live/regular or live/advanced task for $1 per 1,000, with a median of 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second, measured on production on November 9, 2026.

Deeper tasks keep the gap. A depth of 100 costs $0.02 in Live mode and $0.0118 on SpecStream, and the reply's cost field shows what each call cost.

No queue to wait on

The Standard queue is DataForSEO's lowest rate, $0.60 per 1,000. Its tasks take about 5 minutes on average with a target of 45, and you read them back with a second call. On SpecStream every task is one live call that answers in about a second, with no task to post and fetch later.

The call, before and after

# Before
curl https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/organic/live/regular \
  -u "$DATAFORSEO_LOGIN:$DATAFORSEO_PASSWORD" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"keyword": "web scraping api", "location_code": 2840, "language_code": "en"}]'

# After
curl https://api.specstream.ai/dataforseo/v3/serp/google/organic/live/regular \
  -u "login:$SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"keyword": "web scraping api", "location_code": 2840, "language_code": "en"}]'

The task array and the parser stay. keyword, location_code or location_name, language_code or language_name, depth up to 200, target, tag and se_domain keep their meaning. Every field is listed on the DataForSEO compatible page.

Start with $10, not $50

DataForSEO gives a $1 trial credit and asks for a first top-up of at least $50. A new SpecStream account gets $10 of credit with no card, enough for 10,000 live tasks, and a top-up starts at $10. Credit you buy never expires.

The most accurate web search API

On SimpleQA Verified the SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official questions, 978 of them correct. On WideSearch it scores 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official tasks. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

Search, pages and rows on one key

The same key reads up to 20 pages or documents a call with the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and a page with no text is not charged. Deep Search returns every match for a request in plain words as structured rows, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row.

SerpApi

Monthly plans: Starter at $25 for 1,000 searches and Developer at $75 for 5,000. SpecStream answers SerpApi's own call at https://api.specstream.ai/serpapi for $1 per 1,000, with no plan. See SerpApi vs DataForSEO.

Serper

Credit packs, from $1.00 per 1,000 at the 50k pack, with 2,500 free queries. SpecStream charges $1 per 1,000 from the first search, with no pack to buy, and answers Serper's own call at https://api.specstream.ai/serper.

VALUE SERP

$2.50 per 1,000 requests as you go, or 25,000 searches a month for $50 billed yearly. SpecStream answers VALUE SERP's own call at https://api.specstream.ai/valueserp for $1 per 1,000.