Google SERP API prices in 2026, and the same JSON at $1 per 1,000

Your SerpApi or Serper code, with one address changed

# SerpApi: before
curl --get https://serpapi.com/search.json -d engine=google --data-urlencode "q=who founded anthropic" -d api_key=$SERPAPI_KEY

# SerpApi: after
curl --get https://api.specstream.ai/serpapi/search.json -d engine=google --data-urlencode "q=who founded anthropic" -d api_key=$SPECSTREAM_KEY

# Serper: before, then after
curl https://google.serper.dev/search -H "X-API-KEY: $SERPER_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"q": "who founded anthropic"}'
curl https://api.specstream.ai/serper/search -H "X-API-KEY: $SPECSTREAM_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"q": "who founded anthropic"}'

The SerpApi path answers with organic_results[] (position, title, link, displayed_link, snippet), search_metadata, search_parameters and serpapi_pagination.next. The Serper path answers with organic[] (title, link, snippet, position). SearchApi answers at https://api.specstream.ai/searchapi and DataForSEO at https://api.specstream.ai/dataforseo, each in its own JSON.

Run the test yourself

Send the same five queries from your logs to your provider and to SpecStream, then compare the links. The test below needs jq and costs $0.005 on SpecStream, inside the $10 of credit a new account gets.

for q in "who founded anthropic" "postgres 17 release date" "best vector database" "eu ai act fines" "stripe api rate limit"; do
  echo "== $q"
  curl -s --get https://serpapi.com/search.json -d engine=google --data-urlencode "q=$q" -d api_key=$SERPAPI_KEY | jq -r '.organic_results[:5][].link'
  curl -s --get https://api.specstream.ai/serpapi/search.json -d engine=google --data-urlencode "q=$q" -d api_key=$SPECSTREAM_KEY | jq -r '.organic_results[:5][].link'
done

GET https://api.specstream.ai/v1/search-dialects lists every drop-in API with its base address and one curl line, with no key.

$1 per 1,000, with no plan to outgrow

15,000 searches a month cost $150 on SerpApi's Production plan and $15 on SpecStream. Serper's 50k pack costs the same $1 per 1,000, and its credits end after 6 months; SpecStream credit you buy never expires. DataForSEO's $0.60 per 1,000 is its Standard Queue, at 5 minutes on average; a live call there costs $2 per 1,000. On SpecStream every call is live, at $0.001.

The most accurate web search API in the world

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. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

About one second a search, measured under load

Every drop-in address runs on the fast search. On November 9, 2026 production took 1, 5, 10 and 20 fast searches a second and answered 718 of 720. The median was 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second, and the 95th percentile stayed between 1.09 and 1.73 s. A busy call gets a 429 in the API's own error form with Retry-After, and is not charged.

Live results, from SpecStream's own search

Each search is read from the live web at the moment of the call and ranked by SpecStream, then written in the JSON of the API your code calls. One search returns up to 100 results with num; each started block of 10 more adds $0.0012, so 100 results cost $0.0118.

Pages and full datasets on the same key

The same key reads up to 20 pages 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 on the live web as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with the most a run can cost approved before it starts. Agents connect to https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.

ScraperAPI

A scraping API with a structured Google endpoint. A Google request costs 25 credits, so the Hobby plan's 100,000 credits for $49 a month are 4,000 searches, $12.25 per 1,000. SpecStream answers ScraperAPI's page call at https://api.specstream.ai/scraperapi and searches at $1 per 1,000.

Scrapfly

A scraping API whose $30 Discovery plan includes 200,000 credits, which Scrapfly's own blog puts at roughly 98,000 Google requests, about $0.31 per 1,000. SpecStream charges $0.001 for each search, with no plan to buy.

HasData

A scraping company that lists its Google SERP API at $0.83 per 1,000 requests on its pricing page. SpecStream sells searches with no plan, at $1 per 1,000, and its credit never expires.

Google Custom Search JSON API

Google's own API, at $5 per 1,000 queries after 100 free a day, up to 10,000 a day. It is closed to new customers and ends on January 1, 2027. SpecStream answers its GET /customsearch/v1 call too, at $1 per 1,000 (the move).