SERP API pricing comparison 2026

The list price and the price you pay

At 10,000 searches a month SpecStream costs $10, the same as Serper's smallest pack, and SerpApi $150, because its nearest plan holds 15,000. At 100,000 a month SpecStream costs $100, SerpApi's Searcher plan $725 and SearchApi's BigData plan $250. At a million, Serper's 2.5M pack works out to $500 a month and DataForSEO's Standard Queue to $600, and both are paid ahead: Serper's credits end after 6 months and DataForSEO's queue takes about 5 minutes a task. SpecStream stays $1 per 1,000 for a live search, paid from credit that never expires.

Where plans and packs cost more than they show

A SerpApi plan resets its searches at each renewal, so the searches you did not use are gone. A Serper pack ends after 6 months, so a 12.5M pack at $0.30 per 1,000 costs more than $0.30 unless you use it all in that time. DataForSEO's live calls cost $2 per 1,000, and its $0.60 price is for tasks you send and fetch again later. VALUE SERP's plan prices are billed annually. Bright Data bills failed requests too when custom headers or cookies are set. SpecStream bills a call only when it returns results, at one price from the first search.

Your code, with one address changed

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

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

# DataForSEO: after (the key is the Basic auth password, any login)
curl https://api.specstream.ai/dataforseo/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced -u "any:$SPECSTREAM_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '[{"keyword": "best running shoes", "location_code": 2840}]'

The SerpApi path answers with organic_results[] (position, title, link, displayed_link, snippet), search_metadata, search_parameters and serpapi_pagination.next. The DataForSEO path answers with tasks[].result[].items[]. Serper, SearchApi and VALUE SERP answer in their own JSON too. GET https://api.specstream.ai/v1/search-dialects lists every address with one curl line, with no key.

What $1 per 1,000 buys

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. A call gets up to 10 results at $0.001. Up to 100 come back with num; each started block of 10 more adds $0.0012, so 100 results cost $0.0118. The reply's price_usd says what each call cost.

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. Every drop-in address runs on the fast search: on November 9, 2026 production answered with a median of 0.82 s at 1 search a second and 1.07 s at 20 a second. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

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.

Scrapingdog

A scraping API whose Google search costs 5 credits, or 10 for an advanced or mobile search. LITE's 200,000 credits for $40 a month are 40,000 searches, $1 per 1,000, and STANDARD's 1,000,000 credits for $90 are 200,000 searches, $0.45 per 1,000. SpecStream answers its call at https://api.specstream.ai/scrapingdog/google at $1 per 1,000 (the move).

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.