Bright Data SERP API vs Decodo SERP Scraping API (2026): which should you pick?

As of Oct 24, 2026, we pick Decodo SERP Scraping API: it is second in our ranking of SERP and SEO data APIs, and it grades higher too, 2.8 against 2.6.

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA

Decodo SERP Scraping API grades higher on value for money. They get the same grade on the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

Bright Data SERP API

Search results API on Bright Data's proxy network, with AI engines

Free plan · from $499/mo

Full details brightdata.com

Decodo SERP Scraping API

SERP scraping for Google, Bing and more, inside a web data API

Free plan · from $19/mo

Full details decodo.com

Which one is for you

Pick Bright Data SERP API if

Fits if you already buy Bright Data proxies or scrapers and want search data on the same account
Works for rank checks across many countries and cities that can wait for async batches

Look elsewhere if

Pricey if you want a plan, as the cheapest is $499 a month for 380,000 requests
Skip it if you need SSO, volume discounts or a premium SLA without a sales call, as all three are Enterprise only
Watch out: proxies, scrapers, datasets and the Unlocker API are separate products with their own prices
Watch out: the Ultra Fast endpoint, with results in about a second, is sold only through sales

Pick Decodo SERP Scraping API if

Fits if you track rankings by country, language and device in your own code
Works for teams that also need to scrape or crawl the pages that rank

Look elsewhere if

Watch out: plans are money budgets, so /search, /scrape and /crawl each use them up at different rates
Watch out: /scrape uses the premium proxy pool unless told not to, at $1 per 1,000, or $1.50 with JavaScript
Tight if you need AI answers in bulk, as the ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Mode templates stay at $1 per 1,000

How we grade them

	2.6GPABright Data SERP APIGood	2.8GPADecodo SERP Scraping APIGood
Value for money	CPlans start at $499 a month for 380,000 requests, in this category's dearest tenth, but you don't need one: pay as you go is $1.50 per 1,000 with a monthly spending limit, near the middle of what rivals here charge.	B$19 a month is inside this category's cheaper quarter, and /search costs $0.75 per 1,000 on it, one of the lowest rates here, down to $0.40 on the $1,499 plan. Paid plans carry a 14-day money-back option.
Free plan and trial	BA free tier of 5,000 requests a month with no card, which a small project could run on. Its pricing page also matches a first deposit dollar for dollar, up to $500.	BA free plan for good with every endpoint and feature at 10 requests a second, up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month. A side project could run on that.
Features	BGoogle on every country domain plus Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, Yahoo and Naver, with city targeting, desktop or mobile, async batches and answer engines in the playground. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.	BGoogle, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Baidu, with ads, snippets, People Also Ask, local packs and AI Mode parsed out, by country, language and device, plus scrape, map and crawl on the same key. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.
Ease of use	CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: a playground, and JSON, HTML or Markdown back. No rating on record, and the SERP API is one of many Bright Data products, each priced on its own.	CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs and a CLI. No rating on record, and plans are money budgets that each endpoint spends at its own rate, which takes working out.
Platforms and integrations	BWeb, with an API and LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, n8n, Dify, Postman and AWS Marketplace. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top.	BWeb, with an API, SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server, plus n8n, LangChain and OpenClaw. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top.
Best for	search results across many countries and engines	rank checks plus scraping the pages that rank

The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Bright Data SERP API and Decodo SERP Scraping API. How we grade

Price against what you get

Bright Data SERP API starts at $499 a month and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Decodo SERP Scraping API starts at $19 a month and scores 2.7.

They score the same, and Decodo SERP Scraping API starts $480 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, none scores higher than Bright Data SERP API for less, and none scores higher than Decodo SERP Scraping API for less.

Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged

What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →

The best score at each price
Has a free plan
No free plan

The full chart of SERP and SEO data APIs, and the best at every price

Where they differ

In commonFree planWebPublic APISERP API

At a glance

	Bright Data SERP API	Decodo SERP Scraping API
Pricing	Free plan	Free plan
Starts at	$499 per month for 380,000 requests	$19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls
Free plan	5,000 requests a month, no credit card required.	Up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month at 10 requests a second, with every endpoint and feature.
Free trial	None listed	None listed
Web
Made by	Bright Data Ltd.	Decodo
Price read from	brightdata.com	decodo.com
Checked	Oct 23, 2026	Oct 23, 2026

Worth knowing

Bright Data SERP API

Pay as you go is $1.50 per 1,000 requests with monthly spend limits; Scale plans lower the rate to $1.30, $1.10 or $1 per 1,000.
Every API call counts as a request; in async mode only sending the request is counted.
Volume discounts, SSO and the premium SLA come only with the custom-priced Enterprise plan.
Proxies, web scrapers, datasets and the Unlocker API are separate Bright Data products, each with its own prices.

Decodo SERP Scraping API

Plans are monthly budgets: /search costs $0.75 per 1,000 requests on small plans, falling to $0.40 on the $1,499 plan.
/scrape uses the premium proxy pool unless told otherwise, at $1 per 1,000 requests on small plans or $1.50 with JavaScript.
The Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode templates cost $1 per 1,000 requests on every plan.
Only successful requests are charged, and paid plans carry a 14-day money-back option.

Key features

Bright Data SERP API

Seven search engines: Google on all its country domains, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, Yahoo and Naver, with search, shopping, maps, hotels, images, trends, reviews, news, flights, ads, videos and jobs.
Answer engines: The playground queries ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Microsoft Copilot, and a parameter makes Google AI Overviews more likely to appear in results.
Location and device targeting: Results from any of 195 countries with city-level targeting, desktop or mobile user agents and a choice of browser.
Async batch mode: For large batches only sending the request is billed; responses are kept for 48 hours, usually ready in 5 minutes, and can be downloaded again at no charge.
Output formats: Parsed JSON for applications, Markdown for AI models and agents, or raw HTML for your own parsing.
Fast SERP: A Fast Parser returns only Google's top 10 results with lower latency, and an Ultra Fast endpoint, sold through sales, returns Google and Bing results in about a second.

Decodo SERP Scraping API

Several search engines: Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Baidu, with Google templates for Search, Ads, AI Mode, Lens, News, Hotels, Jobs, Trends, Play and Autocomplete.
Parsed SERP features: Organic results, paid ads, featured snippets, People Also Ask, local packs, AI Mode answers, sitelinks and news results come back as separate fields.
Local and device targeting: Set the country, language and device per request across 195+ locations to see local rankings, with optional JavaScript rendering.
Scrape, map and crawl on one key: Send ranking URLs to /scrape, list up to 147K of a site's URLs with /map, or crawl up to 10K pages of a competitor with /crawl.
Real-time or asynchronous: Get results in the same response or send a task and collect it later, as HTML, Markdown or XHR, with JSON, CSV and PNG where supported.
AI and developer tools: An MCP server, agent skills, a CLI and TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs, plus n8n, LangChain and OpenClaw integrations.

Plans

Bright Data SERP API

Free Tier$0
5,000 requests a month with expert support.
Scale 380K$499
per month for 380,000 requests
Extra requests at $1.30 per 1,000, unlimited concurrency, cancel anytime.
Scale 900K$999
per month for 900,000 requests
Extra requests at $1.10 per 1,000, unlimited concurrency.
Scale 2M$1,999
per month for 2 million requests
Extra requests at $1 per 1,000, unlimited concurrency.
EnterpriseCustom
Volume discounts, an account manager, a premium SLA, priority support and SSO. Sold through sales.

Decodo SERP Scraping API

Free$0
10 requests a second and up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month; /search runs at $0.75 per 1,000 requests.
$19 plan$19
per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls
10 requests a second, with /search at $0.75 per 1,000 requests and every endpoint and feature included.
$49 plan$49
per month, up to 122K pages scraped or 65K crawls
25 requests a second; /search drops to $0.65 per 1,000 requests.
$99 plan$99
per month, up to 330K pages scraped or 141K crawls
50 requests a second; /search at $0.60 per 1,000 requests.
$249 plan$249
per month, up to 1.2M pages scraped or 383K crawls
100 requests a second; /search at $0.55 per 1,000 requests.
Enterprise$499
per month, up to 2.7M pages scraped or 831K crawls
150 requests a second at $499; the $999 and $1,499 tiers reach 200 a second, with /search down to $0.40 per 1,000. Larger volumes through sales.

Ways to pay less

Bright Data SERP API

Other savings
First deposit matched up to $500
Bright Data's SERP API pricing says it matches a new account's first deposit dollar for dollar, up to $500.
Startups
Up to $20,000 in credits for AI startups
The AI Startup Program offers up to $20,000 in platform credits to AI startups from pre-seed to Series A, after an application and a call.

Decodo SERP Scraping API

No public discounts listed.

Common questions

Which is cheaper, Bright Data SERP API or Decodo SERP Scraping API?

As of Oct 23, 2026, Decodo SERP Scraping API is cheaper to start with: $19 a month, against $499 a month for Bright Data SERP API. Bright Data SERP API starts at $499 per month for 380,000 requests, and Decodo SERP Scraping API starts at $19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls.

Which has a free plan, Bright Data SERP API or Decodo SERP Scraping API?

As of Oct 23, 2026, both Bright Data SERP API and Decodo SERP Scraping API have a free plan.

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How this page was made

The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.

How we review and grade