HasData vs SearchApi (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SearchApi grades higher than HasData: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA
SearchApi grades higher on features. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
HasData
Google SERP API and web scraping APIs on one monthly credit allowance
SearchApi
Real-time SERP API for Google, AI answers and dozens of other sites
Which one is for you
Pick HasData if
- Fits if you're building a rank tracker or SEO dashboard on Google data only
- Works for watching which sites Google AI Overviews cite for the queries you pick
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need Bing, Yahoo or any engine other than Google
- Tight if you're on Free, with 100 full SERP calls a month at 5 requests at a time
- Watch out: the plan prices shown are yearly and charged up front, and monthly billing costs about a fifth more
- Watch out: a SERP call costs 10 credits against 1 for a plain page fetch, so credit totals overstate searches
Pick SearchApi if
- Fits if you need Google results and ChatGPT or Perplexity answers in the same format
- Works for teams watching ads in the Google, Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit and TikTok libraries
Look elsewhere if
- Tight if your jobs come in bursts, since any one hour can use only 20% of the month's searches
- Pricey if you need answers faster, as enhanced speed doubles the price of every plan
- Skip it if you need team management or the legal guarantee for $40, as both start at $100
- Not for you if you want a free plan that renews, since the 100 requests come once
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAHasDataFair | 2.4GPASearchApiFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CStartup is $49 a month on yearly billing, paid up front, or $59 monthly, at the dear end of this category's usual range. A SERP call is 10 credits, so that's 20,000 searches, about $2.45 per 1,000. | CDeveloper is $40 a month for 10,000 searches, $4 per 1,000, right at this category's middle. Enhanced speed doubles any plan, and the Legal Protection Guarantee needs Production at $100. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free plan for good with no card: 1,000 credits a month across every tool. That's 100 full Google SERP calls, which you'll go through quickly. | CNo free plan: 100 free requests on sign-up with no card, and then you're paying. |
| Features | CGoogle results with ads, local results and AI Overviews by city, device and language, plus AI Mode, Maps, News, Scholar, Shopping and a ChatGPT scraper. It covers Google only: no Bing or other search engine is in the listing. | BGoogle with AI Overview, AI Mode, Maps, Shopping, Lens and Scholar, answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot, plus Bing, Baidu, YouTube, Amazon and ad libraries, targeted down to coordinates. 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 CLI, MCP servers and ready prompts for coding agents. No rating on record. | CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: plain GET requests, with examples in Python, Node, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP and C#. No rating on record. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb, with an API, a CLI and MCP servers, plus n8n, Make, Zapier, Postman and OpenClaw. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. | BWeb, with an API, code samples in many languages and an MCP server for AI assistants. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | Google results and AI Overviews on credits | Google and AI answer engines from one API |
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: HasData and SearchApi. How we grade
Price against what you get
HasData starts at $49 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. SearchApi starts at $40 a month and scores 2.7.
SearchApi scores higher and starts $9 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, 8 score higher than HasData for less, and none scores higher than SearchApi 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
Where they differ
At a glance
| HasData | SearchApi | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free trial |
| Starts at | $49 per month for 200K credits, billed annually ($59 billed monthly) | $40 per month for 10,000 searches, billed monthly |
| Free plan | 1,000 credits every month across every tool, with 5 concurrent requests and no credit card. That covers 100 Google SERP API requests. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 100 free requests on sign-up, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | HasData | SearchApi, LLC |
| Price read from | hasdata.com | searchapi.io |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
HasData
- A Google SERP API call costs 10 credits and a Light or Rank Checker call 5, against 1 credit for a plain page fetch.
- The free plan covers only 100 full SERP calls a month at 5 concurrent requests.
- The displayed plan prices are for yearly billing, charged up front; monthly billing costs about a fifth more.
- Failed requests have their credits returned, and plans can be changed or cancelled from the dashboard.
SearchApi
- Each plan can use only 20% of its monthly searches in any one hour.
- The Legal Protection Guarantee and team management are not on the Developer plan.
- Enhanced speed doubles the price of any plan; larger plans run to Octo 2M at $2,800 and Octo 5M at $5,000 a month, with custom plans on request.
- The 100 free requests are a sign-up allowance; the pages do not describe an ongoing free plan.
Key features
HasData
- Google SERP API
- Live Google results as JSON from 22 parameters, including location, coordinates, language, device and date filters, with ads kept apart from organic results.
- SERP Light and Rank Checker
- Cheaper endpoints with fewer parameters, at half the credits of the full SERP API, for keyword position checks across large lists.
- AI Overviews and AI Mode
- Collect Google AI Overview answers with their cited sources, and query Google AI Mode and ChatGPT through their own scraper APIs.
- Other Google endpoints
- Separate APIs for Google Maps, News, Scholar, Shopping, Products, Events, Short Videos and Flights, priced per 1,000 requests by plan.
- Web scraping API and no-code scrapers
- Fetch any page with JavaScript rendering and proxies, or run ready-made scrapers for Google Maps, Amazon and Zillow without code.
- MCP servers, CLI and agent skills
- MCP servers for Google Search, Maps, Amazon and Zillow, a command-line tool, agent skills and ready prompts for coding agents.
SearchApi
- Google and its verticals
- Google Search, Light, AI Overview, AI Mode, Maps and reviews, Shopping, Flights, Hotels, News, Images, Lens, Jobs, Scholar, Trends and a rank tracking endpoint.
- AI answer engines
- Endpoints for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Bing Copilot answers alongside the Google AI features.
- Other engines and sites
- Bing, Baidu, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Naver, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, TikTok, app stores, and Meta, LinkedIn, Reddit and TikTok ad libraries.
- Pay per success
- Only searches that return a 200 status code are charged, and requests run through premium proxies with location targeting down to coordinates.
- Legal Protection Guarantee
- From the Production plan up, SearchApi says it takes legal responsibility for how it collects and parses public results, with up to $2 million in coverage.
- Code samples and MCP
- Plain GET requests with examples in Python, Node, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, C# and other languages, and an MCP server for AI assistants.
Plans
HasData
Free$0
1,000 credits a month and 5 concurrent requests: 100 Google SERP API calls or 200 Light calls.
Startup$49
per month for 200K credits, billed annually ($59 billed monthly)
5 concurrent requests; covers 20,000 Google SERP API calls or 40,000 Light calls a month.
Basic$99
per month for 1M credits, billed annually ($119 billed monthly)
15 concurrent requests; covers 100,000 Google SERP API calls a month.
Growth$208
per month for 3M credits, billed annually ($249 billed monthly)
50 concurrent requests and 300,000 SERP calls. Larger Growth steps reach 20M credits at $1,660 a month billed monthly.
EnterpriseCustom
Past 20M credits a month: contract terms, 2,000+ concurrent requests, top request priority and unused credits carried over.
SearchApi
Developer Plan$40
per month for 10,000 searches, billed monthly
$4 per 1,000 searches and a 99.9% SLA. Enhanced speed, with parallel threads, doubles the price to $80.
Production Plan$100
per month for 35,000 searches, billed monthly
$3 per 1,000 searches, team management and the Legal Protection Guarantee. $200 with enhanced speed.
BigData Plan$250
per month for 100,000 searches, billed monthly
$2.50 per 1,000 searches, with medium throughput. $500 with enhanced speed.
Scale Plan$500
per month for 250,000 searches, billed monthly
$2 per 1,000 searches, high throughput and search analytics. $1,000 with enhanced speed.
Octo 500K$900
per month for 500,000 searches, billed monthly
$1.80 per 1,000 searches, dedicated throughput and priority support. $1,800 with enhanced speed.
Octo 1M$1,500
per month for 1 million searches, billed monthly
$1.50 per 1,000 searches, dedicated throughput and priority support. $3,000 with enhanced speed.
Ways to pay less
HasData
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
HasData's pricing page charges a year for the price of ten months: Startup is $590 a year instead of $59 a month.
SearchApi
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, HasData or SearchApi?
As of Oct 23, 2026, SearchApi is cheaper to start with: $40 a month, against $49 a month for HasData. HasData starts at $49 per month for 200K credits, billed annually ($59 billed monthly), and SearchApi starts at $40 per month for 10,000 searches, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, HasData or SearchApi?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only HasData has a free plan. SearchApi does not, though it has a free trial.
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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.