Oxylabs SERP Scraper API vs SerpApi (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Oxylabs SERP Scraper API if

• Fits if you already pay Oxylabs for proxies and want search results from the same budget
• Works for checking rankings at exact coordinates in many places

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: results with 2xx or 4xx status codes from the target site count as successful and are billed
• Pricey if you want AI parsing, at $3 per 1,000 parsed pages on every plan
• Skip it if you need results in under a second, which takes the separate /Search endpoint at $1 per 1,000
• Tight if you use other Oxylabs products, since they draw on the same monthly spend
• Watch out: prices exclude VAT and other sales taxes, added where required

Pick SerpApi if

• Fits if you need Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and other engines in one response format
• Works for low volumes that fit in 250 free searches or 1,000 paid ones a month

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you search in volume, at $25 per 1,000 on Starter where Serper charges $1
• Tight if you're on Free, with 250 searches a month and at most 50 an hour
• Skip it if you want the U.S. Legal Shield on a small plan, as it starts on Production at $150 a month
• Watch out: plans are month to month, and yearly billing is only set up by request
• Watch out: Ludicrous Speed costs twice the price, and refunds stop after 7 days or 20% of a plan's searches

Oxylabs SERP Scraper API

• One subscription now covers all Oxylabs products, so SERP results draw on the same monthly spend as proxies and other scrapers.
• Results with 2xx or 4xx status codes from the target site count as successful and are billed.
• AI parsing costs $3 per 1,000 parsed pages on every plan.
• Prices exclude VAT and other sales taxes, which are added where required.

SerpApi

• Plans are month to month; the FAQ says yearly billing can only be set up by request while an official yearly plan is in the works.
• The U.S. Legal Shield is not included on the Free, Starter or Developer plans.
• Bigger self-serve plans run from Searcher at $725 for 100,000 searches a month to Cloud plans of 1 million searches and up from $3,750.
• Refunds are offered within 7 days of subscribing, unless more than 20% of the plan's searches have been used.

Oxylabs SERP Scraper API

Google and three other engines

Google, Bing, Baidu and Yandex, with Google targets for web search, AI Overviews, AI Mode, Lens, local, news, images, Scholar, hotels, Trends and ads.

LLM scrapers

Collects answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode, priced from $1.50 per 1,000 results on the smaller plans.

Precise geo-targeting

Requests can be targeted by location down to coordinates, and Google's continuous scroll is handled without extra parameters.

Parsing and OxyCopilot

Parsed JSON for common Google pages, a custom parser for others, and OxyCopilot, an assistant that writes scraping requests and parsing instructions.

Scheduler and cloud delivery

Jobs can run on a schedule, and results come back from the API or are saved to a cloud storage bucket of your choice.

Fast Search API

For organic results in under a second, Oxylabs sells a separate /Search endpoint at $1 per 1,000 searches; the SERP scraper averages under 10 seconds.

SerpApi

Google and many other engines

Endpoints for Google Search, AI Mode, AI Overview, Maps, Shopping, Scholar, Trends, Flights and Hotels, plus Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu, Naver, YouTube, Amazon, eBay and Walmart.

Full browser and CAPTCHA solving

Each request runs immediately in a full browser through a proxy near the chosen location, and results come back as JSON or Markdown.

Only successful searches counted

Cached, errored and failed searches do not count against the monthly allowance, and a response with 100 results counts as one search.

Ludicrous Speed

An option on every paid plan that sends parallel requests for faster responses, at twice the price; Ludicrous Speed Max is four times the price.

U.S. Legal Shield

From the Production plan up, SerpApi says it takes on liability for the lawful collection of public search data, with up to $2 million in coverage.

Teams and client libraries

Unlimited team members with admin, developer, billing and viewer roles, and libraries for Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, PHP, Java, Rust and .NET, plus an MCP server.

Oxylabs SERP Scraper API

• Starter$30

  per month, spent across all Oxylabs products

  About 22,000 Google results with JavaScript rendering at $1.35 per 1,000. VAT may apply.

• Basic$100

  per month, spent across all Oxylabs products

  About 76,000 rendered Google results at $1.30 per 1,000, or 111,000 without rendering at $0.90.

• Flexible$500

  per month, spent across all Oxylabs products

  About 434,000 rendered Google results at $1.15 per 1,000, or 714,000 without rendering at $0.70.

• Enterprise$2,500

  per month and up

  Rendered Google results at $0.90 per 1,000 and plain ones at $0.50. Sold through sales.

SerpApi

• Free$0

  250 searches a month with a throughput of 50 an hour.

• Starter$25

  per month for 1,000 searches, billed monthly

  Throughput of 200 successful searches an hour. No U.S. Legal Shield.

• Developer$75

  per month for 5,000 searches, billed monthly

  Throughput of 1,000 successful searches an hour. No U.S. Legal Shield.

• Production$150

  per month for 15,000 searches, billed monthly

  Throughput of 3,000 an hour, and the U.S. Legal Shield with up to $2 million in coverage.

• Big Data$275

  per month for 30,000 searches, billed monthly

  Throughput of 6,000 an hour, with the U.S. Legal Shield.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom volume and throughput, ZeroTrace mode, which stores no search data, and priority support. Sold through sales.

Oxylabs SERP Scraper API

No public discounts listed.

SerpApi

• Education

  Special pricing for students and educators

  SerpApi's FAQ says universities, students and educators can email about their project and budget to arrange special pricing.