Scavio vs Serpex (2026): which should you pick?

Pick Scavio if

• Fits if you're moving code off Google's Custom Search JSON API
• Works for AI agents that need Google results and social data from one API

Look elsewhere if

• Pricey if you search in volume, at about $3.43 per 1,000 on Project, or $10 per 1,000 paying as you go
• Skip it if you need Bing or another engine, as Google is the only search engine listed
• Tight if your usage swings, since credits refresh monthly and don't roll over, even on yearly billing
• Watch out: yearly plans can only be downgraded or cancelled when the paid year ends
• Tight if you're testing, with 50 free credits that never renew

Pick Serpex if

• Fits if you're building a RAG pipeline that needs the page text behind each result
• Works for uneven workloads, since prepaid credits never expire

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you need Google rankings, since you can't pick the engine, country or device
• Watch out: a search with page content costs up to 6 credits for 10 results, and Stealth Mode 5
• Watch out: every top-up is shown against a crossed-out price, such as $5 against $10
• Tight if you want a refund, which runs 7 days and only with no more than 20% of the credits used

Scavio

• A Google search costs 1 credit; heavier requests, such as a Reddit post with its full comment tree, cost 2.
• The 50 free credits are a one-time allowance and do not renew.
• Plan credits refresh monthly and do not roll over, even on yearly billing.
• Yearly plans can only be downgraded or cancelled at the end of the year paid for.

Serpex

• You cannot choose the search engine or set a country or device: every query is auto-routed, so it does not report what ranks on Google for a location.
• Search and extraction cost 1 credit each; a search with page content costs up to 6 credits for 10 results, and Stealth Mode 5 credits.
• Failed requests are free; refunds run 7 days on credit purchases with no more than 20% of the credits used.

Scavio

Google Search API

Returns organic results, ads, the knowledge graph, AI Overview, related questions and more, by device, country, language and Google domain.

Custom Search compatible endpoint

A drop-in endpoint takes the same parameters and returns the same items list as Google's Custom Search JSON API, for moving existing code.

Other Google surfaces

Separate endpoints for Google Maps, News, Shopping, Flights and Hotels.

Social, shopping and travel sites

YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Etsy, Zillow, Airbnb, Booking.com, Yelp, Indeed and more on the same key.

Agent frameworks and MCP

Integrations for MCP, LangChain, OpenAI Agents, Vercel AI SDK, CrewAI, Google ADK, Pydantic AI, Composio and n8n, plus Python and JavaScript SDKs.

Serpex

Web search API

Ranked results with title, URL, snippet and position, with site:, -site: and before:/after: date operators typed into the query.

Search with page content

Ask for the top 5 or 10 pages to be fetched and returned as markdown with the results, billed only for the pages delivered.

Extract API

Pull clean, readable content from any list of URLs at one credit per URL, cleaned up for vector databases and RAG pipelines.

Stealth Mode

Render JavaScript-heavy pages in a full browser on Extract requests, at five credits per successful request.

Automatic routing and retries

Every search goes to whichever source is healthy, with fallback to another source and retries if one is slow or down.

SDKs and MCP server

TypeScript and Python SDKs, an MCP server and LangChain examples, plus a playground and usage analytics in the dashboard.

Scavio

• Project$24

  per month for 7,000 credits, billed yearly ($30 billed monthly)

  5 requests a second and email support, at about $0.0034 a credit. Unused credits do not roll over.

• Pay As You Go$25

  one-time for 2,500 credits, used as you go

  Credits at $0.01 each with a 2,500-credit minimum purchase and no commitment.

• Bootstrap$79

  per month for 28,000 credits, billed yearly ($100 billed monthly)

  10 requests a second and email support, at about $0.0028 a credit.

• Startup$199

  per month for 85,000 credits, billed yearly ($250 billed monthly)

  15 requests a second and priority support, at about $0.0023 a credit.

• Growth$399

  per month for 200,000 credits, billed yearly ($500 billed monthly)

  50 requests a second and priority support, at about $0.0020 a credit.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Custom credits and rate limits with a dedicated account manager. Through sales.

Serpex

• Starter$5

  one-time top-up, used as you go ($0.80 per 1,000 credits)

  $5 buys 6,250 credits, and top-ups from $5 to $49 get this rate; 5 requests a second. Shown against a crossed-out $10.

• Standard$50

  one-time top-up, used as you go ($0.65 per 1,000 credits)

  About 77,000 credits for $50, for top-ups from $50 to $499; 25 requests a second. Shown as 19% off a crossed-out $100.

• Scale$500

  one-time top-up, used as you go ($0.50 per 1,000 credits)

  About 1 million credits for $500, for top-ups from $500 to $1,999; 50 requests a second. Shown as 38% off a crossed-out $1,000.

• EnterpriseCustom

  For $2,000 and up: custom rate limits, SLAs and priority support, from $0.20 per 1,000 searches at 10M+ searches a month.

Scavio

• Annual discount

  Save about 20% with yearly billing

  Scavio's pricing page lists yearly billing at about 20% less: Project is $24 a month ($288 a year) instead of $30 month to month.

Serpex

No public discounts listed.