SearchCans vs Serper (2026): which should you pick?

Pick SearchCans if

• Fits if your AI agent searches Google and then reads the pages behind the results
• Works for batch jobs that need many requests at once with no hourly cap

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: every pack is shown as 80% off a crossed-out price, with no end date given
• Watch out: credits expire 6 months after purchase
• Skip it if you need rankings by city or device, as targeting is by country and language only
• Pricey if you read pages through residential proxies, at 2 credits plus 10 more per request
• Tight if you want a refund, which needs under 10% of the credits used within 7 days, minus fees

Pick Serper if

• Fits if you only need Google and would rather pay per query than per month
• Works for AI agents on LangChain or CrewAI that need current Google results

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you need Bing, Yahoo or any engine other than Google
• Watch out: credits expire 6 months after purchase, so a big pack you don't use up is money lost
• Tight if you're testing, as the 2,500 free queries come once and there's no monthly free plan
• Watch out: refunds run 7 days from the first payment, and only with under 20% of the credits used

SearchCans

• Credits expire 6 months after purchase, and only successful responses are charged.
• A search costs 1 credit plus 1 per extra page; a Reader request costs 2, plus 2, 5 or 10 more with shared, datacenter or residential proxies.
• Every pack is shown as 80% off a crossed-out price, with no end date given.
• Refunds are possible within 7 days of payment if under 10% of the credits are used, minus the fees in the terms.

Serper

• Its site lists Google endpoints only, with no Bing, Yahoo or other search engines.
• Credits expire 6 months after purchase, so a large pack bought for a lower rate can go unused.
• Refunds are given within 7 days of the first payment only if less than 20% of the credits are used.
• The 2,500 free queries are a one-time allowance, not a monthly free plan.

SearchCans

Google Search API

One request returns organic results with AI Overview, People Also Ask, People Also Search For and Knowledge Graph blocks.

Other Google endpoints and Bing

Google Shopping, Images, News, Videos and Short Videos at one credit each, plus Bing search.

Country and language targeting

Pick from 244 country codes for the regional Google index and set the result language; both default to global English.

Reader API

Turn any URL into clean markdown or HTML, with a wait for JavaScript, and route through shared, datacenter or residential proxies.

File extraction and screenshots

Parse PDFs and Office documents into text, and capture first-screen or full-page screenshots, from the same credit balance.

Parallel lanes

No hourly request caps: each pack sets how many requests run at once, and stacking packs adds lanes on one account.

Serper

Ten Google result types

Endpoints for Google web search, images, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, Scholar, patents and autocomplete.

Live results

Each call queries Google directly and nothing is cached; most results return in 1 to 2 seconds, sometimes 2 to 4 when a request is retried.

Location and language

Every pack lets you set the country and language a search is run from.

Rate limits by pack

From 50 queries a second on Starter to 300 on Ultimate, which Serper says is roughly 15,000 to 18,000 searches a minute.

Charged on success

Credits are deducted only for successful responses, and the API stops taking queries when the balance reaches zero.

AI framework integrations

Listed integrations with LangChain, CrewAI, Haystack and Jan AI for feeding search results to AI agents and chatbots.

SearchCans

• Standard$18

  one-time pack of 20,000 credits, valid 6 months

  $0.90 per 1,000 credits and 2 parallel lanes. Shown as 80% off a crossed-out $90.

• Starter$99

  one-time pack of 132,000 credits, valid 6 months

  $0.75 per 1,000 credits, 5 parallel lanes and faster response priority; packs can be stacked for more lanes.

• Pro$597

  one-time pack of 995,000 credits, valid 6 months

  $0.60 per 1,000 credits, with priority request routing and tier-1 developer support.

• Ultimate$1,680

  one-time pack of 3,000,000 credits, valid 6 months

  $0.56 per 1,000 credits, a dedicated cluster node with no queue and a dedicated account manager.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Tailored concurrency for high-volume workloads, with invoice payment, arranged through support.

Serper

• Starter$50

  one-time for 50,000 credits, valid for 6 months

  50,000 queries at $1.00 per 1,000, up to 50 queries a second. Prices exclude sales tax or VAT.

• Standard$375

  one-time for 500,000 credits, valid for 6 months

  500,000 queries at $0.75 per 1,000, up to 100 queries a second.

• Scale$1,250

  one-time for 2.5 million credits, valid for 6 months

  2.5 million queries at $0.50 per 1,000, up to 200 queries a second.

• Ultimate$3,750

  one-time for 12.5 million credits, valid for 6 months

  12.5 million queries at $0.30 per 1,000, up to 300 queries a second; a higher limit can be arranged.