SearchCans vs Serpex (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 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.