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

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

Pick Serply if

• Fits if you're grounding an AI agent in live Google results through MCP
• Works for low or uneven volumes where a monthly plan would go unused

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you need rankings by city, since location is a proxy country and 14 are listed
• Watch out: the 2,500 free sign-up credits lapse after 30 days
• Pricey if you stay on small packs, at $2 per 1,000 on Micro against $0.75 from Pro up

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.

Serply

• Every endpoint, MCP tool calls included, costs one credit per request; the rate falls from $2.00 per 1,000 on Micro to $0.75 from Pro up.
• Cached responses and failed requests cost nothing, and purchased credits never expire.
• The 2,500 free sign-up credits lapse after 30 days.
• Unused purchased credits are refunded in proportion if asked within 30 days of the charge.

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.

Serply

Google search endpoints

Organic results with the answer box, plus News, Maps, Images, Jobs, Scholar, Video and Product search, under one key and one set of headers.

Bing, Reddit and eBay

Bing results with ads and shopping ads, Reddit subreddits, posts, users and comment trees, and eBay search.

Pages as markdown

A scraping endpoint fetches any public page and returns it as markdown or JSON, with proxies, retries and CAPTCHAs handled by Serply.

Hosted MCP server

Point Claude, Cursor or another MCP client at Serply's server with an API key to get fourteen search and Reddit tools, billed like REST calls.

Location and device headers

Set the proxy country and a desktop or mobile user agent per request; the homepage lists 14 countries.

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.

Serply

• Micro Pack$5

  one-time pack of 2,500 credits, used as you go

  $2.00 per 1,000 requests; the smallest top-up once the free credits run out.

• Starter Pack$15

  one-time pack of 10,000 credits, used as you go

  $1.50 per 1,000 requests.

• Growth Pack$49

  one-time pack of 50,000 credits, used as you go

  $0.98 per 1,000 requests, the pack Serply recommends for production use.

• Pro Pack$375

  one-time pack of 500,000 credits, used as you go

  $0.75 per 1,000 requests, the lowest self-serve rate.

• Scale Pack$1,875

  one-time pack of 2,500,000 credits, used as you go

  Keeps the $0.75 per 1,000 rate in a larger balance.

• Max Pack$7,500

  one-time pack of 10,000,000 credits, used as you go

  $0.75 per 1,000 requests; higher volumes and invoicing through enterprise pricing by email.