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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.