# Decodo SERP Scraping API review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> SERP scraping for Google, Bing and more, inside a web data API

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, sells SERP scraping as part of its Web Data API. A query is routed through its proxy network with the country, language and device you set, and comes back as parsed JSON, HTML or Markdown, from Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and others. The same key also scrapes single pages, maps a site's URLs and crawls whole sites, and plans are monthly amounts spent per 1,000 requests.

- **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs
- **Made by:** Decodo (since 2018)
- **Website:** https://decodo.com/scraping/serp
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Watch out: plans are money budgets, so /search, /scrape and /crawl each use them up at different rates.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Decodo SERP Scraping API has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month at 10 requests a second, with every endpoint and feature.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 10 requests a second and up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month; /search runs at $0.75 per 1,000 requests. |
| $19 plan | $19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls | 10 requests a second, with /search at $0.75 per 1,000 requests and every endpoint and feature included. |
| $49 plan | $49 per month, up to 122K pages scraped or 65K crawls | 25 requests a second; /search drops to $0.65 per 1,000 requests. |
| $99 plan | $99 per month, up to 330K pages scraped or 141K crawls | 50 requests a second; /search at $0.60 per 1,000 requests. |
| $249 plan | $249 per month, up to 1.2M pages scraped or 383K crawls | 100 requests a second; /search at $0.55 per 1,000 requests. |
| Enterprise | $499 per month, up to 2.7M pages scraped or 831K crawls | 150 requests a second at $499; the $999 and $1,499 tiers reach 200 a second, with /search down to $0.40 per 1,000. Larger volumes through sales. |

Read from https://decodo.com/web-data-api/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Decodo SERP Scraping API before buying.

## Key features

- **Several search engines:** Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Baidu, with Google templates for Search, Ads, AI Mode, Lens, News, Hotels, Jobs, Trends, Play and Autocomplete.
- **Parsed SERP features:** Organic results, paid ads, featured snippets, People Also Ask, local packs, AI Mode answers, sitelinks and news results come back as separate fields.
- **Local and device targeting:** Set the country, language and device per request across 195+ locations to see local rankings, with optional JavaScript rendering.
- **Scrape, map and crawl on one key:** Send ranking URLs to /scrape, list up to 147K of a site's URLs with /map, or crawl up to 10K pages of a competitor with /crawl.
- **Real-time or asynchronous:** Get results in the same response or send a task and collect it later, as HTML, Markdown or XHR, with JSON, CSV and PNG where supported.
- **AI and developer tools:** An MCP server, agent skills, a CLI and TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs, plus n8n, LangChain and OpenClaw integrations.

## Good for

- Tracking rankings by country, language and device in your own code
- Teams that also need to scrape or crawl the pages that rank
- Giving AI agents live Google results through an MCP server

## Worth knowing

- Plans are monthly budgets: /search costs $0.75 per 1,000 requests on small plans, falling to $0.40 on the $1,499 plan.
- /scrape uses the premium proxy pool unless told otherwise, at $1 per 1,000 requests on small plans or $1.50 with JavaScript.
- The Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode templates cost $1 per 1,000 requests on every plan.
- Only successful requests are charged, and paid plans carry a 14-day money-back option.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, returns parsed results from Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Baidu, with scraping and crawling on the same key and a free plan. Plans are monthly money budgets rather than search counts, so what you get depends on which endpoint you call, and the AI answer templates stay at $1 per 1,000 on every plan.

- **Value for money: B.** $19 a month is inside this category's cheaper quarter, and /search costs $0.75 per 1,000 on it, one of the lowest rates here, down to $0.40 on the $1,499 plan. Paid plans carry a 14-day money-back option.
- **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan for good with every endpoint and feature at 10 requests a second, up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month. A side project could run on that.
- **Features: B.** Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Baidu, with ads, snippets, People Also Ask, local packs and AI Mode parsed out, by country, language and device, plus scrape, map and crawl on the same key. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.
- **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs and a CLI. No rating on record, and plans are money budgets that each endpoint spends at its own rate, which takes working out.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API, SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server, plus n8n, LangChain and OpenClaw. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Decodo's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs

- Decodo SERP Scraping API's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 35 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 3.
- It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 35 of 38) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 3 of the 25 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-data-apis

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Decodo SERP Scraping API you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 35 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade. It costs $228 a year.

- You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, n8n, LangChain and OpenClaw among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

## Works with

n8n, LangChain, OpenClaw, MCP

**Tags:** SERP API, Public API, AI features

## Alternatives

- [Oxylabs SERP Scraper API](https://toolgpa.com/tools/oxylabs-serp-scraper-api): Search results scraping from Oxylabs, billed per successful result. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/decodo-serp-scraping-api-vs-oxylabs-serp-scraper-api)
- [Bright Data SERP API](https://toolgpa.com/tools/bright-data-serp-api): Search results API on Bright Data's proxy network, with AI engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/bright-data-serp-api-vs-decodo-serp-scraping-api)
- [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/decodo-serp-scraping-api-vs-serpapi)
- [DataForSEO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dataforseo): Pay-as-you-go APIs for SERP, keyword, backlink and AI mention data. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dataforseo-vs-decodo-serp-scraping-api)
- [ScrapingBee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingbee): Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/decodo-serp-scraping-api-vs-scrapingbee)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://decodo.com/web-data-api/pricing
- https://decodo.com/scraping/serp
- https://help.decodo.com/docs/web-data-api-billing
- https://decodo.com/about
- https://decodo.com/legal/license-agreement

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