The Decodo SERP Scraping API Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Decodo SERP Scraping API in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Decodo SERP Scraping API
The Insider’s Guide
SERP scraping for Google, Bing and more, inside a web data API
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among SERP and SEO data APIs, read from Decodo SERP Scraping API’s own pages.
Made by Decodo · checked Oct 23, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Decodo SERP Scraping API’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Decodo SERP Scraping API’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 23, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.8
GPA, above 35 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade
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.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Decodo SERP Scraping API, taken from its own pages and our grades.
Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: TypeScript, Python and Go SDKs and a CLI.
- 1
Best for rank checks plus scraping the pages that rank
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.
- 2
Paid plans start at $19 a month
As its pricing page puts it: $19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls.
- 3
There is a free plan
Up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month at 10 requests a second, with every endpoint and feature.
- 4
It runs on Web
Web.
- 5
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.
- 6
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.
- 7
Local and device targeting
Set the country, language and device per request across 195+ locations to see local rankings, with optional JavaScript rendering.
- 8
A 2.8 GPA, above 35 of 38
That is against the other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
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.
Decodo SERP Scraping API at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- None stated
- Runs on
- Web
- Made by
- Decodo, since 2018
- Category
- SERP & SEO Data APIs
- Our grade
- 2.8 GPA, good
The report card
Best for rank checks plus scraping the pages that rank
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.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Decodo SERP Scraping API is for
- Fits if you track rankings by country, language and device in your own code
- Works for teams that also need to scrape or crawl the pages that rank
Who it is not for
- Watch out: plans are money budgets, so /search, /scrape and /crawl each use them up at different rates
- Watch out: /scrape uses the premium proxy pool unless told not to, at $1 per 1,000, or $1.50 with JavaScript
- Tight if you need AI answers in bulk, as the ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Mode templates stay at $1 per 1,000
Good to know
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.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$19
A month to start. There is a free plan too
Decodo SERP Scraping API has a free plan. Paid plans start at $19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls.
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.
The free plan
Up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month at 10 requests a second, with every endpoint and feature.
Read from decodo.com on Oct 23, 2026.
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
1
Place it runs: Web
SERP scraping for Google, Bing and more, inside a web data API. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, AI features, sERP API.
Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.
- 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.
Where it runs
- Web
What it works with
- n8n
- LangChain
- OpenClaw
- MCP
Decodo SERP Scraping API is made by Decodo, and has been around since 2018.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
35/38
Other SERP and SEO data APIs it is graded above
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.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 39 SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, cut by the letter each got. Decodo SERP Scraping API’s own letter is outlined.
- BValue for moneyAbove 21 of 38
- BFree plan and trialAbove 35 of 38
- BFeaturesAbove 26 of 38
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 38
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 9 of 38
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 26 SERP and SEO data APIs. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Decodo SERP Scraping API is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
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.
What you could not
- Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- It plugs into other products, n8n, LangChain and OpenClaw among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Decodo SERP Scraping API’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API, Bright Data SERP API, SerpApi, DataForSEO and ScrapingBee
The 5 tools Decodo SERP Scraping API is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 2.4GPA
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API
Free trial · from $30/mo
Search results scraping from Oxylabs, billed per successful result.
- Decodo SERP Scraping API has a free plan. Oxylabs SERP Scraper API does not, though it has a free trial.
- 2.6GPA
Bright Data SERP API
Free plan · from $499/mo
Search results API on Bright Data's proxy network, with AI engines.
- 2.4GPA
SerpApi
Free plan · from $25/mo
Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines.
- 2.8GPA
DataForSEO
Free trial · from $50
Pay-as-you-go APIs for SERP, keyword, backlink and AI mention data.
- Decodo SERP Scraping API has a free plan. DataForSEO does not, though it has a free trial.
- DataForSEO also covers keyword research, site audit, backlink analysis and AI search visibility.
- 2.4GPA
ScrapingBee
Free trial · from $19/mo
Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits.
- Decodo SERP Scraping API has a free plan. ScrapingBee does not, though it has a free trial.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
13
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Decodo SERP Scraping API free?
Decodo SERP Scraping API has a free plan. Up to 10K pages scraped or 5K crawls a month at 10 requests a second, with every endpoint and feature.
How much does Decodo SERP Scraping API cost?
Decodo SERP Scraping API lists 6 plans. Free: $0. $19 plan: $19 per month, up to 38K pages scraped or 19K crawls. $49 plan: $49 per month, up to 122K pages scraped or 65K crawls. $99 plan: $99 per month, up to 330K pages scraped or 141K crawls. $249 plan: $249 per month, up to 1.2M pages scraped or 383K crawls.
What platforms does Decodo SERP Scraping API work on?
Decodo SERP Scraping API is available on Web.
Does Decodo SERP Scraping API have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Decodo SERP Scraping API is listed for Web.
Does Decodo SERP Scraping API have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Decodo SERP Scraping API is listed for Web.
Is Decodo SERP Scraping API open source?
Decodo SERP Scraping API is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Decodo SERP Scraping API have an API?
Yes. Decodo SERP Scraping API offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does Decodo SERP Scraping API integrate with?
Decodo SERP Scraping API's listing names n8n, LangChain, OpenClaw and MCP.
Who makes Decodo SERP Scraping API?
Decodo SERP Scraping API is made by Decodo. It dates from 2018.
What are the alternatives to Decodo SERP Scraping API?
The closest alternatives to Decodo SERP Scraping API in our directory are Oxylabs SERP Scraper API, Bright Data SERP API, SerpApi, DataForSEO and ScrapingBee.
How does Decodo SERP Scraping API compare with other 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.
Is Decodo SERP Scraping API good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Decodo SERP Scraping API B for value for money. 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.
Could I make my own version of Decodo SERP Scraping API?
To replace Decodo SERP Scraping API you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Decodo SERP Scraping API’s own pages on Oct 23, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 23, 2026. 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.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Decodo. Prices change, so check decodo.com before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
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categories
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- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
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- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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- Apify Insider's GuideScraping platform with a store of ready-made Actors, Google included2.8 GPA
- DataForSEO Insider's GuidePay-as-you-go APIs for SERP, keyword, backlink and AI mention data2.8 GPA
- SerpBase Insider's GuideSearch, social and shopping data API with 47 endpoints on one key2.8 GPA
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Compare tools at toolgpa.com ›Everything in this guide is ToolGPA’s own summary of what Decodo SERP Scraping API’s pages, its app-store listings and public reviews said on the dates shown. Grades are our judgement under the rules at toolgpa.com/grades. Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Decodo SERP Scraping API is a trademark of its owner, and this guide is not made, paid for or approved by Decodo. Prices and plans change: check decodo.com before you buy.