# Dumpling AI review (2026): is it worth $40 a month, billed yearly? > One API for web search, scraping, documents and social data Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. DumplingAI is a single API, CLI and MCP surface that routes requests to providers for web search, scraping, document extraction, social and review data, and company enrichment. One credit balance covers more than 50 data capabilities, and requests can be pinned to a provider such as Serper or Firecrawl. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** DumplingAI - **Website:** https://www.dumplingai.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want to try it free, since there is no free plan or trial. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, Dumpling AI is a paid product, starting at $40 per month, billed annually. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $40 per month, billed annually | 1,200,000 credits per year, 30 requests per minute, basic support. | | Pro | $124 per month, billed annually | 4,200,000 credits per year, 60 requests per minute, standard support. | | Business | $249 per month, billed annually | 9,600,000 credits per year, 120 requests per minute, priority support. | Read from https://www.dumplingai.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dumpling AI before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **Yearly billing: 2 months free** (Annual discount): The pricing toggle marks yearly billing as 2 months free compared with paying monthly. Source: https://www.dumplingai.com/pricing ## Key features - **Search:** Web, news, maps and autocomplete lookups through one API, auto-routed or pinned to Serper, Perplexity or DataForSEO. - **Scraping:** Fetches static pages, rendered apps and full crawls, with Firecrawl, SpiderCloud and native routes supported. - **Document extraction:** Turns PDFs and other documents into text or structured data through doc-to-text and extract-document endpoints. - **Social and enrichment data:** YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google Reviews data, plus email verification and company enrichment. - **CLI, MCP and HTTP:** The same capabilities are reachable from a command-line tool, an MCP server or plain HTTP calls. ## Good for - Teams that want several data providers behind one key and one balance - Agent builders using Claude Code, Cursor, n8n or Make - Workflows that mix search, scraping and document extraction ## Worth knowing - The pricing page opens on yearly billing; the monthly-billed prices were not readable, so only per-month-billed-annually figures are shown. - Subscription credits do not roll over, while separately bought credit packs never expire. - Each request costs from one to several credits depending on the action; a separate credit cost list exists. - The homepage mentions a free tier but gives no allowance, and the pricing page lists no free plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. Dumpling AI bundles web search, scraping, document extraction and social data behind one API, with a CLI and an MCP server. It has no free plan or trial, starts at $40 a month on yearly billing, and each request uses a variable number of credits. - **Value for money: C.** $40 a month on yearly billing, between this category's cheaper quarter ($19) and dearer quarter ($44.10). - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial on the pricing page. - **Features: C.** Search, scraping, document extraction, and social and enrichment data in one place. Each action costs one or more credits, so it is hard to price a job up front. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. It is an API, so you need a key and some code or an MCP client. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web only, but it lists Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, n8n and Make, with HTTP, CLI and MCP access. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Dumpling AI's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs - Dumpling AI's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 2. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 48) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $40 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 22 of the 33 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less. 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 Dumpling AI 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. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 46 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. It costs $480 a year. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it. - You could not: A library of papers and sources to search. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw, n8n, Make.com **Tags:** SERP API, Public API, AI agents, Research ## Alternatives - [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-dumpling-ai) - [Serper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serper): Google search results API sold in prepaid credit packs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dumpling-ai-vs-serper) - [Firecrawl](https://toolgpa.com/tools/firecrawl): Web search, scrape and crawl API that returns LLM-ready data. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dumpling-ai-vs-firecrawl) - [Apify](https://toolgpa.com/tools/apify): Scraping platform with a store of ready-made Actors, Google included. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/apify-vs-dumpling-ai) - [Scrapfly](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapfly): Web scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, browsers and AI extraction. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/dumpling-ai-vs-scrapfly) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026: - https://www.dumplingai.com/pricing - https://www.dumplingai.com Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/dumpling-ai Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).