# SearchCans review (2026): is it worth $18? > Prepaid Google and Bing search API with a web-to-markdown reader Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. SearchCans sells a Google and Bing search API alongside a Reader API that turns web pages, PDFs and Office files into markdown or HTML, aimed at AI agents and RAG pipelines. Google results come back as JSON with organic results, AI Overviews, People Also Ask and the Knowledge Graph, localized by country and language. It has no hourly caps; prepaid packs set how many requests can run at once. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** SearchCans - **Website:** https://www.searchcans.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: every pack is shown as 80% off a crossed-out price, with no end date given. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, SearchCans is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $18 one-time for 20,000 credits (1 credit = 1 search), valid 6 months. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 100 free credits on sign-up, no payment method required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Standard | $18 one-time pack of 20,000 credits, valid 6 months | $0.90 per 1,000 credits and 2 parallel lanes. Shown as 80% off a crossed-out $90. | | Starter | $99 one-time pack of 132,000 credits, valid 6 months | $0.75 per 1,000 credits, 5 parallel lanes and faster response priority; packs can be stacked for more lanes. | | Pro | $597 one-time pack of 995,000 credits, valid 6 months | $0.60 per 1,000 credits, with priority request routing and tier-1 developer support. | | Ultimate | $1,680 one-time pack of 3,000,000 credits, valid 6 months | $0.56 per 1,000 credits, a dedicated cluster node with no queue and a dedicated account manager. | | Enterprise | Custom | Tailored concurrency for high-volume workloads, with invoice payment, arranged through support. | Read from https://www.searchcans.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SearchCans before buying. ## Key features - **Google Search API:** One request returns organic results with AI Overview, People Also Ask, People Also Search For and Knowledge Graph blocks. - **Other Google endpoints and Bing:** Google Shopping, Images, News, Videos and Short Videos at one credit each, plus Bing search. - **Country and language targeting:** Pick from 244 country codes for the regional Google index and set the result language; both default to global English. - **Reader API:** Turn any URL into clean markdown or HTML, with a wait for JavaScript, and route through shared, datacenter or residential proxies. - **File extraction and screenshots:** Parse PDFs and Office documents into text, and capture first-screen or full-page screenshots, from the same credit balance. - **Parallel lanes:** No hourly request caps: each pack sets how many requests run at once, and stacking packs adds lanes on one account. ## Good for - AI agents that search Google and then read the pages behind the results - Batch jobs that need high throughput without hourly limits - Buyers who prefer prepaid credits to a monthly subscription ## Worth knowing - Credits expire 6 months after purchase, and only successful responses are charged. - A search costs 1 credit plus 1 per extra page; a Reader request costs 2, plus 2, 5 or 10 more with shared, datacenter or residential proxies. - Every pack is shown as 80% off a crossed-out price, with no end date given. - Refunds are possible within 7 days of payment if under 10% of the credits are used, minus the fees in the terms. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.2 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. SearchCans sells prepaid packs of Google and Bing searches from $18, plus a Reader API that turns pages, PDFs and Office files into markdown. Credits expire after 6 months, every pack is shown as 80% off a crossed-out price, and results can be set by country and language but not by city. - **Value for money: B.** $18 buys 20,000 searches, valid for 6 months, inside this category's cheaper quarter, at $0.90 per 1,000; bigger packs fall to $0.56. Every pack is shown as 80% off a crossed-out price with no end date. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan: 100 credits on sign-up with no payment method. - **Features: C.** Google results with AI Overview, People Also Ask and Knowledge Graph, Google Shopping, News and Images, Bing, and a Reader API for pages and PDFs. Targeting is by country and language only; the listing names no city or device setting. - **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: one credit per search and no hourly caps. No rating on record, and no client libraries named in the listing. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with a REST API and no client libraries or integrations named in the listing. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from SearchCans'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 - SearchCans's GPA of 2.2 is higher than 7 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 8. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 21 of 38) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). 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 SearchCans 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: 23 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. It costs $18, paid once. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** SERP API, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [Serper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serper): Google search results API sold in prepaid credit packs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/searchcans-vs-serper) - [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. 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