# SerpBase review (2026): is it worth $3 a month? > Search, social and shopping data API with 47 endpoints on one key Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. SerpBase is a data API with 47 endpoints that return clean JSON from Google (web, images, news, maps, shopping, jobs, scholar, trends and more), Bing and DuckDuckGo, as well as social sites, online stores and plain web pages. Each endpoint has a fixed price of 1 to 3 credits, and credits come from small monthly subscriptions or prepaid packs that do not expire. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** SerpBase - **Website:** https://serpbase.dev - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: requests that ran but failed may still use credits, and only failures proven never to have run are refunded. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, SerpBase is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $3 per month for 10,000 credits. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 100 free credits for every new account, no card needed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter Boost | $3 per month for 10,000 credits | A monthly subscription with time-limited credits at $0.30 per 1,000; it does not raise the request rate. | | Starter | $10 one-time for 20,000 credits, no calendar expiry | Prepaid pack at $0.50 per 1,000 credits, with 2 requests a second. | | Growth | $50 one-time for 125,000 credits, no calendar expiry | Prepaid pack at $0.40 per 1,000 credits, with 5 requests a second. | | Pro Monthly | $100 per month for 400,000 credits | A monthly subscription at $0.25 per 1,000 credits, with 10 requests a second. | | Pro | $200 one-time for 570,000 credits, no calendar expiry | Prepaid pack at $0.35 per 1,000 credits, with 15 requests a second. | | Business | $500 one-time for 1,500,000 credits, no calendar expiry | Prepaid pack at $0.33 per 1,000 credits and 15 requests a second. An Enterprise pack is $1,000 for 3.3M credits at 50 a second. | Read from https://serpbase.dev/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with SerpBase before buying. ## Key features - **Google search endpoints:** Web, images, news, videos, shopping, jobs, scholar, books, finance, patents, Play and Trends, plus autocomplete and Google Maps search, places and reviews. - **Parsed Google results:** Web search JSON includes organic results, the knowledge graph, the AI overview, People also ask and other modules on the page. - **Bing and DuckDuckGo:** Web search endpoints for Bing and DuckDuckGo, each at 1 credit a request. - **Social and shopping data:** Reddit, TikTok, X and YouTube (including transcripts), Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Flipkart and Myntra, and Zillow property search. - **Web scrape and crawl:** Fetch or crawl ordinary web pages through the same key, at 1 credit per request. - **MCP server and agent skill:** An open-source MCP server and a portable skill let Claude, Codex, Cursor, Cline and other agents call SerpBase with your key. ## Good for - Developers who need Google results and other sources on one key - Small projects: plans start at $3 a month or a $10 pack - AI agents that call search through MCP ## Worth knowing - Google web, image, news and video searches cost 1 credit; Maps searches, Shopping, Jobs, Scholar and Trends 2; Maps place details 3. - Requests that ran but failed may still use credits; only failures proven never to have run are refunded automatically. - The request rate rises with total prepaid top-ups, from 2 a second at $3 to 50 at $1,000; subscriptions do not count toward it. - Used credits are generally not refundable; payments go through a reseller such as Paddle, whose refund terms also apply. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. SerpBase has 47 endpoints that return JSON from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, social sites and online stores at a fixed 1 to 3 credits each, from a $3 monthly plan or prepaid packs. Requests that run but fail may still use credits, and the request rate only rises with what you've prepaid, starting at 2 a second. - **Value for money: A.** Starter Boost is $3 a month for 10,000 credits, under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter, and a $10 pack of 20,000 credits has no calendar expiry. A Google web search is 1 credit, so that's $0.25 to $0.50 per 1,000. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan: 100 credits for a new account with no card, enough for a quick test and no more. - **Features: B.** Google web, images, news, video, shopping, jobs, scholar, Trends and Maps, with the AI overview and People also ask parsed out, plus Bing, DuckDuckGo, social sites, stores and plain page scraping. 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: a fixed credit price per endpoint and an MCP server. No rating on record, and the request rate depends on how much you've prepaid in total. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API, an open-source MCP server and an agent skill for Claude, Codex, Cursor, Cline 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 SerpBase'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 - SerpBase'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 value for money (A, above 35 of 38) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $3 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 0 of the 25 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4, and no tool on the category's chart scores higher without costing more. 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 SerpBase 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 $36 a year. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude, Codex and Cursor among them, and has an API. - 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 Claude, Codex, Cursor, Cline, OpenClaw **Tags:** SERP API, Public API ## Alternatives - [Serper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serper): Google search results API sold in prepaid credit packs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/serpbase-vs-serper) - [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. 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