# Serper review (2026): is it worth $50? > Google search results API sold in prepaid credit packs Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Serper is an API that returns live Google results as JSON, usually in one to two seconds, for web search, images, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, Scholar, patents and autocomplete. Results are fetched fresh for each call rather than cached. There is no subscription: credits are bought in packs, and larger packs cost less per query. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** Serper.dev - **Website:** https://serper.dev - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need Bing, Yahoo or any engine other than Google. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Serper is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $50 one-time for 50,000 credits ($1.00 per 1,000 queries). - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 2,500 free queries, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Starter | $50 one-time for 50,000 credits, valid for 6 months | 50,000 queries at $1.00 per 1,000, up to 50 queries a second. Prices exclude sales tax or VAT. | | Standard | $375 one-time for 500,000 credits, valid for 6 months | 500,000 queries at $0.75 per 1,000, up to 100 queries a second. | | Scale | $1,250 one-time for 2.5 million credits, valid for 6 months | 2.5 million queries at $0.50 per 1,000, up to 200 queries a second. | | Ultimate | $3,750 one-time for 12.5 million credits, valid for 6 months | 12.5 million queries at $0.30 per 1,000, up to 300 queries a second; a higher limit can be arranged. | Read from https://serper.dev/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Serper before buying. ## Key features - **Ten Google result types:** Endpoints for Google web search, images, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, Scholar, patents and autocomplete. - **Live results:** Each call queries Google directly and nothing is cached; most results return in 1 to 2 seconds, sometimes 2 to 4 when a request is retried. - **Location and language:** Every pack lets you set the country and language a search is run from. - **Rate limits by pack:** From 50 queries a second on Starter to 300 on Ultimate, which Serper says is roughly 15,000 to 18,000 searches a minute. - **Charged on success:** Credits are deducted only for successful responses, and the API stops taking queries when the balance reaches zero. - **AI framework integrations:** Listed integrations with LangChain, CrewAI, Haystack and Jan AI for feeding search results to AI agents and chatbots. ## Good for - AI chatbots and agents that need current Google results - High-volume jobs where a low price per query matters most - Developers who prefer prepaid credits to a monthly plan ## Worth knowing - Its site lists Google endpoints only, with no Bing, Yahoo or other search engines. - Credits expire 6 months after purchase, so a large pack bought for a lower rate can go unused. - Refunds are given within 7 days of the first payment only if less than 20% of the credits are used. - The 2,500 free queries are a one-time allowance, not a monthly free plan. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Serper returns live Google results as JSON from prepaid packs, at $1 per 1,000 queries on the smallest. It covers Google and nothing else, and credits expire 6 months after you buy them, so a big pack bought for the lower rate can go to waste. - **Value for money: B.** $50 buys 50,000 Google queries, $1 per 1,000, one of the lowest rates in this category, and bigger packs fall to $0.30. The first spend is at the dear end of the usual $25 to $50, though, and the credits lapse after 6 months. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan, but 2,500 free queries with no card. They're a one-off, not a monthly allowance. - **Features: C.** Ten Google result types, from web and maps to Scholar, patents and autocomplete, fetched live with country and language set. Google only, though: no Bing, Yahoo or other engine, which the listing itself points out. - **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: most results in 1 to 2 seconds and 2,500 free queries to test with. No rating on record, and no client libraries named. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and listed integrations with LangChain, CrewAI, Haystack and Jan AI. 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 Serper'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 - Serper's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 16 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 14. - 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 Serper 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 costs $50, paid once. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: It plugs into other products, LangChain, CrewAI and Haystack 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 LangChain, CrewAI, Haystack, Jan AI **Tags:** SERP API, Public API ## Alternatives - [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/serpapi-vs-serper) - [SearchApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/searchapi): Real-time SERP API for Google, AI answers and dozens of other sites. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/searchapi-vs-serper) - [DataForSEO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/dataforseo): Pay-as-you-go APIs for SERP, keyword, backlink and AI mention data. 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