# Serply review (2026): is it worth $5? > Prepaid Google search API with a hosted MCP server for AI agents Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. Serply is a search API aimed at AI applications. Twelve REST endpoints cover Google Search, News, Maps, Images, Jobs, Scholar, Video and Product results, Bing, Reddit and eBay, plus a scraper that returns any page as markdown, and a hosted MCP server gives agents the same data as fourteen tools. It sells prepaid credit packs that never expire, at one credit per successful uncached request. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** Serply, Inc. - **Website:** https://serply.io - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need rankings by city, since location is a proxy country and 14 are listed. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, Serply is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $5 one-time for 2,500 credits (1 credit = 1 request), used as you go. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 2,500 free credits for new accounts, usable for 30 days, no card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Micro Pack | $5 one-time pack of 2,500 credits, used as you go | $2.00 per 1,000 requests; the smallest top-up once the free credits run out. | | Starter Pack | $15 one-time pack of 10,000 credits, used as you go | $1.50 per 1,000 requests. | | Growth Pack | $49 one-time pack of 50,000 credits, used as you go | $0.98 per 1,000 requests, the pack Serply recommends for production use. | | Pro Pack | $375 one-time pack of 500,000 credits, used as you go | $0.75 per 1,000 requests, the lowest self-serve rate. | | Scale Pack | $1,875 one-time pack of 2,500,000 credits, used as you go | Keeps the $0.75 per 1,000 rate in a larger balance. | | Max Pack | $7,500 one-time pack of 10,000,000 credits, used as you go | $0.75 per 1,000 requests; higher volumes and invoicing through enterprise pricing by email. | Read from https://serply.io/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Serply before buying. ## Key features - **Google search endpoints:** Organic results with the answer box, plus News, Maps, Images, Jobs, Scholar, Video and Product search, under one key and one set of headers. - **Bing, Reddit and eBay:** Bing results with ads and shopping ads, Reddit subreddits, posts, users and comment trees, and eBay search. - **Pages as markdown:** A scraping endpoint fetches any public page and returns it as markdown or JSON, with proxies, retries and CAPTCHAs handled by Serply. - **Hosted MCP server:** Point Claude, Cursor or another MCP client at Serply's server with an API key to get fourteen search and Reddit tools, billed like REST calls. - **Location and device headers:** Set the proxy country and a desktop or mobile user agent per request; the homepage lists 14 countries. ## Good for - Grounding AI agents in live Google results through MCP - Low or irregular volumes where a monthly plan would go unused - Teams moving off Google's Custom Search JSON API ## Worth knowing - Every endpoint, MCP tool calls included, costs one credit per request; the rate falls from $2.00 per 1,000 on Micro to $0.75 from Pro up. - Cached responses and failed requests cost nothing, and purchased credits never expire. - The 2,500 free sign-up credits lapse after 30 days. - Unused purchased credits are refunded in proportion if asked within 30 days of the charge. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Serply sells prepaid packs of Google, Bing, Reddit and eBay searches that never expire, from $5, with a hosted MCP server for AI agents. Location stops at a proxy country, with 14 listed, so it won't show you rankings for a city, and the free sign-up credits lapse after 30 days. - **Value for money: A.** $5 buys 2,500 requests that never expire, a first spend under 60% of this category's cheaper quarter, at $2 per 1,000; the $49 pack is $0.98. Unused credits can be refunded in proportion within 30 days. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan: 2,500 credits for new accounts with no card, and they lapse after 30 days. - **Features: C.** Google Search, News, Maps, Images, Jobs, Scholar, Video and Product, plus Bing, Reddit, eBay and pages as markdown. The gap for SEO work: location is a proxy country, and the homepage lists 14 of them. - **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: one key and one set of headers for every endpoint, and a hosted MCP server. No rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and a hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Windsurf. 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 Serply'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 - Serply's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 31 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). 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 Serply 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 2.6 is higher than 31 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade. It costs $5, paid once. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Claude, Cursor and Windsurf among them, and has an API. - 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. ## Works with Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, MCP **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/serper-vs-serply) - [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. 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