# VALUE SERP review (2026): is it worth $25? > Low-cost Google results API from Traject Data, now part of ScraperAPI Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA. VALUE SERP is Traject Data's budget Google results API. It returns search, Maps, Shopping, News, product and place review results as JSON, HTML or CSV, with location and device targeting, and can run scheduled batches of up to 15,000 requests that are delivered to cloud storage. It is sold as monthly search plans or as pay-as-you-go requests. Traject Data has since been acquired by ScraperAPI. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** Traject Data (ScraperAPI) - **Website:** https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/ - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you need Bing or other engines, which Traject Data sells as SerpWow. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, VALUE SERP is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $25 one-time top-up for 10,000 requests, used as you go. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 100 free searches on sign-up, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Pay As You Go | $25 one-time top-up of 10,000 requests, used as you go | $2.50 per 1,000 requests with no commitment, at up to 250 real-time requests a minute. | | 25,000 Searches | $50 per month for 25,000 searches, billed annually ($56 billed monthly) | Extra requests at $1.60 per 1,000, up to 250 a minute and up to 10,000 batches. | | 50,000 Searches | $94 per month for 50,000 searches, billed annually ($105 billed monthly) | Extra requests at $1.50 per 1,000, up to 250 a minute. | | 100,000 Searches | $158 per month for 100,000 searches, billed annually ($175 billed monthly) | Extra requests at $1.35 per 1,000, up to 500 a minute. | | 200,000 Searches | $216 per month for 200,000 searches, billed annually ($240 billed monthly) | Extra requests at $1.20 per 1,000, up to 1,000 a minute. | | 1,000,000 Searches | $900 per month for 1M searches, billed annually ($1,000 billed monthly) | Extra requests at $1.00 per 1,000, up to 1,500 a minute. Larger plans run to 20 million searches. | Read from https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with VALUE SERP before buying. ## Ways to pay less - **10% off with annual billing** (Annual discount): VALUE SERP's pricing page takes 10% off for annual billing: the 100,000-search plan is $158 a month billed annually against $175 billed monthly. Source: https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/pricing/ ## Key features - **Google endpoints:** Search, Google Maps places, Shopping, News, product details by product ID and place reviews. - **Location and device targeting:** A Locations API finds supported Google locations to add to requests, and results can be filtered to a device type. - **Batches:** Schedule up to 15,000 requests at a time to run monthly, weekly, daily, hourly or on demand, with results back in a few minutes. - **Cloud destinations:** Batch results can be sent to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Alibaba Cloud OSS or other S3-compatible storage. - **Full-browser rendering:** Pages are rendered in an in-memory browser, images on the page are extracted, and linked pages can be fetched in follow-up requests at no extra cost. ## Good for - Budget-minded teams that only need Google results - Scheduled rank and SERP snapshots delivered to cloud storage - Occasional use paid for with a small pay-as-you-go purchase ## Worth knowing - It covers Google only; Traject Data's SerpWow is the product for other search engines. - Plans also come at 500,000 searches and from 2 million to 20 million a month, at $575 to $10,000 billed monthly. - Searches beyond a plan's allowance are billed per 1,000 requests, from $1.60 on the smallest plan. - Traject Data was acquired by ScraperAPI, which says it is moving Traject's APIs onto its own infrastructure. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. VALUE SERP is Traject Data's lower-cost Google API, sold as $25 of pay-as-you-go requests or as monthly plans, with scheduled batches sent to cloud storage. It covers Google only, and ScraperAPI, which bought Traject Data, says it is moving the API onto its own infrastructure. - **Value for money: B.** $25 buys 10,000 requests to use as you go, $2.50 per 1,000, inside this category's cheaper quarter. Monthly plans start at $50 for 25,000 searches on yearly billing ($56 monthly). - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan: 100 free searches on sign-up with no card, and then it's a $25 top-up. - **Features: C.** Google Search, Maps places, Shopping, News, product details and place reviews, with location and device targeting and batches of up to 15,000. Google only, though: the listing points to SerpWow for other engines. - **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: a Locations API to look up places, and batches that run on a schedule. No rating on record, and no client libraries named. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and batch delivery to Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage and Alibaba Cloud OSS. 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 Traject Data'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 - VALUE SERP'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 VALUE SERP 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 $25, paid once. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage and Azure Blob Storage 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 Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Alibaba Cloud OSS **Tags:** SERP API, Public API ## Alternatives - [Scale SERP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scale-serp): Google results API from Traject Data with a free monthly allowance. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scale-serp-vs-valueserp) - [SerpWow](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpwow): Multi-engine SERP API from Traject Data, now part of ScraperAPI. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/serpwow-vs-valueserp) - [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-valueserp) - [Serper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serper): Google search results API sold in prepaid credit packs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/serper-vs-valueserp) - [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-valueserp) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/pricing/ - https://trajectdata.com/serp/value-serp-api/ - https://trajectdata.com/pricing/ - https://trajectdata.com/faqs/ - https://docs.trajectdata.com/valueserp - https://www.scraperapi.com/blog/scraperapi-traject-data-acquisition/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/valueserp Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).