# Zenserp review (2026): is the free plan enough?

> SERP API for Google, Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo with monthly plans

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 by ToolGPA.

Zenserp is an API that returns live search results as JSON or Markdown: Google web, image, maps, news, shopping, trends, reverse image and YouTube results, plus Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo on paid plans. Paid plans also return Google AI Overviews, and from the Medium plan answers from AI engines such as ChatGPT and Perplexity, and keyword volume with CPC. Plans are monthly allowances of searches.

- **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs
- **Made by:** Apilayer Data Products GmbH
- **Website:** https://zenserp.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Tight if you're on Free, with 50 searches a month and Google Search only.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Zenserp has a free plan, and paid plans start at $49.99 per month for 25,000 searches, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** 50 searches a month of Google Search only, with email support. Other engines, result types and AI Overviews need a paid plan.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Free | $0 | 50 Google searches a month. |
| Small | $49.99 per month for 25,000 searches, billed monthly | $2.00 per 1,000. Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo, images, news, maps, shopping, trends, video, hotels, flights, jobs, Markdown and AI Overviews. |
| Medium | $149.99 per month for 100,000 searches, billed monthly | $1.50 per 1,000. Adds the batch endpoint, keyword volume and CPC, AI answer engines, personal support, onboarding and an SLA. |
| Large | $299.99 per month for 250,000 searches, billed monthly | $1.20 per 1,000, with everything in Medium. |
| Premium | $499.99 per month for 500,000 searches, billed monthly | $1.00 per 1,000, plus a custom queue. |
| Enterprise | $899 per month for 1,000,000 searches, billed monthly | $0.90 per 1,000, plus priority support. Above 1 million searches a month is a custom quote. |

Read from https://zenserp.com/pricing-plans/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Zenserp before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **20% off with yearly billing** (Annual discount): Zenserp's pricing page offers a 20% discount on a yearly subscription compared with paying monthly. Source: https://zenserp.com/pricing-plans/

## Key features

- **Google result types:** Web results with ads and snippets, plus image, maps, news, shopping, trends, reverse image and YouTube searches, with geolocated results.
- **Other search engines:** Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo results on every paid plan.
- **AI Overviews and answer engines:** Google AI Overviews with citations on paid plans, at 3 searches each, and answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and Copilot from Medium up.
- **Keyword volume and CPC:** Search volume and cost-per-click data come with the Medium plan and above.
- **Batch endpoint:** Send many queries in one batch from the Medium plan; Premium and Enterprise add a custom queue.
- **Only successful requests billed:** Invalid or failed requests do not count against the monthly limit, and email alerts go out at 90% and 100% of usage.

## Good for

- Small projects starting on a free Google allowance
- Developers who want Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo results from one key
- Teams needing AI Overview data alongside organic results

## Worth knowing

- The free plan's 50 searches cover Google Search only.
- Each AI Overview request uses 3 searches from the allowance.
- AI answer engines, keyword volume, the batch endpoint and the SLA start at Medium for $149.99 a month.
- Above 1 million searches a month is quoted by sales.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Zenserp returns Google, Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo results, with Google AI Overviews on paid plans, as monthly allowances of searches. The cheapest plan is $49.99, each AI Overview uses 3 searches, and batches, AI answer engines and keyword data only start at $149.99 a month.

- **Value for money: C.** Small is $49.99 a month for 25,000 searches, $2 per 1,000, at the dear end of this category's usual range. AI answer engines, keyword volume and the batch endpoint wait for Medium at $149.99.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan for good, but 50 searches a month, Google Search only. Other engines, result types and AI Overviews all need a paid plan.
- **Features: C.** Google with images, maps, news, shopping and trends, plus Bing, Yandex, DuckDuckGo and AI Overviews on paid plans. The gaps are in the listing: no batch endpoint, AI answer engines or keyword volume below $149.99 a month.
- **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: JSON or Markdown back, and usage emails at 90% and 100%. No rating on record, and no client libraries named.
- **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 Zenserp'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

- Zenserp's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 5.
- Its paid plans start at $49.99 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 20 of the 25 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 16 tools score higher and cost less.

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 Zenserp 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: 32 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. It costs $599.88 a year.

- 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.

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

## Alternatives

- [serpstack](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpstack): Google search results API from apilayer, with monthly search quotas. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/serpstack-vs-zenserp)
- [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-zenserp)
- [Serper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serper): Google search results API sold in prepaid credit packs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/serper-vs-zenserp)
- [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-zenserp)
- [VALUE SERP](https://toolgpa.com/tools/valueserp): Low-cost Google results API from Traject Data, now part of ScraperAPI. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/valueserp-vs-zenserp)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://zenserp.com/pricing-plans/
- https://zenserp.com/
- https://www.ideracorp.com/legal/apilayer

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