SerpApi pricing: what every plan costs
Every plan, and what the same searches cost as prepaid credits.
How much does SerpApi cost?
SerpApi publishes its prices, which already puts it ahead of half the data market. Numbers below are from serpapi.com/pricing, checked July 27, 2026.
| Plan | Monthly price | Searches / month | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 250 | $0 |
| Starter | $25 | 1,000 | $25.00 |
| Developer | $75 | 5,000 | $15.00 |
| Production | $150 | 15,000 | $10.00 |
| Big Data | $275 | 30,000 | $9.17 |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Quoted |
Two details worth knowing before you subscribe. First, the allotment is monthly: your searches belong to that billing cycle.
Second, when a busy month burns through the plan early, SerpApi's pricing FAQ points to Automatic Early Renewal, which starts a fresh billing cycle as soon as the searches run out. A traffic spike can turn one month into two charges.
What one search actually costs
Subscriptions hide the unit price, so here it is per 1,000 searches on each plan.
On Starter you pay $25.00 per 1,000. Developer brings it to $15.00, Production to $10.00, and Big Data to $9.17.
The rate only improves by committing to a bigger month, every month. Prepaid credits price the same work at $1.96 per 1,000 on the $49 pack, with no monthly commitment to maintain.
5,000 searches a month, both ways
A steady mid-size workload, priced over one year.
What data do you get?
One request against the web endpoint, one flat credit, real Google results back as clean JSON.
The organic results as CSV, ready for Sheets or a database:
Sample rows as CSV, exactly as exported
| title | link | date | position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 of the Best CRM Software Companies to Know About for ... | https://solutionsreview.com/crm/2026/01/05/best-crm-companies-to-know-about/ | Jan 5, 2026 | 1 |
| What's the best CRM you're using right now and why? | https://www.reddit.com/r/CRM/comments/1o0r9ot/whats_the_best_crm_youre_using_right_now_and_why/ | 10 months ago | 2 |
| Best CRM Software: Everything To Consider | https://www.salesforce.com/crm/best-crm/ | 3 | |
| Best CRM Software: User Reviews from August 2026 | https://www.g2.com/categories/crm | Mar 5, 2025 | 5 |
| The 11 best CRM software in 2026 | https://zapier.com/blog/best-crm-app/ | Jun 22, 2026 | 6 |
| Best CRM Customer Engagement Center Reviews 2026 | https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/crm-customer-engagement-center | 7 |
And the top result as JSON:
Subscription vs prepaid credits
Same Google results on both sides. The difference is how you buy them and what happens to what you do not use.
| SerpApi | CrustAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Buy model | Monthly subscription | Prepaid credits, self-serve |
| Entry price | $25 / month for 1,000 | $49 once for 25,000 |
| Per 1,000 searches | $9.17 to $25.00 | $0.40 to $1.96 |
| Free tier | 250 searches / month | 3,000 credits / month |
| Unused volume | Belongs to the billing cycle | Credits never expire |
| Engines beyond Google | Dozens (Bing, Baidu, eBay, more) | Google only, done deeply |
| Ran out mid-month | Automatic Early Renewal | Top up any pack, or wait |
Pick SerpApi when you need engines beyond Google: it maintains parsers for dozens of search engines, includes its U.S. Legal Shield on every plan, and has years of production history. Maintaining Bing, Baidu, and eBay parsers costs real money, and their price reflects that scope. We only do Google, and the price reflects that too.
How much does CrustAPI cost?
Every web search costs 1 credit, flat, no matter how many results come back. A search that returns nothing costs nothing.
| What you run | Credits | You pay |
|---|---|---|
| 3,000 searches a month | 3,000 free | $0, no card |
| 25,000 searches | 25,000 | $49 ($1.96 per 1,000) |
| 100,000 searches | 100,000 | $149 ($1.49 per 1,000) |
| 500,000 searches | 500,000 | $549 ($1.10 per 1,000) |
| 2.5 million searches | 2,500,000 | $1,999 ($0.80 per 1,000) |
Packs continue up to 250 million credits for $100,000, which is $0.40 per 1,000. Prices ex-tax.
No plans to size and no cycles to watch. Credits are prepaid, self-serve, and never expire.
How do you get started?
No subscription to size first. From zero to real results in about two minutes:
- 1
Create a free account. You get 3,000 credits a month, no card needed.
- 2
Type a search in the playground. Something like best crm software. The results land in a table.
- 3
Export the CSV, or copy your key from the dashboard and run the curl above for JSON.
Who switches to prepaid?
- Rank trackers. Crawl schedules are bursty; credits wait between runs instead of expiring with the month.
- AI agent builders. Agents search in spikes. A flat credit per search keeps the bill predictable.
- Lead gen teams. Web results per search plus Google Maps businesses per result, from one key.
- Project agencies. Buy one pack per project; whatever is left keeps its full value.
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Common questions
SerpApi's published plans run $25 a month for 1,000 searches (Starter), $75 for 5,000 (Developer), $150 for 15,000 (Production), and $275 for 30,000 (Big Data), with custom Enterprise plans above that. Numbers checked on serpapi.com/pricing, July 27, 2026.
Yes. The free tier includes 250 searches a month with no card required. For comparison, CrustAPI's free tier is 3,000 credits a month, also with no card.
SerpApi's pricing FAQ points to Automatic Early Renewal: once you use all your searches, a new billing cycle can start early. A spike month can mean two charges instead of one.
Per 1,000 searches, SerpApi works out to $25.00 on Starter, $15.00 on Developer, $10.00 on Production, and $9.17 on Big Data. CrustAPI's prepaid packs run $1.96 per 1,000 at entry and fall to about $0.40 per 1,000 at the largest pack.
One credit per web search, flat, regardless of result count, and empty searches are free. Credits are prepaid, start at $49 for 25,000, and never expire. 3,000 free credits arrive every month.
It depends on your load. A steady, predictable monthly volume can suit a subscription. Bursty or project-based work usually wastes subscription months, which is exactly what prepaid credits that never expire avoid.
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See the price before you commit
Run a real search on the free tier, look at the JSON, and do the per-thousand math yourself. 3,000 credits every month, no card.
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