# SerpApi alternatives for AI agents SerpApi alternatives for an AI agent: 5 of 7 SerpApi jobs covered, 1 partly, each priced per call. See which jobs move to an agent and which stay. ## Live prices Prices read on 2026-11-04 from the live looot catalog. They change when a provider changes its price. | What SerpApi does | Cheapest provider on looot | Price | |---|---|---| | Google results as JSON | Serper | $0.0010 per call | | Google Maps and local results | Serper | $0.0010 per call | | Google News results | Serper | $0.0010 per search | | Google Images results | Serper | $0.0010 per call | | Bing results | DataForSEO | $0.0020 per call | | Google AI Mode answers | DataForSEO | $0.0020 per call | | Legal cover for scraped results | not on looot | no price | ## The honest answer An API that returns Google, Bing and other search engine result pages as JSON, sold as monthly search plans. For an AI agent running looot, the verdict on SerpApi is kinda. 5 of the 7 jobs we compared are covered and 1 more partly. Covered: google results as json, google maps and local results, google news results, google images results and bing results. Partly covered: google ai mode answers. Not covered: legal cover for scraped results. For these, keep SerpApi or use another tool beside looot. ## Other tools in the same job - Apify (/can-i-replace/apify): verdict kinda. - ScraperAPI (/can-i-replace/scraperapi): verdict yes. - ScrapingBee (/can-i-replace/scrapingbee): verdict yes. - Outscraper (/can-i-replace/outscraper): verdict yes. - Hexomatic (/can-i-replace/hexomatic): verdict kinda. - Firecrawl (/can-i-replace/firecrawl): verdict kinda. ## Or let your agent do the SerpApi jobs - Google results as JSON: covered. Providers: serper, searchapi-io, dataforseo, serpapi. - Google Maps and local results: covered. Providers: serper, searchapi-io, dataforseo, serpapi. - Google News results: covered. Providers: serpapi, serper, dataforseo. - Google Images results: covered. Providers: serper, dataforseo, serpapi. - Bing results: covered. Providers: dataforseo, serpapi. - Google AI Mode answers: partly covered. Providers: serpapi, dataforseo, cloro. Fewer providers return AI Mode, and the answer shape differs by provider. - Legal cover for scraped results: not covered. looot passes on each provider's terms and adds no legal shield of its own. ## SerpApi alternative for Google results from an agent The job behind most SerpApi plans is one call: a keyword in, the Google results page out as JSON. With looot your agent runs that job, google.serp.organic, on Serper, SearchAPI.io, DataForSEO or SerpApi itself, and reads the price of each before it runs. Maps, News, Images and Bing results work the same way, each as its own job. What looot does not add is SerpApi's U.S. Legal Shield: you rely on the terms of the provider you call. ## Agent prompt to replace SerpApi Use looot to get the Google results for the keywords I give you, in the country I name, and return the top ten organic results for each as a table with position, title and URL. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table. ## SerpApi versus an agent running looot - What it is: An API that returns Google, Bing and other search engine result pages as JSON, sold as monthly search plans. | Your own agent calling looot endpoints and writing the result where you ask. - Jobs compared: 7 jobs | 5 covered, 1 partly - Not covered: legal cover for scraped results | 1 job the agent cannot do through looot - How you use it: The SerpApi app | A prompt to the agent you already use - Pick SerpApi if: You need legal cover for scraped results, or you would rather click through its own app than prompt an agent. | You want an agent to run the job and pay per call, with no plan to manage. - How you pay: See SerpApi for its own terms | Pay per call, with the price shown before each run - Last reviewed: 2026-11-03 | Prices read live from the catalog ## Why do people look for a SerpApi alternative? Mostly the plan. SerpApi sells a fixed number of searches each month with a guaranteed throughput of searches per hour, and its free plan holds 250 searches each month (https://serpapi.com/pricing, read 2026-11-03). If your volume jumps around, a fixed monthly quota either runs out or goes unused. On looot each search is one paid call at the price shown before it runs. ## Is there a free SerpApi alternative? Not on looot: there is no free tier, but there is no plan either, so you pay only for the searches you run. SerpApi's own free plan of 250 searches is fine for testing. For a production agent, compare the live price of each Google results provider in the jobs list on this page. ## Does SerpApi charge for failed searches? SerpApi says only successful searches count toward the monthly total, and cached, errored and failed searches do not (https://serpapi.com/pricing, read 2026-11-03). looot works the same way for a provider error: a call that fails at the provider is not charged. ## What are the best SerpApi alternatives? Tools in the same category include Apify, ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, Outscraper, Hexomatic and Firecrawl. We do not rank them as best. Pick by the jobs you need done, and compare the jobs listed on this page. ## Is there a SerpApi alternative for AI agents? It depends on the job. An agent running looot gets a verdict of kinda for SerpApi: 5 of 7 jobs covered, 1 partly. ## SerpApi vs looot, which fits an agent? SerpApi is an app you open and use. looot is a catalog of endpoints your own agent calls. SerpApi vs looot comes down to whether you want an app or an agent doing the jobs, and whether the jobs you need are in the covered list. ## Which SerpApi jobs can an agent do with looot? google results as json, google maps and local results, google news results, google images results, bing results and google ai mode answers. Coverage is checked against the live catalog, so a job drops to not covered when no priced endpoint exists. ## Which SerpApi jobs can an agent not do? legal cover for scraped results. Keep SerpApi for these, or use another tool beside looot. ## How do I replace SerpApi with an agent? Set up looot from https://looot.ai/skill.md, then paste the prompt on this page into the agent you already use. Edit it to match your own inputs. ## How does looot price a SerpApi alternative? looot charges per call. The jobs above show the cheapest live price for each, read from the catalog. When no priced endpoint exists the page says price on request. ## More - /can-i-replace/serpapi - Category: Scraping and data - /alternatives ## Agent skill for this page https://looot.ai/alternatives/serpapi/skill.md sets an agent up for exactly the jobs on this page, with the live price of each, and offers the page's starter task once the user has picked a job and seen the price. The line to give an agent is under "Give this to your agent" below. ## For agents ### Give this to your agent ```text set up looot for SerpApi jobs - https://looot.ai/alternatives/serpapi/skill.md ```