Best rank tracker API: 7 Google APIs compared

A rank tracker API answers one question: where does my domain sit on Google for this keyword, in this country, on this device? Any Google results endpoint can answer it. The catch is depth. If your page sits at position 40 and the call returns ten results, you pay for four calls to find it. This post ranks the rank tracking API options in the looot catalog by the price of one Google results call, and says how deep each one reads.

Below: a short answer, live prices, one section per provider with its limits, a guide for choosing, a prompt and a FAQ.

Best rank tracker API: the short answer

Each bullet names one need. No provider wins all of them.

• AnyAPI, best for checking keywords where you already rank on page one: a flat price per call for about ten results.
• Serper, best for reading the top hundred in one call: up to a hundred results still bill as one credit.
• ScrapeCreators, best for a quick country check that stays shallow: page by page, up to page eleven.
• DataForSEO, best for the ranked keywords view: every keyword a domain ranks for, from one call.
• SearchApi, best for desktop and mobile positions side by side: a dedicated rank tracking endpoint with up to a hundred results.
• Cloro, best for seeing what sits around your link: People Also Ask, the local pack and ads on the same page.
• SerpApi, best for raw result blocks next to the organic list: answer box, related questions and local results.

Prices are read from the catalog when the page loads, one row per provider. The second table covers the two endpoints built for rank work.

How we ranked these rank tracker APIs

We read the public looot catalog on 2026-11-04. Every provider below has an endpoint tagged google_serp_organic. We ordered them by the price of that endpoint, cheapest first, and for a provider with several such endpoints we used its cheapest one. SearchApi and Cloro tie on price. We placed SearchApi first because it has far more related capabilities in the catalog, one of them a dedicated rank tracking endpoint.

Cloro is the one per-page provider. Its catalog price is the first page, and each extra page adds to the charge, so we placed it by that first-page price. A cheap call is not always a cheap keyword check. If your page sits on page four, a ten-result endpoint needs four calls where a hundred-result endpoint needs one.

We did not run these endpoints for this post. The catalog publishes no measured success rate or speed for them, so we rank on none and quote none. Tools that track positions inside their own app are out of scope. The live ranking also sits on the rank tracker API page.

1. AnyAPI, best for page-one checks at a flat price

The AnyAPI Google Search endpoint (capability google_serp_organic) returns the organic results as JSON: title, link, snippet and position. Its catalog description says it returns about ten results per call and bills a flat price per request, whatever comes back. You walk deeper by sending page 2, page 3 and so on, one call each. The same description says Google stopped honoring bulk result counts in September 2025, which is why a limit above ten returns no more than a page.

Best for

• Checking a short list of keywords where you already sit in the top ten.
• A quick look at your top ten terms after a page update.

Strengths

• A flat price per request, the same whether the page holds ten results or two.

Limits

• About ten results per call. A page at position 40 costs four calls to find.
• The description names no device or country setting.

Does not fit anyone tracking keywords where they rank on page three or lower.

2. Serper, best for the top hundred in one call

Serper's Google search endpoint returns organic results with title, link, snippet and position, plus the knowledge graph, answer box, People Also Ask and related searches. The line that matters for rank work is in its catalog description: "num up to 100 still costs 1 credit". One call reads the top hundred, so one keyword check is one call. See the Serper MCP page.

Best for

• Finding a page anywhere in the top hundred with one call per keyword.
• A long keyword list where most terms sit past page one.

Strengths

• Depth and price together: a hundred results for the price of one search.
• The extra blocks show whether an answer box pushes your link down.

Limits

• The catalog description does not list device or location settings. Read the endpoint inputs before you rely on a mobile position.
• Google only, no other engine on this endpoint.

Does not fit a team that needs mobile and desktop positions confirmed from the description alone.

3. ScrapeCreators, best for a shallow country check

The ScrapeCreators search endpoint returns the URL, title and description of each organic result. It takes an optional region, a two-letter country code, for localized results. Pages 1 through 11 work, and page 12 or higher returns a 400 error.

Best for

• Checking whether you appear on page one in another country.
• An agent that already uses this provider for social data and wants one key.

Strengths

• A country setting in one short parameter.

Limits

• One page per call, and nothing past page 11.
• The description lists no position field and no device setting. Your agent counts the rank from the order of results.

Does not fit deep tracking, or anyone who needs mobile results.

4. DataForSEO, best for the ranked keywords view

DataForSEO has several Google organic endpoints. The regular one returns a plain ranked list with title, URL, description and position. The advanced one returns the full page with snippets, featured blocks and ads. Both take tasks, a list of objects each with a keyword, a location_name and a language_code, and the charge follows DataForSEO's reported cost. The reason to pick it for rank work is a second endpoint, dataforseolabs_google_ranked-keywords_live-ai. You give it a domain or a page, and it returns the list of keywords that domain ranks for, with the SERP elements at each position, impressions and search volume. See the DataForSEO MCP page.

Best for

• Finding every keyword a competitor ranks for before you pick what to track.
• Tracking positions with search volume next to them.

Strengths

• The ranked keywords view answers "what do we rank for" without a keyword list.
• Location and language are named fields in every task.

Limits

• The task format is more verbose than a single query string.
• The descriptions do not say how many results one organic call returns or whether a device setting exists.
• The ranked keywords endpoint costs more per call than its organic results calls.

Does not fit a quick one-keyword check from a short prompt.

5. SearchApi, best for desktop and mobile positions

SearchApi's general Google endpoint takes q, with location, gl, hl, device, time_period and page to refine it, and returns organic_results, ads, the knowledge graph and other blocks. For rank work it has a dedicated endpoint, search_google-rank-tracking. Its description says it returns up to a hundred organic results set with a num parameter, supports desktop and mobile, supports location-based searches and works across all Google domains and languages. It returns organic results only.

Best for

• Tracking the same keyword on desktop and mobile in one market.
• Checks across several Google country domains.

Strengths

• The only endpoint in this list built for rank tracking, with device, location and depth all in the description.

Limits

• Charged per search, also when no results come back.
• The rank tracking endpoint has no answer box or People Also Ask. Use the general endpoint for those.

Does not fit someone who wants the whole results page in the same call as the position.

6. Cloro, best for what sits around your link

Cloro's Google endpoint returns a parsed page for a keyword from a chosen country: organic results with sitelinks, People Also Ask, related searches, the local pack, the knowledge graph, shopping cards and sponsored ads. It bills by pages. The first page costs five Cloro credits and each extra page adds two, up to ten pages. A failed extraction is not charged.

Best for

• Seeing whether a local pack or ads push your organic link below the fold.
• Teams that also check AI answers, since Cloro covers AI Overview, AI Mode and ChatGPT answers too.

Strengths

• A failed extraction costs nothing.
• Up to ten pages in one request when you need depth.

Limits

• Depth is not free. Each extra page adds to the charge.
• The description names a country, not a device.

Does not fit a large keyword list where you only need the position number.

7. SerpApi, best for raw result blocks

SerpApi's Google search endpoint returns raw SerpApi JSON: organic_results, knowledge_graph, answer_box, related_questions, local_results, ads and top_stories. A search ran when search_metadata.status reads Success. The same provider covers Bing, Google Trends and YouTube search in the catalog.

Best for

• An agent that already parses SerpApi responses.
• Comparing a Google position with a Bing one from the same provider.

Strengths

• Many result blocks in one response.

Limits

• Last in the price ranking. Check the live table before a long list.
• The catalog description does not state depth per call, device or location settings.

Does not fit a cost-sensitive check on hundreds of keywords.

How to choose a rank tracking API

Settle depth first, because depth decides how many calls one keyword costs. Then compare price per call.

Where do your pages rank?

On page one, AnyAPI or ScrapeCreators do the job in one call. Past page one, use Serper or the SearchApi rank tracking endpoint, which read up to a hundred results per call.

Do you need device and market?

For mobile and desktop positions, SearchApi is the only one whose description names a device setting. DataForSEO names location and language. ScrapeCreators and Cloro name a country.

Do you know which keywords to track?

If not, start with the DataForSEO ranked keywords endpoint on your domain or a competitor's. It returns the keywords and their positions, which becomes your tracking list.

Do you need checks on a timer?

Re-checking positions every morning needs a timer, and that needs scheduled runs, not available yet. Run the prompt below by hand and have the agent store the date with each position.

Try it

Paste this into an agent. The step-by-step request lives on the rank tracking use case.

What this post does not cover

It covers Google organic results and the two rank endpoints above. It does not cover Bing positions, AI answer visibility or tools that keep rank history inside their own app. It makes no claim about accuracy or speed, because the catalog publishes no measured rate for these endpoints. Providers in the live catalog that are not in our blog's provider snapshot, dated 2026-10-12, are left out. Browse the rest on the public catalog.

Last checked 2026-11-04 against the public catalog at https://api.looot.ai/v1/public-catalog. Author: the looot team.