# SerpApi alternatives: 6 SERP APIs an agent can call SerpApi alternatives for Google results, ranked by live price per call from the looot catalog, with what each returns and which other engines it covers. ## Summary People look for SerpApi alternatives when the Google search bill grows faster than the project. SerpApi returns Google results as JSON, and it is in the looot catalog too, so you can price it next to the others. This post ranks six SERP APIs that return Google organic results, by the live price of one call. It covers what each returns, which other engines and result types it adds, a guide for choosing, a prompt and a FAQ. ## SerpApi alternatives: the short answer Every entry returns Google organic results. They differ in the extra blocks they parse and in what else the same account covers. - **AnyAPI**, best for plain organic results at volume: title, link, snippet and position as clean JSON. - **Serper**, best for one call that also returns People Also Ask, the answer box and related searches. - **Scrape Creators**, best when the same account already pulls social media data. - **DataForSEO**, best for SEO work that needs Bing, Yahoo, AI Mode and raw HTML from one vendor. - **SearchApi**, best for the widest spread of engines: Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, AI Overview and AI Mode. - **Cloro**, best for tracking AI answers: Google AI Overview and AI Mode next to ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini. | Provider | What the Google endpoint returns | Extra search capabilities in the catalog | Billing unit | |---|---|---|---| | AnyAPI | Organic title, link, snippet, position, about 10 per call | AI Overview, Google News, Maps search and reviews | Per call | | Serper | Organic plus knowledge graph, answer box, People Also Ask, related searches | News, Images, Videos, Shopping, Scholar, Patents, Maps, Lens | Per call | | Scrape Creators | Organic url, title, description, pages 1 to 11 | Google ad library, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram search | Per call | | DataForSEO | Ranked list, full page with featured blocks and ads, or raw HTML | Bing, Yahoo, AI Mode, News, Maps, SERP screenshot | Per call, follows DataForSEO's reported cost | | SearchApi | organic_results, ads, knowledge graph and other blocks | Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, AI Mode, AI Overview, News, Maps | Per call, also when empty | | Cloro | Organic with sitelinks, People Also Ask, local pack, shopping, ads | AI Overview, AI Mode, News, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini answers | Per call, more for extra pages | Prices are read from the catalog when the page loads, one row per provider. SerpApi sits in the last row as the baseline. It is not ranked. Google organic results, price per call. Prices read on 2026-11-10 from the live looot catalog. They change when a provider changes its price. | Option | Cheapest provider | Price per call | |---|---|---| | AnyAPI | AnyAPI | $0.0009 per call | | Serper | Serper | $0.0010 per call | | Scrape Creators | ScrapeCreators | $0.00188 per call | | DataForSEO | DataForSEO | $0.0020 per call | | SearchApi | SearchAPI.io | $0.0040 per call | | Cloro | Cloro | $0.0040 per call | | SerpApi, baseline | SerpApi | $0.0250 per call | ## How we ranked these SerpApi alternatives We read the public looot catalog on 2026-11-04. Each provider below has an endpoint tagged google_serp_organic. We ordered them by the price of one call, cheapest first. DataForSEO lists several such endpoints, so we used its cheapest. Every endpoint here bills per call, not per result, so no conversion was needed. SearchApi and Cloro start at the same price. The tie-break is breadth: SearchApi covers more search engines in the catalog, so it goes first. Cloro's listed price is for page 1, and each extra page costs more, which also counts against it. We did not run these endpoints for this post. The catalog publishes no measured success rate or speed for them, so we rank on neither. Oxylabs also has a Google endpoint in the catalog, but the blog cannot price it yet, so it is left out. ## 1. AnyAPI, best for plain organic results at volume The endpoint anyapi-run-google-search runs a Google web search and returns the organic results as JSON: title, link, snippet and position. The description says it returns about 10 results per call. A higher limit is accepted but gives no more than one page, so you send page 2, 3 and so on to go deeper. The price is flat per request, whatever comes back. The catalog lists four routing lanes, and a failed attempt moves to the next lane only if your payment covers that lane's price. **Best for** - Checking where 500 keywords rank on page 1. - Feeding titles and links to an agent that writes a summary. **Strengths** - The response is a small, normalized list, so the agent parses little. - The same account has Google AI Overview, Google News and Maps endpoints. **Limits** - Organic results only. No People Also Ask, answer box or ads in the described output. - Depth costs one call per page of about 10 results. **Does not fit** a job that reads the SERP features around the links. ## 2. Serper, best for SERP features in one call The endpoint serper-search returns Google web results: organic results with title, link, snippet and position, plus knowledgeGraph, answerBox, peopleAlsoAsk and relatedSearches. The catalog says num up to 100 still costs one credit. Serper also has separate endpoints for Google News, Images, Videos, Shopping, Scholar, Patents, Maps, Places, reviews and Lens. **Best for** - Pulling People Also Ask questions for a content brief. - Agents that need the answer box before they open any link. **Strengths** - One response holds the links and the blocks around them. - Wide Google coverage under one key: Scholar, Patents and Shopping each have an endpoint. **Limits** - Google only. The catalog lists no Bing or Yahoo endpoint for Serper. - The catalog says num up to 100 costs one credit, but it does not say how many results come back above 10. **Does not fit** tracking AI Overviews or AI Mode, which Serper does not list. ## 3. Scrape Creators, best when you already pull social data The endpoint scrapecreators-google-search runs a Google search and returns the organic results with url, title and description. An optional region parameter takes a two-letter country code. Pages 1 through 11 work. A request for page 12 or later returns a 400 error. The provider's other endpoints are mostly social: YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Reddit, Threads and several ad libraries. **Best for** - A creator research flow that needs one Google check per name. - Teams that already use Scrape Creators for TikTok or YouTube. **Strengths** - Country targeting with one short parameter. - The same account covers the Google ad library and Google ad details. **Limits** - No position field, no snippets beyond the description, no SERP features. - Stops at page 11. **Does not fit** rank tracking past page 11 or any SEO audit that needs the full page. ## 4. DataForSEO, best for SEO work across engines DataForSEO lists 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. An HTML one returns the raw page. Each takes tasks, a list of objects with keyword, location_name and language_code, and answers in the same call. **Best for** - An SEO tool that also needs Bing and Yahoo rankings for the same keyword. - Saving the raw HTML of a SERP for a later audit. **Strengths** - One vendor for Google, Bing, Yahoo, Google AI Mode, News and Maps. - Three output shapes, so you pay for parsing only when you need it. - A SERP screenshot endpoint for proof of what the page showed. **Limits** - The charge follows DataForSEO's reported cost, so a call can differ from the listed price. - Several near-duplicate endpoints exist. Pick the shape before the run. **Does not fit** someone who wants one query parameter and nothing else to learn. ## 5. SearchApi, best for the widest set of engines The endpoint searchapi-io-google searches Google. You send q, and location, gl, hl, device, time_period and page refine it. It returns organic_results, ads, the knowledge graph and other result blocks. The catalog lists separate SearchApi endpoints for Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, Yandex, Naver, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview, Google News and Google Maps. **Best for** - Comparing the same query across Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo. - Mobile versus desktop checks, using the device parameter. **Strengths** - The broadest engine list of any entry, under one account. - A Google rank tracking endpoint that returns up to 100 organic results. **Limits** - The catalog says it charges per search, also when no results come back. - Its AI Overview endpoint usually takes a page_token from a Google search response, so that check costs two calls. **Does not fit** a large loop of queries that often return nothing. ## 6. Cloro, best for tracking AI answers The endpoint cloro-monitor-google returns a parsed Google SERP from a chosen country: organic results with sitelinks, People Also Ask, related searches, local pack, knowledge graph, shopping cards and sponsored ads. Cloro bills five credits for page 1 and two more for each extra page, up to ten pages. A failed extraction is not charged. The same account runs prompts through Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini. **Best for** - Brand visibility checks that compare Google results with AI answers. - Local searches where the local pack matters. **Strengths** - A failed extraction costs nothing, per the catalog. - AI Overview and AI Mode endpoints return the cited sources. **Limits** - Each extra page raises the price of the call. - Each engine refuses some countries. Cloro has a free endpoint that lists them, so check it first. **Does not fit** deep rank tracking across ten pages per keyword at the lowest cost. ## How to choose ### What do you need back? Links and positions only: AnyAPI or Scrape Creators. The blocks around the links, such as People Also Ask and the answer box: Serper, SearchApi or Cloro. The raw page: DataForSEO's HTML endpoint. ### Do you need other engines or AI answers? Bing and Yahoo: DataForSEO or SearchApi. DuckDuckGo: SearchApi. Google AI Overview: AnyAPI, SearchApi or Cloro. AI Mode: DataForSEO, SearchApi or Cloro. ChatGPT, Copilot and Gemini answers: Cloro. ### How many queries do you run? At a few hundred a month, pick on the fields. At tens of thousands, the live table decides, and the billing notes matter: SearchApi bills empty searches, Cloro bills extra pages, and DataForSEO follows its own reported cost. [The SERP API cost post](https://looot.ai/blog/serp-api-cost-reading-the-live-catalog) shows how to work out cost per useful result. ### Does it need a timer? Rank checks on a timer need scheduled runs, not available yet, so run them by hand or from your own scheduler. ## Try it 1. Connect your agent to looot once with the setup line in the prompt. 2. Ask it to search the catalog for "Google search results". 3. Run two providers on the same five keywords and compare the fields. 4. Pick one and run the full list with a budget cap. Each provider with an MCP page shows the same one-line setup: [Serper](https://looot.ai/mcp/serper), [DataForSEO](https://looot.ai/mcp/dataforseo) and [SearchApi](https://looot.ai/mcp/searchapi-io). Every endpoint above is also listed in the [public catalog](https://looot.ai/public-catalog) with no sign in. ## What this post does not cover It covers Google organic results, one query per call. It does not cover keyword volume, backlinks or a hosted rank tracker. It makes no claim about accuracy or speed, because the catalog publishes neither for these endpoints. For a page that sets SerpApi next to the apps that replace it, see [SerpApi alternatives on looot](https://looot.ai/alternatives/serpapi). Last checked 2026-11-04 against the public catalog at https://api.looot.ai/v1/public-catalog. The blog's provider snapshot that renders the price table is dated 2026-10-12. Author: the looot team. ## Questions ### What are the best SerpApi alternatives? The six SERP APIs in this post: AnyAPI, Serper, Scrape Creators, DataForSEO, SearchApi and Cloro. Each returns Google organic results, and each adds different extras. The live table above orders them by the current price per call. ### What is the cheapest SERP API? The live price table above answers that, because prices change. It reads the catalog when the page loads. The [ranked SERP API page](/best/serp-api) holds the same order. Check the billing notes too, since some providers bill empty searches or extra pages. ### Is SerpApi in the looot catalog? Yes. SerpApi's Google endpoint returns organic_results, knowledge_graph, answer_box, related_questions, local_results, ads and top_stories as raw SerpApi JSON. It sits in the live table as a baseline row. We do not rank it, because the reader of this post wants to replace it. ### Which SerpApi alternative covers Bing and Yahoo? DataForSEO and SearchApi. Both list Bing and Yahoo endpoints in the catalog. SearchApi also lists DuckDuckGo, Baidu, Yandex and Naver. ### Is there a free SERP API? This post covers priced endpoints. No Google organic endpoint in the table is free. Cloro has free helper endpoints, such as the list of countries it can search from, but its SERP calls are priced. ### How does an agent call a SERP API through looot? The agent searches the catalog, reads an endpoint's inputs and price, then runs it with your token. The provider's own response comes back. Paste the prompt above to start. ### Should I call the provider's API directly? If you use one provider and are happy with its plan, yes. Through looot you keep one balance and one token, and you can switch providers without a new signup. You pay the endpoint's catalog price. ### Which one handles 10,000 queries a day? Every entry bills per call, so the cost is the price times the queries. Look at the limits before a run that large: Scrape Creators stops at page 11, Cloro bills extra pages, and SearchApi bills empty searches. Test a small batch first. ### Why are there no success rates or speed numbers? The catalog publishes no measured success rate or speed for these endpoints, so we show none. Run the same twenty keywords through two providers before a large run. ## For agents ### Compare Google SERP APIs ```text Use looot to compare Google search result APIs on my keywords. 1. Set up https://looot.ai/skill.md. 2. Search the catalog for "Google search results" and list each endpoint with its price per call. 3. Run the two cheapest on these five keywords and show title, link and position side by side. 4. Tell me before each call what it will cost, and stop if the total passes my budget. ```