Serper
Low-cost, high-speed Google Search API (SERP data) for AI agents, RAG pipelines, and SEO tools, billed per-query with no subscription.
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Serper is a pay-as-you-go Google SERP API returning structured web, image, news, maps, places, video, shopping, scholar, patent, and autocomplete results in 1-2 seconds, marketed as one of the cheapest production Google Search APIs available. Pricing is purely usage-based via prepaid credit packs with no monthly subscription, starting with a one-time free tier of 2,500 queries (no credit card required) and scaling from $1.00 per 1,000 queries down to $0.30 per 1,000 queries at its highest volume tier. The product is REST-only with no official language SDKs published (only community client libraries exist), and no official MCP server has been identified.
Pricing
| Tier | Price | Key features |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/one_time | No credit card required, Access to Search, Images, News, Maps, Places, Videos, Shopping, Scholar, Patents, Autocomplete endpoints |
| Starter | $50/one_time | 50 queries per second, Real-time results, Customizable query location, Credits valid for 6 months |
| Standard | $375/one_time | 100 queries per second, Credits valid for 6 months |
| Scale | $1250/one_time | 200 queries per second, Credits valid for 6 months |
| Ultimate | $3750/one_time | 300 queries per second (~15,000-18,000 searches/minute), Credits valid for 6 months |
Source: https://serper.dev
Agent-readiness
- Discoverability
- 60/100
- Machine-readable content
- 50/100
- Programmatic access
- 58/100
- MCP / agent support
- 15/100
- Self-serve transactability
- 88/100
- Transparency
- 85/100
Security & compliance
- SSO / SAML
- Not publicly documented
- Encryption at rest
- Not publicly documented
- Encryption in transit
- Yes
- Audit log
- Not publicly documented
- Pentest report
- Not publicly documented
"Not publicly documented" means Crail found no public evidence either way — not a confirmed absence. See our methodology.
FAQ
Does Serper have a free tier?
Yes, Serper offers a free tier or free trial.
Can you buy Serper without talking to sales?
Yes, Serper can be purchased self-serve without a sales call.
Does Serper have an official MCP (Model Context Protocol) server?
Not as of 2026-07-27 — no official MCP server was found.
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Methodology & disclosure
Data verified via agent crawled, last checked 2026-07-27. Agent-readiness methodology version crail-ar-v0.1. No vendor payment influences these scores — see our methodology page.