SearchApi

SearchApi is a real-time SERP and search-data API that gives applications and AI agents structured access to results from 100+ search engines — Google Search, Google Maps, Google News, Google Scholar, Google Images, Google Shopping, Google Trends, Google Jobs, YouTube, Bing, Baidu, and marketplace engines like Amazon, Walmart, and eBay — returning clean JSON instead of scraped HTML. It handles proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and geographic/locale targeting server-side, and ships an MCP server plus "use-case bundles" that group selected endpoints around a job so agents can be handed a capability rather than a whole catalog. Used for SEO/rank tracking, market and price intelligence, RAG grounding, and agentic research workflows.

SearchApi is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: SERP API, Account & Analytics API, and Analytics API. Tagged areas include Search, SERP, Google Search, Web Scraping, and Search data.

The SearchApi catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

SearchApi’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, pricing, signup flow, support, changelog, and 30 more developer resources.

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Kin Score

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Composite quality — 57.8/100 · strong

Contract Quality 3.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 8.8 / 17

Access Clarity 17.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 7.3 / 11

Contract Governance 3.2 / 10

Discoverability 6.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 60/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's
Well-Known Catalog +4 pts — common[].type includes WellKnown, APICatalog, or api-catalog
Consent & Bot Identity +3 pts — common[].type includes AIPREF, ContentSignal, WebBotAuth, or HTTPMessageSignatures

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 13.9 — up to +21.5 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 51.8 — up to +9.6 composite points
Contract Governance scores 31.8 — up to +8.2 composite points

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Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SearchApi SERP API

REST API returning structured JSON search results across 100+ engines (Google, Bing, Maps, News, Scholar, Images, Shopping, Trends, Jobs, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, eBay). Single...

SearchApi Account & Analytics API

The two account-management endpoints SearchApi documents alongside its SERP surface. GET /api/v1/me returns the calling key's monthly allowance, month-to-date usage, remaining c...

SearchApi Analytics API

Aggregated performance and error analytics for the account's own searches.

Open Collections 2

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

SearchApi Account & Analytics API

OPEN COLLECTION

SearchApi SERP API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

SearchApi hosted MCP server

Remote MCP server at www.searchapi.io over streamable HTTP; 19 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

searchapi-grounded-web-research

AGENT SKILL

searchapi-mcp-agent-connect

AGENT SKILL

searchapi-quota-aware-batch

AGENT SKILL

SearchApi API pricing

Prices published by SearchApi, read 2026-10-28 from www.searchapi.io/pricing.

Plan	Price
Developer Plan	$40/ month Includes: 10,000 Searches
Production Plan	$100/ month Includes: 35,000 Searches
BigData Plan	$250/ month Includes: 100,000 Searches
Scale Plan	$500/ month Includes: 250,000 Searches
Octo 500K	$900/ month Includes: 500,000 Searches
Octo 1M	$1,500/ month Includes: 1,000,000 Searches
Octo 2M	$2,800/ month Includes: 2,000,000 Searches
Octo 5M	$5,000/ month Includes: 5,000,000 Searches

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Rate limits

: 20% of the plan's monthly credit allowance 1 hour
: The plan's included search volume (10,000 to 5,000,000 depending on tier) 1 month
: 10 MCP integrations per account n/a

Rate-limit details →

Billed by: searches · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Searchapi Plans Pricing

9 plans

PLANS

Searchapi Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Searchapi Rate Limits

3 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

SearchApi

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Searchapi Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

SearchApi API Rules

62 rules · 60 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Searchapi Search Api Overlay

8 actions · update · searchapi-search-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Searchapi Authentication

apiKey/http · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Searchapi Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Searchapi Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001:2022, GDPR, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Searchapi Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 6

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Postman

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

PostmanCollection

PostmanCollection

OpenCollection

OpenCollection

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Authentication

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

OAuthScopes

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: searchapi
name: SearchApi
description: SearchApi is a real-time SERP and search-data API that gives applications and AI agents structured access to
  results from 100+ search engines — Google Search, Google Maps, Google News, Google Scholar, Google Images, Google Shopping,
  Google Trends, Google Jobs, YouTube, Bing, Baidu, and marketplace engines like Amazon, Walmart, and eBay — returning clean
  JSON instead of scraped HTML. It handles proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and geographic/locale targeting server-side, and
  ships an MCP server plus "use-case bundles" that group selected endpoints around a job so agents can be handed a capability
  rather than a whole catalog. Used for SEO/rank tracking, market and price intelligence, RAG grounding, and agentic research
  workflows.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.searchapi.io/og-image.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/searchapi/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: engagement:searchapi
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: engagement
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-23'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Search
- SERP
- Google Search
- Web Scraping
- Search data
- Market Intelligence
- SEO
- MCP
- Agent-Native
tags_raw:
- search
- serp-api
- google-search
- web-scraping
- search-data
- market-intelligence
- seo
- mcp
- agent-native
common:
- url: https://www.searchapi.io/press
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/users/sign_up
- type: Login
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/users/sign_in
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@searchapi.io
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/SearchApi
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/legal/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.searchapi.io/
- type: ChangeLog
  name: Announcements changelog
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/announcements
- type: Postman
  name: SearchApi Official Postman Collection
  url: https://www.postman.com/searchapiofficial/searchapi-official-postman-collection/
- type: Compliance
  name: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 + GDPR (DPA)
  url: https://www.searchapi.io/legal/dpa
- type: MCPServer
  name: SearchApi hosted MCP server
  url: mcp/searchapi-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/searchapi-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/searchapi-conventions.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/searchapi-packages.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  name: Structured changelog artifact
  url: changelog/searchapi-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/searchapi-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/searchapi-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/searchapi-domain-security.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  name: SearchApi trust center
  url: security/searchapi-trust-center.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/searchapi-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  name: Well-known probe (OAuth AS + protected-resource metadata served)
  url: well-known/searchapi-well-known.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  name: OAuth scopes (MCP surface)
  url: scopes/searchapi-scopes.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/searchapi-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/searchapi-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/searchapi-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/searchapi-data-model.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  name: MCP tool to REST operation crosswalk
  url: mcp/searchapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Packaged Agent Skills
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Overlay
  name: API Evangelist enhancements overlay
  url: overlays/searchapi-search-api-overlay.yaml
- type: PostmanCollection
  url: collections/searchapi-search-api.postman_collection.json
- type: OpenCollection
  url: collections/searchapi-search-api.opencollection.json
apis:
- name: SearchApi SERP API
  description: REST API returning structured JSON search results across 100+ engines (Google, Bing, Maps, News, Scholar, Images,
    Shopping, Trends, Jobs, YouTube, Amazon, Walmart, eBay). Single /api/v1/search endpoint parameterized by engine, with
    server-side proxy rotation, CAPTCHA handling, and location/locale targeting. Bearer API-key auth.
  humanURL: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
  baseURL: https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search
  tags:
  - Search
  - SERP
  - Google Search
  - Search data
  - MCP
  tags_raw:
  - search
  - serp-api
  - google-search
  - search-data
  - mcp
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: SearchApi SERP API (generated from docs)
    url: openapi/searchapi-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/searchapi-authentication.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/searchapi-mcp.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/searchapi-search-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/searchapi-problem-types.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/searchapi-rate-limits.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/searchapi-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/searchapi-conventions.yml
  - type: ToolCrosswalk
    url: mcp/searchapi-tool-crosswalk.yml
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: collections/searchapi-search-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: OpenCollection
    url: collections/searchapi-search-api.opencollection.json
  - type: AgentSkill
    name: Grounded web research
    url: skills/searchapi-grounded-web-research.md
- name: SearchApi Account & Analytics API
  description: The two account-management endpoints SearchApi documents alongside its SERP surface. GET /api/v1/me returns
    the calling key's monthly allowance, month-to-date usage, remaining credits, searches made in the current hour and the
    hourly rate limit. GET /api/v1/search_analytics returns aggregated success rate, error rate and latency for the account's
    own searches, bucketed daily or hourly and optionally filtered to a single engine. These are the only endpoints exposing
    runtime quota and reliability signal — SearchApi returns no rate-limit response headers, so polling /api/v1/me is the
    sole machine-readable view of remaining headroom.
  humanURL: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/account-api
  baseURL: https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1
  tags:
  - Account
  - Usage
  - Rate Limits
  - Analytics
  - Observability
  tags_raw:
  - account
  - usage
  - rate-limits
  - analytics
  - observability
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    name: SearchApi Account & Analytics API (generated from docs)
    url: openapi/searchapi-account-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/account-api
  - type: APIReference
    name: Search Analytics API
    url: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/search-analytics-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/searchapi-authentication.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/searchapi-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/searchapi-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    name: Quota-aware batch searching
    url: skills/searchapi-quota-aware-batch.md
- aid: searchapi:searchapi-analytics-api
  name: SearchApi Analytics API
  description: Aggregated performance and error analytics for the account's own searches.
  humanURL: https://www.searchapi.io/docs/google
  baseURL: https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search
  tags:
  - Analytics
  tags_raw:
  - analytics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/searchapi-analytics-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1

SearchApi — frequently asked questions

Does SearchApi have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from SearchApi, including SearchApi SERP API, SearchApi Account & Analytics API and SearchApi Analytics API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the SearchApi?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for SearchApi, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the SearchApi?

SearchApi documents its authentication (apiKey/http · 3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Searchapi Authentication.

How much does the SearchApi cost?

SearchApi publishes its prices; its Developer Plan plan is $40/ month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 9 pricing plans for SearchApi, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does SearchApi have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for SearchApi: Remote MCP server at www.searchapi.io over streamable HTTP; 19 tools listed.

Is the SearchApi ready for AI agents?

SearchApi has a Kin Score of 57.8 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 60.2 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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