Serper

Serper is the world's fastest and most affordable Google Search API, delivering real-time SERP data in 1-2 seconds via a simple REST interface. It supports web search, images, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, scholar, patents, and autocomplete — all returned as structured JSON. Widely used in AI agents, LLM pipelines, and SEO tooling, Serper uses a credit-based model with 2,500 free queries and volume pricing down to $0.30 per 1,000 requests.

Serper publishes 14 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Autocomplete API, Images API, Lens API, and 11 more. Tagged areas include Search, SERP, Google Search, Artificial Intelligence, and LLM.

The Serper catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Serper’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, support, and 26 more developer resources.

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60.9/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 40/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFreemiumOpenFree trial⚡ Free to try

14 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Search SERP Google Search Artificial Intelligence LLM SEO Image News Maps Shopping Reviews Lens Scraping Locations SERP API Web Search Agents PatentsScholarAutocomplete Places Videos

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 60.9/100 · strong

Contract Quality 14.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.2 / 20

Access Clarity 16.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Contract Governance 3.2 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 40/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4

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APIs 14

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

Open Collections 11

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

MCP Servers 1

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Serper Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Serper Search Request

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Serper Search Response

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 6

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnownProbe

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Plans

FinOps

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Playground

Playground

CookiePolicy

CookiePolicy

Source (apis.yml)

aid: serper
name: Serper
description: Serper is the world's fastest and most affordable Google Search API, delivering real-time SERP data in 1-2 seconds
  via a simple REST interface. It supports web search, images, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, scholar, patents, and
  autocomplete — all returned as structured JSON. Widely used in AI agents, LLM pipelines, and SEO tooling, Serper uses a
  credit-based model with 2,500 free queries and volume pricing down to $0.30 per 1,000 requests.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/serper.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/serper/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-08-13'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Search
- SERP
- Google Search
- Artificial Intelligence
- LLM
- SEO
- Image
- News
- Maps
- Shopping
- Reviews
- Lens
- Scraping
- Locations
- SERP API
- Web Search
- Agents
- Patents
- Scholar
- Autocomplete
- Places
- Videos
tags_raw:
- Search
- SERP
- Google Search
- AI
- LLM
- SEO
- Images
- News
- Maps
- Shopping
- Reviews
- Lens
- Scraping
- Locations
- SERP API
- Web Search
- Agents
- Patents
- Scholar
- Autocomplete
- Places
- Videos
apis:
- aid: serper:serper-autocomplete-api
  name: Serper Autocomplete API
  description: Search autocomplete suggestions
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Autocomplete
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-autocomplete-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-autocomplete-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-images-api
  name: Serper Images API
  description: Image search results
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Image
  tags_raw:
  - Images
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-images-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-images-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-lens-api
  name: Serper Lens API
  description: Google Lens reverse image search from an image URL. Exposed to every playground user; costs 3 credits per query.
  humanURL: https://serper.dev/playground
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Lens
  - Image Search
  - Reverse Image
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-lens-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-lens-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev/playground
- aid: serper:serper-locations-api
  name: Serper Locations API
  description: Canonical Google geo-target lookup for the location parameter used by every Serper search endpoint, plus a
    service health check. The only Serper surface that answers unauthenticated.
  humanURL: https://api.serper.dev/locations
  baseURL: https://api.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Locations
  - Geo
  - Reference Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-locations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-locations-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev/playground
- aid: serper:serper-maps-api
  name: Serper Maps API
  description: Maps and location search
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Maps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-maps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-maps-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-news-api
  name: Serper News API
  description: News search results
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - News
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-news-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-news-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-patents-api
  name: Serper Patents API
  description: Patent search results
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Patents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-patents-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-patents-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-places-api
  name: Serper Places API
  description: Local business and place search
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Places
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-places-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-places-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-reviews-api
  name: Serper Reviews API
  description: Google place reviews by cid, fid or placeId, cursor-paginated with nextPageToken. The only Serper endpoint
    that uses cursor pagination and the only one where mini-batch is unsupported.
  humanURL: https://serper.dev/playground
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Reviews
  - Places
  - Local
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-reviews-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-reviews-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev/playground
- aid: serper:serper-scholar-api
  name: Serper Scholar API
  description: Academic publication search
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Scholar
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-scholar-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-scholar-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-search-api
  name: Serper Search API
  description: Web search results
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-search-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-shopping-api
  name: Serper Shopping API
  description: Product and shopping search results
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Shopping
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-shopping-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-shopping-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-videos-api
  name: Serper Videos API
  description: Video search results
  humanURL: https://serper.dev
  baseURL: https://google.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-videos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-videos-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev
- aid: serper:serper-webpage-scrape-api
  name: Serper Webpage Scrape API
  description: Fetch and extract the contents of a URL, optionally as markdown with images, links and videos. Served from
    a separate host and priced per difficulty at 2, 6 or 10 credits, with the credits consumed returned in the response.
  humanURL: https://serper.dev/playground
  baseURL: https://scrape.serper.dev
  tags:
  - Scraping
  - Markdown
  - Content Extraction
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/serper-webpage-scrape-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/serper-webpage-scrape-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://serper.dev/playground
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/serper-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/serper-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/serper-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://serper.dev
- type: Documentation
  url: https://serper.dev
- type: GitHubOrg
  url: https://github.com/Serper-API
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/serperapi
- type: Pricing
  url: https://serper.dev/#pricing
- type: Plans
  url: plans/serper-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/serper-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/serper-finops.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/serper-packages.yml
- type: WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/serper-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/serper-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/serper-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/serper-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/serper-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/serper-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://serper.betteruptime.com
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/serper-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/serper-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://serper.dev/playground
- type: APIReference
  url: https://serper.dev/playground
- type: Playground
  url: https://serper.dev/playground
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://serper.dev/signup
- type: SignUp
  url: https://serper.dev/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://serper.dev/login
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@serper.dev
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://serper.dev/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://serper.dev/privacy
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://serper.dev/cookies
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/@serper/list/articles-3f700b49cbc4
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 32
  pass: local-v1