# Serper

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/serper/  
**Website:** https://serper.dev  
**APIs profiled:** 14

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.

## Kin Score — 60.9 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 60.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 58.8 |
| Governance | 26.5 |
| Contract Governance | 26.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 84.2 |
| Access Clarity | 84.2 |

## Agent readiness — 39.5 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (14)

- **Serper Autocomplete API** — Search autocomplete suggestions
- **Serper Images API** — Image search results
- **Serper Lens API** — Google Lens reverse image search from an image URL. Exposed to every playground user; costs 3 credits per query.
- **Serper Locations API** — 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 unauthentic...
- **Serper Maps API** — Maps and location search
- **Serper News API** — News search results
- **Serper Patents API** — Patent search results
- **Serper Places API** — Local business and place search
- **Serper Reviews API** — 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 unsup...
- **Serper Scholar API** — Academic publication search
- **Serper Search API** — Web search results
- **Serper Shopping API** — Product and shopping search results
- **Serper Videos API** — Video search results
- **Serper Webpage Scrape API** — 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 ...

## MCP servers (1)

- **Serper MCP** — Serper ships NO MCP server of its own — no hosted endpoint, no published package, no mention of MCP anywhere on serper.dev. The tool list below is a CANDIDATE derived from the O...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Serper Agentic Access** — 10 operations · 10 acting

## Security (2)

- **Serper Authentication** — apiKey · 2 schemes
- **Serper Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Serper Plans Pricing**

## 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

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/serper/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.