Serper · Rate Limits

Serper Rate Limits

Serper enforces two independent limits: a queries-per-second concurrency ceiling tied to the credit package you bought, and a credit balance that stops accepting queries at zero. Credits are deducted only for successful responses. Crucially, a query is not always one credit — the cost varies by search type, by result count, and by whether you use mini-batch. Serper publishes NO rate-limit response headers, so an agent cannot read its remaining budget or a retry delay from the wire.

Serper Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Serper on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

It captures 4 rate-limit definitions.

Tagged areas include Search, SERP, Google Search, Artificial Intelligence, and LLM.

4 Limits
SearchSERPGoogle SearchArtificial IntelligenceLLMSEOImageNewsMapsShoppingReviewsLensScrapingLocationsSERP APIWeb SearchAgentsPatentsScholarAutocompletePlacesVideos

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Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/serper-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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