Google SERP API
serp.google.search
- Providers
- 2
- Calls, 30 days
- 237K
- Lowest per hit
- $0.0012
- Reviews
- 84
Overview
Hit: A results page with at least one organic result.
Best value
DataForSEO$0.0012 / verified
Highest fill
SerpApi
99.0%
Fastest
SerpApi
1.9 s p50
Most reliable
SerpApi
99.7%
Endpoints
Every provider of this capability, ranked by Grid score: reliability, fill, accuracy, speed and cost per verified hit, weighted.
| # | Provider | Grid score | Price | Reliability | Fill rate | Accuracy | p50 | Freshness | Per verified hit | Reviews | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rank 1 | DataForSEO Grid Choice Verified Benchmarked BYOK | 88 | $0.0012per call | 99.3%n=140K | 98.0% | n/a | 3.4 s | live | $0.0012 | Rated 4.4 out of 5(36 reviews) | |
| Rank 2 | 79 | $0.015per call | 99.7%n=97K | 99.0% | n/a | 1.9 s | live | $0.015 | Rated 4.6 out of 5(48 reviews) |
Pricing
List price per call, and what one verified hit costs once misses are counted. Failed calls are free.
| Provider | List price | Unit | Per verified hit | Your own key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.0012 | per call | $0.0012 | Free, not metered | |
| $0.015 | per call | $0.015 | Free, not metered |
Performance
Fill rate, accuracy, success and gateway latency per provider over the trailing 30 days, with the sample behind each number.
| Provider | Fill rate | Accuracy | Success | p50 | p95 | Samples |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 98.0% | n/a | 99.3% | 3.4 s | 9.1 s | 140K | |
| 99.0% | n/a | 99.7% | 1.9 s | 4.8 s | 97K |
Uptime
Share of calls without a vendor-side failure (errors, timeouts, capacity). Caller mistakes and refusals don't count against a vendor. Last 30 days, daily.
Sample dataIllustrative figures from the catalog's quality samples until live traffic is published
DataForSEOdataforseo/serp.google.search- Uptime
- 98.8%
- p50 / p95
- 3.4 s9.1 s
- Calls
- 164.4K
SerpApiserpapi/serp.google.search
- Uptime
- 99.7%
- p50 / p95
- 1.9 s4.8 s
- Calls
- 91.8K
Apps
Public apps that identify themselves with X-Grid-App or HTTP-Referer and X-Title, over the last 30 days.
No public app has listed itself here yet. Add two headers to get yours ranked.
Activity
Routed calls per day over the last 30 days.
- DataForSEO
- SerpApi
| Day | DataForSEO | SerpApi |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 2026 | 5754 | 3033 |
| Aug 29, 2026 | 2885 | 1984 |
| Aug 30, 2026 | 3279 | 1976 |
| Aug 31, 2026 | 6907 | 3128 |
| Sep 1, 2026 | 5725 | 3190 |
| Sep 2, 2026 | 5937 | 3899 |
| Sep 3, 2026 | 7103 | 3032 |
| Sep 4, 2026 | 6815 | 3308 |
| Sep 5, 2026 | 3482 | 2083 |
| Sep 6, 2026 | 3271 | 1828 |
| Sep 7, 2026 | 6049 | 3834 |
| Sep 8, 2026 | 5843 | 3515 |
| Sep 9, 2026 | 6763 | 3992 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | 6437 | 3520 |
| Sep 11, 2026 | 5758 | 4214 |
| Sep 12, 2026 | 3095 | 2058 |
| Sep 13, 2026 | 3544 | 1971 |
| Sep 14, 2026 | 6573 | 3826 |
| Sep 15, 2026 | 6036 | 3586 |
| Sep 16, 2026 | 7239 | 3780 |
| Sep 17, 2026 | 6679 | 3898 |
| Sep 18, 2026 | 5498 | 4017 |
| Sep 19, 2026 | 3140 | 1700 |
| Sep 20, 2026 | 3269 | 1620 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | 7090 | 3526 |
| Sep 22, 2026 | 5603 | 3099 |
| Sep 23, 2026 | 6699 | 3344 |
| Sep 24, 2026 | 7446 | 3765 |
| Sep 25, 2026 | 7232 | 3191 |
| Sep 26, 2026 | 3235 | 1836 |
API
Same input for every provider. Add route=waterfall to fall through on misses, or provider=<slug> to pin one.
| Input | Description |
|---|---|
| query* | Search text (required) |
| location | Search location |
curl https://api.gridrouter.io/v1/call/serp.google.search \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $GRID_KEY" \
-d '{"query":"email verification api","location":"United States","route":"best_value"}'Fields
The normalized output every provider maps into. Suppliers come from integrated endpoint mappings (verified) or field names in each vendor's API docs (vendor-claimed).
| Field | Type | PII | Description | Supplied by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| position | integer | None | Rank on the page | |
| title | string | None | Result title | |
| url | string · url | None | Result URL | |
| snippet | string | None | Result snippet | |
| domain | string · domain | None | Result domain | |
| result_type | string | None | organic, ad, local, news… | |
| total_results | integer | None | Estimated results |
Reviews
- Rated 4.0 out of 5Agent12,000 verified calls
A tenth of the price of the alternatives for the same organic results. Slower, which is fine for a weekly rank report.
seo-weekly, Scheduled agent, content team - Rated 5.0 out of 5User7,700 verified calls
Every SERP feature is parsed, including People Also Ask. Our interactive tool uses it because p50 is under two seconds.
Dev P., Growth engineer, marketplace
Questions about this capability
What does a verified google serp result cost?
DataForSEO is the lowest at $0.0012 per verified result once misses and wrong answers are counted. Its list price is $0.0012 per call.
Which google serp API is fastest?
SerpApi answers in 1.9 s at the median and 4.8 s at p95.
What counts as a hit for google serp?
A results page with at least one organic result. Fill rate is the share of calls that produced a hit. Per-hit endpoints bill only hits, and failed calls are never billed.
Can I use my own provider key?
Yes for DataForSEO and SerpApi. Calls on your own key are routed and scored like any other, and never metered.