Google Custom Search JSON API API
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Google's Programmable Search JSON API; closed to new customers, ends 2027-01-01. Buying direct: 100 queries/day free; $5 per 1,000 extra (existing customers only). Listed .
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Overview
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The Custom Search JSON API returns results from a Programmable Search Engine (cx) over GET https://customsearch.googleapis.com/customsearch/v1. Google states it is not available to new customers and the service ends on 1 January 2027; results are capped at 100 per query.
Company
Unverified- Legal name
- Google LLC
- Headquarters
- Mountain View, US
- Founded
- Not confirmed
- Employees
- Not confirmed
- Ownership
- Subsidiary (Alphabet Inc.)
- Status
- active
- Kind
- Platform
- Website
- developers.google.com
API
Verified- Access
- No public API
- Style
- REST
- Auth
- Not confirmed
- Base URL
https://customsearch.googleapis.com- Features
- Bulk —Async —Webhooks —MCP —Sandbox —
- Rate limit
- 100 free queries/day; paid up to 10k queries/day
- Docs
- Reference
Pricing
Verified- Model
- pay as you go
- List prices
- Additional queries $5 per 1000 queries, Up to 10k queries per day
- Currency
- USD
- Units
- 1,000 queries
- Free tier
- 100 search queries per day
- Checked
- Sep 29, 2026
Compliance
- SOC 2
- Not confirmed
- GDPR
- Not confirmed
- CCPA
- Not confirmed
- DPA
- Not confirmed
- Resale / storage
- Unknown until a written agreement says otherwise
Relationships
- Integrations
- Not confirmed
- Alternatives
- None named by the vendor
- Parent
- Alphabet Inc.
Sources (2)
- Custom Search JSON API overviewchecked Sep 29, 2026
- cse.list referencechecked Sep 29, 2026