Price index · November 2026 · checked Nov 9, 2026
Search API Price Index.
What every search API we track costs per 1,000 calls, taken from each vendor's own pricing page and re-checked every month. Cite it freely; link back to this page.
The price race
Cheapest search mode per 1,000 calls. Shorter bar = cheaper. Log scale, or Keirolabs wouldn't be visible at all.
- 🏆 Keirolabs
- Serper
- Zenserp
- Parallel Search
- Perplexity Search API
- SearchApi
- SerpApi
- Exa
- Brave Search API
- Linkup
- You.com API
- Tavily
- OpenAI Web Search
- Claude Web Search
Every price, cheapest search first
| API | Cheapest search per 1k | Answers from | Research from | Free tier | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.03 to $0.10 | $0.89 | $1.78 | 750 credits | keirolabs.cloud | |
| $0.30 to $1.00 | — | — | Signup credits | serper.dev | |
| $0.90 to $2.00 | — | — | Small plan | zenserp.com | |
| $1.00 | $10 | $5.00 | Credits | parallel.ai | |
| $1.00 | — | — | No | docs.perplexity.ai | |
| $1.40 to $4.00 | — | — | Trial | searchapi.io | |
| $1.96 to $25 | — | — | Small plan | serpapi.com | |
| $4.00 | $5.00 | $12 | Credits | exa.ai | |
| $5.00 | $4.00 | — | Yes | brave.com | |
| $5.00 | $6.00 | $250 | Credits | linkup.so | |
| $5.00 | $5.00 | $12 | Trial | you.com | |
| $5.00 to $8.00 | — | — | Monthly credits | tavily.com | |
| $10 | — | — | No | platform.openai.com | |
| $10 | — | — | No | docs.anthropic.com |
Ranges run from the smallest plan to the biggest. "Search" is the cheapest mode that returns results; Google SERP endpoints, AI search and plain index search are mixed here, so check the price calculator to compare like with like at your volume.
What changed
- First edition. Baseline prices for every API we price, checked on each vendor's own pricing page.
- Zenserp: Added to the index: Google SERP from $0.90 to $2.00 per 1,000 searches.
- SearchApi: Added to the index: Google SERP from $1.40 to $4.00 per 1,000 searches.
How we check
Once a month we open every vendor's public pricing page, note the price per call for each mode, and convert it to dollars per 1,000 calls. No sales quotes, no enterprise deals, nothing we can't link to. If a vendor bills in credits, we use the credit cost on their smallest and largest self-serve plans. Spot a wrong number? Tell us and we'll fix it the same day.