Serpbit vs SerpApi
Both turn Google's pages into JSON. SerpApi also covers Bing, Baidu, Amazon, eBay and a hundred other APIs; Serpbit covers Google alone, and the same month of Google searches costs 8 to 18 times less.
Which one fits
SerpApi, when you need
- Engines and sites besides Google: Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, Naver, Amazon, eBay and the rest of its catalogue.
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 reports for a vendor review.
- Its U.S. Legal Shield.
Serpbit, when you need
- Google: Search with its AI Overview, AI Mode, Shopping and a product's offers, Maps, News, Images, Videos and Autocomplete.
- A lower bill: $1.00 to $0.44 per 1,000 searches, where SerpApi's plans run from $25.00 to $3.75 up to a million a month.
- Answers an AI agent can read: Markdown, the top results' page text, and an MCP server you add by signing in.
What a month of Google searches costs
The cheapest way to buy each volume on each, at full use.
| Searches a month | Serpbit | SerpApi |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $10$1.00 per 1,00050k pack, spent in 5 months | $150$15.00 per 1,000Production plan, 15,000 searches |
| 25,000 | $25$1.00 per 1,000Starter plan | $275$11.00 per 1,000Big Data plan, 30,000 searches |
| 100,000 | $75$0.75 per 1,000Developer plan | $725$7.25 per 1,000Searcher plan, 100,000 searches |
| 300,000 | $150$0.50 per 1,000Production plan | $2,750$9.17 per 1,000Infrastructure plan, 500,000 searches |
| 1,000,000 | $470$0.47 per 1,000Scale plan and a 1M pack, spent in 5 months | $3,750$3.75 per 1,000Cloud 1M plan |
A search is a request for one Google results page. SerpApi: the cheapest monthly plan that holds the volume, from serpapi.com/pricing on 11 November 2026, in US dollars before tax. Serpbit: the cheapest plan that holds it, or a plan and credit packs spent within six months. Free credits are left out on both.
Side by side
| What | Serpbit | SerpApi |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | Google: Search, AI Mode, Shopping, product offers, Maps, News, Images, Videos, Autocomplete, Custom Search | Google and over a hundred other APIs: Bing, Baidu, Amazon, eBay and more |
| AI Overview | In the search answer with ai_overview=1, also when Google loads it after the page, for no extra credit | In the search answer; when Google loads it after the page, a page_token for a second request to its AI Overview API |
| AI Mode | Yes | Yes |
| Price per 1,000 searches | $1.00 to $0.44 | $25.00 to $3.75, up to a million a month |
| Free | 1,000 credits a month | 250 searches a month |
| Failed and cached searches | Free | Free |
| Unused at the month's end | A plan's credits lapse; packs never expire | Searches reset at renewal |
| Rate limit | 120 to 1,200 a minute, Starter to Scale | 200 to 6,000 an hour, Starter to Big Data |
| MCP server for AI agents | Add the URL and sign in, or send a key | The key goes in the server's URL |
| Refund of a first payment | Within 14 days, if under 5% used | Within 7 days, if under 20% used |
| U.S. Legal Shield | No | Yes |
| SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 | No | Yes |
SerpApi's side is from its own pages on 11 November 2026: pricing, AI Overview API and MCP. Ours: refunds, limits.
Also on every Serpbit key
Checked results
99.9% of first pages are checked against Google's clean page; a poisoned one gets the clean page's results.
Page text
content=5adds the first five results' pages as Markdown.Ten pages, one call
pages=10returns 100 results as one list.Batches
Up to 1,000 calls in one request, each answer sent to your webhook.
Custom Search drop-in
Google's Custom Search JSON API request, answered as before.
Moving from SerpApi
Most of a Google search keeps its parameter names. The key moves to a header, and each engine becomes its own path.
| SerpApi | Serpbit |
|---|---|
serpapi.com/search?engine=google | /v1/search |
api_key=… | Authorization: Bearer … or X-API-Key |
q location gl hl start num tbs safe lr nfpr filter no_cache | The same names |
device=mobile | device=mobile, iphone or ipad |
engine=google_ai_mode | /v1/ai-mode |
engine=google_news, google_shopping, google_images, google_videos, google_maps, google_autocomplete | /v1/news, /v1/shopping, /v1/images, /v1/videos, /v1/maps, /v1/autocomplete |
organic_results[].link | organic[].url |
ai_overview, related_questions, knowledge_graph, top_stories, related_searches | The same names; their fields are in the reference |
# before curl -G https://serpapi.com/search \ -d engine=google -d q=coffee -d api_key=$SERPAPI_KEY # after curl -G https://api.serpbit.com/v1/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SERPBIT_KEY" -d q=coffee
Questions
- Can I try both on the same queries?
- Yes. The free plan gives 1,000 credits every month, with no card, so you can run your own queries through both and compare the answers.
- Is one page of results one search on both?
- Yes. SerpApi bills a request as one search whatever it returns. Serpbit bills each Google page a call reads, so
pages=3ornum=30is 3 credits; a Shopping or Images page is 2, an AI Mode answer 2. - Are these prices current?
- We read SerpApi's prices from its pricing page on 11 November 2026. Check serpapi.com/pricing for today's; ours are on the home page.
- Is Serpbit part of SerpApi?
- No. SerpApi is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare the two services.
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