Serpbit vs Serper
Both answer Google searches as JSON at about the same price. Serper is faster, takes more requests a second and sells credits cheaper in bulk. Serpbit adds AI Mode, a product's offers and the results' page text, and its credit packs never expire.
Which one fits
Serper, when you need
- Speed: answers in 1 to 2 seconds, by Serper's own account.
- Throughput: 50 to 300 queries a second.
- Google Scholar or Patents.
- Millions at once: $0.30 per 1,000 on its 12.5M pack.
Serpbit, when you need
- Google's AI Overview in the search answer, for the same credit; AI Mode; one product's offers from every store.
- The top results' pages as Markdown text, for an AI agent or a RAG pipeline.
- Credits that keep: packs never expire, and 1,000 free credits come every month.
- A new home for Google's Custom Search JSON API calls, answered as before.
What a month of Google searches costs
The cheapest way to buy each volume on each, at full use. Serper sells packs, so a month is the share of a pack it spends.
| Searches a month | Serpbit | Serper |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $10$1.00 per 1,00050k pack, spent in 5 months | $10$1.00 per 1,00050k credits for $50, spent in 5 months |
| 25,000 | $25$1.00 per 1,000Starter plan | $25$1.00 per 1,00050k credits for $50, spent in 2 months |
| 100,000 | $75$0.75 per 1,000Developer plan | $75$0.75 per 1,000500k credits for $375, spent in 5 months |
| 300,000 | $150$0.50 per 1,000Production plan | $208$0.69 per 1,0002.5M credits for $1,250; 700k lapse unspent |
| 1,000,000 | $470$0.47 per 1,000Scale plan and a 1M pack, spent in 5 months | $500$0.50 per 1,0002.5M credits for $1,250, spent in 2.5 months |
A search is a request for one Google results page. Serper: its credit packs, which lapse six months after purchase, the cheapest whose credits are spent before they do, from serper.dev on 11 November 2026, in US dollars before tax. Serpbit: the cheapest plan that holds the volume, or a plan and credit packs spent within the same six months. Free credits are left out on both. Above about two million a month Serper's largest pack is cheaper than our plans; ask us for a contract.
Side by side
| What | Serpbit | Serper |
|---|---|---|
| Google APIs | Search, AI Mode, Shopping, product offers, Maps, News, Images, Videos, Autocomplete, Custom Search | Search, Images, News, Maps, Places, Videos, Shopping, Scholar, Patents, Autocomplete |
| Price per 1,000 | $1.00 to $0.44 on plans, $1.00 to $0.60 in packs | $1.00 to $0.30 in packs |
| Credits expire | A plan's at the month's end; packs never | Six months after purchase |
| Free | 1,000 credits every month | 2,500 queries once |
| Billed | Answers only; the same call within an hour comes free from cache | Successful queries; nothing is cached |
| Typical answer | About 3 seconds for a first page, our measurement | 1 to 2 seconds, Serper's FAQ |
| Rate limit | 120 to 1,200 a minute, Starter to Scale | 50 to 300 a second, by pack |
Serper's side is from serper.dev and its FAQ on 11 November 2026. Ours: pricing, 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.
Markdown answers
output=mdreturns the page ready for a language model.Ten pages, one call
pages=10returns 100 results as one list.AI Overview
ai_overview=1adds Google's AI answer and its sources, for the same credit.MCP server
Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor add the URL and sign in: no key to paste.
Moving from Serper
Your X-API-KEY header stays as it is, with our key in it. The request becomes a GET with the same parameter names.
| Serper | Serpbit |
|---|---|
POST google.serper.dev/search, a JSON body | GET /v1/search, a query string |
X-API-KEY | X-API-Key, or Authorization: Bearer … |
q gl hl location num tbs | The same names |
page=2 | start=10, or pages=2 for pages 1 and 2 in one call |
/news /images /videos /maps /shopping /autocomplete | /v1/news /v1/images /v1/videos /v1/maps /v1/shopping /v1/autocomplete |
organic[].link | organic[].url |
peopleAlsoAsk, relatedSearches, knowledgeGraph | related_questions, related_searches, knowledge_graph; see the reference |
# before curl https://google.serper.dev/search \ -H "X-API-KEY: $SERPER_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"q": "coffee", "gl": "us"}' # after curl -G https://api.serpbit.com/v1/search \ -H "X-API-KEY: $SERPBIT_KEY" -d q=coffee -d gl=us
Questions
- Is Serpbit cheaper than Serper?
- About the same up to 100,000 searches a month, and less from 300,000, as the table shows. Above about two million a month Serper's largest pack costs less than our plans: write to us for a contract price.
- Why does a Serpbit search take longer?
- Each search is checked for poisoned pages before it is answered, and that check takes part of the time. Ten pages in one call take up to a minute.
- Are these prices current?
- We read Serper's prices from its home page on 11 November 2026. Check serper.dev for today's; ours are on the home page.
- Is Serpbit part of Serper?
- No. Serper is a trademark of its owner, named here only to compare the two services.
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