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Free allowance: USD 1 trial credit for new accounts; about 500 live Google SERPs at USD 0.002, or more in the Standard queue at USD 0.0006 a SERP
Verdict: triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
Cost: free tier
Identity: any-phoneno card, phone required
Binding limit: request-rateUSD 1 one-time trial; USD 0.0006 per SERP in the Standard queue, USD 0.0012 Priority, USD 0.002 Live; USD 50 minimum top-up; 10,000 requests a minute general rate limit; each POST carries up to 100 tasks
Evidence: documented23 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03

Free tier	USD 1 trial credit for new accounts; about 500 live Google SERPs at USD 0.002, or more in the Standard queue at USD 0.0006 a SERP unit credits; metered on request-count; Paid use needs a minimum top-up of USD 50, taken by card, PayPal or Amazon Pay; the balance does not expire. A free Sandbox returns sample responses without spending credit.
Price	none stated
Limits	request-rate (binding) USD 1 one-time trial; USD 0.0006 per SERP in the Standard queue, USD 0.0012 Priority, USD 0.002 Live; USD 50 minimum top-up source request-rate (binding) 10,000 requests a minute general rate limit; each POST carries up to 100 tasks source
Binding	request-rate the USD 1 trial is spent long before the 10,000-a-minute rate limit is reached
Identity	any-phone a personal-email address takes a phone number at signup, and the phone fields of the signup form and of the dashboard's phone verification leave out Russia, Belarus, Iran and Cuba (ru, by, ir, cu); a business-email address takes no phone number, and the form gives a company-domain address as the business example and gmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com and similar as personal; the dashboard says adding funds bypasses phone verification; unverified: whether the server accepts a given custom domain as business, and whether it refuses numbers of other countries
Egress	not applicable
Per-object cap	not applicable: the unit is a SERP of up to 10 organic results
Retention	one-time trial credit; topped-up balances do not expire
Interface	rest POST https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced with HTTP Basic auth (login email and API password); Standard and Priority queues use separate task_post and task_get calls endpoint: https://api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced
Tooling	plain HTTP with Basic auth; a Playground, an MCP route and templates for n8n, Postman and Google Sheets in the dashboard
Composes with	A paid Google SERP at USD 0.60 per 1,000 in the Standard queue once past the USD 50 minimum top-up; the USD 1 trial only tests it
Reliability	a keyless call answered 401 with status_code 40100; no throttle or ban event recorded
Notes	The trial credit buys about 500 live SERPs or more queued ones; the Standard queue averages about 5 minutes with a 45-minute target. A business email skips the phone step and carries higher rate limits.
Evidence note	documented the USD 1 trial credit, the USD 50 minimum top-up, the per-SERP prices and the rate limit are quoted from first-party pages; the phone requirement is read from the signup application's own plan table; no keyed call was made
Parsed numbers	has-free-tier 1 request-rate 10000 requests / minute

Evidence 23

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-30	dataforseo.com/pricing	new accounts get a USD 1 trial credit
2026-10-30	dataforseo.com/pricing	paid use needs a USD 50 minimum top-up
2026-10-30	dataforseo.com/pricing	top-ups take a card, PayPal or Amazon Pay
2026-10-30	dataforseo.com/pricing/google-serp/google-organic-serp-api	per-SERP prices by mode
2026-10-30	dataforseo.com/help-center/how-to-authenticate-with-datafors	the trial covers about 500 live Google SERPs
2026-10-30	dataforseo.com/help-center/rate-limits-and-request-limits	the general rate limit is 10,000 requests a minute
2026-10-30	docs.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/overview/	SERP API calls are capped at 10,000 a minute with up to 100 tasks a POST
2026-10-30	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the personal-email plan marks no-phone-verification as unavailable, so a personal email takes phone verification
2026-10-30	app.dataforseo.com/register	the signup offers a personal-email and a business-email account, each with USD 1 trial credit
2026-10-30	probe: `api.dataforseo.com/v3/serp/google/organic/live/advanced`	part of the text of Reliability, above
2026-11-01	dataforseo.com/pricing	the minimum top-up is USD 50 and takes cards, PayPal or Amazon Pay; the balance does not expire; the Sandbox returns sample responses
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the signup phone field preselects a country by geo-IP lookup and sets excludeCountries to ru, by, ir and cu with no onlyCountries option, so every other country stays selectable
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the dashboard's phone verification field leaves out the same four countries
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the dashboard's phone verification is an SMS code sent to the number entered
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the dashboard tells an account whose phone verification is unavailable to add funds, so the server can mark phone verification unavailable per account
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the signup refuses a temporary or disposable address
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the signup form takes the class of an address (disposable, business or personal) from a server check and selects the business or personal plan from the answer
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/chunk-Bl0ntuNZ.js	the class of an address comes from a POST to the signup's check_email endpoint; no page states the rule it applies
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the signup code sets the business-email trial credit constant to 1 and selects the business plan by default, matching the page's USD 1 trial credits for both plans
2026-11-01	www.linkedin.com/posts/dataforseo_you-no-longer-need-a-busin	the vendor's own post offers sign-up with a personal address or with a business address from a company, and lists higher rate limits and no phone verification as business-email benefits
2026-11-01	docs.dataforseo.com/v3/appendix/errors/	API calls answer 40104 until the account is verified by email and/or phone
2026-11-01	meikuio.com/dataforseo-review/	not published
2026-11-01	app.dataforseo.com/main-UHWRC3G2.js	the signup and dashboard phone fields exclude ru, by, ir and cu (Russia, Belarus, Iran, Cuba); the personal plan cannot be submitted without a phone number; the business plan lists no phone verification; the form's personal-address examples are gmail.com, outlook.com, yahoo.com; adding funds bypasses phone verification

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