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- Free allowance
- 250 searches a month on the Free plan, 50 an hour
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate250 searches a month and 50 an hour on Free; Searcher USD 725 a month for 100,000 searches and 20,000 an hour
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 250 searches a month on the Free plan, 50 an hour unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) 250 searches a month and 50 an hour on Free source
- request-rate (binding) Searcher USD 725 a month for 100,000 searches and 20,000 an hour source
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| Identity | email the Free plan is a signup; no card is stated for it |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a search |
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| Retention | allowance resets monthly |
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| Interface | rest REST, Google and other engines as JSON |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | A price reference for what a Google-backed search costs at volume, which is the ceiling a free tier is measured against |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | 250 a month is 8 a day. Only successful searches count, and a response with 100 results costs the same as an empty one. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | serpapi.com/pricing | Free plan USD 0 with 250 searches a month and 50 a hour throughput; Searcher USD 725 a month for 100,000 |
Unknown values 3
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field