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- Free allowance
- 2,500 queries on signup, one-time, no credit card
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-ratepaid credit packs from USD 50 for 50k credits (USD 1.00 per 1k) at 50 queries per second to USD 3750 for 12.5M credits (USD 0.30 per 1k) at 300 queries per second; credits valid for 6 months; the FAQ gives a default of 300 queries per...
- Evidence
- documented8 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 | 2,500 queries on signup, one-time, no credit card unit requests; metered on request-count |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) paid credit packs from USD 50 for 50k credits (USD 1.00 per 1k) at 50 queries per second to USD 3750 for 12.5M credits (USD 0.30 per 1k) at 300 queries per second; credits valid for 6 months; the FAQ gives a default of 300 queries per second for the Ultimate credits and says the limit can be changed for a specific use case; no rate for the free queries appears on the home page or in its FAQ source
- request-rate (binding) 2,500 queries on signup, one-time source
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| Binding | request-rate the 2,500-query grant is spent once and does not renew, before any per-second rate binds |
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| Identity | email an account with name, email and password behind a reCAPTCHA; the sign-up page states no credit card is needed |
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| Egress | not applicable |
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| Per-object cap | not applicable: the unit is a query |
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| Retention | the signup grant does not renew |
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| Interface | rest REST, Google SERP results as JSON |
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| Tooling | not stated |
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| Composes with | Bills against a Google SERP |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Notes | 2,500 free queries on sign-up with no card, stated on the home page. The paid model is top-up packs with no monthly subscription, so the free queries do not renew: a trial, not a tier. The /pricing path is not found. |
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| Evidence note | documented free grant, paid packs and the sign-up form quoted from first-party pages; the rate for free queries is not stated |
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Evidence 8
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-22 | serper.dev/ | home page headline states USD 0.30 per 1,000 queries and no credit card required |
| 2026-10-30 | serper.dev/ | the smallest pack is 50k credits at USD 1.00 per 1k and 50 queries per second; the largest is 12.5M credits at USD 0.30 per 1k and 300 queries per second; credits are valid for 6 months |
| 2026-10-30 | serper.dev/ | the home page offers 2,500 free queries |
| 2026-10-30 | serper.dev/signup | the sign-up form asks for name, email and password behind a reCAPTCHA and states no card is needed |
| 2026-10-30 | serper.dev/ | the free queries are a try-out grant beside top-up packs with no monthly subscription |
| 2026-10-30 | serper.dev/ | the paid model is top-up credit packs with no monthly renewal |
| 2026-11-01 | serper.dev/ | the FAQ answer on queries per second gives a default of 300 for the Ultimate credits and says the limit can be changed for a specific use case |
| 2026-11-01 | serper.dev/signup | the sign-up form asks for name, email and password behind a reCAPTCHA and states no credit card is needed |
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