SerpApi

Summary

SerpApi is a real-time scraping API that returns structured JSON for search engines and AI answer surfaces, including Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Bing Copilot, Brave AI Mode and Duck AI. Requests run in a full browser with CAPTCHA solving.

From: Freethen $25/month
Open source: No
API: Yes
Category: AI rank tracking
Best for: Developers building their own AI answer and SERP tracking on raw structured data

Captured 20 October 2026 · citedindex.com

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What it does

Monitors AI answers: PartlyIt returns AI answer-engine responses on demand through dedicated engines, but ships no brand-monitoring product: there is no tracked brand, no stored prompt set and no alerting, so any watching of what AI says about a brand is something the buyer builds on top of the API.Use SerpApi's Google AI Mode API to scrape Google AI Mode Results.serpapi.com/google-ai-mode-api

Answer engines

ChatGPT: NoChatGPT is absent from the vendor's own complete supported-engines inventory; the closest route is the Duck AI engine's model picker, which proxies GPT models through DuckDuckGo's chat rather than querying ChatGPT itself.Supported engines: Google, Airbnb, Apple App Store, Apple Maps, Baidu, Bing, Booking.com, Brave AI Mode, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Facebook,…serpapi.com/llms.txt
Perplexity: NoPerplexity does not appear anywhere in the vendor's supported-engines inventory and has no engine page; it is named on the site only as a SerpApi customer, which is the opposite direction of coverage.Supported engines: Google, Airbnb, Apple App Store, Apple Maps, Baidu, Bing, Booking.com, Brave AI Mode, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Facebook,…serpapi.com/llms.txt
Gemini: YesA dedicated Google Gemini engine returns Gemini's answers with text blocks and references, and supports multi-turn follow-ups via a conversation token, on any plan that has searches available.Use SerpApi's Google Gemini API to scrape Google Gemini answers: text blocks, references, places, products, images, follow-up questions, multi-turn…serpapi.com/google-gemini-api
Google AI Overviews: YesA Google AI Overview engine exists and is fetched with a page_token taken from a prior Google Search call, so an overview costs two searches and the token expires within a minute.Use SerpApi's Google AI Overview API to scrape Google AI Overview information.serpapi.com/google-ai-overview-api
Google AI Mode: YesGoogle AI Mode has its own engine, queried directly by keyword with optional location, language and image context, and conversations can be continued with a subsequent request token.Use SerpApi's Google AI Mode API to scrape Google AI Mode Results.serpapi.com/google-ai-mode-api
Claude: NoNo Claude engine exists and Anthropic is absent from the supported-engines inventory; a Claude model can only be selected inside the Duck AI engine, which is DuckDuckGo's chat rather than Claude's own assistant.Supported engines: Google, Airbnb, Apple App Store, Apple Maps, Baidu, Bing, Booking.com, Brave AI Mode, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Facebook,…serpapi.com/llms.txt
Microsoft Copilot: YesBing Copilot has a dedicated engine returning the answer text plus the references it cites, taking any query a user would type into Copilot itself.Use SerpApi's Bing Copilot API to scrape Bing Copilot results including text blocks, references, and tables.serpapi.com/bing-copilot-api
Grok: NoGrok and X are missing from the vendor's complete supported-engines inventory and no Grok engine is documented, so this engine is uncovered on every plan including Enterprise.Supported engines: Google, Airbnb, Apple App Store, Apple Maps, Baidu, Bing, Booking.com, Brave AI Mode, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Facebook,…serpapi.com/llms.txt
DeepSeek: NoDeepSeek appears in neither the supported-engines inventory nor the engine documentation index, so there is no way to query it through this API on any tier.Supported engines: Google, Airbnb, Apple App Store, Apple Maps, Baidu, Bing, Booking.com, Brave AI Mode, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Facebook,…serpapi.com/llms.txt
Meta AI: NoMeta AI is not in the supported-engines inventory; the only Meta surfaces covered are Facebook and Instagram profile scraping, which return profile data rather than AI answers.Supported engines: Google, Airbnb, Apple App Store, Apple Maps, Baidu, Bing, Booking.com, Brave AI Mode, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Facebook,…serpapi.com/llms.txt
Coverage in the vendor’s words: PartlyThe vendor states one inventory for the whole product with no per-plan engine limits, and it covers Google AI Overview, AI Mode and Gemini plus Bing Copilot, Brave AI Mode, Duck AI and Naver AI, while the AI assistants most brands care about are absent.Supported engines: Google, Airbnb, Apple App Store, Apple Maps, Baidu, Bing, Booking.com, Brave AI Mode, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, eBay, Facebook,…serpapi.com/llms.txt

What it reports

Names the cited sources: YesAI answer engines return a references array alongside the answer text, giving the title, link and source of each page the engine cited, which is the raw material for citation reporting the buyer assembles themselves.Use SerpApi's Bing Copilot API to scrape Bing Copilot results including text blocks, references, and tables.serpapi.com/bing-copilot-api

Plans and signing up

Prompt or credit allowance: YesEvery plan names a monthly successful-search allowance, from 250 on Free and 1,000 on the $25 Starter up to millions on Cloud plans, with cached, errored and failed searches excluded from the count.Only successful searches are counted toward your monthly searches. Cached, errored, and failed searches are not.serpapi.com/pricing
Countries: YesSearches can be originated from a chosen city, GPS coordinate or country code, and AI Mode accepts the same location and localisation parameters, so a market other than the buyer's own can be queried.Parameter defines from where you want the search to originate. If several locations match the location requested, we'll pick the most popular one.serpapi.com/google-ai-mode-api
How often it checks: PartlyCollection is on demand per request with no scheduler in the product, so any daily or weekly cadence is the buyer's own cron; a one-hour cache is served unless no_cache is set.Each API request runs immediately – no waiting for results.serpapi.com
Self-serve signup: YesA buyer signs up, takes an API key and pays month to month without contacting anyone; sales involvement is reserved for enterprise or custom volume above the published tiers.Start for free, upgrade as you grow, or contact our team about an enterprise plan tailored to your volume, performance, and compliance needs.serpapi.com/pricing

Access and integrations

API: YesThe API is the entire product: one documented GET endpoint with an engine parameter, available on the Free plan upward, with official client libraries in eleven languages and a CLI.Install the library for your language and use your API key to start searchingserpapi.com/integrations
MCP server: YesAn official MCP integration is listed as Available alongside the language libraries, letting an MCP-compatible agent call the search API directly as a tool, with no tier restriction stated.The MCP integration allows any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) to use SerpApi as a web search tool.serpapi.com/integrations

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Plans and pricing

Price and terms

Free plan: YesYesFree plan at $0/month with 250 searches per month and 50 throughput per hour
The terms in full
no Legal Shield, ZeroTrace or priority support in the plans table.
Sign up without sales: YesYes

Checked 20 October 2026.