# SerpApi — Real-time JSON API for search engine results, including Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini answers.

> Source: CitedIndex — https://citedindex.com/serpapi (structured, researched, re-verified)
> Facts last verified: 2026-10-20

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.

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Website | https://serpapi.com |
| Price | free, then from $25/month |
| Free tier | Yes |

Free plan at $0/month with 250 searches per month and 50 throughput per hour; no Legal Shield, ZeroTrace or priority support in the plans table.

## What it does

**Monitors AI answers** · Partly — It 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/google-ai-mode-api · Page intro beneath the 'Google AI Mode API' heading

## Answer engines

**ChatGPT** · No — ChatGPT 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, Instagram, Naver, OpenTable, Search Index, The Home Depot, Target, Tripadvisor, Walmart, Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, YouTube, Extract, Zillow
> — https://serpapi.com/llms.txt · Top summary block, 'Supported engines' line

**Perplexity** · No — Perplexity 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, Instagram, Naver, OpenTable, Search Index, The Home Depot, Target, Tripadvisor, Walmart, Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, YouTube, Extract, Zillow
> — https://serpapi.com/llms.txt · Top summary block, 'Supported engines' line

**Gemini** · Yes — A 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 conversations, and more.
> — https://serpapi.com/google-gemini-api · Page intro beneath the 'Google Gemini API' heading

**Google AI Overviews** · Yes — A 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/google-ai-overview-api · Page intro beneath the 'Google AI Overview API' heading

**Google AI Mode** · Yes — Google 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/google-ai-mode-api · Page intro beneath the 'Google AI Mode API' heading

**Claude** · No — No 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, Instagram, Naver, OpenTable, Search Index, The Home Depot, Target, Tripadvisor, Walmart, Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, YouTube, Extract, Zillow
> — https://serpapi.com/llms.txt · Top summary block, 'Supported engines' line

**Microsoft Copilot** · Yes — Bing 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/bing-copilot-api · Page intro beneath the 'Bing Copilot API' heading

**Grok** · No — Grok 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, Instagram, Naver, OpenTable, Search Index, The Home Depot, Target, Tripadvisor, Walmart, Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, YouTube, Extract, Zillow
> — https://serpapi.com/llms.txt · Top summary block, 'Supported engines' line

**DeepSeek** · No — DeepSeek 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, Instagram, Naver, OpenTable, Search Index, The Home Depot, Target, Tripadvisor, Walmart, Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, YouTube, Extract, Zillow
> — https://serpapi.com/llms.txt · Top summary block, 'Supported engines' line

**Meta AI** · No — Meta 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, Instagram, Naver, OpenTable, Search Index, The Home Depot, Target, Tripadvisor, Walmart, Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, YouTube, Extract, Zillow
> — https://serpapi.com/llms.txt · Top summary block, 'Supported engines' line

**Coverage in the vendor’s words** · Partly — The 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, Instagram, Naver, OpenTable, Search Index, The Home Depot, Target, Tripadvisor, Walmart, Yahoo!, Yandex, Yelp, YouTube, Extract, Zillow
> — https://serpapi.com/llms.txt · Top summary block, 'Supported engines' line

## What it reports

**Names the cited sources** · Yes — AI 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/bing-copilot-api · Page intro beneath the 'Bing Copilot API' heading

## Plans and signing up

**Prompt or credit allowance** · Yes — Every 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/pricing · FAQs, 'How are searches counted?'

**Countries** · Yes — Searches 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/google-ai-mode-api · API Parameters, Geographic Location table, 'location' row

**How often it checks** · Partly — Collection 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/ · Advanced Features section, 'Real Time and Real Results' card

**Self-serve signup** · Yes — A 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/pricing · 'Flexible options for every stage' section

## Access and integrations

**API** · Yes — The 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 searching
> — https://serpapi.com/integrations · Getting Started section

**MCP server** · Yes — An 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.
> — https://serpapi.com/integrations · Sentence below the Libraries table

## What changed

- 2026-10-20 — Capabilities · Free tier · Price

## Keeping it current

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