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Cost to scrape Google Lens at 10K, 100K, and 1M
Scraping 100,000 Google Lens searches costs from $90.00 a month on ScrapingDog (Standard plan), which charges 5 credits a page. The dearest published rate costs $725.00 on SerpApi.
ScrapingDog checked Oct 12, 2026; each vendor's own page is linked with its rate.
- 10,000 a month
- $7.50Bright Data SERP API, Pay as you go
- 100,000 a month
- $90.00ScrapingDog, Standard
- 1,000,000 a month
- $350.00ScrapingDog, Premium
How hard to scrape: Hard, with CAPTCHAs, bot fingerprinting, pages built by JavaScript and IP reputation checks in the way; JavaScript rendering needed.
Target access and billing context
Access
Easy means no protection is recorded; moderate, rate limits or fingerprinting without CAPTCHAs; hard, CAPTCHAs and IP checks that usually call for residential proxies; very hard, all of that plus measures such as TLS fingerprinting, a login wall in front of most data or honeypot links.
Protections in the way
Terms
What you scrape moves the bill more than who you buy from. A target that forces JavaScript rendering or a residential exit multiplies the meter before any plan is chosen.
What each API charges for Google Lens
11 published rates for Google Lens from 10 APIs; an API with more than one rate charges each endpoint or mode separately. Each figure is the cheapest of that API's current plans for the volume, from its own page.
| API | 10,000 a month | 100,000 a month | 1,000,000 a month | Costs | What you get | Choose a location | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ScrapingDogchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $40.00Lite | $90.00Standard | $350.00Premium | 5 credits a page | Parsed fields | Country | source |
| Decodo Web Scraping APIchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $19.00$19 plan | $99.00$99 plan | by quote | $0.001 a page | HTML or parsed fields | Country | source |
| ScrapeOps, any Google URLchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $19.00100,000 credits | $99.001,250,000 credits | $699.0010,000,000 credits | 10 credits a page | Page HTML | Country | source |
| ScrapingBee, Google API lightchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $49.00Freelance | $99.00Startup | $999.00Enterprise 14 | 10 credits a page | HTML or parsed fields | Country | source |
| Oxylabs Web Scraper APIchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $30.00Starter | $100.00Basic | no published plan covers it | $0.001 a page | HTML or parsed fields | Country | source |
| Bright Data SERP APIchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $7.50Pay as you go | $142.50Pay as you go | $1,109.00Scale $999 | $0.0015 a page | HTML or parsed fields | Country | source |
| ScrapingBee, Google API normalchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $49.00Freelance | $249.00Business | $1,599.00Enterprise 24 | 15 credits a page | HTML or parsed fields | Country | source |
| SearchApi.iochecked Oct 12, 2026 | $40.00Developer | $250.00BigData | $1,500.00Octo 1M | 1 request a page | Parsed fields | Country | source |
| ScraperAPI, any Google URLchecked Oct 12, 2026 | $149.00Startup | $299.00Business | by quote | 25 credits a page | Page HTML | Country | source |
| SerpApichecked Oct 12, 2026 | $150.00Production | $725.00Searcher | $3,750.00Cloud 1M | 1 search a page | HTML or parsed fields | Country | source |
| Scrappachecked Oct 12, 2026 | no published plan covers it | no published plan covers it | no published plan covers it | 1 credit a page | Parsed fields | not stated | source |
Every way to get Google Lens data
The APIs in the table above are the ones that publish a Google Lens rate; no other API documents an endpoint built for Google Lens.
Google Lens's own API: Google documents no Google Lens API. Its nearest route, Cloud Vision Web Detection, finds pages and similar images for an image you send; it is a different product, with the first 1,000 units a month free, then $3.50 per 1,000. Google Lens's own page, read Oct 11, 2026.
Google Lens's terms, read Oct 11, 2026: Google's terms ban automated access that ignores a page's machine-readable instructions, such as robots.txt. The terms
What volume means for Google Lens
One call sends one image URL and returns one page of matches. SerpApi’s one Lens engine returns visual matches, exact matches and other kinds through a type setting, so a project that needs two kinds for each image makes two calls (SerpApi Google Lens API, read Oct 11, 2026). SearchApi removed its products search type on October 7, 2026, which is a reminder that these endpoints change with Google’s page (SearchApi Google Lens, read Oct 11, 2026).
The nearest Google route is a different product
Google has no Lens API. Cloud Vision’s Web Detection takes an image and returns web pages and visually similar images, with the first 1,000 units a month free and then $3.50 per 1,000 (Cloud Vision pricing, read Oct 11, 2026). It answers “where else does this image appear”, not “what does Lens show for it”.
Evidence to check before buying
- Lens pages are built by JavaScript, which is why the generic Google rates here (ScraperAPI, ScrapeOps) may need their rendering option at a higher price.
- Test with your own images: product photos, logos and screenshots return very different match counts.