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Serper.dev pricing
What Serper returns from Google result types, how successful searches consume credits, how free queries and prepaid packs work, and priced alternatives.
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Your job
What Serper.dev counts
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 standard searches
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
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Attempts you are billed for
100,000 standard searches
Serper.dev does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.
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What the meter counts
100,000 credits
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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One-time prepaid cash
$375.00 prepaid
Standard. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
100,000 standard searches → 100,000 credit → Standard $375.00 prepaid = $3.75 per 1,000 searches
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 standard search calls with one default-depth result set per call, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.
Every Serper.dev plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | Not published | n/a | $50.00 | 50,000 credit | 50 |
| Standard your job | Not published | n/a | $375.00 | 500,000 credit | 100 |
| Scale | Not published | n/a | $1,250.00 | 2,500,000 credit | 200 |
| Ultimate | Not published | n/a | $3,750.00 | 12,500,000 credit | 300 |
What consumes a unit
This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.
| Operation | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| search.query | 1 credit | search | source |
What Serper.dev does not publish
- No customer-side caching, retention, redistribution, or attribution restriction was found in the reviewed first-party page.
- The page does not state whether more than one top-up package may be combined at the same tier.
Product scope and returned result
Serper.dev is a Google SERP API. It returns structured search response data for Google result types including Search, Images, News, Maps, Places, Videos, Shopping, Scholar, Patents, and Autocomplete. Its example response separates knowledge-graph material, organic results, links, snippets, and related fields. That makes it a search-engine-results feed, not a generic page scraper and not an LLM-generated answer service. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Requests can specify country and language, and the vendor says searches are issued in real time rather than served from a cache. Published plan capacity ranges from 50 queries per second on Starter to 300 on Ultimate. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Every recorded meter
The sole recorded meter is one credit per successful search response. A failed request does not consume a credit. The meter does not vary by the number of result records in the response in the current vendor record. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Purchased credit has a pack-dependent effective rate:
- Starter buys 50,000 credits for $50, or $0.001 per successful search. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- Standard buys 500,000 credits for $375, or $0.00075 per successful search. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- Scale buys 2.5 million credits for $1,250, or $0.0005 per successful search. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- Ultimate buys 12.5 million credits for $3,750, or $0.0003 per successful search. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Every purchased pack expires six months after purchase. Unused expired credit therefore has no continuing value and should not be treated like an open-ended pay-as-you-go balance. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Contract path, minimum, and trial
The standard path is self-serve: sign up, receive 2,500 free queries without providing a credit card, then buy a top-up when needed. The lowest paid purchase is the $50 Starter pack. Serper accepts major credit cards and PayPal. Credits are deducted only on successful responses, and new queries stop when the balance reaches zero. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
No separate enterprise plan or quote-only tier appears in the current record. Buyers needing more than the published 300 queries per second can contact Serper about a higher concurrency limit. A useful request should include the Google result types used, locations and languages, monthly successful-query volume, burst rate, and required pack life. The page does not say whether multiple packs can be combined at the same tier, so that remains a sales or support question. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Price status and why there is no monthly plan price
Serper publishes prepaid top-up prices, not monthly subscriptions. The six-month validity period and one-time cash purchase are essential contract terms, so entering $50 as a monthly plan would be inaccurate. (Serper.dev, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Priced alternatives
- ScrapeOps 25K starts at $9 per month. (ScrapeOps pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- SerpApi Starter starts at $25 per month. (SerpApi pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
- SearchApi.io Developer starts at $40 per month. (SearchApi.io pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
Answer
Serper.dev requires a $375.00 prepaid purchase for 100,000 standard searches using Standard. It is not a monthly subscription. Every figure is sourced and dated.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.The published price on this page matched the vendor page when it was rechecked.