What is Serper?
Serper is a Google Search API that returns structured JSON across web, image, news, maps/places, video, shopping, scholar, and patent searches, with response times typically quoted around 1-2 seconds. It has a free tier of 2,500 queries with no credit card required, then moves to paid, usage-based pricing. It is widely used as the search tool inside LLM and agent frameworks such as LangChain, CrewAI, Haystack, n8n, and MCP servers.
Our verdict
Serper fits teams that need fast, structured Google results as a search tool for agents or automation, without standing up their own scraping infrastructure. The site doesn't disclose pricing beyond the free tier, and there's little public information on the company's background or funding, so buyers weighing long-term vendor stability don't have much to go on beyond the product itself.
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SERP APIs run queries against Google and other engines and return parsed results: organic listings, ads, snippets, and local packs. They handle the proxies and parsing that make search scraping brittle, and are used for rank tracking, SEO tooling, and market research.
