# Serper API by [Serper](/organizations/serper/) - **ID:** `ff8a4413-2c1f-4bfc-bf89-bdd8264834f7` - **JSON API:** /api/v1/catalog/products/ff8a4413-2c1f-4bfc-bf89-bdd8264834f7/ - **Slug:** serper-api - **Product website:** https://serper.dev - **Organization website:** https://serper.dev - **Categories:** [Search](/categories/search/), [Search-Grounded LLM API](/categories/search-grounded-llm-api/) ## Description Google Search API that delivers real-time SERP results in 1-2 seconds across web, images, news, maps, places, videos, shopping, scholar, patents, and autocomplete endpoints. ## AI-native score: Unrated Available here: [Task-completion verdicts](#jobs-to-be-done) and [Offers](#offers). Coverage measures research breadth across scored fields. Research coverage is 38/100. An AI-native grade requires 40/100. The provisional breakdown below shows the AI-native signals recorded so far. The AI-native score measures agent-readiness and is not a substitute for your own security or vendor-risk review. See [methodology](/methodology/) for how coverage and the grade are computed. | Component | Applies | Raw | Effective weight | Nominal weight | Contribution | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Integration | Yes | 1/10 | 35% | 35% | 3.5 | | Trust | Yes | 2/6 | 30% | 30% | 10.0 | | Portability | Yes | 2/4 | 20% | 20% | 10.0 | | Security | Yes | 0/4 | 15% | 15% | 0.0 | - **Integration signals:** SDK / developer kit (+1) - **Trust signals:** Hard budget caps (yes, +2) - **Portability signals:** Standard protocol access (+1); No proprietary-SDK lock-in (+1) ## Trust & Data Policy - **Multi-factor authentication:** – Unavailable - **Zero data retention:** – No - **Hard budget caps:** ✓ Yes (on by default) - **Standard protocol access:** ✓ Yes - **No proprietary-SDK lock-in:** ✓ Yes - **Self-hostable:** – No - **Open source:** – No - **Not yet researched:** WebMCP, Headless signup, No generative AI training, Sandbox environment, Data export, Data import, Open standards, Documented provider swap ## Confirmed absences These decision fields were researched and confirmed absent — not available based on current evidence, until contrary information supersedes the finding. Each carries the check performed, the page checked, and the date, so you can act on the negative without repeating the research. A label-scoped absence applies only to its label (e.g. no SOC 2 does not mean no certifications). - **llms.txt URL** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-29. Inspected the complete official Serper product homepage, including its API product examples, pricing, FAQ and all public documentation/navigation links. It contains no link to an official llms.txt index on the product site or a documentation host. The conclusion comes from the complete official marketing index inspection, not from a guessed-path failure. Source: https://serper.dev/ - **MFA** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked the privacy policy’s security section for customer-account MFA. It describes SSL transmission and access by authorized personnel but states no MFA option or requirement. Source: https://serper.dev/privacy - **Open source** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked Serper’s Terms of Service and product overview for an open-source product or source-code offer. The terms describe proprietary technology and a limited service-materials license. Source: https://serper.dev/terms - **Self-hostable** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked the product pricing page for deployment choices. The published offer is a hosted API credit service and lists no self-hosted or on-premise deployment. Source: https://serper.dev/ - **Trust center URL** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked the official product homepage for a link to a trust center or security-assurance page. The homepage links to product and pricing information but provides no such pointer. Source: https://serper.dev/ - **Zero data retention** — confirmed absent (whole field), checked 2026-10-18. Checked the privacy policy’s data-retention section for a zero-retention option covering the service. It says most personal data is retained while an account remains active and allows longer retention for legal, tax, and contractual needs; it offers no zero-retention option. Source: https://serper.dev/privacy ## Security & Compliance **Compliance certifications:** Not yet researched. **Access controls:** Not yet researched. ## Capabilities - **API request execution** — Sends HTTP requests to an API and renders the response from the command line. - **Web Search** — Find web pages relevant to a query and return ranked search results. ## Jobs To Be Done From cited vendor documentation, each completion verdict says whether an agent can deliver the job's main outcome by and large through this product and which steps still need a person. Scope may limit cases or prerequisites while preserving that outcome. An unknown verdict means the answer is not yet established. - **Search the web** — Find web pages relevant to a query. - Route: SDK / developer kit - Completion: Documented complete - Setup needs a human: Unknown - Per-task human step: Unknown - On behalf of a principal: Unknown - Scope: An authorized software application uses the documented Haystack SerperDevWebSearch integration with a Serper API key to submit a search query and receive relevant web-page URLs and snippets. This can support household research queries within an application. Completion ends at finding relevant web pages. - Conditions: Requires a Serper account/API key with available credits and the serperdev-haystack package. The service terms define Serper as B2B. Returned snippets are not full page contents; fetching source pages, validating a recommendation and completing transactions require separate work. Human setup, execution and delegated-use policy remain unknown. ## Offers ### Free - free-queries: Free; payment unknown; commitment unknown free-queries: 2,500 free queries; no credit card is required. Free queries; no credit card required. 2,500 free queries. No credit card is required. ### Starter - credit-pack: 50 USD/one_time; payment one_time; no minimum commitment credit-pack: One-time credit top-up. Credits are valid for six months. One-time top-up with no monthly subscription. Prices exclude sales tax, VAT, and GST. A full refund is available within seven days of the first credit purchase if less than 20% of the credits have been used. 50,000 search query credits. Includes real-time results, custom query location, and a limit of 50 queries per second. Credits are valid for six months. ### Standard - credit-pack: 375 USD/one_time; payment one_time; no minimum commitment credit-pack: One-time credit top-up. Credits are valid for six months. One-time top-up with no monthly subscription. Prices exclude sales tax, VAT, and GST. A full refund is available within seven days of the first credit purchase if less than 20% of the credits have been used. 500,000 search query credits. Includes real-time results, custom query location, and a limit of 100 queries per second. Credits are valid for six months. ### Scale - credit-pack: 1250 USD/one_time; payment one_time; no minimum commitment credit-pack: One-time credit top-up. Credits are valid for six months. One-time top-up with no monthly subscription. Prices exclude sales tax, VAT, and GST. A full refund is available within seven days of the first credit purchase if less than 20% of the credits have been used. 2,500,000 search query credits. Includes real-time results, custom query location, and a limit of 200 queries per second. Credits are valid for six months. ### Ultimate - credit-pack: 3750 USD/one_time; payment one_time; no minimum commitment credit-pack: One-time credit top-up. Credits are valid for six months. One-time top-up with no monthly subscription. Prices exclude sales tax, VAT, and GST. A full refund is available within seven days of the first credit purchase if less than 20% of the credits have been used. 12,500,000 search query credits. Includes real-time results, custom query location, and a limit of 300 queries per second. Credits are valid for six months. ## Reviews No approved reviews yet. ## Benchmarks No benchmarks listed. ## Documentation No documentation links listed. ## API Specs Not yet researched. ## MCP Servers Not yet researched. ## A2A Servers Not yet researched. ## Native Connectors Not yet researched. ## Command-Line Interfaces Not yet researched. ## Developer Kits - [SerperDev Haystack integration (Python, maintained by deepset)](https://pypi.org/project/serperdev-haystack/) — Languages: Python ## Agent Skills Not yet researched. ## Related products - [Tavily](/organizations/tavily/products/tavily/) by Tavily — Tier B. Same job: Search the web (Finishes end to end). - [SerpApi](/organizations/serpapi/products/serpapi/) by SerpApi — Tier C. Same job: Search the web (not assessed). - [Firecrawl](/organizations/firecrawl/products/firecrawl/) by Firecrawl — Tier A. Same job: Search the web (not assessed). - [Exa](/organizations/exa/products/exa/) by Exa — Tier B. Same job: Search the web (Finishes end to end). - [Parallel](/organizations/parallel-ai/products/parallel/) by Parallel — Tier B. Same job: Search the web (not assessed). - [You.com](/organizations/you-com/products/you-com/) by You.com — Tier B. Same job: Search the web (not assessed). ## Add this badge to your site Own this product? The Open Agent Guide badge links your site back to this directory listing. It makes no grade claim while this product is unrated, and updates on its own once enough is verified to assign a grade. Badge image: https://www.openagentguide.com/organizations/serper/products/serper-api/badge.svg (seal), https://www.openagentguide.com/organizations/serper/products/serper-api/badge.svg?style=flat (flat). For the copy-paste HTML and Markdown embed code, open the badge panel on [this product's page](https://www.openagentguide.com/organizations/serper/products/serper-api/#badge-embed-heading). 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