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Google sues SerpApi over search scraping

SerpApi pricing

Google filed suit against SerpApi over scraping of its search results — a notable trust/regulatory event for the search-API category. SerpApi bundles a U.S. Legal Shield (up to $2M coverage) on Production+ plans, a differentiator the suit puts in the spotlight.

Google v. SerpApi was filed 2025-12-19, drawing significant community attention (66-point/102-comment Hacker News thread). The case spotlights the legal-exposure question at the heart of the search-scraping-API category and SerpApi’s bundled U.S. Legal Shield (up to $2M coverage, auto-applied on Production and higher plans) as a pricing/positioning differentiator. No pricing change resulted at time of writing.

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SerpApi prices a real-time search-results API on volume-tiered monthly subscriptions metered by the number of successful searches per month, with no seat fee.

Pricing model subscriptionpure usage
Billing units api callsrequests
Sales motion self serveplgsales led
Free tier
Yes
Commits
None
Transparency
public
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SerpApi pricing history

  1. Jun 2026
    Starter $25 added, free plan to 250, Legal Shield on all tiers, full Cloud ladder
  2. Jun 2024
    Paid tiers raised: Developer $75, Production $150, Big Data $275
  3. Jul 2021
    Free plan added ($0 / 100 searches, no commercial use)
  4. Sep 2020
    Three-tier ladder: Developer $50, Production $130, Big Data $250
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