How CrawlerData compares
Side-by-side comparisons with the APIs teams usually weigh us against: pricing, free tiers, Google Shopping sellers, async delivery, MCP and failed-request billing, with migration code. Every competitor fact links to its source. Last checked .
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CrawlerData vs SerpApi
Prepaid packs from $1.00 per 1,000 vs SerpApi's monthly subscription from $25.00 per 1,000.
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CompareCrawlerData vs Serper
Same pack prices. CrawlerData adds Google Shopping sellers, async queues with webhooks and MCP.
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CompareCrawlerData vs DataForSEO
One price on every queue, live included, vs queue-based pricing for SERPs and Shopping.
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CompareCrawlerData vs Tavily
Google's own results and Shopping prices for agents vs LLM-ready web content summaries.
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CompareGoogle Custom Search API alternative
The Custom Search JSON API ends January 1, 2027. Field mapping and code to move.
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CrawlerData in one table
Built for production price monitoring: we run our own e-commerce price-monitoring product on the same crawler, so the API is used in production every day.
- Pricing model
- Prepaid credit packs, no subscription. Credits valid 6 months
- Cost per 1,000 at entry
- $1.00 per 1,000 requests (Starter, $50 for 50k credits)
- Cost per 1,000 at volume
- $0.30 per 1,000 requests (Ultimate, $3,750 for 12.5M credits)
- Google Shopping sellers
- Yes. Every seller for a product in one request, 1 credit per 10 sellers returned (rounded up, minimum 1)
- Async and webhooks
- Live (synchronous), plus Fast and Regular queues with polling or a webhook (postbackUrl). Same price on every queue
- MCP server
- Yes. Remote server at api.crawlerdata.com/mcp, 8 tools, same API key
- Failed requests
- Not charged. A failed job costs 0 credits
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