CrawlerData vs SerpApi

How they differ

CrawlerData's packs cost $1.00 down to $0.30 per 1,000 requests and stay valid for 6 months, so you pay for what you use. SerpApi is a monthly subscription that starts at $25 for 1,000 searches and reaches about $1.96 per 1,000 on its largest listed plan.

For Google Shopping, our sellers endpoint returns every seller for a product in one request, with price, shipping and total price, sorted by total. SerpApi's Immersive Product engine returns 3 to 5 stores by default and up to 13 with more_stores, with more pages through next_page_token.

We run our own e-commerce price-monitoring product on the same crawler, so the API is used in production every day. Live, Fast and Regular queues all cost the same, where SerpApi's Ludicrous Speed and Ludicrous Speed Max cost 2× and 4× the base price.

At a glance

List prices in USD, excluding tax, as published on October 13, 2026. "Not published" means we could not find it on SerpApi's public pages. Per-1,000 figures marked "our arithmetic" divide a plan price by its volume.

Moving from SerpApi

The fastest way to switch: keep your SerpApi calls and change the base URL to https://api.crawlerdata.com/search.json, our SerpApi-compatible endpoint (see /serpapi-compatible-api). To use the native API instead, the mapping is below: a JSON body to one endpoint, with a Bearer token instead of api_key.

curl "https://serpapi.com/search?engine=google&q=best+crm+software&gl=us&hl=en&api_key=YOUR_SERPAPI_KEY"

curl -X POST https://api.crawlerdata.com/v1/jobs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endpoint":"google-search","params":{"query":"best crm software","country":"us","device":"desktop"},"queue":"live"}'

• Both responses use organic_results[] with position, title, link, displayed_link and snippet, so most result-parsing code carries over. Our result sits under result in the response, next to a job object with status and credits.
• Product tokens are not interchangeable between providers. Run our Shopping search once to get the product_id for each product, store it, then call the sellers endpoint.
• For batch jobs, swap async=true for the fast or regular queue and give each job a postbackUrl: the result is posted to you when it is ready, at the same price as live.

Full request and response schemas are in the OpenAPI spec, with runnable code in the examples repo. AI clients can connect to the MCP server at https://api.crawlerdata.com/mcp with the same API key.

Sources

All checked on October 13, 2026 (as of Oct 2026). Spotted something out of date? Email contact@crawlerdata.com and we will correct it.

• SerpApi pricing (serpapi.com/pricing)
• SerpApi homepage (serpapi.com/)
• SerpApi Search API docs (async) (serpapi.com/search-api)
• SerpApi Google Immersive Product API (serpapi.com/google-immersive-product-api)
• SerpApi organic results fields (serpapi.com/organic-results)
• SerpApi MCP server (github.com/serpapi/serpapi-mcp)
• CrawlerData pricing