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Web search APIs, without the pricing-page scavenger hunt.

Search APIs vary roughly 7× in price for near-identical SERP results. This table compares what the major providers charge per thousand queries.

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Lowest priceSerper

$1.00 / 1k searches

$
Lowest latencyExa

600ms typical

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Highest qualityExa

90 / 100 score

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Price spread7×

cheapest to highest

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Side-by-sidePrices verified in the open catalog
Provider List price / 1k searches Via Route Tools Quality Typical latency
01Serper $1.00 $1.20 72 1.2s
02Firecrawl Search $2.00 $2.40 74 1.5s
03Brave Search $5.00 $6.00 80 700ms
04You.com $5.00 $6.00 78 800ms
05Perplexity $5.00 $6.00 86 900ms
06Exa $7.00 $8.40 90 600ms
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