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Best SerpAPI Alternative in 2025: Why ScraperAPI Outperforms

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Best SerpAPI Alternative

Trusted by 10,000+ web scraping and data teams who switched from solutions like SerpAPI for greater flexibility, full-page scraping, and cost-effective high-volume data extraction.

Quick Overview

About ScraperAPI

ScraperAPI is a powerful and flexible web scraping API and tool designed to empower developers, data scientists, and businesses with reliable data extraction at scale.

  • Success rate 95%+ even on complex sites
  • Transparent pay-per-successful-request pricing model
  • Advanced bypassing mechanisms
  • JS rendering, CAPTCHA handling, and worldwide geotargeting
  • Structured outputs like JSON, CSV, Text, and Markdown

About SerpAPI

SerpApi is a search engine scraping API designed to extract structured data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, eBay, Walmart, and other search engines. While it provides real-time search results, it has key limitations.

  • Real-time SERP scraping with structured JSON output
  • Supports multiple search engines beyond Google, including eCommerce search results
  • Limited to search results only—cannot scrape full product pages, social media profiles, or general web data
  • Strict per-search pricing—scaling up requires significantly higher cost

Why Choose ScraperAPI Over SerpAPI

If you need a scalable, cost-effective, and fully automated web scraping solution, ScraperAPI is the better choice. While SerpApi specializes in search engine scraping, it limits users to predefined queries and charges per search, making large-scale data extraction expensive and restrictive.

ScraperAPI removes these limitations with a pay-per-successful-request model, allowing you to scrape search engines, eCommerce platforms, social media, real estate sites, and any other website—without query limits or per-search fees. With SerpApi’s Big Data Plan at $275/month for just 30,000 searches, costs add up quickly, while ScraperAPI’s Business Plan provides up to 3,000,000 requests for $299/month, offering 100x more data for nearly the same price.

So, how do our pricing and features compare to SerpApi?

Pricing Overview

Features

Pricing Model

Requests per Month

Browser Automation

Premium Proxies

IP Rotation

Geotargeting

CAPTCHA Handling

Data Output

Scraped Pages per Run

Project Limits

Scheduling features

Monthly Cost

ScraperAPI’s Business Plan

Pay-per-successful-request

Up to 3,000,000 normal requests / 120,000 SERP requests

✅

✅

Smart Proxy and Header Rotation

150+ countries

✅

JSON, CSV, Text, Markdown, HTML, XML

Unlimited

Unlimited scrapes per website

✅

$299

SerpAPI’s Big Data Plan

Per-search pricing

30,000 requests per month

✅

❌

Rotates IPs for search queries

Available via location parameter

✅

HTML, CSV, JSON

Limited by search quota

Limited by search quota

❌

$275

Scrape More Than Just Search Results

SerpApi is designed to extract structured data from search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Walmart, and eBay. Still, it cannot scrape full web pages, product listings, customer reviews, or social media data. Users are restricted to predefined search queries, meaning they can only retrieve SERP data, not full-page insights.

In contrast, ScraperAPI offers both structured search data and the flexibility to scrape any website:

  • Google and eCommerce search results (just like SerpApi, but without per-search pricing)
  • Amazon, Walmart, and eBay full product pages, including pricing, reviews, and availability
  • Social media platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter for market trends and audience insights
  • Real estate listings from platforms like Redfin for up-to-date housing data
  • Any other website unrestricted by predefined search parameters

With ScraperAPI, you get structured search engine data while still being able to scrape beyond search results for deeper insights.

Scale Web Scraping Without Per-Search Costs

One of SerpApi’s biggest limitations is its strict per-search pricing model, which makes high-volume scraping expensive and inefficient. Each search counts toward the plan’s quota, whether it retrieves 10 results or 100, meaning costs can skyrocket for large-scale extractions.

Example cost comparison:

  • SerpApi’s Big Data Plan ($275/month) = 30,000 searches
  • ScraperAPI’s Business Plan ($299/month) = 3,000,000 normal requests or 120,000 SERP requests

ScraperAPI removes artificial search limits, allowing users to scrape more data for nearly the same price. With ScraperAPI, you can:

  • Send millions of requests per month without worrying about exhausting search credits
  • Extract full-page data instead of being limited to search snippets
  • Optimize costs with pay-per-successful-request pricing, ensuring you only pay for the data you receive

ScraperAPI is built for scalability, ensuring your web scraping operations can expand without cost spikes.

Unmatched Flexibility—Scrape What You Need, When You Need It

SerpApi is a strong choice for Google and search engine data. Still, it locks users into predefined queries and charges per search, making large-scale, multi-platform data collection expensive and restrictive. If you need to scrape anything beyond search engine results, such as complete product pages, competitor pricing, customer reviews, or social media insights—SerpApi simply won’t work.

ScraperAPI offers the best of both worlds:

  • Structured search data when you need it—Google, Redfin, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and more
  • Unlimited full-page scraping when you don’t—extract entire pages, product details, customer sentiment, and business insights without search query limits
  • No restrictions—send direct requests to any webpage, whether it’s a Google SERP, an Amazon product listing, or a real estate platform.
  • Built-in anti-bot measures—automatically bypass CAPTCHAs, IP blocks, and JavaScript-rendered content, ensuring uninterrupted data extraction.
  • Multiple output formats—receive data in JSON, CSV, HTML, Text, or Markdown, making it easy to integrate into analytics tools, dashboards, and databases.
  • Webhook Integration—automate data delivery by sending scraped results directly to your application in real-time.

With ScraperAPI, you’re not limited to search engine queries—you can scrape anything, anytime, anywhere. Whether you need SERP monitoring, real-time eCommerce tracking, competitor intelligence, or large-scale data extraction, ScraperAPI delivers more flexibility, automation, and cost efficiency.

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ScraperAPI vs SerpAPI: What's Different

To help you understand the key differences between ScraperAPI and SerpApi, here’s a breakdown of how each feature works and why it matters for web scraping.

FeatureScraperAPISerpAPIWhat it means
Direct URL-Based Scraping with scraping flexibilityScrapes any website: SERPs, eCommerce, social media, real estate, and moreLimited to predefined search queries on search enginesScraperAPI allows full-page scraping, allowing users to extract entire web pages. SerpApi, however, is restricted to search engine results, meaning it can only retrieve search results. With ScraperAPI, you’re not limited to search results—you can scrape any content from any website for deeper insights.
Requests per monthUp to 3,000,000 normal requests or 120,000 SERP requests on the Business Plan – scalable with higher plansCapped at a fixed number of searches per plan (e.g., 30,000 searches on the Big Data Plan).SerpApi counts each search as a request, meaning 30,000 searches equal 30,000 requests. ScraperAPI offers far more monthly requests, enabling full-page scraping, product data extraction, and large-scale web scraping at a lower cost.
Structured Data Endpoints (SDEs)Google, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, RedfinGoogle, Bing, Yahoo, eBay, Walmart, etc.SerpApi provides structured data only from search engines. ScraperAPI offers the same search engine data plus additional structured endpoints, allowing access to product details, pricing, and reviews directly from these sites.
Data Output FormatsJSON, CSV, HTML, Text, Markdown HTML, CSV, JSONScraperAPI offers multiple output formats, making it more flexible for different data processing needs.
DataPipeline for Low-Code ScrapingAutomate scraping workflows without writing codeNo low-code automation featuresWith ScraperAPI’s DataPipeline, you can schedule and automate web scraping without worrying about infrastructure—all at no extra cost. This means you can set up recurring data extractions and let ScraperAPI handle everything, so you can focus on using the data, not managing scrapers
Webhook IntegrationSends data directly to applications in real-timeNo webhook supportScraperAPI automates data delivery, making integration into dashboards, databases, and analytics tools easier.

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Global Data Coverage

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Powerful Scraping Tools

All our tools are designed to simplify the scraping process and collect mass-scale data without getting blocked.

Designed for Scale

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Simple, Powerful, Reliable Data Collection That Just Works

Web data collection doesn’t have to be complicated. With ScraperAPI, you can access the data you need without worrying about proxies, browsers, or CAPTCHA handling.

Our powerful scraping infrastructure handles the hard parts for you, delivering reliable results with success rates of nearly 99.99%.

Extract Clean, Structured Data from Any Website in Seconds

No more struggling with messy HTML and complex parsing. ScraperAPI transforms any website into clean, structured data formats you can immediately use.

 

Our structured data endpoints automatically convert popular sites like Amazon, Google, Walmart, and eBay into ready-to-use JSON or CSV, with no parsing required on your end.

 

Instead of spending hours writing custom parsers that break whenever websites change, get consistent, reliable data with a single API call.

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Auto Parsing​

Test it yourself

Python
import requests

payload = {
    'api_key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'url': 'https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Unlocked-Smartphone-High-Res-Manufacturer/dp/B0DCLCPN9T/?th=1',
    'country': 'us',
    'output_format': 'text'
}


response = requests.get('https://api.scraperapi.com/', params=payload)
product_data = response.text

with open('product.text', 'w') as f:
    f.write(product_data)
    f.close()

Feed Your LLMs with Perfect Web Data, Zero Cleaning Required

Training AI models requires massive amounts of high-quality data. The problem is that web content is often too messy and unstructured for models to make sense of it.

 

ScraperAPI solves this with our output_format parameter. It automatically converts web pages into clean Text or Markdown formats, which is perfectly suited for LLM training.

 

Simply add "output_format=text" or "output_format=markdown" to your request, and we’ll strip away irrelevant elements while preserving the meaningful content your models need.

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Collect Data at Scale Without Writing a Single Line of Code

Set up large-scale scraping jobs with our intuitive visual interface. All you have to do is:

 

  • Upload your target URLs
  • Choose your settings
  • Schedule when you want your data collected

DataPipeline handles everything from there: proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, retries, and delivering your data where you need it via webhooks or downloadable files.

 

Scale up to 10,000 URLs per project while our infrastructure manages the technical complexity, or use its dedicated endpoints to add even more control to your existing projects.

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ScraperAPI geotargeting

See Websites Exactly as Local Users Do with Global Geotargetting

Many websites show different content based on where and how you’re accessing them, which limits your ability to collect comprehensive, quality data.

 

With ScraperAPI’s geotargeting capabilities, you can access websites from over 150 countries through our network of 150M+ proxies and see exactly what local users see.

 

Simply add a country_code parameter to your request, and ScraperAPI will automatically route your request through the appropriate location with no complex proxy setup required.

 

Uncover region-specific pricing, product availability, search results, and local content that would otherwise be invisible to your standard scraping setup.

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All the Data You Need. One Place to Find It

Automate your entire scraping project with us, or select a solution that fits your business goals.

Residential Proxies

Proxy Management

Integrate our proxy pool with your in-house scrapers or our Scraping API to unlock any website.

  • 40M+ IPs
  • 99.99% Uptime
  • Geotargeting
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Scraping Solutions

Easily scrape data, automate rendering, bypass obstacles, and parse product search results quickly and efficiently.

  • JS rendering
  • Smart IP Rotation
  • Amazon / Walmart Scraper
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Hosted Scraper

Put ecommerce data collection on autopilot without writing a single line of code.

  • Visual interface
  • Built-in scheduler
  • Ready-to-use templates
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One of the most frustrating parts of automated web scraping is constantly dealing with IP blocks and CAPTCHAs. ScraperAPI gets this task off of your shoulders.

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The team at ScraperAPI was so patient in helping us debug our first scraper. Thanks for being super passionate and awesome!
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Cristina SaavedraOptimization Director at SquareTrade
A dead simple API plus a generous free tier are hard to beat. ScraperAPI is a good example of how developer experience can make a difference in a crowded category.
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Ilya SukharFounder of Parse, Partner at YCombinator
I researched a lot of scraping tools and am glad I found ScraperAPI. It has low cost and great tech support. They always respond within 24 hours when I need any help with the product.
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Alexander ZharkovFullstack Javascript Developer
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Hobby

Ideal for small projects or personal use.

Hobby

$49

/ month

$44

/ month, billed annually

  • 100,000 API Credits
  • 20 Concurrent Threads
  • US & EU Geotargeting
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Startup

Great for small teams and advanced users.

Startup

$149

/ month

$134

/ month, billed annually

  • 1,000,000 API Credits
  • 50 Concurrent Threads
  • US & EU Geotargeting
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Business

Perfect for small-medium businesses.

Business

$299

/ month

$269

/ month, billed annually

  • 3,000,000 API Credits
  • 100 Concurrent Threads
  • All Geotargeting
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Scaling

Most popular

Perfect for teams looking to scale their operations.

Business

$475

/ month

$427

/ month, billed annually

  • 5,000,000 API Credits
  • 200 Concurrent Threads
  • All Geotargeting
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Enterprise

Need more than 5,000,000 API Credits with all premium features, premium support and an account manager?

  • 5,000,000+ API credits and 200+ Concurrent Threads
  • Dedicated Account Manager
  • Slack Support
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Frequently Asked Questions

SerpApi locks you into search engine queries, restricting you to predefined search results like ads, snippets, and knowledge panels. ScraperAPI gives you complete control, allowing you to scrape entire web pages from any site, including eCommerce, social media, and business directories. Whether you need structured data from our pre-built endpoints (SDEs) or full-page extraction via direct URL scraping, ScraperAPI offers both options. With 3,000,000 requests vs. SerpApi’s 30,000 searches, you get 100x more data with the flexibility to scrape exactly what you need.

Yes! ScraperAPI allows up to 3,000,000 monthly requests, while SerpApi’s Big Data Plan is limited to 30,000 searches. That’s 100x more data for nearly the same price. Plus, ScraperAPI supports full-page scraping, so you’re not restricted to search engine results.

ScraperAPI offers structured search data like SerpApi but also provides additional structured endpoints for Amazon, Walmart, and eBay—giving access to full product listings, pricing, and reviews at no extra cost. Unlike SerpApi, ScraperAPI supports scraping any website, not just search engines.

Switching is fast and straightforward. If you’re using SerpApi for Google search scraping, ScraperAPI’s Google Search Structured Data Endpoint works similarly but with more requests per month. ScraperAPI’s flexibility, automated proxy rotation, and built-in CAPTCHA solving make it a seamless upgrade if you need more than just search engine data.

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