# SERP API: Google organic results for a keyword

Send a keyword, get Google's organic results back as data: the ranking URLs in order, with their titles and snippets. 12 tools do this through 鹦鹉AI, from 0.11 credits/success a call, billed from a prepaid balance instead of a monthly plan. What you are really choosing between is how deep each one goes and how much of the page beyond ten blue links it can see.

## What is the best way to ask 鹦鹉AI?

Setup line (paste into any agent): `set up 鹦鹉AI — https://parrot.amorist.cn/llms.txt`

Then ask: "Using 鹦鹉AI, get the top 10 Google organic results for best crm for startups in the United States, in English. Show me the price first, then list the ranking domains with their titles."

- **Give it the keyword, not a URL** These take a query the way a person types it. Keep multi-word phrases together.
- **Say where and in what language** A result set is location specific. Leave it out and you get whichever default the tool picked.
- **Say how deep to go** Depth is the cost dial on every tool here.
- **Ask for the price first** 鹦鹉AI returns the cost before the call, so the agent can say what it will spend.

## Why go through 鹦鹉AI

- **No subscription, no seats** Charged per call. No card, no minimum; top up the prepaid balance.
- **Switch by changing a word** Another tool is a different word in the prompt, not a new integration.

Endpoints:

- `serpstat.google.serp.organic` — Google organic results by keyword — ranking URLs, titles (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `semrush.google.serp.organic` — Google organic results by keyword — top 100 domains, URLs (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `dataforseo.x.serp-google-organic-live-advanced` — Google organic results for a keyword — full SERP features (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `serpapi.x.google-light` — Google organic results for a query — fast, trimmed (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `crawl4ai.google.serp.organic` — Google organic results with true rank and page blocks (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `dataforseo.google.serp.organic` — Google organic search results for a keyword, live (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `serpapi.google.serp.organic` — Google organic search results for a query (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `anyapi.google.serp.organic` — Google Search (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `cloro.google.serp.organic` — Google SERP — organic, PAA, local pack, AI Overview (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `litescrape.google.serp.organic` — Search Google (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `scrapecreators.x.v1-google-search` — Search Google by keyword — organic results (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google
- `limadata.google.serp.organic` — Search the web (google): https://parrot.amorist.cn/catalog/google

## What people actually struggle with

From roughly 180 Reddit and X posts read in August 2026. The X half was almost entirely promotion; Reddit carried the signal, and thirteen posts from four confirmed promotional rings were excluded, including one account running the same question through three scraping subreddits with a different persona each time. These five are organic.

**An agent search API and a SERP API are not the same product**

> "My current take is that most “search APIs” are really context providers for LLM grounding." (r/AI_Agents, 2 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/AI_Agents/comments/1urn878/highrecall_web_search_apis_for_agent_data/)

What this page can do about it: This was the most useful distinction in the whole research pass, and it decides whether this page is for you. Tools that return cleaned passages for a model to read are solving grounding. The tools here return the result set itself, in order, with the domains that hold each position. If you need to know who ranks where, cleaned context will not tell you, and if you only need something true to quote, you are overpaying here.

**There is no pay as you go, and that is the objection**

> "What bothers me mostly is that there's no pay-as-yo-go option for SerpAPI or Firecrawl as far as I can tell." (r/TypingMind, 3 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/TypingMind/comments/1qri4jd/help_needed_customization_of_typingmind_deep/)

What this page can do about it: The complaint that came up most often was about the shape of the bill rather than the size of it: a monthly plan is the wrong instrument for someone running twenty searches a day. Every tool here is charged per call from a prepaid balance, at its own rate with nothing added, so the honest counterpoint is that at that volume the price differences between tools are noise and the real cost is your setup time.

**Google stopped serving a hundred results on one page**

> "The removal created a 10x increase in the workload for data collection." (r/AgentsOfAI, 204 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/AgentsOfAI/comments/1nxut66/google_trying_to_retain_its_search_engine_monopoly/)

What this page can do about it: This is the single best explanation of why a cheap looking per search rate can still surprise you. When one fetch stopped returning a hundred results, reading the top hundred became ten fetches, and every tool passes that through somewhere. Ask the agent to price the calls before it starts.

**The free tier runs out before the project starts**

> "APIs like SerpAPI have pretty limited free tiers, so I'm looking into alternative ways to handle search without running into those limits." (r/Playwright, 2 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/Playwright/comments/1u8h42h/google_search_using_playwright/)

What this page can do about it: A top-up of a few hundred credits and no card covers hundreds of searches at these rates. What that does not buy you is a decision: the same budget spread across three of these tools on your own queries is a better answer than any ranking, and it is the experiment this page would rather you ran.

**Every thread on this question is full of vendors**

> "please be understandable and provide your take, examples and opinion, not just straight up promo bs" (r/ProxyEngineering, 10 points: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProxyEngineering/comments/1vrjmy7/what_are_some_good_serpapi_alternatives/)

What this page can do about it: This page is one of those threads, so the only decent thing it can do is show its working. Every price is read from the tool's own rate card or documentation on the date we checked it, where a tool publishes no per-call price we say so rather than guessing, and any reliability figure comes from live 鹦鹉AI traffic rather than a benchmark we designed. What no one can tell you is which of these companies still exists in eighteen months. Nobody knows that either.

## What actually differs

- SerpApi appears in the catalog twice and the difference matters. Its light endpoint returns a trimmed, faster payload for when you only want the ranking URLs, while its full endpoint accepts the whole parameter surface, including an explicit location or coordinates, device, the search vertical and a starting offset, which is what you need for city level results or for anything past the first page.

## What is a SERP API?

A SERP API returns what Google returns for one query, already parsed: the organic results in order, with titles, URLs and snippets. You are not renting an index, you are paying for one search run somewhere else on the parameters you send. That is why it is priced per search rather than per month, and why the parameters that change what a person would have seen, the location, the language, the device and how far down the page you go, are also the parameters that change what you are billed.

## Before you start

**How much does one Google search cost?** The tool's own rate, taken from a prepaid balance rather than a subscription.

**Is this the same as Tavily, Exa or Firecrawl?** No, and conflating the two is the commonest mistake in the research behind this page. Those return cleaned text for a model to read. These return the Google result set itself, in position order, with the domains holding each slot. If the question is who ranks, you need this kind; if the question is what is true, you probably do not.

**Why does reading the top 100 cost more than it used to?** Because Google stopped serving a hundred results on a single page, so what was one fetch became ten. Tools pass that through as depth, as rows, or as separate searches, which is why the depth or size parameter is the real cost dial on every tool here.

**Can I get results for one city rather than the whole country?** Yes, on the tools that take it. SerpApi accepts a location string or explicit coordinates with a radius, and DataForSEO accepts a location code or name. A national result set is not a local one, so if you are checking a local pack you have to say where you are standing.

HTML version: https://parrot.amorist.cn/use-cases/google-results-for-a-keyword