DataForSEO search API pricing.
Prices checked
DataForSEO Google, live costs $2 per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 a month and $2 at 100,000, checked .
At 1,000 searches a month
DataForSEO
Google, live · pay as you go
What 1,000 searches cost you, bought the cheapest way DataForSEO sells them.
At 100,000 a month
DataForSEO
pay as you go
The same price per search at any volume: no discount for more.
Every way DataForSEO sells it
Google, standard queue, Google results
$0.60 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 a month; $0.60 per 1,000 searches at 100,000.
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Pay as you go
Queuedpay as you go, $50 least top-up
$0.60/1k searches
Google, priority queue, Google results
$1.20 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 a month; $1.20 per 1,000 searches at 100,000.
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Pay as you go
Queuedpay as you go, $50 least top-up
$1.20/1k searches
Google, live, Google results
$2 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 a month; $2 per 1,000 searches at 100,000.
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Pay as you go
pay as you go, $50 least top-up
$2/1k searches
How each price is read
- One results page of ten. About 5 minutes on average. A $50 minimum top-up that never expires.
- One results page of ten. Up to a minute on average. A $50 minimum top-up that never expires.
- One results page of ten. In the request, up to 6 seconds. A $50 minimum top-up that never expires.
How we count
Each price is per 1,000 searches when you make 1,000 or 100,000 searches a month and buy them the cheapest way that provider sells: pay as you go, the plan that covers them with its overage, or a pack spread over the months it lasts. A free allowance is not subtracted; free tiers are listed on their own.
A free tier is a limit, not a price: it is listed on every page and called the cheapest on none. A price read for the first time, or that moved a lot, is marked while a second reading checks it.
- Queued
- Results come back minutes later rather than in the request, so the row enters no ranking.
Similar APIs
Other Google results APIs, cheapest first. Each percentage is against DataForSEO's $2 per 1,000 searches at 1,000 searches a month.
Google search
Starter pack · $0.75 at 100k
Serper$8.33/1k searches317% moreGoogle search
Starter plan · $7.25 at 100k
SerpApi$25/1k searches1150% moreGoogle SERP Advance
Lite plan · $0.90 at 100k
Scrapingdog$40/1k searches1900% moreGoogle search
Developer plan · $2.50 at 100k
SearchApi$40/1k searches1900% more
Frequently asked
- How much does the DataForSEO search API cost?
- $2 per 1,000 searches for Google, live when you make 1,000 a month (pay as you go), and $2 per 1,000 searches at 100,000 a month (pay as you go), checked 21 Oct 2026. Tax is extra.
- Does DataForSEO have a free tier?
- DataForSEO publishes no free tier we can read.
- What does a DataForSEO search return?
- Google results: The Google results page as JSON, scraped and parsed for you: titles, links, snippets and the page's other blocks.
- What is cheaper than DataForSEO?
- Nothing of the same kind is cheaper at 1,000 searches a month today.
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