Serper

license

proprietary(API-only)

source

closed

managed

Serper-Cloud(key-gated)

Serper is a proprietary hosted Google Search API with no published source code. It is only available as a key-gated cloud service, with no self-hosted or on-premise option.

• https://serper.dev recorded 2026-09-28

  The homepage sells Google search results as a paid hosted API ("Get 2,500 free queries", "No credit card required", then "simply pay for the credits you need"). Searched the body for self-host, on-prem, open source, GitHub, SDK, download and license: none, so no source, license grant or self-hostable build is offered.

Serper publishes no user, customer or query-volume figure, and its site carries pricing and speed claims rather than usage data. There is no package, repository or registry artifact to measure either, so adoption is left unscored rather than inferred from marketing copy.

• https://serper.dev recorded 2026-09-28

  The homepage publishes pricing ("starting at $0.30 per 1,000 queries") but no usage figure. Searched the body for customers, trusted by, developers and users: no customer, developer, user or query-volume count is published.

Serper resells Google's live index as structured JSON, organic results, the knowledge graph, related searches, and returns nothing beyond the links: no extraction endpoint, no composed answer. Other search-only APIs in this category are scored against Serper's feature set rather than the reverse, and its price and latency positioning play no part in that comparison.

• https://serper.dev recorded 2026-09-17

  The Serper homepage. The product line is Search, Images, News, Maps, Places, Videos, Shopping, Scholar, Patents and Autocomplete, and the sample response on the page is structured SERP data - knowledgeGraph and organic results - carrying no page content and no composed answer.