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SerpApi or Stophy? Pick by what your agent reads

Both send a query to Google and return the results as JSON. SerpApi sells monthly search plans. Stophy charges $0.0015 a search with no plan, and also reads the pages behind the results.

Pick SerpApi if

  • You search from a city. SerpApi takes a city as location. Stophy's Google search takes a country and a language.
  • You need many engines behind one call. Stophy has Google search, News, Images, Scholar, Patents, Trends and Maps, plus its own web search, and no other engines.
  • You need a guaranteed rate. Each SerpApi plan guarantees a number of searches an hour.
  • You repeat searches. SerpApi doesn't count a cached search.
  • You search a little every month, for free. SerpApi gives 250 searches every month. Stophy gives $5 once.

Pick Stophy if

  • You pay per search. SerpApi Starter is $25 for 1,000 searches, $0.025 each. Searcher is $725 for 100,000, $0.00725 each. Stophy is $0.0015 a search, or $0.0008 when you top up $500 at a time.
  • Your agent reads the pages it finds. Turn on scrapeResults and Stophy reads the top results in the same call, or send any link to web.scrape.
  • Searches come back empty. SerpApi counts an empty result set as a search. Stophy charges nothing.
  • Your agent needs more than search. 137 endpoints cover Reddit, YouTube, Amazon, LinkedIn, Zillow and more.

Try it with no key

Terminal
curl -X POST https://api.stophy.dev/v1/google/search \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"query":"serpapi alternative"}'

You get page 1 of Google results, free, up to 50 calls a day. New accounts start with $5.

Switch your calls

SerpApiStophy
engine=googlegoogle.search
tbm=nwsgoogle.news
tbm=ischgoogle.images
Google Maps APIgoogle.maps.search

Checked November 2, 2026 on serpapi.com/pricing, serpapi.com/search-api.

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