$0.03
per 1,000 searches at Scale
Our Mission
Serpent API exists for one reason: SERP data shouldn't cost more than the team analyzing it.
For a decade, the SERP API market was dominated by providers charging $5–50 per 1,000 searches, locked behind enterprise contracts, monthly minimums, and sales calls. A single SEO agency tracking a few thousand keywords a day was burning through $1,500–$5,000 per month on raw search data alone — money that should have funded talent, content, and client outcomes, not API bills.
We're a team of marketers who lived this pain every month. So we built the infrastructure ourselves. Today, Serpent API delivers the same Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and DuckDuckGo data — at a fraction of the cost, with no contracts, no minimums, and no enterprise sales calls required.
What We Offer
- Radically Affordable Pricing — From $0.03 per 1,000 searches at Scale tier. The cheapest production-grade SERP API on the market, with no asterisks.
- Multi-Engine SERP API — Google, Bing, Yahoo, and DuckDuckGo through a single unified API — web, news, images, and videos.
- AI Ranking API — Track how Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity cite your brand. Citations, visibility scores, competitor mentions, and ranking positions.
- Social Media API — YouTube search, video metadata, channel data, plus Instagram public profile scraping with structured JSON.
- Rich SERP Data — Organic results, People Also Ask, AI Overviews, Featured Snippets, related searches, ads, shopping, and more.
- Fast Response — DDG under 3 seconds. Google under 20 seconds with full stealth scraping.
- Pay As You Go — No subscriptions, no minimums. Pay only for what you use. Tier discounts unlock automatically with deposit.
- Free Tier — Start free, no credit card required.
100×
cheaper than enterprise SERP APIs
4 + 4
search engines + AI ranking sources
Why Choose Serpent API?
The SERP API market has been broken for a decade — locked behind enterprise contracts, $5–50/1K pricing, and onboarding processes designed to keep small teams out. We rebuilt the stack from scratch on efficient, modern infrastructure so we could pass the savings on. The result: identical data quality, up to 100× cheaper, available the moment you sign up.
Built by Marketers, for Marketers and Developers
Most SERP APIs are built by infrastructure companies that have never run an SEO campaign or shipped a content pipeline. Serpent is different — we're a digital marketing agency that built our own SERP infrastructure because the alternatives were destroying our margins. Every endpoint we ship has been battle-tested on our own client work first, before it reaches you.
Our Commitment
Transparent pricing. No surprise fees. No enterprise upsells. Every feature listed on this site is available to a developer signing up with a credit card today. We document everything, respond to support emails personally, and treat the $10 customer the same as the $1,000 customer.
Built at Contentladder Marketing
Serpent API is the SERP infrastructure powering Contentladder Marketing — a leading digital marketing & AI search optimization agency serving brands across SEO, AI search visibility, content production, and growth strategy.
We didn't set out to be an API company. We set out to deliver better marketing outcomes for our clients — and the only way to do that affordably was to own our search data infrastructure end-to-end. Serpent is that infrastructure, now opened up so other agencies, SEO consultants, SaaS teams, and developers don't have to bleed money the way we used to.
Agency-tested
Powers our own daily SERP tracking, AI visibility audits, and competitor research before it reaches you
Developer-friendly
Used by SEO SaaS founders, indie hackers, in-house data teams, and growth marketers worldwide
Production-grade
Stealth scraping, residential proxies, retry logic, queue management — all the messy infrastructure handled for you
Who's Using Serpent
From scrappy solo SEO consultants to in-house data teams at growth-stage SaaS companies, Serpent powers SERP intelligence at every scale. Customers use Serpent to:
- Track competitor rankings across thousands of keywords daily — at a fraction of the cost of legacy SERP providers
- Power AI Overview tracking dashboards and SEO SaaS products
- Run brand visibility checks across Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
- Feed real-time search data into LLM-powered research and content tools
- Audit local pack, shopping result, and featured snippet presence at scale
- Build internal SEO dashboards without ever talking to an enterprise sales rep
If your team has been priced out of SERP data, or you're tired of writing checks to providers whose pricing pages start with "Contact Sales" — you're exactly who we built this for.
Company
Serpent API is owned and operated by Contentladder Marketing Private Limited, a leading Indian digital marketing & AI search optimization agency. Contentladder partners with brands across SaaS, fintech, ecommerce, and consumer to deliver organic search growth and AI search visibility.
Profits from Serpent directly fund Contentladder's R&D into AI search, automated SEO tooling, and developer infrastructure. Customers get production-grade APIs at near-cost pricing because the agency footprint subsidizes the engineering — a sustainable model that lets us keep prices radically low while still investing in reliability.
Contact Us
Have questions about Serpent API? We would love to hear from you.
- Email: info@apiserpent.com
- Documentation: API Documentation
- Support: Contact Form