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Serper
Fast Google SERP API for agents.
About
Serper (serper.dev) is the fast Google SERP API: search results, images, news, and places from Google's index with simple pricing and low latency.
The straightforward choice when you specifically need Google results in an agent pipeline. Simple, fast, and cheap — less smart than Exa, more predictable.
What it can do
- Google SERP API
- Fast and cheap
- Structured JSON
- Images, news, places
- Simple pricing
Setup
- Sign up at serper.dev and get an API key.
- POST to /search with your query.
- Parse the structured JSON results.
Prerequisites
API key.
Use cases
automationdata
Works with
Generic APIAny agent (.md)
Trust score — 6/10
/10 trustMetrics-checked
Scored 6/10 (metrics tier). Solid utility SERP API, but a thinner product than the neural search APIs and smaller mindshare. Proprietary, provider-estimated adoption. Metrics tier.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 6.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 4.5/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · Google SERP API; no public repo — adoption estimated
- · released 285 days ago
- · manual review: Serper — fast Google SERP API for agents; simple pricing; license: proprietary
Sources
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