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SERP APIs

APIs that return search engine result pages as structured data for developers and data teams. Ranked by how often ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode name each brand, cite its site and put it first when answering 18 buyer-intent questions.

Run 2026-09-27 · 54 answers · country US · methodology

Ranking

SerpApi scored highest in this run at 80.6: named in 94% of answers and cited in 52%.

# Brand Score Mentioned Cited Avg. position
1 SerpApi serpapi.com 80.6 94% (51) 52% (28) 1.61
2 DataForSEO dataforseo.com 56.3 70% (38) 30% (16) 1.97
3 Serper serper.dev 51.2 70% (38) 15% (8) 2.53
4 Bright Data brightdata.com 31.6 43% (23) 15% (8) 3.48
5 Oxylabs oxylabs.io 12.4 19% (10) 2% (1) 3.8
6 Traject Data trajectdata.com 10.2 13% (7) 7% (4) 3.57
7 SearchApi searchapi.io 10.1 15% (8) 2% (1) 3.25
8 ScrapingBee scrapingbee.com 9.8 9% (5) 15% (8) 3.2
9 ScraperAPI scraperapi.com 9.2 9% (5) 13% (7) 3.4
10 Apify apify.com 7.2 9% (5) 6% (3) 5
11 Zenserp zenserp.com 1.7 2% (1) 2% (1) 2
12 Decodo decodo.com 0.5 0% (0) 2% (1) –

Score = 60% mention rate + 25% citation rate + 15% position prominence, 0–100. Counts in brackets are answers out of 54. Average position is the brand's order among this category's brands in answers that name it.

By engine

Share of each engine's answers that name the brand.

Brand ChatGPT n=18Gemini n=18Google AI Mode n=18
SerpApi 89%94%100%
DataForSEO 67%78%67%
Serper 67%72%72%
Bright Data 39%50%39%
Oxylabs 22%28%6%
Traject Data 17%6%17%
SearchApi 0%28%17%
ScrapingBee 0%22%6%
ScraperAPI 6%6%17%
Apify 11%6%11%
Zenserp 0%6%0%
Decodo 0%0%0%

No answers from Perplexity in this run; the ranking uses the other engines only.

Prompts used

Each prompt was sent once to every engine, as written:

  1. What is the best Google SERP API for developers?
  2. Cheapest API to get Google search results as JSON
  3. Best SERP API for a rank tracking tool
  4. Which SERP API is most reliable at high volume?
  5. Best API for scraping Google search results legally
  6. SERP API with location targeting for local SEO
  7. Best API to get Google AI Overviews programmatically
  8. Which search results API supports Bing and Google?
  9. Best SERP API for an AI agent that needs web search
  10. Fastest real-time Google search API
  11. SERP API with pay-as-you-go pricing
  12. Best API for Google Shopping results
  13. Which SERP API do SEO tools use under the hood?
  14. Best Google News API for monitoring articles
  15. SERP API with a free tier for testing
  16. Best API for tracking People Also Ask questions
  17. Which SERP data provider has the best documentation?
  18. Best SERP API for a startup building an SEO product

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