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That seems expensive. For 100 results per query, serper.dev is $2/1000 queries and Bright Data is $1.5/1000 queries.
by Manouchehri 1y ago
That seems expensive.
For 100 results per query, serper.dev is $2/1000 queries and Bright Data is $1.5/1000 queries.
- AznHisoka 1y agoSorry, got this off by a multiple. Yes, pricing is around that. So these “official” APIs are much more expensive.
- jbellis 1y agoI'm not sure that's correct -- the first party APIs are priced per query but BD is per 1k results. Not immediately obvious what they count as a "result" tho.
- Manouchehri 1y agoIt's really poor wording. Bright Data does indeed consider 100 results in a single request to be a single billed "result" event, billed at $1.5/1000 requests. I always set 100 results per request from Bright Data, and I can see my bill indeed says `SERP Requests: x reqs @ 1.5 $/CPM` (where `x` is the number of requests I've made, not x * 100). https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/serp-api/faqs#i-saw-that-google-is-making-some-changes-to-serp-results-are-you-going-to-continue-to-support-the-serp-num-parameter:so-will-there-be-any-change-to-pricing-due-to-this-new-feature https://docs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/serp-api/faq... For serper.dev, they consider 10 results to be 1 "credit", and 20 to 100 results to be 2 "credits". They bill at $50/50,000 credits, so it becomes $1/1000 requests if you are okay with just 10 results per request, or $2/1000 requests if you want 100 results per request. (Both providers here scale pricing with larger volumes, just trying to compare the easiest price point for those getting started.)