Serper
Google search results across web, news, images, places, maps and scholar verticals, plus an endpoint for scraping webpages.
Where Serper lands
Composite scores out of 10, from benchmark runs where every provider faces the identical task corpus. Rank is within that capability's field; the newest run backing this page is 2026-06-22. Full method: how we measure.
- Quality
- 1.00
- Latency p50
- 1.0 s
- Cost
- $0.0003 / call
- Errors
- 0%
- Recall@10
- 0.57
- Latency p50
- 1.5 s
- Cost
- $0.00053 / useful result
- Errors
- 0%
The honest pitch
Pick it when the goal is the lowest-cost, fastest Google grounding and you'll synthesize the results on your own.
Not the pick if you require coverage beyond Google, richer SERP elements, or content extraction out of the box.
About Serper
Serper delivers live results from Google to applications with minimal cost and delay. A single request comes back as structured JSON for every Google vertical — web, news, images, maps, places and scholar — and the output feeds an LLM prompt or ranking pipeline directly, with no parsing step. Given that speed and a flat, low price, agent frameworks such as LangChain and CrewAI treat it as a default search backend, and a webpage-scraping endpoint is there for when the page itself is what you need.
Reaching it through NativePort
Identical paths, parameters and responses to Serper's own documentation — the gateway holds the upstream credential and meters your balance at Serper's real published usage price.
curl https://api.nativeport.ai/serper/<native-path> \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $NATIVEPORT_API_KEY"