{
 "title": "Crawl4AI Cloud vs Serper",
 "page": "https://crawl4ai.com/compare/serper/",
 "facts_read_on": "2026-11-12",
 "crawl4ai_live_prices": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices",
 "rule": "Serper facts restate Serper's own pages; not_published means their pages say nothing, not that the feature is missing.",
 "short_answer": "Serper returns Google results; Crawl4AI returns Google results and the pages behind them on the same key. A query plus the text of its top 5 pages costs $1.50 per 1,000 on Crawl4AI and 11 Serper credits ($3.30 to $11.00), because a Serper page typically costs 2 credits. Crawl4AI's /serp returns Google's whole results page in one call, with ads, the AI overview and the local pack, for 1 credit. Credit you buy on Crawl4AI never expires; Serper's credits are valid for 6 months. Crawl4AI runs in the EU, Singapore and the US with teams and an audit log from the $99 Builder plan, and agents set it up from one message with 17 MCP tools.",
 "jobs": [
  {
   "job": "Search, 10 results",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "serper_per_1000": "$0.30–$1.00",
   "costs_less": "serper"
  },
  {
   "job": "Google results with ads and maps",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.00",
   "serper_per_1000": "$1.20–$4.00",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A query and its top 5 pages",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$1.50",
   "serper_per_1000": "$3.30–$11.00",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "One page to Markdown",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$0.10",
   "serper_per_1000": "$0.60–$2.00",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  },
  {
   "job": "A site that blocks bots",
   "crawl4ai_per_1000": "$2.00",
   "serper_per_1000": "$1.80–$10.00",
   "costs_less": "crawl4ai"
  }
 ],
 "rows": [
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SSO (SAML, OIDC)",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "SCIM user sync",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Teams, roles and audit log",
   "crawl4ai": "From Builder ($99), no seat limit",
   "serper": "One account per customer",
   "serper_quote": "Register more than one account at any point in time.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Zero data retention",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "IP allowlist and key limits",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Static exit IPs",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Where data is processed",
   "crawl4ai": "EU, Singapore or US, your choice",
   "serper": "May be stored outside the EEA",
   "serper_quote": "Serper operates globally. It is therefore possible for the data to be transferred to and stored in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/privacy",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Deployment",
   "crawl4ai": "Cloud, dedicated fleet, inside your network, managed pipeline; one engine",
   "serper": "Hosted API; other options not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "DPA and invoice billing",
   "crawl4ai": "Every Enterprise plan",
   "serper": "Not published; cards and PayPal",
   "serper_quote": "We accept all major credit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover) and PayPal.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "serper": "7 days, if under 20% of credits used",
   "serper_quote": "A refund request is submitted within 7 calendar days from the date of the first payment for Serper API credits. Less than 20% of provided Serper API credits are used.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Status page",
   "crawl4ai": "Hourly uptime per service, public",
   "serper": "One API component; 31 incidents in 12 months",
   "serper_quote": "serper.betteruptime.com RSS: 31 incidents, Nov 2025 to Nov 2026",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.betteruptime.com",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Uptime and response SLA",
   "crawl4ai": "Typical: 99.9% a month; service down: first answer within 1 hour, 24/7; part broken: 4 business hours; a question: 1 business day; 5% of the month's fee back if missed, 10% under 99%",
   "serper": "Not published; service \"as is\"",
   "serper_quote": "The materials on the Serper website and Service are provided on an 'as is' basis.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Support",
   "crawl4ai": "A named engineer",
   "serper": "A contact link",
   "serper_quote": "Contact us",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "enterprise",
   "group": null,
   "row": "Security assurance",
   "crawl4ai": "Controls monitored every day in Drata, with the evidence kept; dependencies watched for known vulnerabilities; SOC 2 audit by Sensiba under way, report target January 2027. Security pack on request: policies, audit status, DPA, questionnaire answers.",
   "serper": "No security page; \"at your own risk\"",
   "serper_quote": "we cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/privacy",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "How you pay",
   "crawl4ai": "Credits in every plan: Free, Starter $10, Builder $99, Scale $499",
   "serper": "Prepaid packs from $50, no plan",
   "serper_quote": "No monthly subscriptions; simply pay for the credits you need.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Free start",
   "crawl4ai": "1,000 credits a month, no card",
   "serper": "2,500 free queries, no card",
   "serper_quote": "Get 2,500 free queries",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "1,000 searches",
   "crawl4ai": "$1.00 · $0.79 Builder · $0.67 Scale",
   "serper": "$1.00 to $0.30, by pack",
   "serper_quote": "50k credits ($1.00/1k) … 12.5M credits ($0.30/1k)",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Google page with ads and maps",
   "crawl4ai": "1 credit, one /serp call",
   "serper": "Search 1 + Maps 3 credits; ads not published",
   "serper_quote": "Credits: 3",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/playground",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "1,000 plain / browser / hard pages",
   "crawl4ai": "$0.10 / $0.50 / $2.00",
   "serper": "2 credits; harder pages 6 or 10",
   "serper_quote": "Most webpages typically incur 2 credits, but for harder-to-scrape pages that require more advanced scraping techniques, the cost can be 6 or 10 credits depending on the difficulty.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/playground",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Failed calls",
   "crawl4ai": "Free, blocked pages included",
   "serper": "Charged on successful answers",
   "serper_quote": "Every time you receive successful responses to queries, we will deduct credits from your account balance.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "A repeat query or page",
   "crawl4ai": "Half price",
   "serper": "Full price, no cache",
   "serper_quote": "We do not cache anything",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Credit you buy",
   "crawl4ai": "Never expires",
   "serper": "Valid for 6 months",
   "serper_quote": "Credits valid for 6 months",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Pricing",
   "row": "Refunds",
   "crawl4ai": "14 days, if no credits were used",
   "serper": "7 days, if under 20% of credits used",
   "serper_quote": "A refund request is submitted within 7 calendar days from the date of the first payment for Serper API credits. Less than 20% of provided Serper API credits are used.",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/terms",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Web search",
   "crawl4ai": "/search, 1 credit",
   "serper": "Organic, knowledge graph, People also ask",
   "serper_quote": "knowledgeGraph, organic, peopleAlsoAsk, relatedSearches",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Google results page",
   "crawl4ai": "/serp: organic, ads, maps, AI overview and more blocks",
   "serper": "Ads and AI overview: Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Full pages",
   "crawl4ai": "/scrape: Markdown, HTML, links, media, metadata, tables; engine and cache on every answer",
   "serper": "Markdown, images, links, videos",
   "serper_quote": "includeMarkdown, includeImages, includeLinks, includeVideos",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev/playground",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Whole site",
   "crawl4ai": "/site deep crawl (500 pages a call); /scan up to 50,000 URLs",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Named sites",
   "crawl4ai": "93 recipes; a LinkedIn profile 1 credit",
   "serper": "Google surfaces only",
   "serper_quote": "Search · Images · News · Maps · Places · Videos · Shopping · Scholar · Patents · Autocomplete",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Extraction",
   "crawl4ai": "/extract: JSON by your schema or plain words",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Documents",
   "crawl4ai": "PDF, Word and Excel; a PDF costs one page",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "What you get back",
   "row": "Change monitoring",
   "crawl4ai": "Watch (beta)",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "MCP",
   "crawl4ai": "Hosted, no install; key or OAuth; 17 tools",
   "serper": "Not published; a Jan AI page links one",
   "serper_quote": "Jan AI Integration",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Setup",
   "crawl4ai": "One message sets it up in 7 coding agents",
   "serper": "Wrappers kept by LangChain, CrewAI, Haystack",
   "serper_quote": "Haystack Integration · Jan AI Integration · CrewAI Integration · LangChain Integration",
   "serper_source": "https://serper.dev",
   "not_published": false
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "Agent budget",
   "crawl4ai": "Estimate, balance, spend cap and top-up as tools; cost on every answer",
   "serper": "Not published as an API",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Agents",
   "row": "llms.txt",
   "crawl4ai": "Yes; with a key it shows what your account can use",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "License",
   "crawl4ai": "Apache 2.0, 87,236 GitHub stars",
   "serper": "No public code found",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  },
  {
   "table": "side_by_side",
   "group": "Open source",
   "row": "Self-host",
   "crawl4ai": "The same engine as the Cloud",
   "serper": "Not published",
   "serper_quote": null,
   "serper_source": null,
   "not_published": true
  }
 ],
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  {
   "name": "Serper home: packs and FAQ",
   "url": "https://serper.dev"
  },
  {
   "name": "Serper Playground: credits per call",
   "url": "https://serper.dev/playground"
  },
  {
   "name": "Serper terms",
   "url": "https://serper.dev/terms"
  },
  {
   "name": "Serper privacy policy",
   "url": "https://serper.dev/privacy"
  },
  {
   "name": "Serper status",
   "url": "https://serper.betteruptime.com"
  },
  {
   "name": "Serper status history (RSS)",
   "url": "https://serper.betteruptime.com/feed.rss"
  },
  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI prices",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/v1/prices"
  },
  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI security",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/security/"
  },
  {
   "name": "Crawl4AI legal",
   "url": "https://crawl4ai.com/legal/"
  }
 ]
}