apinoa vs DataForSEO
Both return search-engine results and AI answers as JSON through one API key. This page puts the public facts side by side (price, billing rules, coverage and tools) and leaves the choice to you.
DataForSEO's figures come from its own public pages, read on November 7, 2026. Prices change, so check them there: dataforseo.com/pricing, Google Organic SERP API pricing, Google AI Mode SERP API pricing, LLM Scraper API pricing, LLM Responses API pricing, docs.dataforseo.com
Price at the Same Volume
apinoa: $0.0012 a search (one unit is one page of results), with the daily discount applied to each day of an even 30-day month. DataForSEO: Google organic results in Live mode, which answers in the same call, at $0.002 a page of 10 results. Its Standard queue, which returns results in about five minutes on average, costs $0.0006 a page.
| What is compared | apinoa | DataForSEO |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 searches a month | $1.20 | $2 (Live mode) |
| 15,000 searches a month | $18.00 | $30 (Live mode) |
| 100,000 searches a month | $111.60 | $200 (Live mode) |
| 1,000,000 searches a month | $837.60 | $2,000 (Live mode) |
Billing
| What is compared | apinoa | DataForSEO |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Prepaid balance, charged per call. No plans and no monthly fee. | Prepaid balance, pay as you go. No subscription, and funds do not expire. |
| Price | $0.0012 a search (one page of results), down to 50% off from 30,000 calls a day. | Google organic: $0.0006 a page of 10 results in the Standard queue, $0.0012 in the Priority queue, $0.002 in Live mode. Each further 10 results costs one more page. |
| Price of an AI answer | $0.0012 an answer, returned in the same call. | ChatGPT and Gemini as people see them (LLM Scraper) and Google AI Mode: $0.0012 Standard, $0.0024 Priority, $0.004 Live. Model answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity (LLM Responses): from $0.0002 a task plus the model's own charge. |
| Free use | Up to $1 of free credit per account, no card needed: $0.10 with the first key you create from the command line or an MCP client, the rest on request. | $1 of trial credit for new accounts. |
| Minimum top-up | $20 | $50 |
| Failed requests | Not billed. | Not stated on its pricing page. |
Coverage
| What is compared | apinoa | DataForSEO |
|---|---|---|
| Web search engines | Baidu, Bing, Daum, DuckDuckGo, Google, Naver, Seznam, Sogou, Yahoo, Yahoo! JAPAN, and Yandex. | Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Naver, Seznam, and YouTube. |
| AI answers | ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Naver AI Briefing, and Naver AI Tab. | Google AI Mode, ChatGPT and Gemini as people see them, and model answers from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. |
| Google beyond web search | Web, news, image, video and reverse-image search, places, suggestions, Shopping, Trends, and Google Play. | AI Mode, Maps, Local Finder, News, Images, Search by Image, Jobs, Autocomplete, Ads Search, Ads Advertisers, Finance, Dataset Search, and Dataset Info. |
| Other sources | App Store and Tripadvisor. The same key also reads products from AliExpress, Amazon, Shopify, TikTok Shop, and Walmart, and profiles, posts and comments from Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Reddit, Threads, TikTok, X, and YouTube. | Keyword data, backlinks, on-page, DataForSEO Labs, Merchant (Amazon and Google Shopping), App Data, Business Data, Reviews, Domain Analytics, and Content Analysis APIs. |
Response and Tools
| What is compared | apinoa | DataForSEO |
|---|---|---|
| Response | One schema for every engine: every block on the page, in page order, each with its type and rank. | Each API documents its own JSON fields. Queued tasks are posted first and collected later. |
| SDKs and agent tools | TypeScript and Python SDKs, one MCP server for every API (local or hosted), and an OpenAPI document. | Official clients for C#, Java, Python, and TypeScript, an MCP server, and an OpenAPI specification. |
Which One Fits
DataForSEO costs less when results can wait: $0.0006 a page in its Standard queue, against $0.0012 here. It also sells keyword volumes, backlinks, on-page and business data, covers Google Maps, Jobs and Finance, and returns model answers from Claude and Perplexity. If you need those, DataForSEO has them.
apinoa has one way to call: every search and every answer comes back in the same call, from $0.0012 a search with no queue to choose. It covers 16 search sources and 7 AI answer engines, does not bill failed calls, and the same key reads marketplaces and social media.