apinoa vs SearchApi
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.
SearchApi's figures come from its own public pages, read on November 7, 2026. Prices change, so check them there: searchapi.io/pricing, searchapi.io, searchapi.io/docs
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. SearchApi: the monthly plan that includes that many searches.
| What is compared | apinoa | SearchApi |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 searches a month | $12.00 | $40 (Developer plan) |
| 35,000 searches a month | $41.40 | $100 (Production plan) |
| 100,000 searches a month | $111.60 | $250 (BigData plan) |
| 1,000,000 searches a month | $837.60 | $1,500 (Octo 1M plan) |
Billing
| What is compared | apinoa | SearchApi |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Prepaid balance, charged per call. No plans and no monthly fee. | Monthly plans, from $40 a month for 10,000 searches. Up to 20% of a plan's searches can be used in any one hour. |
| 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. | 100 free requests on sign-up. |
| Failed searches | Not billed. | Not billed: only searches that return a 200 status are charged. |
Coverage
| What is compared | apinoa | SearchApi |
|---|---|---|
| Web search engines | Baidu, Bing, Daum, DuckDuckGo, Google, Naver, Seznam, Sogou, Yahoo, Yahoo! JAPAN, and Yandex. | Google, Bing, Baidu, Yandex, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Naver. |
| AI answers | ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Naver AI Briefing, and Naver AI Tab. | Google AI Mode, Google AI Overview, Gemini, Bing Copilot, Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Brave AI Mode. |
| Google beyond web search | Web, news, image, video and reverse-image search, places, suggestions, Shopping, Trends, and Google Play. | Maps, Local, Shopping, Trends, Flights, Hotels, Videos, Images, Shorts, Lens, News, Autocomplete, Scholar, Forums, Finance, Patents, Jobs, Events, Play, and more. |
| 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. | About 80 APIs in all, including Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, ad libraries, Zillow, Airbnb, Booking.com, Tripadvisor, and Yelp. |
Response and Tools
| What is compared | apinoa | SearchApi |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| SDKs and agent tools | TypeScript and Python SDKs, one MCP server for every API (local or hosted), and an OpenAPI document. | Code samples in 13 languages and an MCP integration. |
Which One Fits
SearchApi covers more: Perplexity and Brave AI Mode among its AI engines, Google Maps, Flights, Hotels, Scholar and Lens, about 80 APIs in all, and a legal protection guarantee backed by up to $2M in coverage. If you need those, SearchApi has them.
apinoa has no plan: you pay per call from $0.0012 a search, with no monthly volume to use up. It covers 16 search sources and 7 AI answer engines, does not bill failed calls, and the same key reads marketplaces and social media.