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SerpApi

SerpApi is a powerful API that helps businesses and developers access search engine results in a simple and efficient way. By using SerpApi, users can retrieve data from popular search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, and more, without having to worry about web scraping or parsing. This tool streamlines the process of extracting information from search engine pages, making it easy to gather essential data such as search rankings, keyword performance, and more.

agent native

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles SerpApi the way a machine reads it — 19 machine-readable artifacts across 7 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — SerpApi scores 40.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 64/100 (agent native). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 40.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 64/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile SerpApi

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for SerpApi. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 7

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

SerpApi Google Jobs API

SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.

SerpApi Google Local API

SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.

SerpApi Google Maps API

SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.

SerpApi Google Search API

SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.

SerpApi Google Trends API

SerpApi is a real-time API to access Google search results. We handle proxies, solve captchas, and parse all rich structured data for you.

SerpApi Account API

The Account API from SerpApi — 1 operation(s) for account.

SerpApi Search API

The Search API from SerpApi — 2 operation(s) for search.

Scroll within the panel for all 7 ·

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

SerpApi Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

An agent skill packages the how-to for driving these APIs from an assistant — the prompts, the sequence, the guardrails — so the knowledge to use the API travels with it.

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

serpapi-web-search

AGENT SKILL

serpapi-web-search

AGENT SKILL

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Serpapi Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Serpapi Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Serpapi Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Serpapi Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Serpapi Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Serpapi Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Serpapi Agentic Access

3 operations

3 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for SerpApi — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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