Google results.
Nothing else.
A search API for AI agents. Titles, links and snippets as clean JSON, without the boxes Google wraps around them.
Your first 1,000 searches are free. No card needed.
{"query": "postgres connection pooling","results": [{"position": 1,"title": "PgBouncer - lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL","url": "https://www.pgbouncer.org/","snippet": "PgBouncer keeps a pool of server connections and hands them to clients…"},{"position": 2,"title": "PostgreSQL: Documentation: Connections and Authentication","url": "https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/runtime-config-connection.html","snippet": "max_connections determines the maximum number of concurrent connections…"},{"position": 3,"title": "pgpool Wiki","url": "https://www.pgpool.net/","snippet": "Pgpool-II is a middleware that works between PostgreSQL servers and clients…"},// …17 more],"cost_usd": 0.0003}
Sample response, shortened to three results.
One endpoint. Your agent already knows how to call it.
curl "https://plainserp.com/v1/search?q=postgres+connection+pooling&num=20" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PLAINSERP_KEY"- q
- The search query.required
- num
- Results to return, 1 to 20.
- pages
- How many pages to fetch, 1 to 6.
- gl
- Country to search from, such as us or de.
- hl
- Language, such as en or fr.
- time
- day, week, month or year.
- safe
- off, medium or high.
Your agent writes its own overview.
A model reading search results needs links and snippets. Everything else on the page is tokens it has to pay for and then ignore.
- Organic results, in Google's order
- Title, URL and snippet
- Position numbers
- Thumbnails where Google has one
- AI Overviews
- People also ask
- Knowledge panels
- Ads and shopping carousels
- Video and image packs
Thirty cents a thousand. That’s the whole price list.
That is up to 200,000 results. The rate is the same at every volume.
- One search costs $0.0003 and returns a page of up to 20 results
- Failed and blocked requests are never charged
- Your balance doesn't expire
- Top up from $5, any amount
The honest answers.
Is this Google's official API?
No. Plainserp is an independent service and isn't affiliated with Google. It fetches public Google results and returns them as JSON. That also means an occasional outage is possible when Google changes something, and you are never charged for a request that fails.
Why is it so cheap?
It only does one thing. There is no browser rendering, no AI Overview extraction and no screenshotting, so each query costs very little to serve. The price is the same whether you buy a thousand queries or ten million.
What do I get back?
Up to 20 organic results per call, each with a position, title, URL and snippet. Ask for several pages at once to get up to the first 120 results of a query.
What don't I get?
AI Overviews, People also ask, knowledge panels, ads and the other boxes Google puts around the results. If your agent needs those, this isn't the right API.
How fast is it?
Most calls come back in one to two and a half seconds. It's built to be cheap and dependable for agents, and it isn't the fastest option on the market.
Is there a monthly plan or a minimum?
No plan. You add money from $5 and each search takes $0.0003 from it. Your first 1,000 searches are free.