Evaboot
20% off lifetime on any plan









We elevate your business, one API at a time.
At Autom.dev, we are passionately committed to being a global, developer-first platform for scraping APIs. We believe clear and comprehensive documentation is vital for minimizing barriers to API usage.
Service that delivers lightning-fast SERP results (google, bing...). Experience unparalleled speed with our industry-leading SERP API.
At Autom.dev, we are passionately committed to being a global, developer-first platform for scraping APIs. We believe clear and comprehensive documentation is vital for minimizing barriers to API usage.
APIs:
Autom is a SERP API (a Google Search API) that provides developers with programmatic access to structured search engine results in real time. Instead of manually scraping search pages, dealing with proxies, rotating IP addresses, and anti-bot detection, you send a simple POST request to Autom’s endpoint and receive clean, parsed JSON data in seconds.
The core product is the Google Search API. You send a query with optional parameters such as geographic location, language, country, and the number of results per page, and the API returns a structured response that includes organic results, titles, URLs, snippets, related searches, and pagination metadata. Results are returned in 1 to 2 seconds on average, and the infrastructure is designed to handle high volumes of requests without rate limiting.
In addition to Google, Autom supports Bing and Brave as additional search engines within the same API framework—meaning you can switch search engines without changing your integration architecture. Support for Perplexity was under active development at the time of writing. The platform also provides utility endpoints for Google Locations, Google Languages, and Google Countries, which are useful when building location-aware applications that need to simulate searches from specific regions.
SDKs are available for Python, Node.js, PHP, .NET, Java, Go, and Rust, and the API integrates directly with no-code and automation platforms such as Zapier, n8n, and Power Automate. This makes it accessible not only to backend developers but also to automation builders working in visual workflow tools. Users describe the documentation as clear and well-structured, featuring code samples in all supported languages and a RESTful design that follows standard conventions.
Every new account receives 1,000 free requests with no credit card required, and an additional 50,000 free credits are available to users who submit a G2 review. There are no subscriptions: you purchase credit bundles that are valid for one year from the date of purchase.
Autom uses a prepaid credit model with no monthly subscriptions. Credits are purchased upfront, are valid for one year, and each search query uses one credit. New accounts receive 1,000 free requests without requiring a credit card.
| Plan | Price | Credits included | Rate per request | Max requests per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1,000 requests | Free | Not specified |
| Starter | $50 | 50,000 credits | $0.001 per search | 50 requests per second |
| Standard | $375 | 500,000 credits | $0.00075 per search | 100 requests per second |
| Premium | $1,250 | 2,500,000 credits | $0.0005 per search | 200 requests per second |
| Ultimate | $3,750 | 12,500,000 credits | $0.0003 per search | 300 requests per second |
All plans include credits valid for 12 months from the date of purchase. No credit card is required to start with the free plan. A startup program is also available for early-stage companies via the Autom website.
1️⃣ If you are a freelancer or consultant:
For consultants who occasionally conduct SEO research, competitive analysis, or keyword tracking without writing code, Octoparse and Octoparse AI offer a visual scraping environment that doesn’t require any API integration at all. You simply point it at a search results page, configure extraction rules visually, and export structured data—no programming required. Parseur handles a different but related use case: if search results or market intelligence arrive via email alerts (such as Google Alerts), Parseur can automatically parse and structure that data. For consultants who need enriched contact and company data alongside SERP signals, Datagma is worth considering as a lighter, more targeted alternative to full-scale data pipelines.
2️⃣ If you are a startup:
Bright Data is the enterprise-grade option in this space. It offers residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies alongside a SERP API, with significantly richer output covering Shopping, Maps, Images, and AI Overviews. The price is considerably higher, but the data quality and breadth of supported endpoints make it a worthwhile investment for startups building data products where completeness is essential. Apify is another strong choice for startups that need more than just search results: it provides a marketplace of ready-built scraping tools for hundreds of data sources, alongside its own SERP capabilities, making it a more flexible platform for teams whose data needs extend beyond Google search. PhantomBuster addresses a related but distinct use case—one that often aligns with what startups are actually trying to achieve when they begin analyzing search data for lead generation.
3️⃣ If you are an SMB or a mid-sized company:
Scrapingbee is a well-established scraping API that handles Google searches alongside general web scraping, offering a more mature feature set and better-documented enterprise options than Autom. For teams running multi-source intelligence workflows, combining Make or n8n with Autom as the search layer and Clay for data enrichment covers a significant portion of what dedicated data platforms offer at a fraction of the cost. Apollo.io is worth mentioning for companies whose primary focus is prospecting: if the goal of querying search results is to find companies or contacts to reach out to, Apollo provides a curated, enriched database with built-in outreach tools, which may be a more direct route than building a custom SERP-to-leads pipeline from scratch.
Otherwise, these other software programs may also be a good alternative to Autom.