SERP API Alternative

A SERP API Alternative That Also Covers Marketplaces and Reviews

Most SERP APIs stop at the search engine result page, which leaves you stitching together a second tool for marketplace listings, reviews or video results. This SERP API alternative returns Google search, AI-mode search, news, trends and shopping results alongside marketplace, review and app store endpoints, all under one credit-based token.

Example request
curl --request GET \
  'https://data-api.roketfy.com/v1/google/search?q=best%20noise%20cancelling%20headphones&gl=us&hl=en' \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN'

Endpoints you can use

Credits per successful call. Failed calls are never charged.

EndpointPathCredits
Google Search

Google search results for a query, localised by domain, language and country.

GET /v1/google/search10
Google Search (AI Mode)

The same query run through Google's AI mode rather than the classic result page.

GET /v1/google/search-ai-mode10
Google News

Google News, driven by exactly one of: a query, a topic, a section, a story cluster, a publisher, or a Knowledge Graph entity.

GET /v1/google/news10
Google Trends

Google Trends interest over time for a term in a region, plus related queries.

GET /v1/google/trends10
Google Shopping Search

Google Shopping results for a query — up to 40 products a page, with prices.

GET /v1/google/shopping10
Google Maps Search

Google Maps places for a query: a ranked list with ratings, addresses, place ids and CIDs.

GET /v1/google/maps-search25
YouTube Search

YouTube search results: videos, channels, playlists and shorts, plus the related searches and 'people also watched' shelves.

GET /v1/youtube/search10

Where teams use this SERP API alternative

Rank tracking

Pull Google search and AI-mode results for your target queries on a schedule to track how your pages rank over time.

Content and PR monitoring

Watch Google News for brand or competitor mentions, and pair it with search results to see how a story is spreading.

Demand and seasonality research

Read Google Trends interest-over-time and related queries to size demand for a keyword before committing budget to it.

Local business visibility

Check how a business ranks in Google Maps search results for local queries, alongside its organic and Shopping visibility.

Cross-channel research in one project

Combine search, shopping and video results with marketplace and review endpoints on the same platform, instead of maintaining separate API integrations for each.

AI-agent research pipelines

Give an agent search, news, trends and video tools it can call directly through MCP, without you writing a separate integration for each data source.

What counts as a SERP API alternative here?

A SERP API in the narrow sense returns one thing: Google's search result page as structured JSON. This platform covers that same ground — classic search, Google's AI-mode search, news and trends — and extends it with data most SERP-only tools leave out entirely: Google Shopping and Maps results, YouTube search, and separately, structured data from marketplaces like Trendyol, Hepsiburada and Amazon, plus review sources like Trustpilot and Tripadvisor and app stores.

The practical difference shows up when a project needs more than one kind of result. Instead of a SERP API for search plus a second vendor for shopping data and a third for reviews, one credit balance and one API token cover all of it, with every endpoint also exposed as an MCP tool for agent workflows.

How does the Google search endpoint work?

The search endpoint takes a query and returns Google's results localized by domain, language and country — google_domain for the regional Google property, hl for interface language, and gl for the country the ranking reflects. A start parameter offsets into results for pagination, and location lets you geo-target the search to a named place.

The AI-mode search endpoint takes the identical parameter set but runs the query through Google's AI mode instead of the classic result page, which is useful when you specifically need to see how a query resolves in that surface rather than the traditional ten blue links.

Can I track Google Trends and news alongside search results?

Yes. The trends endpoint takes a term and a region code and returns interest-over-time data plus related queries, so you can validate demand for a keyword before you build search or content around it. The news endpoint is driven by whichever of a query, a topic, a section, a story cluster, a publisher or a Knowledge Graph entity you pass, and can be sorted by relevance or by date.

Because both sit on the same platform and token as the core search endpoints, a single research pipeline can pull search rankings, the news coverage behind a spike, and the trend data explaining it, without switching tools or accounts.

Does it cover Google Shopping, Maps and YouTube too?

It does. The shopping endpoint returns Google Shopping results with prices for a query. The Maps search endpoint returns a ranked list of places for a query and a named location, with ratings, addresses and the place ids other Maps endpoints take. The YouTube search endpoint returns videos, channels, playlists and shorts for a query, along with related searches and the platform's 'people also watched' shelves.

None of these are typically part of a SERP-only API's scope, which is exactly the gap this is meant to close — one token across the full set of Google surfaces most projects actually need, not just the search results page.

How does pricing compare to a dedicated SERP API?

Pricing here is credit-based: buy a one-time package with no subscription, and pay only for successful calls at the credit cost listed for each endpoint in the table above. There's no separate contract or plan tier per data source — the same balance covers search, shopping, news, trends, Maps and YouTube, as well as every marketplace and review endpoint on the platform.

See the comparison below for how that structure differs from a search-only tool in practice, and check each provider's own site for current details before deciding — this page is meant to describe the shape of the difference, not to rank vendors.

Can AI agents use this instead of a separate search tool?

Yes. Every endpoint listed here, along with the rest of the platform's marketplace and review endpoints, is available as an MCP tool through the Roketfy Data Engine MCP server. An MCP-enabled agent gets search, news, trends, Shopping, Maps and YouTube as separate callable tools under one token, rather than being wired to a single search-only integration.

SERP API alternative vs. a search-only API

A general shape of the difference between a search-only SERP API and a platform that also covers marketplaces, reviews and app stores under the same token. Confirm current specifics on each provider's own site before choosing.

ConsiderationTypical SERP-only APIRoketfy Data Engine
Primary focusFocused on search engines: organic results, ads and related SERP featuresGoogle search plus Shopping, Maps, News, Trends and YouTube, alongside marketplace and review data
Marketplace and review dataUsually out of scope, needs a separate tool or vendorIncluded on the same token and credit balance
Pricing modelVaries by provider — often subscription tiersOne-time credit packages, no subscription
Agent / MCP accessVaries by providerEvery endpoint is also an MCP tool
Paginated or large jobsVaries by providerBatch tasks via POST /v1/tasks, readable while still running

Verify current pricing, coverage and terms on each provider's own site — this table is a general comparison of scope, not a benchmark of any specific competitor.

Credit packages

No subscription: buy a one-time credit package and use it at your own pace.

Starter

$99

100,000 credits

5 concurrent requests

Growth

$269

500,000 credits

15 concurrent requests

Scale

$699

1,500,000 credits

30 concurrent requests

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Use it from AI agents too

Every one of these endpoints is also available as a tool in MCP-enabled agents such as Claude and Cursor through the Roketfy Data Engine MCP server: same token, same credits.

MCP setup

Frequently Asked Questions

For Google search, AI-mode search, news and trends, yes — those endpoints cover the same ground a SERP API does. It also goes further, adding Shopping, Maps, YouTube and separate marketplace and review endpoints under the same token.

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