# SerpApi vs SerpKite (slim)

> SerpKite scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against SerpApi's 62.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SerpApi leads on transparency & trust. Both do web search. Category scores, facts, verdicts and agent notes side by side.

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SerpKite scores 64.8 (B) on agent readiness against SerpApi's 62.6 (B), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. SerpApi leads on transparency & trust. Both do web search.

- SerpApi: B 62.6, rank #219 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpapi.min.md
- SerpKite: B 64.8, rank #179 of 460 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/serpkite.min.md
- SerpApi, good for An agent that needs what a specific engine shows (Google verticals, Maps, Shopping, Flights, Scholar, YouTube, Amazon) parsed to JSON. Ahead on Transparency & trust, 85 against 77. Also Runs on your own machine; No incidents deducted, where SerpKite loses 3 points for them.
- SerpKite, good for Agents that want Google results and the top pages as Markdown in one call at a low per-1,000 price, with spend caps per key. Ahead on Reliability, 65 against 60; Schema & documentation, 90 against 67; Payments & pricing, 40 against 30. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | SerpApi | SerpKite |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 60 | 65 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 67 | 90 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 88 | 92 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 40 | 37 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 30 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 82 | 80 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 85 | 77 |

| Fact (where they differ) | SerpApi | SerpKite |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | SerpApi | SerpKite (Anastasia Klimova, trading as SerpKite) |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://serpapi.com/search` | `https://api.serpkite.com/v1/search` |
| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |
| Price for web search | $25 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Licence | none | Proprietary service under SerpKite's terms of service. The SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Go, LangChain, Vercel AI SDK) and the MCP connection repository on GitHub are MIT |
| Tools exposed | 3 | 14 |
| Read-only variant documented | yes | no |
| MCP registry | `io.github.serpapi/serpapi-mcp` | `io.github.SerpKite/serpkite` |
| Last release | 2026-09-22 | 2026-10-04 |
| Popularity | 175 stars, 169k npm/wk, 104k PyPI/wk | 809 npm/wk, 376 PyPI/wk |