A Value SERP alternative without the subscription
Value SERP is the budget SERP API, $50 a month for 25,000 searches on annual billing. This Value SERP alternative sells prepaid credits instead: $49 for 25,000, and they never expire.
Where Value SERP stands in 2026
Alive, cheap on committed volume, and now part of a bigger machine.
valueserp.com redirects to trajectdata.com, the shared home of Value SERP, Scale SERP, and SerpWow, and Traject Data itself was acquired by ScraperAPI. The published entry plan is $50 a month for 25,000 searches on annual billing, which is $2.00 per 1,000, with overage past the allotment at $1.60 per 1,000. Plan rates scale down to $0.50 per 1,000 at 20 million searches a month. Pay-as-you-go runs $2.50 per 1,000 with a $25 minimum first purchase. The free trial is 100 searches, once. Figures from Traject Data's published pricing page, checked July 27, 2026.
Where each side actually wins
The entry rates land two cents apart. The shape of the deal does not.
On committed per-thousand math the entry tiers nearly tie: their $2.00 against our $1.96, and ours is the lower number with no commitment attached. Their $2.00 also buys the deal's shape: annual billing, a monthly allotment, overage at $1.60 per 1,000, and a 100-search trial that never renews. Our packs are one-time purchases with no plan attached, the credits never expire, and 3,000 free credits arrive every single month. At bigger packs our rate keeps falling: $1.49 at the 100k pack, $0.80 at 2.5M, about $0.40 at the largest, against their $0.50 floor at a 20M-a-month commitment.
Their pay-as-you-go rate, $2.50 per 1,000, is above our entry pack from the first search. If you were choosing PAYG on Value SERP, prepaid credits are cheaper on day one.
Plan rates from Traject Data's pricing page, July 27, 2026; pack rates are ours. Their 10M-and-up plans ($0.60 to $0.50 per 1,000) beat our same-size packs; see the fair-play note below.
The data, one flat credit per search
One request against the web endpoint, real Google results back as clean JSON.
The organic results as CSV first:
Sample rows as CSV, exactly as exported
| title | link | date | position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Best Email Marketing Platforms 2026 (Review & ... | https://www.emailvendorselection.com/best-email-marketing-platforms/ | Jul 19, 2026 | 1 |
| What's the best email marketing platform to consider? | https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalMarketing/comments/1qauudt/whats_the_best_email_marketing_platform_to/ | 6 months ago | 2 |
| 10 Best Email Marketing Software & Tools for 2026 (Tested) | https://ventureharbour.com/email-marketing-software-tools-one-best/ | Jul 8, 2026 | 3 |
| The 8 best free email marketing services in 2026 | https://zapier.com/blog/free-email-marketing-software/ | Jan 26, 2026 | 4 |
| Email Marketing Software & Free Campaign Tools | https://www.hubspot.com/products/marketing/email | 5 | |
| 12 Best Email Marketing Platforms for Startups [2026] | https://mailtrap.io/blog/email-marketing-platforms-for-startups/ | Jun 18, 2026 | 6 |
And one record as JSON:
Value SERP vs prepaid credits
Both are priced for people who do the math. So here is the math.
| Value SERP | CrustAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Committed entry rate | $2.00 / 1,000 (annual billing) | $1.96 / 1,000 (no commitment) |
| Overage | $1.60 / 1,000 past the allotment | None; packs just deplete |
| Pay-as-you-go | $2.50 / 1,000, $25 minimum | $1.96 / 1,000 from the first pack |
| Free volume | 100 searches, one time | 3,000 credits, every month |
| Commitment | Annual billing for the listed rate | None |
| Unused volume | Monthly allotment | Credits never expire |
| Cheapest possible rate | $0.50 / 1,000 at 20M / month | About $0.40 / 1,000 at the largest pack |
Value SERP figures from Traject Data's public pricing page, July 27, 2026. Anything stale? Email support@crustapi.com and we'll fix it.
One 25,000-search job, both ways
Say the job needs 25,000 searches once, not every month.
Run the full allotment every month and the gap narrows to cents: $600 buys 300,000 searches on their plan, $588 prepaid buys the same here. The plan only wins the tie if your volume never dips.
Pick Value SERP when your volume is dead steady and huge: at the 10-million-and-up plans its committed rates run $0.60 down to $0.50 per 1,000, below our same-size packs, and the product is mature with ScraperAPI behind it. Prepaid wins when volume is bursty, seasonal, or still growing.
Prepaid credits, one flat meter
Buy once, spend at your pace, top up when you choose.
Every web search costs 1 credit, flat, no matter how many results come back, and a search that returns nothing costs nothing. Start free with 3,000 credits every month, no card. Paid packs are prepaid and self-serve: 25k for $49 · 100k for $149 · 500k for $549 · 2.5M for $1,999 · up to 250M, ex-tax. That is about $1.96 per 1,000 at the entry pack, falling to roughly $0.40 per 1,000 at the largest. Credits never expire.
One key also covers Maps, News, Shopping, Images, Videos, Reviews, Scholar, Patents, and Autocomplete, with the same schema everywhere.
Related: SERP API · Scale SERP alternative · SerpApi alternative · Serper alternatives · Google Search API
Common questions
Clay
Price it on your real volume
Run a month of your actual queries through the free tier first. If the math says Value SERP, take it. It usually does not.
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