Scraping API
ScrapeUnblocker vs SerpApi
SerpApi specializes in parsed search-engine results across many engines - Google, Bing, Baidu, Maps and more - returned as clean JSON. ScrapeUnblocker has a dedicated /serpApi endpoint that returns parsed Google results too, and it handles every other site through the same API. So instead of one tool for SERP and another for the rest of your scraping, it is one integration and one bill.
If your entire job is parsed results from a wide range of search engines, SerpApi has real depth there. ScrapeUnblocker covers the Google SERP case with /serpApi (parsed organic and ads, country targeting), and then covers everything else - product pages, listings, reviews - with the same key and the same billing, so a project that needs both does not fan out into two vendors.
Billing follows results: you pay for successful requests and anti-bot soft-blocks come back free rather than as a charged 200. A free tier of 500 requests on signup lets you compare the SERP output and the general page fetch on your own queries before committing.
Side by side
| Capability | ScrapeUnblocker | SerpApi |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Google SERP + every other site, one API | Parsed results across many search engines |
| Google results | Dedicated /serpApi - parsed organic + ads | Parsed SERP JSON (broad engine coverage) |
| Beyond search | Same key renders any page (HTML or JSON) | Search-engine focused |
| Anti-bot bypass | Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX, Akamai | Handled within SERP scope |
| Pricing model | Pay per successful request, soft-blocks free | Searches per plan |
| Free tier | 500 requests on signup, no card | Free searches per month |
When ScrapeUnblocker is the better pick
- You need Google results AND to scrape other sites with one tool.
- You do not want a separate vendor for SERP versus everything else.
- You want pay-per-success with soft-blocks free.
- You want country-targeted parsed Google results plus general page fetch.
Where they still make sense
- You only need parsed results and want the widest range of search engines.
- You have a SerpApi integration tuned to specific engines you rely on.
Try it on your own targets
500 requests free on signup. No card, no sales call.