Know if Gemini, ChatGPT & Perplexity cite your brand

Hey Product Hunt 👋

I'm the founder of Serpent API, and I want to tell you the honest story of why we built this before I tell you what it does.

A few years ago I was building a rank tracking tool as a side project. I needed Google search results in JSON. Found SerpApi, loved the DX, integrated it in a weekend — then opened my first real invoice. $25 per 1,000 searches. Not $25/month. $25 per 1,000 calls.

I did the math on what it would cost at the volume I needed and quietly closed the tab.

That's the moment Serpent API started in my head. Not "what if we built something better" — just "what if we charged for what it actually costs to run this instead of what the market will bear."

What we built

SERP data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Brave. Local rank tracking city by city. AI citation monitoring across Gemini, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude. News search with last-hour freshness. YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn data. Reddit, TikTok and X data. One API key for all of it.

What we charge

From $0.03 per 1,000 search calls. $1 per 1,000 AI citation checks. No monthly plan. No daily quota. One-time deposits for Growth and Scale tiers — they never expire and never downgrade.

What we'd love from you today:

Not a vote — genuinely, we'd love to hear: what would you actually build with this? What data are you paying too much for right now? What's broken in your current stack?

Free to try, 10 calls, no card: Serpent API

Happy to answer any question in the comments — I'll be here all day.