Tired of overpaying for SERP data? We built an alternative (+ AI citation tracking)
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ike many of you, we were burning thousands of dollars a month on raw search data for client reporting and internal tools. The infrastructure margins of the legacy players just didn't make sense anymore.
So, we built the infrastructure ourselves and decided to open it up to everyone.
Meet Serpent API — built to make search and AI visibility data accessible to every developer and indie hacker without the enterprise markup.
What makes it different:
Insanely Cost-Effective: $0.03 per 10,000 pages at the Scale tier.
Credits Never Expire: No monthly resets. If you buy credits, you keep them until you use them.
AI Citation Tracking: Don't just track Google. Track where ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity are citing your brand/URLs with structured visibility scoring.
Pixel-Level Geometry: Get the exact x/y coordinates of every SERP element (AI Overviews, snippets, ads) to see what users actually see.
Automatic Refunds: If a search fails due to a server error, you don't pay a single cent.
We are currently pre-100 signups/day and actively building in public. You can grab 10 free searches right now to test out the JSON payloads, completely card-free: https://apiserpent.com
I’d love to know: For those building SaaS or marketing tools, what’s your biggest frustration with data scraping or tracking LLM mentions right now? Let's chat in the comments! 👇
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