Jun 18
cheap search api for ai agents?
been messing around with AI agents again and ran into the same boring problem:
the agent is only as useful as the search results you feed it.
i don’t really want to maintain playwright scripts, proxies, captcha stuff, and random html parsing just to give an agent fresh google results.
looked around for a simple google search api that returns clean json. serpapi felt too expensive for side projects, and a lot of the other options seem built for bigger SEO teams.
cheapest one i found so far is SerpBase: https://serpbase.dev
mostly useful if you’re wiring search into an agent / rag app and just need title, url, snippet, etc.
if anyone knows something cheaper, i’m curious.