ujeebu
vs
Serper
Ujeebu vs Serper
Serper is a fast, low-cost Google Search API, popular as a retrieval backend for AI and RAG. Ujeebu returns structured Google SERP results too, but that endpoint sits inside a full web-data platform: scraping, AI extraction, screenshots and PDF, all on one credit pool. The choice is not cheaper search, it is search alone versus search plus the rest of the stack.
Key differences.
Cost, side by side.
| Pricing model | Ujeebu | Serper |
|---|---|---|
| Entry | $49/mo (12,000 searches) | Pay-as-you-go pack ~$50 (approx 50K credits) |
| Mid | $119/mo (40,000 searches) | Pay-as-you-go pack ~$375 (approx 500K credits) |
| Large | $299/mo (120,000 searches) | Pay-as-you-go pack ~$1,250 (approx 2.5M credits) |
| Business | $999/mo (600,000 searches) | Custom enterprise terms |
Serper sells pay-as-you-go credit packs rather than monthly plans; the pack figures above come from third-party sources and are not officially confirmed, so treat them as approximate. The two products also bill differently: Serper charges per search, while Ujeebu uses one credit pool where a SERP query costs 25 credits and other work scales with effort (1 for a static fetch, 5 for JS rendering, 10 for Auto Extract).
Feature by feature.
| Feature | Ujeebu | Serper |
|---|---|---|
| Google SERP API | Yes (structured, included) | Yes (flagship: Search, Images, News, Maps) |
| JavaScript rendering | Yes | Handled internally |
| Residential proxies | Yes (100+ countries) | Handled internally |
| CAPTCHA solving | Built-in | Handled internally |
| Geotargeting | Yes | Yes (gl / hl params) |
| General web scraping | Yes (/scrape endpoint) | Partial (webpage scrape endpoint) |
| Article / content extraction | Yes | Partial |
| AI / LLM extraction | Yes (Auto Extract + AI Scraper) | No |
| Screenshots | Yes | No |
| PDF output | Yes | No |
| MCP server | Yes | No |
| One credit pool, every endpoint | Yes | N/A (search only) |
An honest look at each.
ujeebu- Structured Google SERP plus scraping, extraction, screenshots and PDF on one credit pool
- AI-native tooling: Auto Extract, AI Scraper and an MCP server
- Built-in residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving for any page, not just SERPs
- Generous 5,000-credit free trial, no card required
- Predictable monthly plans from small to enterprise scale
- Google only for search
- For very high-volume, search-only retrieval Serper can cost less per query
Serper- Fast Google Search API, well suited as an AI / RAG retrieval backend
- Pay-as-you-go credit packs with no monthly commitment
- Low cost per search at volume
- Simple to integrate for basic search needs
- Search only, no general scraping of arbitrary pages
- No AI or article extraction of non-SERP content
- No screenshots or PDF output
- Thin documentation and limited pricing transparency, no official MCP server
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Our take: Serper for cheap search, Ujeebu for the whole stack
If you only need fast, low-cost Google search results as a retrieval backend, Serper does that job well. Ujeebu returns structured Google SERP results too, but it is one endpoint in a full web-data platform that also scrapes pages, extracts content with AI, and produces screenshots and PDFs, all on one credit pool with predictable monthly plans. For teams whose work runs past search alone, Ujeebu is the broader foundation.