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Sailor vs SerpAPI

The everything SERP scraper.

SerpAPI covers every engine under the sun, but you're still wrangling raw SERP JSON. Sailor gives you AI-ready output — markdown bodies, citations, structured fields — out of the box.

TL;DR

Same engine breadth, half the parsing, a fraction of the tokens.

Feature comparison

Honest, side-by-side. We update this quarterly.

Clean markdown output (no HTML mess)

Sailor

SerpAPI

Structured deep search & enrichment

Sailor

SerpAPI

Multi-engine (Google, Bing, Brave, DDG)

Sailor

SerpAPI

Social-native search (X, Reddit, YouTube, TikTok, HN, LinkedIn)

Sailor

SerpAPI

Token-compact responses (~70% smaller)

Sailor

SerpAPI

Source citations with timestamps

Sailor

SerpAPI

Drop-in OpenAPI / OpenAI tool schema

Sailor

SerpAPI

Streaming results

Sailor

SerpAPI

Per-query budget & token limits

Sailor

SerpAPI

JS-rendered page support

Sailor

SerpAPI

Free tier

Sailor

1,000 / mo

SerpAPI

limited

Pay-as-you-go pricing

Sailor

SerpAPI

When to choose Sailor

  • You're shipping an AI product where context quality directly drives output quality.
  • You want one API for SERPs, page content, and social platforms.
  • You care about token cost as much as recall.
  • You'd rather migrate later than hit a ceiling now.

When to choose SerpAPI

  • You need niche engines (Yandex, Naver, Baidu) Sailor doesn't cover yet.
  • You're scraping SERPs for SEO analytics, not LLM context.
  • You require very specific HTML preservation.

Migrate in under 30 minutes

Same payload shape. Same response keys. Drop in and ship.

Before — SerpAPI
GET https://serpapi.com/search.json?q=ai+agents&engine=google
After — Sailor
POST https://api.sailorsearch.dev/v1/search { q: "ai agents", engine: "google" }

Questions, answered

Still curious? Email us at hello@sailorsearch.dev — we usually reply within hours.

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