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Sailor vs Serper

Fast Google SERP — but raw.

Serper gives you Google SERP JSON quickly and cheaply. Sailor goes further: clean markdown, deep enrichment, social platforms, and an AI-tuned response shape.

TL;DR

Drop-in upgrade for any Serper integration — same shape, richer output.

Feature comparison

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

Clean markdown output (no HTML mess)

Sailor

Serper

Structured deep search & enrichment

Sailor

Serper

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

Sailor

Serper

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

Sailor

Serper

Token-compact responses (~70% smaller)

Sailor

Serper

Source citations with timestamps

Sailor

Serper

Drop-in OpenAPI / OpenAI tool schema

Sailor

Serper

Streaming results

Sailor

Serper

Per-query budget & token limits

Sailor

Serper

JS-rendered page support

Sailor

Serper

Free tier

Sailor

1,000 / mo

Serper

limited

Pay-as-you-go pricing

Sailor

Serper

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 Serper

  • You only need raw Google SERP JSON.
  • You're cost-optimizing at extreme scale and don't need page bodies.
  • You're happy parsing HTML snippets yourself.

Migrate in under 30 minutes

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

Before — Serper
curl https://google.serper.dev/search \
  -H 'X-API-KEY: $KEY' \
  -d '{"q":"langchain agents"}'
After — Sailor
curl https://api.sailorsearch.dev/v1/search \
  -H 'Authorization: Bearer $KEY' \
  -d '{"q":"langchain agents","format":"markdown"}'

Questions, answered

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

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