Send a query, get the results page back as JSON: ranked organic results, People Also Ask questions, answer boxes, knowledge panels, news and more, for the country, market or region you pick. Rank checks cost one request at any depth. Same key over REST or MCP.
Request
$ curl -X POST \ https://api.fetchlayer.dev/google-search/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"query":"open source crm","limit":10}'
Fields a Google search returns
Empty or null when the engine doesn’t show it for that query.
One page read, one request. $0.00199 at full price, half that during the beta.
Captured 15 September 2026. Every field in the Google docs
Response
{
"resultType": "search",
"parameters": {
"query": "open source crm",
"country": "us",
"language": "en",
"device": "desktop"
},
"organicResults": [
{
"position": 1,
"title": "Twenty | #1 Open Source CRM",
"url": "https://twenty.com/",
"source": "Twenty"
},
{
"position": 2,
"title": "Free Open Source CRM Software | Download EspoCRM",
"url": "https://www.espocrm.com/download/",
"source": "EspoCRM"
}
// +7 more
],
"peopleAlsoAsk": [
"What is the best open source CRM?",
"Will CRM be replaced by AI?",
"Is there a free CRM I can use?"
// +1 more
],
"relatedSearches": [
"Open source crm github",
"Open source crm free"
// +6 more
],
"organicCount": 9,
"pagesScraped": 1, // billed requests
"nextCursor": "eyJ2IjoxLCJxIjoib3BlbiBzb3VyY2UgY3JtIiwiZ2wiOiJ1cyIs…"
// also: ads, answerBox, topStories, videos, discussions, localResults, knowledgePanel
} Request
$ curl -X POST \ https://api.fetchlayer.dev/bing/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"query":"open source crm","limit":10}'
Fields a Bing search returns
Empty or null when the engine doesn’t show it for that query.
One page read, one request. $0.00199 at full price, half that during the beta.
Captured 15 September 2026. Every field in the Bing docs
Response
{
"resultType": "search",
"market": "en-US",
"device": "desktop",
"results": [
{
"position": 1,
"title": "Best Open Source CRM Software for 2026: Top 8 Picks Reviewed",
"domain": "crm.org",
"date": null
},
{
"position": 2,
"title": "9 Best Open Source CRMs Of 2026 – Forbes Advisor",
"domain": "www.forbes.com",
"date": "Feb 9, 2026"
}
// +8 more
],
"answerBox": {
"type": "ai_overview",
"sources": [
{
"url": "https://crm.org/crmland/open-source-crm"
}
// +1 more
]
},
"relatedSearches": [
{
"query": "open source crm GitHub"
}
// +1 more
],
"totalResults": null,
"pagesScraped": 1, // billed requests
"nextCursor": "eyJ2IjoxLCJmIjoiTU9BMktZVk5kQ2g5IiwibyI6MTEs…"
// also: ads, knowledgePanel, relatedQuestions, topStories, videos, correctedQuery
} Request
$ curl -X POST \ https://api.fetchlayer.dev/duckduckgo/search \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"query":"open source crm","limit":10}'
Fields a DuckDuckGo search returns
Empty or null when the engine doesn’t show it for that query.
One page read, one request. $0.00199 at full price, half that during the beta.
Captured 15 September 2026. Every field in the DuckDuckGo docs
Response
{
"resultType": "search",
"region": "us-en",
"results": [
{
"position": 1,
"title": "Best Open Source CRM Software for 2026: Top 8 Picks Reviewed",
"domain": "crm.org",
"date": "2026-01-19T00:00:00"
},
{
"position": 2,
"title": "9 Best Open Source CRMs Of 2026 - Forbes Advisor",
"domain": "www.forbes.com",
"date": "2026-02-09T00:00:00"
}
// +8 more
],
"ads": [
{
"title": "Top 10 CRM Tools - Free List of the Top Products",
"domain": "capterra.com"
}
],
"zeroClick": null,
"endOfResults": false,
"pagesScraped": 1, // billed requests
"nextCursor": "eyJ2IjoxLCJmIjoiNlJjMDVmZjVvZ1BNIiwiZm9ybSI6…"
} 3 engines
Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo
one key, one bill
1 request
Per rank check
up to 200 positions deep
$1.99 / 1,000
Pay-as-you-go
credits never expire
18 tools
Search tools over MCP
billed exactly like REST
Three engines
Pick the engine your users search on, or query all three and compare. Every card links to that engine’s API page and its full reference.
The results page most people see, with the features around it.
The one engine here that returns its AI overview.
Web results plus images, news and instant answers, in 64 regions.
On all three
One key, one convention
POST a JSON body with a query. Each engine keeps its own field names, documented route by route.
Ads never take a position
Ads come back in their own list, so position 8 is the eighth organic result.
Page on with a cursor
Send nextCursor back with the same query and filters to read further.
JSON or markdown
Every route takes format: markdown, handy for feeding results to a model.
A notes array
Each response says when a result is narrower than you asked for.
Search URLs parsed free
resolve-url turns a results-page URL into request fields at no cost.
Side by side
Built from the API reference, not a sales sheet. A feature is only returned when the engine shows it for that query, which for most features is some of the time.
| Capability | Bing | DuckDuckGo | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web results | |||
| Organic results as JSON | Yes: Up to 100 a request | Yes: Up to 200 a request | Yes: Up to 200; the engine lists about 190–200 |
| Results per page read | Yes: 6–10, as Google shows them | Yes: 10 | Yes: 10 on the first page, up to 15 after |
| Sitelinks | Yes: sitelinks | Yes: deepLinks | Partly: With includeSitelinks, adds 1 page |
| Ads, outside the ranking | Yes: ads | Yes: ads (text ads are rare) | Yes: ads |
| SERP features | |||
| Answer box | Yes: Featured snippet, weather, unit converter | Yes: Direct fact | Partly: Zero-click summary |
| AI overview | No: Not returned | Yes: With its sources | No: Not returned |
| People Also Ask | Partly: Questions only | Partly: Questions only | No: Not returned |
| Knowledge panel | Yes: Facts and profiles | Yes: Facts and official site | Partly: Via /instant-answer |
| Related searches | Yes: relatedSearches | Yes: relatedSearches | No: Not returned |
| Top stories | Yes: With publish time | Yes: With age | No: Use /news |
| Local results | Yes: Rating, reviews, price level, hours | No: Maps modules not returned | No: Not returned |
| Videos | Partly: In results, English pages only | Yes: In results, and /videos (up to 105) | Yes: /videos (up to 120) |
| Discussions and forums | Partly: English pages only | No: Not returned | No: Not returned |
| Total result estimate | No: Google shows none | Partly: totalResults, when Bing shows it | No: DuckDuckGo shows none |
| More routes | |||
| News search | No: Top stories only | Yes: /news, up to 100 | Yes: /news, up to 150 |
| Image search | No: No route | No: No route | Yes: /images, up to 300 |
| Instant answers | No: No route | No: No route | Yes: /instant-answer |
| Autocomplete | Yes: /autocomplete | Yes: /suggestions | Yes: /suggestions |
| Parse a search URL | Yes: /resolve-url, free | Yes: /resolve-url, free | Yes: /resolve-url, free |
| Targeting and tracking | |||
| Where results are for | Yes: Any two-letter country, a language and a city | Yes: 38 markets, with country and language overrides | Yes: 64 region codes, or wt-wt for none |
| Device | Yes: Desktop or mobile (mobile takes about 15s) | Yes: Desktop or mobile | No: Not a parameter |
| Time range | Yes: Hour, day, week, month, year | Yes: Day, week, month, year | Yes: Day, week, month, year |
| Rank check depth | Yes: Up to 100 (default 50) | Yes: Up to 200 (default 100) | Yes: Up to 200 (default 100) |
| MCP tools | Yes: 4 | Yes: 6 | Yes: 8 |
Rank tracking API
Send a query and a domain or URL. The check pages through results for you, up to 100 positions on Google and 200 on Bing and DuckDuckGo, and returns the best position, every match and the page it sits on. Ten result pages or one, you pay for one request.
Buyers increasingly ask an assistant instead of a search box, and the two rankings move independently. The AI Visibility API answers the same question for ChatGPT: where you rank in AI answers, and whether they cite you at all.
$ curl -X POST \ https://api.fetchlayer.dev/bing/rank-check \ -H "Authorization: Bearer ss-your-key" \ -d '{"query":"reddit api","target":"fetchlayer.dev","depth":200}'
{
"resultType": "rank-check",
"query": "reddit api",
"market": "en-US",
"target": {
"input": "fetchlayer.dev",
"type": "domain"
},
"found": true,
"position": 124,
"matches": [
{
"position": 124,
"page": 10,
"url": "https://fetchlayer.dev/blog/reddit-api-closed-2026"
}
],
"depth": 200,
"depthScanned": 125,
"serpPagesFetched": 10, // pages read, never billed
"pagesScraped": 1 // what you pay: 1 request
} Found at position 124 after reading 10 result pages. Billed: one request. A domain matches its subdomains on whole hostname labels, so look-alike domains never count.
Worked example
100 keywords, all three engines, checked daily.
Google alone is 3,000 checks, $5.97. Reading the same 100 positions through search would take at least 10 result pages a keyword, because Google shows 6–10 results a page: 3,000 × 10 = 30,000 requests, $59.70 or more.
Full price, pay-as-you-go. 9,000 requests also fit inside the Starter plan’s 15,000 a month ($25). Until 1 October 2026 the beta bills every other request: about $8.96.
Your numbers
9,000 checks = 9,000 requests
$17.91/mo
about $8.96 at beta half credit, until 1 October 2026
Domain or page
example.com matches the site and, by default, its subdomains. example.com/blog matches pages under that path, never /blogging.
Stops early, or scans it all
By default the check stops after the first result page with a match. Set allMatches to scan the full depth and report every position.
found: false means it looked
The whole depth was examined, or every result the engine had. On Bing and DuckDuckGo, a results page that can’t be read part-way through returns a retryable 503, never a false “not found”.
MCP & agents
One MCP server at mcp.fetchlayer.dev gives your agent 18 search tools across Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo, next to every other FetchLayer platform. It can search, check a ranking or pull the news mid-conversation, on the same key and credits as REST. The conversation below is an illustration; the ranking in it is the real Google rank-check example from our docs.
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Where does github.com rank on Google for "open source crm"?
github.com ranks #3 for "open source crm" (US, English, desktop), with SuiteCRM - Open source CRM for the world on page 1. The check read 1 result page and cost one request.
Works with every MCP-compatible tool
The 18 search tools
Bing
DuckDuckGo
resolve-url tools are free; every other call bills like its REST route. Set up the MCP server.
Pricing
Free
30requests
Once, to try every engine and route. No credit card.
Pay as you go
$1.99per 1,000 requests
Packs from $19.90 for 10,000 requests. Credits never expire and there is no monthly fee.
Subscriptions
$25/ month
Starter includes 15,000 requests a month; larger plans go up to 5,000,000.
| Call | Cost | How you see it |
|---|---|---|
| Search (web results) | 1 request per result page read | pagesScraped in the response says how many |
| News, videos, images | 1 request per list page read | Bing news lists 10 articles; DuckDuckGo about 30 |
| Rank check | 1 request, at any depth | serpPagesFetched reports the pages read, never billed |
| Autocomplete, suggestions, instant answer | 1 request | One call, one request |
| resolve-url | Free | Parses a URL without contacting the engine |
Beta: Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo bill at half credit until 1 October 2026. Only successful responses cost credits, and the same credits work on every FetchLayer platform.
All plansFAQ
SERP stands for search engine results page. A SERP API sends a query to a search engine for you and returns that results page as structured data: the organic results in rank order with title, URL and snippet, plus the features around them, such as People Also Ask, answer boxes, knowledge panels and top stories. Developers use one for rank tracking, SEO tools, market research and to give AI agents live web results without parsing HTML.
Yes, and a Bing and DuckDuckGo one on the same key. For Google it returns organic results with position, site name, snippet, date and sitelinks, and the People Also Ask questions, related searches, answer box, top stories, videos, discussions, local results, knowledge panel and ads, for any country, language, city and device. It does not return Google’s AI Overview or a total result count. Google’s own Custom Search JSON API is closed to new customers, and Google says existing customers have until January 1, 2027 to transition to an alternative.
No. Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025 and decommissioned existing instances. It points customers to Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents, which feeds web data into an agent’s generated answer rather than returning the results page. FetchLayer’s Bing routes return the results page itself as JSON, including Bing’s AI overview with its sources.
Not for ranked web results. DuckDuckGo publishes no API that returns its organic results list, so FetchLayer returns the results any visitor to duckduckgo.com sees, as JSON, along with news, videos, images, instant answers and suggestions.
One request per result page read, at $1.99 per 1,000 requests pay-as-you-go. A one-page search is one request; asking for more results reads more pages, and pagesScraped in the response tells you how many were billed. News, videos and images bill per list page read. Autocomplete, suggestions and instant answers are one request each, and resolve-url is free. Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo are in beta and bill at half credit until 1 October 2026.
Exactly one request, however deep it scans: 100 positions on Google, or 200 on Bing and DuckDuckGo. The response reports the result pages it read in serpPagesFetched, and that number is never billed. A deep check can take 30 seconds or more, and a Google check up to about 150 seconds when Google turns requests away, so give your HTTP client a generous timeout.
Yes. Google takes any two-letter country, a language and a city-level location such as "Austin,Texas,United States", on desktop or mobile. Bing takes one of 38 markets such as en-GB or de-DE, with optional country and language overrides, on desktop or mobile. DuckDuckGo takes one of its 64 region codes, such as uk-en, or wt-wt for no region. Requests default to a US, English searcher.
Rankings depend on who is searching and when. Country, market or region, language, city and device all change the order, and so does time. Bing’s positions also move noticeably between regions and between two checks minutes apart. Your own browser adds personalisation on top. Track a query over time rather than reading one check as fixed.
Total counts: only Bing, as totalResults, when Bing shows an estimate. Google and DuckDuckGo publish none, so page with nextCursor until hasNextPage is false or endOfResults is true. People Also Ask: Google and Bing return the questions, not their answers.
No plan has a per-minute request cap: your credits or monthly allowance are the limit. Very bursty traffic waits briefly for a free slot rather than being rejected outright. Plan for latency instead: a one-page search usually answers in a few seconds, a Google mobile search takes about 15 seconds, and deep rank checks take 30 seconds or more.
Yes. The FetchLayer MCP server at https://mcp.fetchlayer.dev exposes 18 search tools across the three engines, such as google_search, bing_search, duckduckgo_search and the three rank checks, among 204 tools in total. Tool calls use the same key and are billed exactly like REST, so a rank check from an agent is still one request.
No. FetchLayer is not affiliated with Google, Microsoft or DuckDuckGo, and is not endorsed or sponsored by them. Their names are used only to describe which search results the API returns.
Sources
FetchLayer is not affiliated with Google, Microsoft or DuckDuckGo. Product names are used only to identify the search results the API returns. Response samples on this page come from our API reference and were captured in September 2026; results change over time.
Your first 30 requests are free. Every response tells you how many requests it cost.
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