Cheapest Google AI Overview | $0.25/1K Answers

The most affordable Google AI Overview endpoint on Apify: $0.25 per 1k requests. Extract AI-generated answers and citations directly from Google Search.

Google AI Overview text and citations; unavailable overviews are not billable successes.

Price

$0.25 per 1,000 answers ($0.00025 per successful API response). An answer is one successful AI response. Each follow-up query is a separate answer; missing answers and failed requests are unbilled.

Each successful response saved to the run is one paid event, including valid empty responses. Multiple places, reviews, or products in one response do not create additional paid events.

Failed requests are unbilled. Retries and a resumed run do not charge the same request twice. There is no Actor startup fee or separate per-row fee; platform usage during the run is included. Standard Apify charges for post-run storage access may still apply. Payments are handled by Apify; no separate service key or proxy purchase is required.

Free-plan users receive up to 25 successful requests per Apify user per UTC day across this catalog, subject to the service trial allowance. Paid runs respect the input request limit and Apify spending limit.

Quick start

Use a single input below, or supply requests as a list of parameter objects. Top-level API fields are shared defaults, and each batch object overrides them. Identifiers in examples demonstrate the format; use an identifier returned by the matching provider for production work.

{
  "q": "what is retrieval augmented generation",
  "gl": "us",
  "hl": "en",
  "maxRequests": 10,
  "maxPagesPerInput": 1
}

Input parameters

Field	Type	Required	Meaning
q	string	Optional / conditional	Search query. Use the same parameters for every continuation page.
gl	string	Optional / conditional	Two-letter country code.
hl	string	Optional / conditional	Source language, for example en or en-US.
as_dt	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_dt parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_epq	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_epq parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_eq	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_eq parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_lq	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_lq parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_nhi	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_nhi parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_nlo	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_nlo parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_oq	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_oq parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_q	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_q parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_qdr	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_qdr parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_rq	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_rq parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
as_sitesearch	string	Optional / conditional	Native as_sitesearch parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
color_scheme	string	Optional / conditional	Native color_scheme parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
cr	string	Optional / conditional	Native cr parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
device	string	Optional / conditional	Device profile.
filter	string	Optional / conditional	Native filter parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
google_domain	string	Optional / conditional	Supported Google domain, for example google.com.
gs_lp	string	Optional / conditional	Native gs_lp parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
ibp	string	Optional / conditional	Native ibp parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
kgmid	string	Optional / conditional	Native kgmid parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
lat	number	Optional / conditional	Latitude; most endpoints require lon too.
location	string	Optional / conditional	Named location. Conflicts with other geography modes on Google search.
lon	number	Optional / conditional	Longitude; most endpoints require lat too.
lr	string	Optional / conditional	Native lr parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
lsig	string	Optional / conditional	Native lsig parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
ludocid	string	Optional / conditional	Native ludocid parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
nfpr	string	Optional / conditional	Native nfpr parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
num	integer	Optional / conditional	Best-effort first-page result count.
oq	string	Optional / conditional	Native oq parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
peek_pws	string	Optional / conditional	Native peek_pws parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
pws	string	Optional / conditional	Native pws parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
radius	string	Optional / conditional	Native radius parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
safe	string	Optional / conditional	Native safe parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
sclient	string	Optional / conditional	Native sclient parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
si	string	Optional / conditional	Native si parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
start	integer	Optional / conditional	Result offset. Prefer automatic pagination over calculating offsets.
tbm	string	Optional / conditional	Native tbm parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
tbs	string	Optional / conditional	Native Google filter expression.
timeout	number	Optional / conditional	Optional budget for the entire request in seconds, measured from gateway receipt until the response is ready to send. Includes admission, queueing and settlement. Must be greater than 0 and at most 90. On expiry, the call is not billed and returns 503 request_deadline_exceeded with retryable=true and a request ID. Omit to retain the standard server deadline.
uds	string	Optional / conditional	Native uds parameter. See the source-specific constraints; unsupported combinations return an unbilled validation error.
uule	string	Optional / conditional	Source-provided Google location token. Conflicts with location.

The source validates conditional parameter combinations. Validation errors do not trigger a paid request event. Provider availability determines which optional result groups appear.

Batches, pagination, and limits

• requests: up to 1,000 input parameter objects in one run.
• maxRequests: total successful API requests, including pages; default 100. At that limit the event price is at most $0.025.
• maxPagesPerInput: default 1. Increase to follow native continuation links where this endpoint supplies them. No synthetic pagination is invented.
• maxResults: maximum dataset rows; default 1,000. Already in-flight requests can complete and be billed, with full JSON saved even if their rows exceed this cap.
• maxConcurrency: default 2, maximum 8. Service capacity and trial limits may reduce it.
• includeArtifacts: optionally retain available raw source artifacts in this run. Default false.

Output

The default dataset contains source records with requestId, inputIndex, page, group, readable title, url, rating, and text fields when available, the complete record in data, and responseUrl. A successful response without a primary result group gets a response row.

Each responseUrl points to a stored response envelope; its response.body contains the complete API JSON, including optional modules and pagination. SUMMARY reports successful requests, failures, row count, and event charges. ERRORS records unsuccessful requests. If every request fails, the run fails with no request-event charges.

Follow-up API links, including pagination and related reviews or products, are Apify request objects: { "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/litescrape~<actor>/runs", "method": "POST", "input": { ... } }. POST the supplied input as JSON to url using your own Apify authorization header. Each follow-up starts a new run limited to one successful request; use maxPagesPerInput for automatic pagination inside this run. Source website links are unchanged. search_metadata.json_endpoint links to the saved Apify response. Available artifact links point to files copied to Apify; unavailable artifact links are omitted.

JSON exports preserve nested fields. Select the flat overview fields for CSV. Artifact manifests use artifacts-<requestId> keys and link to copied source files when available. Private run data requires the appropriate Apify access.

Price comparison

Lowest price in this 2026-09-20 comparison for successful Google AI Overview answers billed per query.

Illustrative workload: 1,000 successful requests × 1 usable AI Overview answers per request = 1,000 AI Overview answers. Our total is $0.25, equivalent to $0.25 per 1,000 AI Overview answers.

These are calculated prices, not measured scraper runs or guaranteed page yields. Count unique usable source records actually delivered, including the cost of empty responses, continuation pages and lookups needed to obtain the fields you need. An array of request objects does not turn multiple API calls into one billed request.

Actor	Lowest applicable tier	Published-charge subtotal for this workload	Effective price / 1,000 output units
Litescrape	Same request rate on every plan	$0.25	$0.25
apify/google-ai-overviews-scraper (active prices)	DIAMOND	$0.50005	$0.50005
johnvc/Google-AI-Overview-API (active prices)	GOLD	$14.554	$14.554

Each competitor gets its lowest published tier, including enterprise tiers, without adding a plan subscription cost. Required compared events use the same tier; known startup charges assume one run and the minimum one billed GB. Unquantified compute/proxy charges, optional enrichment and any omitted additional fees can only increase the displayed competitor subtotal. Output completeness and reliability were not benchmarked.

• Pangolinfo requires a separately funded provider API key; a zero Actor fee is not a zero-cost supplied answer.

Cheapest means the lowest calculated price for the stated workload among the named paid Apify Actors in this dated audit. It is not a claim about every Actor, every plan, every workload, or equal output quality. Free/platform-only Actors, monthly rentals and bring-your-own-paid-key wrappers do not establish a comparable fixed total from their Actor fee alone. They may cost less on particular workloads.

The comparison uses the linked active pricing snapshots and public documentation checked on the audit date. Recheck live pricing before relying on a competitor comparison. No provider affiliation or equal-quality claim is implied.

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