Show HN: Generous free tier for SERP and AI web scraping

Cloro launched a unified API for scraping AI search engines and Google, offering a free tier with 500 credits per month and structured JSON output including markdown, citations, and shopping data. The API supports ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overview, and Google Search, with paid plans starting at $30/month for 37,500 credits.

The search API for the AI era One API for every AI search engine and Google. Real-time, structured JSON. 4.8 · 42 reviewsOne API for every AI search engine and Google. Real-time, structured JSON. Covers the main SEO and AI SEO providers, at any scale and across regions. Direct LLM API integration has hidden costs and difficult scalability. Direct provider APIs don't give the tools to influence SEO. Each provider requires separate API integration, creating technical overhead. Token-based pricing varies by model and provider, making costs unpredictable. Get back markdown, text, or HTML, plus parsed sources, citations, query fan-out, and shopping blocks pulled from each response. python from cloro import Cloro client = Cloro api key="sk live your api key here" response = client.monitor.chatgpt prompt="What do you know about Tesla's latest updates?", country="US", include={"markdown": True}, print response "result" "text" { "success": true, "result": { "text": "Tesla's recent updates include significant improvements to their Full Self-Driving capability...", "sources": { "position": 1, "url": "https://tesla.com/updates/fsd", "label": "Tesla FSD Updates", "description": "Latest Full Self-Driving improvements and capabilities" } , "html": "<div class=\"markdown\" <p Tesla's recent updates include...</p </div ", "markdown": " Tesla's recent updates include significant improvements...", "searchQueries": "Tesla updates 2024", "Full Self Driving improvements" , "shoppingCards": { "position": 1, "product": { "name": "Model Y", "brand": "Tesla", "price": "$43,990", "currency": "USD", "rating": 4.5, "reviewCount": 2847, "imageUrl": "https://example.com/tesla-model-y.jpg", "productUrl": "https://tesla.com/modely", "description": "All-electric compact SUV with Autopilot" } } } } Start free. Price per credit drops as your volume grows — see every tier below. | Plan | Price / mo | Credits | Per 1k | Concurrency | Support | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | Free | $0 | 500 | — | 1 | Community | | Lite | $30 | 37,500 | $0.80 | 10 | | | Hobby | $100 | 250,000 | $0.40 | 20 | | | StarterPopular | $250 | 650,000 | $0.39 | 50 | | | Growth | $500 | 1,350,000 | $0.37 | 75 | Priority email | | Business | $1,000 | 2,800,000 | $0.36 | 100 | Priority email | | Enterprise 2K | $2,000 | 5,871,025 | $0.34 | 135 | Slack | | Enterprise 3K | $3,000 | 9,306,606 | $0.32 | 175 | Slack | | Enterprise 4K | $4,000 | 12,756,261 | $0.31 | 215 | Slack | | Enterprise 5K | $5,000 | 16,391,783 | $0.31 | 255 | Slack | | Enterprise | $5,000+ | Increased concurrency, overages on credits and credit discounts for annual contracts. | Our API delivers structured responses in 30-45 seconds on average. We handle all the complexity of automation and parsing to give you clean markdown content and citations in near real-time. We extract the complete AI response in parsed markdown format, all source & citations with URLs and labels. Everything is delivered as structured JSON for easy integration into your systems. We support ChatGPT with Web Search , Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overview, and Google Search. Our unified API lets you extract data from all these sources using a consistent interface. Yes We offer an async endpoint that allows you to submit tasks and receive the results via webhook. This is ideal for high-volume scraping and ensures reliability without keeping connections open. Concurrency limits depend on your subscription plan. For example, business plans often start with higher concurrency limits e.g., 100 . If you exceed your limit, you will receive a 429 status code. We recommend implementing client-side queuing or using our async endpoint. You can increase your concurrency by subscribing to an higher-volume package. Since we dedicate resources exclusively to your organization, we want to ensure those resources are fully utilized and not just spiky traffic. However, if you are indeed limited by concurrency constantly using your concurrency more than 70% of the time , you should contact us so we can adjust. Yes. By default, we return parsed structured JSON to keep responses lightweight. However, you can retrieve the full raw HTML of the result page by setting include.html: true in your request. Yes, we support all countries globally. Note that some models like Gemini may have regional availability restrictions e.g., EU . You generally don't need to implement complex timeout logic. Our system automatically retries requests up to 10 times with a maximum duration of 5 minutes to ensure high success rates. Credits are deducted only when we successfully extract and deliver AI response data. Failed extractions or system errors do not consume your credits. No, credits do not roll over from month to month. Each billing cycle, you receive your allocated credits based on your subscription plan. Any unused credits expire at the end of the billing period. Track your brand and your competitors across global SERPs, with low latency.