{
  "name": "AvesAPI",
  "slug": "avesapi",
  "website_url": "https://avesapi.com",
  "vendor_description": "\"Scrape search engines at scale - no proxies, no captchas, just clean data in seconds.\"",
  "categories": [
    "serp"
  ],
  "summary": "AvesAPI is a REST-based SERP scraping service that handles proxy management and CAPTCHA solving, delivering clean search result data from Google Search, Images, News, Shopping, and Videos, as well as Instagram profile data. It targets SEO teams and developers who need geo-targeted search data at scale, with country, city, and UULE-based location parameters. Pricing is usage-based starting at $50 for 25,000 credits, with a one-time 1,000-request free tier and self-serve signup. Credits expire after six months, operator-syntax queries cost 25 credits each, and pagination is capped at page 10.",
  "capabilities": {
    "supported_actions": [
      "google_search",
      "google_images",
      "google_news",
      "google_shopping",
      "google_videos",
      "instagram_profile_scraper"
    ],
    "supported_regions": [
      "country targeting via gl parameter",
      "city targeting",
      "UULE-based location targeting",
      "google_domain parameter (e.g. google.com, google.co.uk)",
      "global (multiple countries documented)"
    ],
    "supported_languages": [
      "multiple languages via hl parameter (default: en)"
    ],
    "input_types": [
      "search query",
      "location / geo (country, city, UULE)",
      "language code (hl)",
      "country code (gl)",
      "google_domain",
      "device (desktop/mobile)",
      "pagination (page 1-10, num results)",
      "output format (json/html)",
      "search type (web/images/videos/news/shopping)"
    ],
    "output_types": [
      "structured JSON",
      "raw HTML",
      "organic results",
      "paid / ads",
      "images",
      "videos",
      "maps / local listings",
      "answer boxes / featured snippets",
      "shopping results"
    ],
    "webhooks_supported": false,
    "sandbox_available": false,
    "sdk_languages": [],
    "mcp_server_available": false
  },
  "integration": {
    "api_style": "rest",
    "base_url": "https://api.avesapi.com",
    "api_version": null,
    "versioning_scheme": "none",
    "stability": "ga",
    "deprecation_policy_url": null,
    "auth_methods": [
      "api_key"
    ],
    "auth_docs_url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
    "idempotency_supported": null,
    "error_format": "vendor-specific",
    "webhook_signing": null,
    "webhook_events_url": null,
    "rate_limit_requests": null,
    "rate_limit_window": null,
    "sdk_packages": [],
    "mcp_url": null,
    "quickstart_url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md"
  },
  "pricing": {
    "pricing_model": "usage_based",
    "has_published_pricing": true,
    "starting_price_usd": "50.0000",
    "price_basis": "25,000 credits",
    "free_tier_available": false,
    "free_tier_limit": "1,000 requests (one-time)",
    "free_tier_details": "One-time FREE TEST credit of 1,000 requests at signup ($0); not a recurring monthly allowance - credits valid 6 months.",
    "minimum_commitment": null,
    "self_serve_signup": true,
    "requires_sales_call": false,
    "requires_verification": false,
    "enterprise_plan_available": true,
    "price_points": [
      {
        "plan": "Free Test",
        "item": "credits (one-time signup)",
        "amount_usd": "0.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "1,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Starter",
        "item": "credits",
        "amount_usd": "50.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "25,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Premium",
        "item": "credits",
        "amount_usd": "125.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "100,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/"
      },
      {
        "plan": "Professional",
        "item": "credits",
        "amount_usd": "500.0000",
        "amount_percent": null,
        "per": "500,000 requests",
        "currency": "USD",
        "source_url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "compliance": {
    "soc2": null,
    "hipaa": null,
    "gdpr": true,
    "iso_27001": null,
    "pci_dss": null,
    "sla_published": false,
    "sla_url": null,
    "data_retention_policy_url": null,
    "documented_rate_limits": null,
    "known_restrictions": [
      "Credits expire 6 months after purchase",
      "Operator searches (site:, inurl:, domain:, link:, title:, intitle:, intext:, allintext:, cache:, before:, after:) cost 25 credits instead of 1",
      "Only successful searches are billed (cached, errored and failed searches are not counted)",
      "Pagination limited to pages 1-10"
    ]
  },
  "developer": {
    "docs_url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/",
    "api_reference_url": "https://avesapi.com/reference",
    "openapi_spec_url": null,
    "postman_collection_url": null,
    "changelog_url": "https://avesapi.com/changelog",
    "status_page_url": null,
    "llms_txt_url": null,
    "markdown_docs_url": null,
    "rendering": "static"
  },
  "adoption": {
    "launched_at": "2020-01-01",
    "ga_date": null,
    "github_stars": null,
    "github_stars_at": null,
    "notable_customers": []
  },
  "scores": {
    "agent_friendliness": 10,
    "pricing_transparency": 85,
    "setup_speed": 45,
    "docs_quality": 45,
    "procurement_friction": 85,
    "trust_readiness": 15,
    "best_for": [
      "Cost-sensitive teams - low, transparent entry price"
    ],
    "avoid_if": [
      "You want to try it free before paying",
      "You have strict compliance requirements"
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "field": "self_serve_signup",
      "url": "https://app.avesapi.com/register/",
      "excerpt": "Join & Get Your Free Credits — sign up at app.avesapi.com",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "categories",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/instagram-profile-scraper-api",
      "excerpt": "Base URL: https://api.avesapi.com/instagram/view-profile — gathers public Instagram account data as structured JSON",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "pricing_model",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/",
      "excerpt": "We don't force you to subscribe recurring plans. Instead we are using pay-per-usage model.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "has_published_pricing",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/",
      "excerpt": "FREE TEST $0 1K requests; STARTER $50 25K requests; PREMIUM $125 100K requests; PROFESSIONAL $500 500K requests",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_available",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/faq/",
      "excerpt": "each package that you purchase is valid for 6 months. You should spend your credits in 6 months after your purchase.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sandbox_available",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "No sandbox or testing environment is mentioned in the documentation.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_actions",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/instagram-profile-scraper-api",
      "excerpt": "Base URL: https://api.avesapi.com/instagram/view-profile — retrieves public Instagram profile data as structured JSON",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "GEO-targeted search capabilities, allowing users to customize requests by country parameters, city specifications, UULE (encoded location) parameters",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/",
      "excerpt": "each package that you purchase is valid for 6 months. You should spend your credits in 6 months after your purchase.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "enterprise_plan_available",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/",
      "excerpt": "Custom enterprise packages available with volume-based discounts. If you need big volume search limits, contact us.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sla_published",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/terms/",
      "excerpt": "AvesAPI does its best to make the Service available as detailed in the applicable Service plan, except for planned downtime or unavailability caused by circumstances beyond their reasonable control.",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "soc2",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/privacy/",
      "excerpt": "No compliance certifications (such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or GDPR adequacy statements) are displayed.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "vendor_description",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "Scrape search engines at scale — no proxies, no captchas, just clean data in seconds.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "categories",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "Google Search API | SERP API — supports web, images, videos, news, and shopping search types",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "pricing_model",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/faq/",
      "excerpt": "Your credits are consumed only if the API call returns successful results. No monthly recurrent billing.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_available",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/",
      "excerpt": "FREE TEST — $0 — 1,000 requests — valid for 6 months",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "sandbox_available",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/",
      "excerpt": "FREE TEST plan provides 1,000 credits in the live production environment — no separate sandbox or test-mode keys documented.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_actions",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "The API supports five search types via the type parameter: web (default), images, videos, news, and shopping.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "supported_regions",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "location - Location-based results using place_slug values; google_domain - Specify Google domain (default: google.com); gl - Country code (default: us)",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "25 credits deducted for prohibited operator searches (e.g., site:, inurl:, domain:, link:, title:, intitle:, intext:, allintext:, cache:, before:, after:)",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "known_restrictions",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing/",
      "excerpt": "Only successful searches are counted; cached, errored and failed searches are not. Each request returns real-time result, and costs 1 credit.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "gdpr",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/privacy/",
      "excerpt": "Users have the right to access, rectification, opposition, erasure ('right to be forgotten'), and restriction of processing their personal data by directing requests to AvesAPI.",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "soc2",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/terms/",
      "excerpt": "No SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS compliance certifications are mentioned on this page.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "webhooks_supported",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com",
      "excerpt": "No webhook functionality is documented in this content.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "auth_methods",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "apikey - Required - API Access key",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "api_style",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "https://api.avesapi.com/search?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY&query=covid19",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "base_url",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "https://api.avesapi.com/instagram/view-profile",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "error_format",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "405 missing_apikey - The user did not provide an API Key; 406 invalid_apikey - Invalid API Key; 409 missing_search_query - No valid value in query parameter; 411 invalid_search_type - No valid value in type parameter; 429 usage_limit_reached",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "free_tier_limit",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "FREE TEST - $0 - 1,000 requests - GEO-targeted search, JSON/HTML export, live results",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "auth_methods",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "https://api.avesapi.com/search?apikey=YOUR_API_KEY&query=covid19",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "base_url",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "https://api.avesapi.com/search",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "versioning_scheme",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "No API versioning scheme is documented. The base URL uses api.avesapi.com/search without version indicators.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "starting_price_usd",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "STARTER - $50 - 25,000 requests",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "price_basis",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "Each request returns real-time result, and costs 1 credit.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "launched_at",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/avesapi",
      "excerpt": "Launch Date: 5 years ago (approximately 2020)",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "requires_verification",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/",
      "excerpt": "Authentication: Access via dashboard at app.avesapi.com",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "stability",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/",
      "excerpt": "Scrape search engines at scale — no proxies, no captchas, just clean data in seconds.",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "notable_customers",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/about/",
      "excerpt": "No specific customers are mentioned.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "price_basis",
      "url": "https://avesapi.com/pricing",
      "excerpt": "STARTER - $50 - 25,000 requests; PREMIUM - $125 - 100,000 requests; PROFESSIONAL - $500 - 500,000 requests",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "launched_at",
      "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/aves-api",
      "excerpt": "Founding Year: 2020",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "requires_verification",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "Users obtain their key from their account dashboard after registration.",
      "confidence": "medium"
    },
    {
      "field": "sdk_packages",
      "url": "https://docs.avesapi.com/master.md",
      "excerpt": "No SDK packages or repository URLs are provided in the documentation.",
      "confidence": "high"
    },
    {
      "field": "notable_customers",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/avesapi",
      "excerpt": "No reviews yet",
      "confidence": "high"
    }
  ],
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    "documented_rate_limits",
    "soc2",
    "hipaa",
    "iso_27001",
    "pci_dss",
    "sdk_languages",
    "mcp_server_available",
    "sla_published",
    "minimum_commitment",
    "api_version",
    "versioning_scheme_explicit",
    "rate_limit_requests",
    "rate_limit_window",
    "sla_url",
    "data_retention_policy_url",
    "deprecation_policy_url",
    "ga_date",
    "sdk_packages",
    "mcp_url",
    "webhook_events_url",
    "webhook_signing",
    "idempotency_supported",
    "notable_customers"
  ],
  "source_confidence": "high",
  "last_verified_at": "2026-06-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "contribute": {
    "note": "This data is crowd-editable. Suggest corrections or leave a review via these endpoints - no auth required, requests are rate-limited, and every submission is reviewed before it goes live. For a field edit, {field} is any key in this response and a citation is required.",
    "endpoints": [
      {
        "action": "review",
        "label": "Leave a review or comment",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/avesapi",
        "example_body": {
          "kind": "review",
          "rating": 5,
          "body": "Your experience with this API…"
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "field_edit",
        "label": "Suggest a correction to a field (cite a source)",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/avesapi/{field}",
        "example_body": {
          "value": "corrected value",
          "citations": [
            {
              "url": "https://source.example/page",
              "excerpt": "supporting quote"
            }
          ],
          "note": "what changed and why"
        }
      },
      {
        "action": "new_api",
        "label": "Suggest a new API to add (only name is required - send as much as you can cite)",
        "method": "POST",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/suggest/api",
        "example_body": {
          "value": {
            "name": "Acme Email API",
            "website_url": "https://acme.example",
            "vendor_name": "Acme",
            "categories": [
              "email"
            ],
            "pricing_model": "usage_based",
            "has_published_pricing": true,
            "free_tier_available": true,
            "price_points": [
              {
                "plan": "Pay as you go",
                "item": "1,000 emails",
                "amount_usd": 1,
                "per": "1,000 emails",
                "source_url": "https://acme.example/pricing"
              }
            ],
            "soc2": "type_2",
            "docs_url": "https://docs.acme.example"
          },
          "citations": [
            {
              "url": "https://acme.example/pricing",
              "excerpt": "$1 per 1,000 emails"
            }
          ]
        },
        "value_schema": [
          {
            "field": "name",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Product name (the only required field)"
          },
          {
            "field": "website_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Marketing website URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "vendor_name",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Company/vendor name behind the product"
          },
          {
            "field": "vendor_description",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "One-line description, quoted from the vendor"
          },
          {
            "field": "categories",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Category/leaf slugs it belongs to, e.g. [\"email\",\"sms\"]"
          },
          {
            "field": "primary_use_cases",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "What it's used for"
          },
          {
            "field": "supported_actions",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Concrete API actions/capabilities"
          },
          {
            "field": "supported_regions",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Countries/regions/data-residency"
          },
          {
            "field": "supported_languages",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Human/spoken languages supported"
          },
          {
            "field": "input_types",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Accepted input types/formats"
          },
          {
            "field": "output_types",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Produced output types/formats"
          },
          {
            "field": "webhooks_supported",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Supports webhooks?"
          },
          {
            "field": "sandbox_available",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Dedicated sandbox/test mode?"
          },
          {
            "field": "sdk_languages",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Languages with an official SDK"
          },
          {
            "field": "mcp_server_available",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Official MCP server?"
          },
          {
            "field": "pricing_model",
            "type": "enum",
            "label": "Pricing model",
            "values": [
              "usage_based",
              "subscription",
              "seat_based",
              "hybrid",
              "contact_sales"
            ]
          },
          {
            "field": "has_published_pricing",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Concrete prices published publicly?"
          },
          {
            "field": "free_tier_available",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Recurring/perpetual free tier (not a trial)?"
          },
          {
            "field": "free_tier_details",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "What the free tier includes"
          },
          {
            "field": "minimum_commitment",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Any stated minimum spend/commitment"
          },
          {
            "field": "self_serve_signup",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Get an API key without talking to sales?"
          },
          {
            "field": "requires_sales_call",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Does going live require sales?"
          },
          {
            "field": "enterprise_plan_available",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Named enterprise tier?"
          },
          {
            "field": "starting_price_usd",
            "type": "number",
            "label": "Lowest published paid entry price (USD number)"
          },
          {
            "field": "price_basis",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Unit the starting price is per, e.g. '1,000 emails'"
          },
          {
            "field": "free_tier_limit",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Free-tier ceiling in literal terms"
          },
          {
            "field": "price_points",
            "type": "object[]",
            "label": "Structured prices: [{plan,item,amount_usd,amount_percent,per,source_url}]"
          },
          {
            "field": "soc2",
            "type": "enum",
            "label": "SOC 2 status",
            "values": [
              "type_2",
              "type_1",
              "in_progress",
              "none",
              "unknown"
            ]
          },
          {
            "field": "hipaa",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "HIPAA (e.g. BAA available)?"
          },
          {
            "field": "gdpr",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "GDPR compliance stated?"
          },
          {
            "field": "iso_27001",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "ISO 27001 certified?"
          },
          {
            "field": "pci_dss",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "PCI DSS compliant?"
          },
          {
            "field": "sla_published",
            "type": "bool",
            "label": "Published SLA / uptime commitment?"
          },
          {
            "field": "documented_rate_limits",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Documented rate limits, quoted"
          },
          {
            "field": "known_restrictions",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Notable documented restrictions/limits"
          },
          {
            "field": "auth_methods",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Auth methods",
            "values": [
              "api_key",
              "oauth2",
              "jwt",
              "basic",
              "hmac_signature",
              "mtls",
              "session"
            ]
          },
          {
            "field": "api_style",
            "type": "enum",
            "label": "Primary API style",
            "values": [
              "rest",
              "graphql",
              "grpc",
              "soap",
              "websocket"
            ]
          },
          {
            "field": "base_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "API root/base URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "api_version",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Current API version string"
          },
          {
            "field": "quickstart_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Quickstart / hello-world URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "docs_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Developer docs URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "api_reference_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "API reference URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "openapi_spec_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "OpenAPI spec URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "changelog_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Changelog URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "status_page_url",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Status page URL"
          },
          {
            "field": "notable_customers",
            "type": "string[]",
            "label": "Named public customers"
          },
          {
            "field": "launched_at",
            "type": "string",
            "label": "Launch date (ISO date or year)"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "action": "token",
        "label": "Optional - raise your rate limit",
        "method": "GET",
        "url": "https://apio.sh/api/feedback/token"
      }
    ]
  }
}