SearchAPI Google Lens API
SearchAPI Google Lens API delivers real-time visual search results through API and web access, including knowledge graphs and visual matches.
What SearchAPI Google Lens API is
SearchAPI Google Lens API delivers real-time visual search results through API and web access, including knowledge graphs and visual matches. It can recognize landmarks, objects, and animals, and can extract or translate text from images. Requests require a publicly accessible image URL in a valid image format. The `search_type` option supports all, products, visual matches, and exact matches, while an optional crop focuses Lens on part of an image. Requests can target a country with a two-letter code, with shopping results available in documented countries. Exact-match searches offer Safe Search settings of active, blur, or off. Listed integrations include Dify, Flowise, LangChain, and Haystack, with examples in languages including Python, Node, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Bash, R, Kotlin, Swift, C#, C, and C++. Enterprise users can enable zero retention for request and response storage, though debugging and support may be limited.
Good
- Returns visual matches and knowledge graphs
- Recognizes objects, landmarks, and animals
- Supports image cropping
- Many integration options
- Failed requests are not billed
Watch out
- Requests need publicly accessible image URLs
- No free trial
- Usage is limited to 20% of credits per hour
Who it suits
It suits developers integrating visual search, image recognition, text extraction, or translation into applications. API and web access support teams working across listed languages and integrations.
Verdict
SearchAPI Google Lens API provides configurable visual search and image-understanding results for application integrations. Its broad language examples, localization controls, and usage-based plans support different implementation scales, starting at $40 a month.
Plans and prices
From SearchAPI Google Lens API's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Developer Plan | $40 a month | 10,000 Searches · $4 per 1,000 searches · 99.9% SLA · $40 / month |
| Production Plan | $100 a month | 35,000 Searches · $3 per 1,000 searches · Team Management · Legal Protection Guarantee · 99.9% SLA · $100 / month |
| BigData Plan | $250 a month | 100,000 Searches · $2.5 per 1,000 searches · Medium Throughput · Team Management · Legal Protection Guarantee · 99.9% SLA · $250 / month |
| Scale Plan | $500 a month | 250,000 Searches · $2 per 1,000 searches · High Throughput · Search Analytics · Team Management · Legal Protection Guarantee · 99.9% SLA · $500 / month |
| Octo 500K | $900 a month | 500,000 Searches · $1.8 per 1,000 searches · Dedicated Throughput · Priority Support · Search Analytics · Team Management · Legal Protection Guarantee · 99.9% SLA · $900 / month |
| Octo 1M | $1,500 a month | 1,000,000 Searches · $1.5 per 1,000 searches · Dedicated Throughput · Priority Support · Search Analytics · Team Management · Legal Protection Guarantee · 99.9% SLA · $1,500 / month |
| Octo 2M | $2,800 a month | 2,000,000 Searches · $1.4 per 1,000 searches · Dedicated Throughput · Priority Support · Search Analytics · Team Management · Legal Protection Guarantee · 99.9% SLA · $2,800 / month |
| Octo 5M | $5,000 a month | 5,000,000 Searches · $1 per 1,000 searches · Dedicated Throughput · Priority Support · Search Analytics · Team Management · Legal Protection Guarantee · 99.9% SLA · $5,000 / month |
The facts
Each one read from SearchAPI Google Lens API's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- Headquarters
- New York, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
What it does
- Image cropping
- The optional crop parameter lets users select a region of the image before Lens search.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Image input
- Requests require a publicly accessible image URL in a valid image format.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Image recognition
- The API supports recognizing landmarks, objects, and animals, as well as extracting and translating image text.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations and languages
- The product page lists Dify, Flowise, LangChain, and Haystack integrations, and code examples in Python, Node, Ruby, Java, Go, PHP, Bash, R, Kotlin, Swift, C#, C, and C++.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Legal coverage
- SearchApi says its legal responsibility for collecting and parsing publicly available search results is backed by up to $2M in coverage worldwide under U.S. law, excluding customers’ use of data and unlawful activities.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Localization
- Requests can target a country using a two-letter country code, and shopping results are available in the countries listed in the documentation.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Result types
- The `search_type` parameter supports all, products, visual matches, and exact matches.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Safe Search
- The safe_search parameter filters adult content for exact-match searches, with active, blur, and off options.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security and retention
- Enterprise users can set `zero_retention=true` to disable logging and persistent storage of request parameters, HTML, and JSON responses; debugging and support may be limited while enabled.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- SearchApi lists [email protected] for inquiries and describes customer support from real engineers.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Usage limit
- The pricing FAQ says customers can use up to 20% of their plan credits per hour.checked 7 Oct 2026
- What it does
- The Google Lens API provides real-time visual search results, including knowledge graphs and visual matches.checked 7 Oct 2026
Money
- Success billing
- The pricing FAQ says failed requests are not billed and charges apply only to successful searches with a 200 status code.checked 7 Oct 2026
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