generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://serper.dev (FAQ + footer), https://serper.betteruptime.com,
  https://status.serper.dev, https://serper.dev/terms, and the OpenAPI definitions in
  this repo — probed 2026-08-13
name: Serper Lifecycle
description: >-
  Serper publishes an operational status page and a refund policy, but no API versioning
  policy, no deprecation policy, no Sunset/Deprecation header contract, no changelog and
  no SLA outside the Ultimate tier's marketing copy. Consumers get no advance notice
  mechanism for a breaking change.

versioning:
  scheme: none
  documented: false
  url_versioning: false
  header_versioning: false
  detail: >-
    No Serper endpoint carries a version segment, and no version header or response field
    is published. A change to a response shape would reach every consumer at once.

deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: false
  deprecation_header: false
  rfc8594: false
  deprecated_operations: []
  detail: >-
    No deprecation policy is published and no operation in any definition in this repo is
    marked deprecated. Note that Serper's own playground gates several types behind an
    @serper.dev email address (product-reviews, maps-autocomplete, bing-search,
    bing-images, search-full, serper-search) — those are pre-release, not deprecated, and
    are deliberately excluded from this profile.

changelog:
  published: false
  url: null
  detail: >-
    Serper maintains no dated changelog. The closest first-party surface is a Medium
    reading list linked from the footer
    (https://medium.com/@serper/list/articles-3f700b49cbc4), which returned HTTP 403
    behind Cloudflare when probed on 2026-08-13 and is a marketing feed rather than a
    change record.

status_page:
  published: true
  url: https://serper.betteruptime.com
  provider: Better Stack
  status: 200
  components:
    - name: API
      uptime_90d: 99.885%
    - name: Management Portal
      uptime_90d: 99.996%
  incident_history: true
  most_recent_incident:
    title: Elevated Latency and Error Rates Across APIs
    resolved: '2026-08-10'
  broken_alias:
    host: status.serper.dev
    status: 302
    redirects_to: https://www.statuspage.io
    detail: >-
      A status.serper.dev subdomain resolves but is an unconfigured Atlassian Statuspage
      that 302s visitors to the Statuspage marketing site. The working status page is the
      Better Stack one above. Anyone guessing the conventional subdomain lands nowhere.

sla:
  published: false
  detail: >-
    Serper's pricing page advertises no uptime SLA on any tier. The Ultimate tier's
    marketing copy references dedicated capacity and custom concurrency on request, but
    no numeric availability commitment or credit-back term is published.

support:
  email: support@serper.dev
  general_email: hello@serper.dev
  billing: assist@paddle.com (Paddle is Serper's merchant of record)
  ticketing: none published
  detail: Support is email-only; there is no public help center, forum or issue tracker.

commercial_terms:
  terms_of_service: https://serper.dev/terms
  privacy_policy: https://serper.dev/privacy
  cookie_policy: https://serper.dev/cookies
  credit_expiry: 6 months from purchase
  refund_policy: >-
    Full refund within 7 days of the initial credit purchase, unless more than 20% of the
    credits have been used.
  payment_methods:
    - Visa
    - Mastercard
    - American Express
    - Discover
    - PayPal
  source: https://serper.dev FAQ