generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://app.zenserp.com/documentation, https://app.zenserp.com/playground,
  https://zenserp.com/pricing-plans/, probed 2026-08-13
name: Zenserp Test and Try-It Surface
description: >-
  Zenserp has no sandbox in the usual sense -- there is no test mode, no test key
  prefix, no fixture data and no simulated responses. What it offers instead is a
  hosted API Playground and a free tier that calls production. Every request an
  evaluator makes is a real scrape against a real search engine and consumes real
  quota, so there is no way to exercise the API without spending from the plan.
sandbox: false
test_mode: false
test_credentials: false

environments:
  - name: production
    base_urls:
      - https://app.zenserp.com/api/v2
      - https://app.zenserp.com/api/v1
    key_prefix: null
    note: The only environment. No separate test host.

keys:
  test_live_separation: false
  prefix_scheme: none
  note: >-
    One opaque `apikey` value with no prefix or environment marker. A key cannot be
    identified as test or production by inspection, and there are no test values to
    publish.

try_it:
  - name: API Playground
    url: https://app.zenserp.com/playground
    status: 200
    auth_required: true
    live: true
    note: >-
      Hosted request builder linked from every endpoint section of the docs as
      "Configure in Playground". It composes and fires a real request against
      production using the signed-in account's key.
  - name: Documentation code snippets
    url: https://app.zenserp.com/documentation
    auth_required: false
    note: >-
      Verbatim from the docs: "Register your free apikey here and all code snippets
      below will contain your private apikey." Snippets are rendered with the
      signed-in user's real key substituted in -- convenient, and also a reason not
      to screenshot or paste a docs page.
  - name: Postman collection
    url: https://www.postman.com/collections/a888b56749cd50cc525d
    auth_required: true
    note: Public collection covering the endpoints, but it runs against production with a real key.

free_tier:
  available: true
  url: https://app.zenserp.com/register?plan=free
  quota: 50 searches per month
  note: >-
    The de facto evaluation path. 50 production searches per month, no credit
    card. Zenserp states that "we only charge you for successful responses. Invalid
    requests are not going to affect your usage volume!", so a failed experiment
    does not burn the allowance -- but a successful one does.

not_available:
  - test cards or test payment instruments (not a payments API)
  - fixture or canned SERP responses
  - time simulation / test clocks
  - webhook trigger tooling for batch callbacks
  - a mock server