Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) Deprecation 2027

A SaaS company used Google CSE to power a competitor monitoring dashboard, running 500 queries/day. After CSE closed to new signups in 2025, they migrated to Scavio's Google search endpoint. The per-query cost stayed at $0.005, but they also gained Amazon and Reddit coverage without adding a second vendor.

Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) Deprecation 2027 is relevant to Google. Scavio provides a unified API to access data from all of these platforms.

Google CSE has been the default web search API for over a decade, offering 100 free queries/day and $5/1K queries beyond that. In 2025, Google closed CSE to new signups, signaling the end of the program. The 'search entire web' mode, which let CSE function as a general web search API, will shut down on January 1, 2027. Existing users can still search within their configured site lists after that date, but the primary use case -- feeding web-wide search results into applications -- disappears. Teams relying on CSE for production workloads must migrate before the deadline. The main alternatives and their pricing: Scavio ($0.005/credit, free 250/mo, $30/mo for 7K credits), SerpAPI ($25/mo for 1K searches), Brave Search API ($5/1K requests, free tier killed in 2026), and Exa ($5/1K requests, semantic search focus). Scavio covers six platforms (Google, Amazon, YouTube, Walmart, Reddit, TikTok) under one key, making it the closest drop-in replacement for CSE's general-purpose web search at roughly the same per-query cost. Teams that wait until Q4 2026 will face a rushed migration under deadline pressure.