// google ai mode api

The world's cheapest Google AI Mode API

Google's AI Mode answer to a question as typed text blocks with the sources it cites. Follow-up turns, an image in the prompt, and any country, language or device.

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Ask Google AI Mode a question

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Geography

Choose a human-readable location or a canonical UULE, never both.

Location locationNamed search origin, up to 512 characters and 63 UTF-8 bytes once Google-encoded. Conflicts with uule.UULE uuleCanonical Google location token, up to 2,048 characters. Conflicts with location.

Localization

Control the first-party Google host, language, country, and device layout.

Google domain google_domainValidated first-party Google domain the request is served from.Country glTwo-letter country localization, normalized to lowercase.Language hlLanguage code such as en, en-GB, or de.Device deviceGoogle returns its real layout for the selected device.

Conversation

Ask a follow-up in the same thread. Request a token on one turn, then send it back with the next question.

Continuable continuableReturn a subsequent_request_token so this answer can be followed up.Continuation token subsequent_request_tokenContinue a conversation from a previous continuable response. Requires a new question, and cannot be combined with image_url. Expires after 30 minutes.

Image prompt

Add a picture to the question. Google Lens receives the image; the answer comes from AI Mode.

Image URL image_urlPublic http or https image to include in the prompt, up to 2,048 characters and 20 MB. Google Lens receives the image; the answer still comes from AI Mode.

# pip install litescrape-sdk
# GET https://ecll-litescrape-v3--site-api-web.modal.run/api/google/ai-mode
from litescrape_sdk import scrape

[result] = scrape(
    [
        {
            "endpoint": "google_ai_mode",
            "q": "what is the best espresso machine for a small kitchen",
            "google_domain": "google.com",
            "gl": "us",
            "hl": "en",
            "device": "desktop",
        }
    ],
    api_key="ls_live_your_key",
)
print(result.raise_for_error())

Ready

Run the request to draw its results here. This endpoint returns:

text_blocks
references

// what you get

What the Google AI Mode API returns

Typed answer blocks

paragraph, heading, list, code_block and table blocks in Google's order, with list items and table cells split out.

References with an index

Every source has an index, title, link, snippet and source name, so citations map back to the text that uses them.

Multi-turn conversations

Set continuable to receive a subsequent_request_token, then ask the next question on it within 30 minutes.

Ask with an image

image_url sends a public image up to 20 MB with the question. Google Lens reads it and AI Mode answers.

Any country, language and device

google_domain, gl, hl, a named location or uule, and desktop, tablet or mobile.

// use cases

What teams build with it

01
Brand presence in AI answers
Ask the questions your buyers ask and log whether your product and pages appear, per country.
02
Citation share by competitor
Count which domains AI Mode cites across a question set and track the share over time.
03
Answer engine optimization loops
Publish, ask again, diff the blocks and sources, repeat.
04
Research agents
A summarized answer with sources for one call, then follow-up turns on the same token.

// why it's the cheapest

Google AI Mode API pricing, per 1,000 requests

Public list prices for 100,000 requests a month, read on September 17, 2026. Litescrape's rate is flat at every volume.

Month-to-month list prices in USD. A provider that bills per record or per queued task shows how it bills instead of a per-request price.
Provider	Plan modeled	Per 1,000 requests	Monthly cost
Litescrape	Flat prepaid rate	$0.15	$15.00
Scrapingdog	Standard, 10 credits per request	$0.90	$90.00
HasData	Basic, 10 credits per request	$0.99	$99.00
DataForSEO	Standard queue, up to 45 minutes	$1.20	$120.00
Bright Data	Web Scraper API, per record	$1.50	$150.00
Oxylabs	Advanced, rendered requests	$2.49	$249.00
ScrapingBee	Business, 15 credits per request	$2.49	$249.00
SearchApi	BigData, 100,000 requests	$2.50	$250.00
ScraperAPI	Business, 25 credits per request	$2.99	$299.00
Apify	Scale plan, $0.003 per answer	$3.00	$300.00

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