--- title: "Is GSC PAP free? What are the limits? · GSC PAP" source: https://gscpap.com/faq/is-gsc-pap-free updated: 2026-09-18 --- [All questions](https://gscpap.com/faq) Limits & Pricing # Is GSC PAP free? What are the limits? By the [GSC PAP team](https://gscpap.com/about) · Updated September 18, 2026 Yes, GSC PAP is completely free during the public preview (v0.x). There is no credit card required, no trial expiration, and no premium feature gate. The only limits are technical ones to protect the service: 60 MCP tool calls per minute and 1,000 per hour per user. These limits are generous - typical AI assistant usage is 5-20 calls per question, so you can ask hundreds of questions per hour without hitting them. Once we reach v1.0 and the service is stable, we will move to a paid model. Pricing is not finalized but the principles are: pay-as-you-go, transparent per-tool-call cost, and a free tier that covers light personal use. We will give all preview users at least 60 days notice and free-tier credits before any pricing change takes effect. For the underlying Google Search Console API, Google enforces its own Search Console API quotas: for search analytics, 1,200 queries per minute per site and per user, and 40,000 per minute per project. We aggressively cache and deduplicate calls so you stay under these limits even with multiple AI clients connected to the same account. If you do hit a Google quota error, we surface it transparently in the tool response so your AI can back off gracefully. ## Related questions [All questions](https://gscpap.com/faq) [ Limits & Pricing ### How far back does my data go? Google Search Console itself only retains the most recent 16 months of data. Anything older drops off Google's side and cannot be recovered, even with API access - this is a hard limit Google enforces on every Search Console user, including direct users of the official Google Search Console UI. ](https://gscpap.com/faq/how-far-back-does-my-data-go)[ Limits & Pricing ### Does GSC PAP use fewer tokens than calling the Search Console API directly? Yes, about a third fewer. We measured it on 1,000 real rows from three different properties, serialising the same rows two ways: the shape the Search Console API returns, and the compact format our server sends. The raw API response came to 34,044, 34,535 and 36,237 tokens. The same data from GSC PAP came to 22,933, 23,260 and 23,975. That is 33 to 34% fewer tokens for identical numbers, measured with tiktoken cl100k_base. ](https://gscpap.com/faq/token-usage-vs-search-console-api)[ Setup ### Which AI clients support GSC PAP? GSC PAP is exposed as an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. Any AI client that speaks MCP can connect. We have setup guides for Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code (the Anthropic CLI), Claude.ai Connectors, OpenAI Codex CLI, VS Code with GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Zed, JetBrains AI Assistant and Continue, plus direct HTTP for custom agents. See /integrations for each one. ](https://gscpap.com/faq/which-ai-clients-are-supported) ### See every tool GSC PAP exposes 36 MCP tools across 9 SEO-intent categories. Each tool is deep-linkable. [Browse the full catalog](https://gscpap.com/tools) **Skip the GCP project. Just sign in.** Ready to plug this into Claude or Cursor? Sign in with Google, copy a token, paste a config block. ~60 seconds. [Sign in with Google](https://app.gscpap.com/login) Did this answer your question? If not, email [support@gscpap.com](mailto:support@gscpap.com) and we will revise.