Yesterday morning in Austin, TX, we were served with a formal notice in Reddit, Inc. v. SerpApi LLC, et al.

As you may know from recent news reports, on October 22, 2025, Reddit filed a lawsuit naming SerpApi, Perplexity, and others as defendants. This came as a surprise as we never received any communication from Reddit prior to this. We are extremely disappointed by the inflammatory language Reddit chose to use in its filing.

We strongly disagree with Reddit's allegations and intend to vigorously defend ourselves in court.

For eight years, SerpApi has operated transparently and lawfully, helping countless developers, researchers, and businesses build on top of publicly available search data. Our technology is used across multiple industries, from SEO, marketing, and advertising to copyright verification, background checks, news monitoring, and now AI. Our work is guided by a simple principle: public search data should be accessible. And accessibility cannot exist without clean unified data structures, speed, and automation possibilities.

Our position is directly supported by the First Amendment: the right to access, share, and build upon publicly available information.

At SerpApi, we deeply cherish the values defined by the First Amendment. Several of us came to the United States precisely because of the freedoms the First Amendment protects. We believe the First Amendment is at the core of what defines the United States at its very best. The free and open Web we all enjoy is a direct result of it. An attack on it is an attack on all of us.

Reddit's cavalier attitude toward the First Amendment dangerously undermines our rights, and the centuries of civic culture they protect.

SerpApi remains committed to defending the First Amendment for its users, its customers, and the general interests of the United States.