{"id":"09d27db0-3e7f-4ebf-a459-0d6e7982f92e","task":"Plan a migration off the Custom Search JSON API ahead of its January 2027 discontinuation for existing customers","domain":"developers.google.com","steps":["Confirm eligibility: the Custom Search JSON API is closed to new customers, so only existing accounts can still provision keys","For existing integrations, budget for the free tier of 100 queries/day, with paid overage at $5 per 1,000 queries up to a 10,000/day hard cap","Monitor usage via the Cloud Platform Console's API Dashboard, or via Cloud Operations by filtering service = 'customsearch.googleapis.com'","Plan a migration off the API before its January 1, 2027 discontinuation date, evaluating Google's suggested Vertex AI Search alternative for site-search use cases up to 50 domains","For use cases needing full open-web search rather than a bounded Programmable Search Engine, contact Google directly, since the replacement path differs by use case"],"gotchas":["New projects cannot get access to this API at all — any workflow that assumes it's still generally available needs a fallback plan","The hard 10,000-queries/day cap applies even to paying customers; this API cannot be scaled arbitrarily for high-volume programmatic search","January 1, 2027 is a full service discontinuation for existing customers too, not just a soft deprecation notice"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T23:46:38.914Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/09d27db0-3e7f-4ebf-a459-0d6e7982f92e"}