What is an AI web scraper?

A scraper that uses a language model to read a page and return the fields you ask for, instead of relying on hand-written CSS selectors. It keeps working when a site's layout changes, and it can normalise, summarise or categorise data as it extracts.

How do you rank the tools?

We score each tool on extraction quality, pricing transparency, developer experience, reliability features (JS rendering, proxies) and integrations such as MCP servers. Affiliate relationships never affect the order. Our own product is labelled wherever it appears.

Which tool is best for feeding data to an LLM?

Look for tools that output markdown or JSON and offer an MCP server, so AI agents can call them directly. See our 'Best scrapers for LLMs & RAG' list.

Is web scraping legal?

Scraping publicly available data is generally lawful in many jurisdictions, but terms of service, copyright, personal data rules (such as GDPR) and access controls all matter. Respect robots.txt and rate limits, and get legal advice for your specific use case.

How does your extraction API charge?

You buy credit packs with no subscription. Each extraction uses credits based on the actual model usage, every field comes back with a confidence score, and failed requests are refunded automatically. The playground is free for a few extractions a day.

Updated October 2026

Find the right AI web scraper.

We compare 15 scraping tools and APIs on pricing, AI extraction, JavaScript rendering and developer experience, using each vendor's own pricing pages and docs. Then pick one, or use ours.

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AI scraping tools compared

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Tool	Best for	From	Link
1 Firecrawl AI extraction API	Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup.	$19/mo	Visit
2 Apify Scraping API	Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own.	$19/mo	Visit
3 Bright Data Proxy & data infrastructure	Companies scraping heavily protected sites at scale that need the strongest proxy and unblocking infrastructure.	Pay as you go	Visit
4 ScrapingBee Scraping API	Developers who want a predictable, easy scraping API that handles rendering and proxies without managing infrastructure.	$19/mo	Visit
5 Crawl4AI Open source	Python developers who want a free, self-hosted crawler for RAG/agent pipelines and full control over the stack.	$10/mo	Visit
6 Zyte API Scraping API	Python/Scrapy teams that want a reliable unblocking API and pay-per-success billing.	Pay as you go	Visit
7 ScrapeGraphAI AI extraction API	Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library.	$20/mo	Visit
8 Jina Reader AI extraction API	Developers who need the fastest, cheapest way to feed a single web page to an LLM.	Prepaid tokens	Visit
9 Browserbase Proxy & data infrastructure	Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud.	$20/mo	Visit
10 Oxylabs Proxy & data infrastructure	Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.	$30/mo	Visit
11 ScraperAPI Scraping API	Developers who want a straightforward proxy+rendering API and structured endpoints for big e-commerce and search sites.	$49/mo	Visit
12 Diffbot AI extraction API	Teams that need rule-free, consistent structured data across many sites, or entity data from a Knowledge Graph.	$299/mo	Visit
13 Browse AI No-code	Non-technical users who want to monitor or extract data from a handful of sites without writing code.	$19/mo	Visit
14 BestAIScraper APIOur product AI extraction API	Developers who just need clean, typed JSON from public pages, without a subscription.	$9 one-time	Try it free
15 Octoparse No-code	Business users who need recurring, template-driven scraping without code and prefer a visual desktop tool.	$69/mo	Visit

Prices are the lowest paid monthly plan, checked against vendor sites. Links marked with ↗ may be affiliate links. How we make money.

Best tools by use case

Best AI Web Scrapers

Tools that use LLMs to turn web pages into structured data, compared on extraction quality, pricing and developer experience.

Best Web Scraping APIs

Managed APIs that handle proxies, JavaScript rendering and blocking so you can just request a URL.

Best No-Code Web Scrapers

Point-and-click scrapers for analysts, marketers and ops teams who need data without writing code.

Best Open-Source Web Scrapers

Self-hostable crawlers and extraction libraries for teams that want full control over their data pipeline.

Best Scrapers for LLMs & RAG

Tools that output clean markdown or JSON for LLM pipelines, with MCP servers for AI agents.

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Or skip the setup: URL in, JSON out

Describe the fields you want and our extraction API returns clean, typed JSON. Pay per use with credits, no subscription. Try it below for free.

RequestPOST /api/v1/extract

{
  "url": "https://books.toscrape.com/catalogue/a-light-in-the-attic_1000/index.html",
  "fields": {
    "title": "string",
    "price": "number — price in GBP",
    "in_stock": "boolean",
    "rating": "number — star rating 1-5",
    "description": "string — one sentence summary"
  },
  "many": false
}

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