Scraping API
ScraperAPI review
A proxy-rotating scraping API with structured endpoints for Amazon, Google and more.
Visit ScraperAPIPricing checked Oct 29, 2026
Starting price
$49/mo
Hobby: 100,000 API credits/month, 20 concurrent threads ($44.10/mo billed annually)
Free tier
7-day trial with 5,000 credits; FAQ also mentions an ongoing free plan of 1,000 credits/month (5 concurrent)
Pricing model
credits per successful request
Best for
Developers who want a straightforward proxy+rendering API and structured endpoints for big e-commerce and search sites.
What it does well
- Automatic proxy rotation and retries
- JS rendering and geotargeting
- Structured data endpoints (Amazon, Google, Walmart etc.)
- Async API and DataPipeline scheduler
- Official MCP server (Python, local)
Limitations
- Higher entry price than ScrapingBee/Firecrawl
- Credit multipliers for rendering and premium proxies
- No LLM/schema-based extraction found on the pricing page
Capabilities
AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server
ScraperAPI alternatives
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|---|---|---|
Apify Scraping API | $19/mo | Visit |
ScrapingBee Scraping API | $19/mo | Visit |
Zyte API Scraping API | Pay as you go | Visit |
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Jina Reader AI extraction API | Prepaid tokens | Visit |
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