Scraping API

ScrapingBee review

A simple scraping API that handles headless browsers and proxies, with natural-language AI extraction.

Visit ScrapingBeePricing checked Oct 29, 2026
Starting price
$19/mo
Hobby: 75,000 API credits/month, 25 concurrent requests
Free tier
1,000 free API credits trial, no credit card
Pricing model
credits per successful request

Best for

Developers who want a predictable, easy scraping API that handles rendering and proxies without managing infrastructure.

What it does well

  • Headless Chrome rendering with JS scenarios
  • Rotating and premium/stealth proxies
  • AI extraction via natural-language ai_query
  • CSS/XPath extract rules to JSON
  • Dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube APIs
  • Hosted remote MCP server

Limitations

  • JS rendering is on by default and costs 5x a plain request
  • Premium/stealth proxies multiply credit costs quickly
  • Hobby plan has low credits once JS + premium proxy are used

Capabilities

AI extraction
Structured JSON
JS rendering
Proxies / anti-bot
API
No-code UI
Open source
MCP server

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