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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