ScraperAPI Alternatives: Six Options and When Each One Fits

November 8, 2026

ScraperAPI is a solid general scraping API. People look for alternatives for a few recurring reasons: credit multipliers on the sites they care about, credits that reset every month, or a need for structured data that a page fetch does not give them. Here is what ScraperAPI offers today, then six alternatives matched to those reasons.

ScraperAPI today

Plans start at $49 a month for 100,000 credits (Hobby) and go to $1,975 for 21.5 million (Advanced).
A standard page costs 1 credit. Amazon costs 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, and sites behind bot protection add 10.
Your balance resets when the subscription renews.
Pay-as-you-go overage is available from the Scaling plan up, with a monthly cap you set.
Structured data endpoints cover sites like Amazon, Google and Walmart.
Free start: a 7-day trial with 5,000 credits.

Pick an alternative by your reason for leaving

Your reason	Look at	Why
Want to pay only for what works, no subscription	Zyte API	Pay as you go per 1,000 successful responses, no minimum
Want the cheapest entry plan	ScrapingBee	$19 a month for 75,000 credits
Need high volume at a low unit price	Oxylabs	Down to $0.25 per 1,000 results at 10 million and up
Want structured records from prebuilt scrapers	Bright Data	$1.5 per 1,000 records, billed only for success
Feeding pages to an LLM	Firecrawl	Clean Markdown, crawl and map, 1,000 free credits a month
Want full control and no per-page fee	Scrapy	Open-source framework, BSD license, you run it
Mostly scraping social platforms	A social data API	Fields and lists instead of pages

The alternatives in brief

ScrapingBee

Plans from $19 a month. JS rendering costs 5 credits per successful request, premium proxies 10 or 25. Credits are valid for one month. Good for small, steady workloads.

Zyte API

Prices depend on how hard a site is, in five tiers. HTTP responses cost $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 on pay as you go, browser-rendered ones $1.01 to $16.08, and monthly commitments of $100, $200 or $500 lower those rates. You get a $5 credit to test.

Oxylabs

Plans start at $15 a month, from $0.50 per 1,000 results at low volume. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle. Our Oxylabs comparison covers its social coverage.

Bright Data

Prebuilt scrapers return structured records at $1.5 per 1,000 on pay as you go, or 384,000 records for $499 a month on Scale, with a free tier of 5,000 records a month. More in our Bright Data comparison.

Firecrawl

Plans from $19 a month for 5,000 credits, or $99 for 100,000. One credit per page, plus 4 for JSON output. Credits roll over only on Scale and Enterprise. Its strength is LLM-ready output; for social sites, see what Firecrawl can and cannot scrape.

Scrapy

A Python framework maintained by Zyte and contributors. No per-page fee, full control, and a large ecosystem. You run the servers and fix the spiders.

Test before you switch

Export a week of ScraperAPI logs and group requests by domain.
Multiply each domain's volume by its credit cost on each candidate.
Pick 200 real URLs across your top domains.
Run them through each candidate and record success rate, latency and output quality.
Compute cost per 1,000 successful pages, not per 1,000 requests.
Check what happens to unused credits and whether failures are billed.

Doing it with ScrapeIO

If your top domains are social platforms, ScrapeIO replaces page fetches with structured calls: the LinkedIn profile API and LinkedIn company API return fields, not HTML, at 1 credit each, and the Instagram post API returns plays, likes and comments for a reel. Credits start at $1.88 per 1,000 and never expire. Keep a general scraper for the rest of the web.

Sources

Checked on 8 November 2026 from each vendor's own pages. Prices and limits change; follow the links before you decide.

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