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ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI79 against 69
Two credit ladders with the multiplier as the difference. ScrapingBee's Hobby is $19 for 75,000 credits, $0.25 per 1,000 plain requests, and a rendered page costs five credits; ScraperAPI's Hobby is $49 for 100,000, $0.49 per 1,000, and rendering costs ten. ScraperAPI answers with a written 7-day refund, threads and geotargeting scope printed per plan and a cost estimator per URL. ScrapingBee for rendered pages on a budget, ScraperAPI for the refund and the estimator.
ScrapingBeeGoodsubscriptionScraperAPIFairsubscriptionEach band runs from the lowest to the highest published price of that row, drawn on the vendor’s own scale up to its dearest shared row: ScrapingBee in per 1,000 plain requests, Hobby at $19 a month for 75,000 credits, ScraperAPI in per 1,000 plain requests, Hobby at $49 a month for 100,000 credits. Currencies as published, nothing converted. Read dates in the sources below.
- Plans
- Hobby $19 (75,000 credits, 25 concurrent), Freelance $49 (250,000, 50), Startup $99 (1,000,000, 100), Business $249 (3,000,000, 200), Business+ $599 (8,000,000, 400) [1]
- Credit table
- 1 plain, 5 with JavaScript, 10 premium proxy, 25 premium with JavaScript, 75 stealth proxy, +5 AI extraction [2]
- Free credits
- 1,000, no card [1]
- Features
- JavaScript rendering, rotating and premium proxies, geotargeting, screenshots, extraction rules, Google Search API [1]
- Cost visibility
- Spb-cost response header on every request; max_cost caps what auto mode may spend [2]
- Billing
- Successful requests only; cancel anytime; prices exclusive of VAT [1]
- Plans
- Hobby $49 (100,000 credits, 20 threads), Startup $149 (1,000,000, 50), Business $299 (3,000,000, 100), Scaling $475 (5,000,000, 200), Professional $975 (10,500,000, 300), Advanced $1,975 (21,500,000, 500), Enterprise custom (500+) [3]
- Annual billing
- 10% off: Hobby $44.10, Startup $134.10, Business $269.10 a month [3]
- Geotargeting
- US and EU only on Hobby and Startup; global from Business [3]
- Credit costs
- Render 10, premium 10, premium with render 25, ultra premium 30, ultra premium with render 75, screenshot 10 [4]
- Cost visibility
- A urlcost endpoint, a sa-credit-cost response header and a max_cost parameter [4]
- Uptime
- 99.9% uptime guarantee [3]
- Refund
- 7-day no-questions-asked refund policy [3]
- Rollover
- None; the balance resets when the subscription renews [3]
Read the full reviews
- [1]ScrapingBee pricing ScrapingBee, read 2026-09-18.
“Hobby $19 /mo 75,000 25. Freelance $49 /mo 250,000 50. Startup $99 /mo 1,000,000 100. Business $249 /mo 3,000,000 200. Business + $599 /mo 8,000,000 400. All prices are exclusive of VAT. Get access to 1,000 free scraper API credits, no credit card required!”
- [2]ScrapingBee documentation, credit costs ScrapingBee, read 2026-09-18.
“It costs 1 to 75 credits to make requests to the ScrapingBee API. By default, ScrapingBee fetches the URL to scrape via a headless browser ... costs 5 credits per request. Each request with this parameter will count as 25 API credits with Javascript enabled. If used without JavaScript rendering it will cost 10 credits. Each successful API call using this option will cost 75 credits.”
- [3]ScraperAPI pricing and FAQ ScraperAPI, read 2026-09-18.
“Hobby $49 /month $44.10 /month 100,000 API Credits 20 Concurrent Threads Geotargeting: US & EU only. Startup $149 /month 1,000,000 API Credits 50 Concurrent Threads. Business $299 /month 3,000,000 API Credits 100 Concurrent Threads Geotargeting: Global. 99.9% Uptime Guarantee. ScraperAPI offers a free plan where you can sign up here and get 1,000 free API credits (with a maximum of 5 concurrent connections). ScraperAPI offers a 7-day no-questions-asked refund policy.”
- [4]ScraperAPI documentation, credits and requests ScraperAPI, read 2026-09-18.
“render=true - 10 API Credits/req. premium=true - 10 API Credits/req. premium=true + render=true - 25 API Credits/req. ultra_premium=true - 30 API Credits/req. ultra_premium=true + render=true - 75 API Credits/req. Scraping domains that have anti-bot protection systems in place requires the activation of a bypass mechanism, which is resource-intensive and increases the cost per scrape.”
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