ScraperAPI review69 of 100, fair
Hobby at $49 for 100,000 credits and 20 threads, rendering at 10 credits, ultra premium proxies with rendering at 75, a 7-day refund and 1,000 free credits.
Reviewed 2026-09-18 by Phillip Paul Inker. Facts re-read 2026-09-18. 2 sources. www.scraperapi.com. Brand searches: 9,900 a month worldwide (Google, read 2026-09-18).
Seven plans with threads and geotargeting scope printed on each, a credit-cost page that names the parameters and the domains that cost more, and a written 7-day no-questions refund. Rendering at ten credits makes it dearer than most for JavaScript pages.
Best for: Teams that want a refund policy in writing and a cost estimator before they scrape a protected domain.
Hobby is $49 a month for 100,000 credits, $0.49 per 1,000 plain requests; rendering costs ten credits, so $4.90 per 1,000 rendered pages. Startup is $149 for 1,000,000, $0.15 per 1,000. Annual billing takes 10% off.
JavaScript rendering, premium and ultra premium proxy pools, a rendering instruction set, screenshots, structured data endpoints and an async scraper service, per the plan page and the credit page; geotargeting is US and EU only until Business.
Concurrent threads printed per plan, 20 to 500 and more, and a 99.9% uptime guarantee; no success rate or latency figure.
The documentation hub names SDKs, an async mode, a proxy mode, an MCP server, n8n and LangChain.
Plans, threads, geotargeting scope and the credit cost of every parameter are public; a urlcost endpoint and a response header show the cost of any request.
A free plan of 1,000 credits with five concurrent connections, a 7-day no-questions-asked refund; credits reset at renewal and do not roll over.
Every scraper in the database on one axis, rank 7 of 14. The zones are the grades.
Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide searches for “scraperapi”, read 2026-09-18. Demand, not quality: the rubric ignores it.
- A written 7-day refund policy
- Threads and geotargeting scope printed on every plan
- Cost of any URL can be checked before scraping
- Async service and structured data endpoints
- Rendering costs ten credits, $4.90 per 1,000 on Hobby
- Geotargeting limited to US and EU below Business
- No success rate published
- Credits do not roll over
- 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+) [1]
- Annual billing
- 10% off: Hobby $44.10, Startup $134.10, Business $269.10 a month [1]
- Geotargeting
- US and EU only on Hobby and Startup; global from Business [1]
- Credit costs
- Render 10, premium 10, premium with render 25, ultra premium 30, ultra premium with render 75, screenshot 10 [2]
- Cost visibility
- A urlcost endpoint, a sa-credit-cost response header and a max_cost parameter [2]
- Uptime
- 99.9% uptime guarantee [1]
- Refund
- 7-day no-questions-asked refund policy [1]
- Rollover
- None; the balance resets when the subscription renews [1]
| Challenge | Price | Unit | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests, entry plan | $0.49 | per 1,000 plain requests, Hobby at $49 a month for 100,000 credits | $4.90 per 1,000 with JavaScript rendering, ten credits each; 20 concurrent threads; $44.10 a month billed annually | [1] |
| 1,000 requests, mid plan | $0.15 | per 1,000 plain requests, Startup at $149 a month for 1,000,000 credits | 50 concurrent threads; Business $299 for 3,000,000 at $0.10 with 100 threads and global geotargeting | [1] |
| JavaScript rendering | 10 credits | per request, render=true | Premium proxies 10, premium with rendering 25, ultra premium 30, ultra premium with rendering 75, screenshot 10; some domains cost more | [2] |
| Free tier | $0 | 1,000 credits, 5 concurrent connections | [1] |
What the plan page says
Seven plans. Hobby at $49 a month for 100,000 API credits and 20 concurrent threads, Startup $149 for 1,000,000 and 50, Business $299 for 3,000,000 and 100, Scaling $475 for 5,000,000 and 200, Professional $975 for 10,500,000 and 300, Advanced $1,975 for 21,500,000 and 500, and Enterprise, custom, from 22,000,000 credits and 500 threads. Annual billing is 10% lower. Geotargeting is US and EU only on the first two tiers and global from Business; every tier lists JavaScript rendering, premium proxies and ultra premium, and the page carries a 99.9% uptime guarantee.
What a credit buys
The credit page is precise: one credit is a standard page request, and the parameters change the cost. render=true is 10 credits, premium=true 10, both together 25, ultra_premium=true 30 and with rendering 75, a screenshot 10. Domains with anti-bot protection or custom scraping logic, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Google and Bing among them, cost more. A urlcost endpoint returns the cost of any URL before you fetch it, the sa-credit-cost header reports it afterwards, and max_cost caps what a single request may spend.
Integration and terms
The documentation hub names SDKs, an async mode, a proxy mode, an MCP server, n8n and LangChain. The FAQ answers the terms in full: a free plan with 1,000 credits and five concurrent connections, credits that reset at renewal, plan changes anytime, and a 7-day no-questions-asked refund.
Questions people ask
Is there a refund?
Yes, a 7-day no-questions-asked refund policy, per the pricing FAQ.
What does a rendered page cost?
Ten credits, per the credit page; on Hobby that is $4.90 per 1,000 rendered pages.
Do credits roll over?
No, the balance resets when the subscription renews, per the FAQ.
- The extra credit cost of the named domains was not printed as a number on the page read.
- No success rate is published; the 99.9% figure is an uptime guarantee.
- The per-1,000 figures are the plan price divided by its credits, our arithmetic on the vendor's numbers.
- [1]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.”
- [2]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.”
Badge for ScraperAPI’s own site
Certificate SC-8FCF11, valid until 2027-09-18. Every badge links to it, so a reader can check the score is genuine. Eight looks on the badges page.
Shows ScraperAPI’s current score, 69 of 100, fair. Dark card, for most pages. It links to certificate SC-8FCF11, valid until 2027-09-18, and changes by itself when the review does.
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