ScrapingBee review79 of 100, good
Five plans from $19 for 75,000 credits, a public credit table from 1 to 75 per request, and 1,000 free credits without a card.
Reviewed 2026-09-18 by Phillip Paul Inker. Facts re-read 2026-09-18. 2 sources. www.scrapingbee.com. Brand searches: 9,900 a month worldwide (Google, read 2026-09-18).
The credit table is the review: a plain request is one credit, the default headless-browser request five, premium proxies ten, both together twenty-five, stealth proxies seventy-five. Cheap for plain fetches, ordinary once JavaScript and premium proxies are on.
Best for: Developers who want a documented API in six languages and know which of their targets need rendering.
Hobby is $19 a month for 75,000 credits, $0.25 per 1,000 plain requests; the default rendered request costs five credits, so $1.27 per 1,000 rendered pages. Business+ is $599 for 8,000,000 credits, $0.07 per 1,000.
JavaScript rendering, rotating and premium proxies, geotargeting, screenshots, extraction rules and a Google Search API, per the plan table; stealth proxies and AI extraction at extra credit cost, per the documentation.
Concurrency is printed per plan, 25 to 400 requests at once, and only successful requests are charged; no success rate or latency figure is published.
The documentation carries examples in cURL, Python, Node, PHP, Java and more, an async mode, a proxy mode, and integrations with Zapier, n8n, LangChain and an MCP server.
Credits, concurrency and the credit cost of every parameter are public without an account; every response returns its cost in a header.
1,000 free credits without a card, pay only for successful requests, cancel anytime; prices are exclusive of VAT and a refund policy was not on the pages read.
Every scraper in the database on one axis, rank 3 of 14. The zones are the grades.
Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide searches for “scrapingbee”, read 2026-09-18. Demand, not quality: the rubric ignores it.
- Every credit cost is public, down to the response header
- $0.25 per 1,000 plain requests on the smallest plan
- Documentation in six languages plus async and proxy modes
- 1,000 free credits without a card
- The default request is a rendered one and costs five credits
- Stealth proxies at 75 credits make hard sites $19 per 1,000 on Hobby
- No success rate or latency published
- Refund policy not on the pages read
- 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]
| Challenge | Price | Unit | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests, entry plan | $0.25 | per 1,000 plain requests, Hobby at $19 a month for 75,000 credits | $1.27 per 1,000 with the default JavaScript rendering, five credits each | [1] |
| 1,000 requests, mid plan | $0.10 | per 1,000 plain requests, Startup at $99 a month for 1,000,000 credits | 100 concurrent requests | [1] |
| JavaScript rendering | 5 credits | per request, the default mode | 1 credit without rendering; 10 with premium proxies; 25 with both; 75 with stealth proxies; AI extraction adds 5 | [2] |
| Free tier | $0 | 1,000 credits once, no card | [1] |
What the plan page says
Five plans, all exclusive of VAT: Hobby at $19 a month for 75,000 credits and 25 concurrent requests, Freelance $49 for 250,000 and 50, Startup $99 for 1,000,000 and 100, Business $249 for 3,000,000 and 200, and Business+ $599 for 8,000,000 and 400. Every plan lists JavaScript rendering, rotating and premium proxies, geotargeting, screenshots, extraction rules and the Google Search API; priority support, an account manager and team management arrive on the larger ones.
What a credit buys
The documentation is explicit: it costs 1 to 75 credits to make a request, depending on the parameters. By default ScrapingBee fetches the page through a headless browser, which costs five credits; turning rendering off makes it one. Premium proxies cost ten credits without rendering and twenty-five with it, stealth proxies seventy-five per successful call, and the AI extraction parameters add five. An auto mode climbs through those configurations up to a cap you set, and the credits actually charged come back in a response header, zero on failure.
Integration and terms
The documentation runs examples in cURL, Python, Node, PHP and Java, describes an async mode and a proxy mode, and names Zapier, n8n, LangChain, Postman and an MCP server. Terms are short: pay only for successful requests, cancel anytime, 1,000 free credits without a card. A refund policy was not on the pages read.
Questions people ask
What does a rendered page cost on the $19 plan?
Five credits, so 75,000 credits buy 15,000 rendered pages: $1.27 per 1,000, per the plan table and the credit table on the read date.
Is there a free tier?
1,000 free API credits without a credit card, per the pricing page; it is a one-time allowance, not a monthly one.
Which proxies cost the most?
Stealth proxies at 75 credits per successful call, per the documentation; premium proxies are 10, or 25 with JavaScript rendering.
- Refund terms were not on the pages read.
- No success rate or latency figure is published; none is scored.
- The per-1,000 figures are the plan price divided by its credits, our arithmetic on the vendor's numbers.
- [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.”
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