Scrapingdog review66 of 100, fair
Lite at $40 for 200,000 request credits and 5 concurrent, a ladder to $3,000 for 65,000,000, failed requests never charged, 200 free credits without a card.
Reviewed 2026-09-18 by Phillip Paul Inker. Facts re-read 2026-09-18. 2 sources. www.scrapingdog.com. Brand searches: 3,600 a month worldwide (Google, read 2026-09-18).
A long, plain ladder: credits and concurrency printed on every tier, JavaScript rendering at five credits and premium proxies at ten in the documentation, and every dedicated API included on every plan. The free tier is a test drive of 200 credits, not a working allowance.
Best for: Developers who want dedicated Google, LinkedIn and other endpoints under one credit pool and a cheap first paid tier.
Lite is $40 a month for 200,000 credits, $0.20 per 1,000 plain requests and $1.00 per 1,000 rendered; Standard $90 for 1,000,000, $0.09 per 1,000. Annual billing adds two months.
JavaScript rendering, premium residential proxies, geotargeting on paid plans, and access to all of its dedicated APIs on every plan; screenshots and structured extraction were not on the pages read.
Concurrency is printed per plan, 1 free, 5 on Lite, 50 on Standard, 100 on Pro, 150 on Premium; failed requests are never charged. No success rate or latency figure.
The documentation hub describes authentication, request basics, error codes and credit costs, with webhooks; SDKs were not named on the pages read.
Every tier's price, credits and concurrency is on the pricing page; the credit cost of rendering and premium proxies is in the documentation.
200 free credits without a card, cancel anytime, failed requests never charged; refund terms were not on the pages read.
Every scraper in the database on one axis, rank 9 of 14. The zones are the grades.
Google Ads Keyword Planner, worldwide searches for “scrapingdog”, read 2026-09-18. Demand, not quality: the rubric ignores it.
- $0.20 per 1,000 plain requests on the first paid tier
- Concurrency and credits printed on every tier
- Failed requests never charged
- All dedicated APIs on every plan
- 200 free credits is a demo, not a monthly allowance
- No SDKs named on the documentation hub
- No success rate or latency published
- Refund terms not on the pages read
- Plans
- Free $0 (200 credits, 1 concurrent), Lite $40 (200,000, 5), Standard $90 (1,000,000, 50), Pro $200 (3,000,000, 100), Premium $350 (6,000,000, 150), Business $500 (9,000,000), up to Corporate Pro $3,000 (65,000,000) [1]
- Credit costs
- JavaScript rendering 5, premium proxy 10, both 25 [2]
- Billing
- Failed requests never charged; cancel anytime; annual billing gives two months extra [1]
- Geotargeting
- On paid plans [1]
- APIs
- Access to all APIs on every plan, including Free [1]
| Challenge | Price | Unit | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000 requests, entry plan | $0.20 | per 1,000 plain requests, Lite at $40 a month for 200,000 credits | $1.00 per 1,000 with JavaScript rendering, five credits each; 5 concurrent | [1] |
| 1,000 requests, mid plan | $0.09 | per 1,000 plain requests, Standard at $90 a month for 1,000,000 credits | 50 concurrent | [1] |
| JavaScript rendering | 5 credits | per request | 10 with a premium residential proxy, 25 with both | [2] |
| Free tier | $0 | 200 credits, 1 concurrent, no card | [1] |
What the plan page says
The ladder runs from a free tier of 200 request credits and 1 concurrent request, through Lite at $40 a month for 200,000 credits and 5 concurrent, Standard $90 for 1,000,000 and 50, Pro $200 for 3,000,000 and 100, Premium $350 for 6,000,000 and 150, Business $500 for 9,000,000, and on up to a Corporate Pro tier at $3,000 for 65,000,000. Every tier has access to all APIs; geotargeting starts on Lite; support moves from community to email to priority email. Three lines sit above the cards: failed requests never charged, no credit card required, cancel anytime. Annual billing adds two months.
What a credit buys
The documentation's credit table for the web scraping API: JavaScript rendering 5 credits, a premium residential proxy 10, both together 25. Each dedicated API deducts from the same monthly quota at its own rate.
Integration and terms
The documentation hub covers authentication, request basics, error codes and credit costs, and webhooks; no SDK was named on the pages read. Terms: cancel anytime, failed requests never charged, no card for the free tier. A refund policy was not on the pages read.
Questions people ask
What does the free tier include?
200 request credits, 1 concurrent request and access to all APIs, no card, per the pricing page.
How much is a rendered page?
Five credits, or 25 with a premium residential proxy, per the documentation; on Lite that is $1.00 per 1,000 rendered pages.
Are failed requests charged?
No, the pricing page states that failed requests are never charged.
- Refund terms were not on the pages read.
- SDKs may exist; none was named on the documentation pages read.
- The per-1,000 figures are the plan price divided by its credits, our arithmetic on the vendor's numbers.
- [1]Scrapingdog pricing Scrapingdog, read 2026-09-18.
“Failed requests never charged. No credit card required. Cancel anytime. FREE $0 forever 200 Requests Credits 1 Concurrency. LITE $40 /month 200,000 Requests Credits 5 Concurrency Geotargeting. STANDARD $90 /month 1,000,000 Requests Credits 50 Concurrency. PRO $200 /month 3,000,000 Requests Credits 100 Concurrency. PREMIUM $350 /month 6,000,000 Requests Credits 150 Concurrency. BUSINESS $500 /month. Annual Billing 2 months Extra.”
- [2]Scrapingdog documentation, credit cost of APIs Scrapingdog, read 2026-09-18.
“Web Scraping — JS rendering | 5. Web Scraping — JS rendering + premium proxy | 25. Web Scraping — premium proxy | 10.”
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