ScraperAPI 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

ScraperAPI

4.6

(62)

Pricing

Starting at $49.00 per month

About ScraperAPI

ScraperAPI is a web-scraping tool with which web content can be scraped and further processed via an API call. Its capacity includes HTML content, PDF files, documents, and images. It has the capacity to scrape protected web content including security mechanisms such as CAPTCHA. It can also handle proxies and websites with CDNs in the background. This is achieved with both its integrated rotating proxy solutions and anti-bot bypasses.

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ScraperAPI Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $49.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Hobby plan

$49.00

flat rate, per month

Plan includes:

geotargeting
javascript rendering
Premium Proxies
JSON Auto Parsing
Smart Proxy Rotation
Custom Header Support
Unlimited Bandwidth
Automatic Retries
Desktop & Mobile User Agents
CAPTCHA & Anti-Bot Detection

Startup

$149.00

flat rate, per month

No plan information available

Business

$299.00

flat rate, one time

No plan information available

Custom

Pricing available upon request

No plan information available

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ScraperAPI Features

Popular features found in Data Extraction
API
Data Connectors
Data Import/Export
Data Verification
Document Extraction
Email Address Extraction
Image Extraction
Multiple Data Sources
Phone Number Extraction
Reporting/Analytics
Third-Party Integrations
Web Data Extraction
More features of ScraperAPI
Auto Extraction
Batch Processing
Bot Mitigation
CAPTCHA Solving
Customization
Data Aggregation
Data Aggregation and Publishing
Data Capture and Transfer
Data Cleansing
Data Extraction
Data Mapping
Data Mining
Data Storage Management
Data Transformation
Error Handling
Geotargeting
HTML Parsing
IP Rotation
JavaScript Rendering
Job Scheduling
Metadata Extraction
Multiple File Format Support
Pricing Extraction
Proxy Rotation
Real-Time Data
Reporting & Statistics
Scheduling
Website Crawling

ScraperAPI User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

74%

18%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.9

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.5

Have you used ScraperAPI and would like to share your experience with others?

Steven I.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

Self-Employed

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Great API Proxy Service

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This is one of the best I've tried. They have a ton of IP addresses you can use to make API requests. Easy to set up and use.

Cons:

The only con I can think of is sometimes requests do timeout but it's rare.

Vendor Response

Hi Steven, thank you for your review!

Replied December 2021

John S.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2025

ScraperAPI Delivers Exceptionally Value

Great communication, ease of dashboard use, and great communication of product launches/releases.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The ease of use, simplicity, and reliability of the service is top notch. Highly recommend for all scraping needs.

Cons:

Breakdown of credit costs can be confusing, especially as you use premium parameters.

Jack W.

Verified reviewer

Research

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2023

Inconsistent tool.

3/10 overall. Straight forward to set up, documentation seems fine but is lacking in areas. Inconsistency in the actual job of the platform. Wouldn't recommend to a friend unless you're trialling a concept.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It's cheap. If you want to prototype a new concept, use ScraperAPI.

Cons:

ScraperAPI is temperamental. For a day you'll have no issue running links through the platform. The next day, a large portion of your scrape requests will timeout with no explanation. Given that we are building a prototype, it is OK. Though once we move to the next stage of development, it is likely we'll use a consistent alternative.

Bryan H.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Reviewed March 2024

No Fuss No Muss

Easy and straightforward. Documentation is very detailed and makes it simple to get up and running.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Ease of use and the API functionality makes it easy for anyone on my team to use and can be quickly added to analysis projects to gather additional data or verify existing.

Cons:

I can't honestly think of any off the top of my head; not so much a con, but we've found better options for massive data-pulls, but I think those are somewhat out of the scope of ScraperAPI's goal.

Reasons for choosing ScraperAPI

We use several types of scraping products, but in terms of quick on the fly responses to our requests, ScraperAPI was one of the best options. When we need to scrape millions of records we use other solutions, but for real-time gathering we use ScraperAPI.

Verified

Reviewer

Consumer Goods

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Reliable rotating IP service with low price and responsive and helpful support team

Overall very positive experience with ScraperAPI and have been a customer for 2 years +. Always pleased with my interactions with the support team and their response time and their efforts to help.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- The URL encoding is fairly straightforward to implement and maintain - The support team is quick to respond and support on any issues that come up - The pricing is very reasonable and they give a lot of queries vs other providers - was able to upgrade, downgrade, or pause subscription without any issues

Cons:

- there are a few websites where it didn't work for me, e.g Tesco.com - the IP locations were not always accurate, e.g set to USA, and still see China, or Malaysia etc appearing as the location on Amazon.com

Reasons for choosing ScraperAPI

Cheaper and more queries

Vendor Response

Hi, thank you for your review! Regarding the IP locations not being accurate, we regularly curate our IP databases, but given the dynamic nature of proxies, this is an issue that can, sometimes, occur. If this happens, please reach out to support@scraperapi.com and let us know. As an alternative, we also offer Premium proxies where this is less likely to occur.

Replied November 2021

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for free trial

Reviewed November 2021

ScrapperAPI for begginner

Easy to use and doesn't charge for failed requests, that's really helpful.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is very easy to use and covers all the popular programming languages. So we don't have to adapt our program to languages that are only available at service providers. And scraperAPI is widely used by YouTubers tutors for Computer Science as the provider chosen for practice, making it easier to use.

Cons:

Sometimes there are errors in testing the API Testing Daily Summary without a detailed explanation of the problem.

Vendor Response

Hi, thank you for your review! Can you please let me know what you mean by "API Testing Daily Summary"? It would be very helpful to understand what we could improve on our end.

Replied November 2021

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

51-200 employees

Used daily for free trial

Reviewed December 2021

Our experience with ScraperAPI for building a inhouse Product

We were building an inhouse Migration Tool , which helped our clients to migrate their website from legacy system ( irrespective of the web application system that they used ) to Modern Content Management System such as Contentful, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal etc.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

IP Rotation & Scraping capability dar better than the inhouse scrapping algorithm that we created internally

Cons:

There were lot of false positives & but that were overcome through manual intervention

Reasons for choosing ScraperAPI

Vendor Response

Hi, thank you for your great review!

Replied March 2022

Verified

Reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed November 2021

Simple and Effective!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The interface is so simple! Simply pass up the URL you want to fetch along with your API key and you'll (likely) receive your results. We all know that scraping is tricky, can't be 100% reliable so if the scrape fails it will time out at 60 seconds and you can retry on the spot or schedule to retry later. Headers, server-side page rendering and persistent sessions are also supported. And the support is great!

Cons:

There is nothing I don't like about this service. great service from a great company!

Reasons for switching to ScraperAPI

Our existing service provider was really making a mess of things. With ScraperAPI, life is once again a pleasure for us!

Vendor Response

Thank you for your reply! We are very happy that you are enjoying ScraperAPi!

Replied November 2021

Kisang P.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Reviewed November 2021

ScraperAPI is very simple to use and get the job done

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I've been using ScraperAPI to scrape data from a variety of websites. ScraperAPI is very simple and easy to use and focused on just one thing - scraping. Its pricing is very reasonable. Recommend for everyone who needs scraping.

Cons:

There were some websites ScraperAPI was not able to scrape. I think it's primarily because of the company policies.

Vendor Response

Hello Kisang, thank you for your review!

Replied December 2021