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ScraperAPI
Proxy Compare holds 6 tiers for ScraperAPI, read from scraperapi.com and last checked 20 Aug 2026, from $49/mo. It bills in credits rather than gigabytes, so no per-GB figure is published; the per-1,000-request column below is the comparable one.
A scraping API billed in credits, where a standard page costs one credit and each plan states a concurrent-request limit.
ScraperAPI at a glance
- Sign-up
- Unclear
- Pay with
- Card, wire
- Refunds
- —
- Free trial
- 1,000 free API credits
- IPs (their number)
- —
- Won't work for
- Nothing we know of
Plans
| Tier | Per month | Credits | Concurrency | Per 1,000 standard pages |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HobbyPrice read 2026-09-08 | $49 | 100,000 API credits/month | 20 | $0.49 |
| StartupPrice read 2026-09-08 | $149 | 1,000,000 API credits/month | 50 | $0.15 |
| BusinessPrice read 2026-09-08 | $299 | 3,000,000 API credits/month | 100 | $0.10 |
| ScalingPrice read 2026-09-08 | $475 | 5,000,000 API credits/month | 200 | $0.10 |
| ProfessionalPrice read 2026-09-08 | $975 | 10,500,000 API credits/month | 300 | $0.09 |
| AdvancedPrice read 2026-09-08 | $1975 | 21,500,000 API credits/month | 500 | $0.09 |
Monthly subscriptions, before tax. Annual discounts and extra-credit purchases are excluded. A dash means the page states a price without stating that figure beside it, not that the plan has none.
The last column is ours, not theirs: the tier price divided by its credit allowance, times the quoted Normal (flat) request credit cost. It assumes the full allowance is used. The workload calculator includes the cost of credits you buy but leave unused.
Whose network is underneath
Not established
A scraping API is a storefront over somebody’s proxy pool. This one does not say whose. We looked twice: through its pricing, about and FAQ pages, and then through the places a supplier has to be named for data-protection reasons — subprocessor, trust, security and privacy pages. Neither names a network. That is not the same as there being no upstream.
It matters because ethics do not stop at the vendor boundary. In July 2026 the FBI seized a residential proxy platform built on roughly two million consumer devices enrolled with little or no meaningful consent, and that network was resold under other brands. A clean storefront can sit on top of one.
- Billed in
- credits
- Request billing
- HTTP 200/404 and requests cancelled before 70 seconds are billable.
Billing policy and source
We only charge for successful requests ( 200 and 404 status codes) and for requests that have been cancelled from your side before giving us enough time to finish them (70 seconds).
Read 2026-09-08 - Concurrent requests
- 20 concurrent requests on Hobby
- JavaScript rendering
- Offered
What one unit of work costs
A credit is not a price until you know what it buys, and the same plan charges different amounts for different work.
- Normal (flat) request
- 1 credit per request
Normal target, no rendering, premium routing or bot-protection surcharge. Named target sites have higher base costs. HTTP 200/404 and early cancellations count as billable under the quoted policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-08 - Amazon base request
- 5 credits per request
Amazon domain base rate. Assumes no rendering, premium routing or bot-protection charge. Protection can change and increase the actual bill. HTTP 200/404 and early cancellations count as billable under the quoted policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-08 - Walmart base request
- 5 credits per request
Walmart domain base rate. Assumes no rendering, premium routing or bot-protection charge. Protection can change and increase the actual bill. HTTP 200/404 and early cancellations count as billable under the quoted policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-08 - eBay base request
- 5 credits per request
eBay domain base rate. Assumes no rendering, premium routing or bot-protection charge. Protection can change and increase the actual bill. HTTP 200/404 and early cancellations count as billable under the quoted policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-08 - Google base request
- 25 credits per request
Google and all subdomains domain base rate. Assumes no rendering, premium routing or bot-protection charge. Protection can change and increase the actual bill. HTTP 200/404 and early cancellations count as billable under the quoted policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-08 - Bing base request
- 25 credits per request
Bing and all subdomains domain base rate. Assumes no rendering, premium routing or bot-protection charge. Protection can change and increase the actual bill. HTTP 200/404 and early cancellations count as billable under the quoted policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-08 - LinkedIn base request
- 30 credits per request
LinkedIn domain base rate. Assumes no rendering, premium routing or bot-protection charge. Protection can change and increase the actual bill. HTTP 200/404 and early cancellations count as billable under the quoted policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-08 - JavaScript rendering
- 10 credits per request
Normal target with the selected rendering/premium parameters. Excludes named-target rates, protection surcharges, ultra-premium, screenshots and other add-ons. Premium routing cannot be combined with ultra_premium or session_number. No geotargeting or session setting is assumed. HTTP 200/404 and cancellations before 70 seconds are billable under the separately dated policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-09 - Premium residential/mobile proxy
- 10 credits per request
Normal target with the selected rendering/premium parameters. Excludes named-target rates, protection surcharges, ultra-premium, screenshots and other add-ons. Premium routing cannot be combined with ultra_premium or session_number. No geotargeting or session setting is assumed. HTTP 200/404 and cancellations before 70 seconds are billable under the separately dated policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-09 - JavaScript rendering + premium proxy
- 25 credits per request
Normal target with the selected rendering/premium parameters. Excludes named-target rates, protection surcharges, ultra-premium, screenshots and other add-ons. Premium routing cannot be combined with ultra_premium or session_number. No geotargeting or session setting is assumed. HTTP 200/404 and cancellations before 70 seconds are billable under the separately dated policy.
Credit price read 2026-09-09
Questions
Does ScraperAPI ask for ID to sign up?
ScraperAPI does not state what it asks for at sign-up, and we have not been able to establish it from its own pages. That is a fact about the provider rather than a gap in the roster, and it is shown as one above.
How can you pay ScraperAPI?
Card, wire. No cryptocurrency option is published, so a card or an equivalent named payment is the route in. Payment methods come off the provider's own checkout and are dated with the rest of the record.
Where does ScraperAPI get its addresses?
ScraperAPI is a scraping API rather than a proxy network: you send it a URL and it returns the page, using infrastructure it does not itemise. There is no residential pool of its own to disclose, so this site records no sourcing model for it and does not count it among the providers that will not say.
Does ScraperAPI offer a trial or a refund?
Trial: 1,000 free API credits. Both are quoted from the provider's own terms rather than summarised, because a paraphrase of a refund window is the kind of precision nobody should take from us.
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