Dumpling AI vs Scrapfly (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Scrapfly grades higher than Dumpling AI: 2.4 against 1.8 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 and Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA
Scrapfly grades higher on the free plan and features. They get the same grade on value for money, ease of use and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Dumpling AI
One API for web search, scraping, documents and social data
Scrapfly
Web scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, browsers and AI extraction
Which one is for you
Pick Dumpling AI if
- Fits if you want search, scraping and extraction from one account
- Works for people wiring up n8n or Make flows
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want to try it free, since there is no free plan or trial
- Tight if your usage is uneven: subscription credits do not roll over
- Watch out: credits per request go from one to several depending on the action
- Watch out: only yearly-billed prices were readable, and the Starter plan is held to 30 requests a minute
Pick Scrapfly if
- Fits if you track rankings on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex or Baidu from your own code
- Works for developers who want scraping, a hosted browser and screenshots on one key
Look elsewhere if
- Watch out: a request costs 1 credit plain, 5 with a browser, 25 on residential proxies and 60 for a full-page screenshot
- Tight if your usage spikes on Discovery, which stops at its quota with no pay-as-you-go overflow
- Pricey if you need a team, since Discovery and Pro are single-user and team management starts at $250 a month
- Tight if your usage swings, as credits reset at renewal and don't roll over
How we grade them
| 1.8GPADumpling AIWeak | 2.4GPAScrapflyFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C$40 a month on yearly billing, between this category's cheaper quarter ($19) and dearer quarter ($44.10). | CDiscovery is $30 a month for 200,000 credits, this category's middle. What that buys swings with the request: 1 credit plain, 5 with a browser or the Unblocker, 25 with residential proxies, so 8,000 to 200,000 pages. Pro is $100 for 1 million. |
| Free plan and trial | FNo free plan and no trial on the pricing page. | CNo free plan: 1,000 credits on sign-up with no card and no time limit, across every product. They don't renew, and at 25 credits on residential proxies that's 40 requests. |
| Features | CSearch, scraping, document extraction, and social and enrichment data in one place. Each action costs one or more credits, so it is hard to price a job up front. | BSearch results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex and Baidu with positions and SERP features as JSON or CSV, anti-bot unblocking, proxies in more than 190 countries, a cloud browser, a site crawler, AI extraction and screenshots. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record. It is an API, so you need a key and some code or an MCP client. | CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: one flag for unblocking, SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy, and a CLI. No rating on record, and the credit cost of each request changes with its options. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb only, but it lists Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, n8n and Make, with HTTP, CLI and MCP access. | BWeb, with an API, SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Cline and Windsurf, plus Zapier, Make, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex and CrewAI. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | search, scraping and extraction through one API | scraping protected sites and several search engines |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Dumpling AI and Scrapfly. How we grade
Price against what you get
Dumpling AI starts at $40 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Scrapfly starts at $30 a month and scores 2.7.
Scrapfly scores higher and starts $10 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, 8 score higher than Dumpling AI for less, and none scores higher than Scrapfly for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
- Dumpling AI also covers AI agents and research.
At a glance
| Dumpling AI | Scrapfly | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Paid | Free trial |
| Starts at | $40 per month, billed annually | $30 per month for 200,000 API credits |
| Free plan | None | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 1,000 free API credits on sign-up, no card needed and no time limit |
| Web | ||
| Made by | DumplingAI | Joam Intelligence, LLC |
| Price read from | dumplingai.com | scrapfly.io |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Dumpling AI
- The pricing page opens on yearly billing; the monthly-billed prices were not readable, so only per-month-billed-annually figures are shown.
- Subscription credits do not roll over, while separately bought credit packs never expire.
- Each request costs from one to several credits depending on the action; a separate credit cost list exists.
- The homepage mentions a free tier but gives no allowance, and the pricing page lists no free plan.
Scrapfly
- A request costs 1 credit as plain HTTP on a datacenter IP, 5 with a browser or the Unblocker, 25 with residential proxies and 60 for a full-page screenshot.
- Discovery stops when its credits run out; only Pro and above continue as pay as you go.
- Credits reset at renewal and do not roll over. Failed requests are not charged.
- Discovery and Pro are single-user accounts; team management starts at Startup for $250 a month.
Key features
Dumpling AI
- Search
- Web, news, maps and autocomplete lookups through one API, auto-routed or pinned to Serper, Perplexity or DataForSEO.
- Scraping
- Fetches static pages, rendered apps and full crawls, with Firecrawl, SpiderCloud and native routes supported.
- Document extraction
- Turns PDFs and other documents into text or structured data through doc-to-text and extract-document endpoints.
- Social and enrichment data
- YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google Reviews data, plus email verification and company enrichment.
- CLI, MCP and HTTP
- The same capabilities are reachable from a command-line tool, an MCP server or plain HTTP calls.
Scrapfly
- Web Scraping API with Unblocker
- One flag handles anti-bot systems, browser rendering, proxy rotation and retries, with residential and datacenter proxies in more than 190 countries.
- Search result scraping
- Send a query with a location and get positions, titles, URLs, snippets and SERP features back as JSON or CSV from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex or Baidu.
- Cloud Browser and Crawler APIs
- Drive a hosted Chromium with Playwright or Puppeteer and keep sessions between calls, or crawl a whole site in one job with path filters and webhooks.
- Data Extraction API
- Turn pages into JSON with ready-made models for products, articles, reviews and jobs, with CSS or XPath templates, or with plain-language AI prompts.
- Screenshot API
- Full-page or viewport captures in PNG, JPEG or WebP, with auto-scroll and scheduled captures sent to a webhook.
- MCP server, CLI and SDKs
- A hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Cline and Windsurf, a command-line tool, and SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy.
Plans
Dumpling AI
Starter$40
per month, billed annually
1,200,000 credits per year, 30 requests per minute, basic support.
Pro$124
per month, billed annually
4,200,000 credits per year, 60 requests per minute, standard support.
Business$249
per month, billed annually
9,600,000 credits per year, 120 requests per minute, priority support.
Scrapfly
Discovery$30
per month for 200,000 API credits
5 concurrent requests, 1 week of logs and one user. Stops at the quota, with no pay-as-you-go overflow.
Pro$100
per month for 1,000,000 API credits
20 concurrent requests, 2 weeks of logs and one user. Extra credits at $3.50 per 10,000.
Startup$250
per month for 2,500,000 API credits
50 concurrent requests, 3 weeks of logs and team management. Extra credits at $2.00 per 10,000.
Enterprise$500
per month for 5,500,000 API credits
100 concurrent requests, 4 weeks of logs, team management and premium support. Extra credits at $1.20 per 10,000.
CustomCustom
Negotiated volume above 5.5 million credits, with committed concurrency, dedicated residential IPs, a BAA and 24/7 support.
Ways to pay less
Dumpling AI
- Annual discount
Yearly billing: 2 months free
The pricing toggle marks yearly billing as 2 months free compared with paying monthly.
Scrapfly
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Dumpling AI or Scrapfly?
As of Nov 12, 2026, Scrapfly is cheaper to start with: $30 a month, against $40 a month for Dumpling AI. Dumpling AI starts at $40 per month, billed annually, and Scrapfly starts at $30 per month for 200,000 API credits.
Which has a free plan, Dumpling AI or Scrapfly?
As of Nov 12, 2026, neither Dumpling AI nor Scrapfly has a free plan. Scrapfly has a free trial.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.