Scrape.do vs ScraperAPI (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, Scrape.do and ScraperAPI share a 2.2 GPA, both have a free plan, and Scrape.do starts cheaper, at $29 a month against $44.10 a month.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA
Scrape.do grades higher on value for money. ScraperAPI grades higher on platforms. They get the same grade on the free plan, features and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Scrape.do
Web scraping API with ready-made Google and AI search scrapers
ScraperAPI
Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits
Which one is for you
Pick Scrape.do if
- Fits if you track Google AI Overviews and AI Mode answers alongside ordinary results
- Works for developers who need Google, Amazon and Walmart data from one credit pool
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you need Bing or another engine, as Google is the only search engine listed
- Tight if your usage spikes, since requests stop when the month's credits run out unless you upgrade or buy more
- Watch out: yearly billing (10 months for 12) is set up through support, not at checkout
- Watch out: refunds are rare and limited to the first three days after a purchase
- Tight if you're on Free, with 1,000 credits a month, or 100 Google searches
Pick ScraperAPI if
- Fits if you scrape Google alongside Amazon, Walmart or eBay on one key
- Works for large batches that need retries and scheduling, through the async API or DataPipeline
Look elsewhere if
- Watch out: a Google or Bing request costs 25 credits, so Hobby's 100,000 credits is about 4,000 searches
- Skip it if you need rankings outside the US and EU below Business at $269.10 a month
- Pricey if you need rendering, premium proxies or screenshots, which add 10 credits each
- Tight if you run out mid-month, as credits don't roll over and pay-as-you-go starts at Scaling, $427.50
- Tight if you're on Free, with 1,000 credits a month, about 40 Google searches
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAScrape.doFair | 2.2GPAScraperAPIFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | BHobby is $29 a month for 250,000 credits, just under this category's middle, but at 10 credits a Google search that's 25,000 searches, about $1.16 per 1,000, at the low end of the $1 to $4 rivals here charge. Pro is $99 for 125,000 searches. | CHobby is $44.10 a month on yearly billing ($49 monthly), at the dear end of this category's usual range. A Google or Bing request is 25 credits, so 100,000 credits is about 4,000 searches, around $11 per 1,000. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free plan for good with no card: 1,000 credits a month with every feature, residential and mobile proxies included. That's 100 Google searches, which go quickly. | CA 7-day trial of 5,000 credits with no card, then a free plan of 1,000 credits a month. At 25 credits a search, that's 40 Google searches. |
| Features | CGoogle Search with 15+ parsed sections including AI Overviews, an AI Mode endpoint, Maps, Shopping, News, Trends, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini, plus general scraping. For search, though, Google is the only engine in the listing. | CGoogle Search, Shopping, Maps, News and Jobs endpoints, Bing, rendering, async jobs and a no-code DataPipeline. The gap is in the listing: Hobby and Startup geotarget only the US and EU, and country targeting starts at Business, $269.10. |
| Ease of use | CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: ready-made endpoints that return parsed JSON, and asynchronous jobs for long lists. No rating on record, and a request costs 1 to 25 credits by proxy and rendering. | CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: SDKs, a CLI and ready Google endpoints that need no rendering turned on. No rating on record, and credit costs stack up by site and option. |
| Platforms and integrations | CWeb only, with an API and asynchronous jobs. The listing names no SDKs, integrations or MCP server. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb, with an API, SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server, plus LangChain, LlamaIndex, n8n and Zapier. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | Google and AI search results as parsed JSON | Google results alongside shop and site scraping |
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: Scrape.do and ScraperAPI. How we grade
Price against what you get
Scrape.do starts at $29 a month and scores 2.0 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. ScraperAPI starts at $44.10 a month and scores 2.3.
ScraperAPI scores higher, and starts $15.10 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, 9 score higher than Scrape.do for less, and 8 score higher than ScraperAPI 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
At a glance
| Scrape.do | ScraperAPI | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly | $44.10 per month for 100K API credits, billed annually ($49 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | 1,000 successful API credits a month (100 Google searches) with 5 concurrent requests and every feature, including residential and mobile proxies. No card needed. | Free plan after the trial: 1,000 API credits a month and 5 concurrent threads, no credit card needed. A Google or Bing request costs 25 credits. |
| Free trial | None listed | 7-day free trial with 5,000 API credits, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | PACKEND, LLC | ScraperAPI |
| Price read from | scrape.do | scraperapi.com |
| Checked | Oct 23, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Scrape.do
- A basic datacenter request costs 1 credit and a residential request with JavaScript rendering 25; a Google search costs 10.
- Requests stop when the month's credits run out unless you upgrade or buy more. Failed requests are not charged.
- Annual billing (pay for 10 months, get 12) is set up by contacting support, not at checkout.
- Refunds are rare and limited to the first three days after a purchase.
ScraperAPI
- A Google or Bing request costs 25 credits, so Hobby's 100,000 credits cover about 4,000 Google searches.
- JavaScript rendering, premium proxies and screenshots each add 10 credits, and bypassing bot protection adds 10 more.
- Credits reset each billing cycle with no rollover; pay-as-you-go past the allowance starts at the Scaling plan.
- Hobby and Startup can only geotarget the US and EU; country-level targeting starts at Business.
Key features
Scrape.do
- Anti-bot bypass
- Rotates proxies from a pool Scrape.do puts at 150 million IPs, varies headers, user agents and TLS fingerprints, and handles CAPTCHAs.
- Google Search API
- Returns 15+ parsed sections as JSON, including organic results, ads, knowledge graph, local pack, People Also Ask, top stories and AI Overviews.
- AI Mode endpoint
- A separate endpoint returns the full answer from Google's AI Mode; other ready-made APIs collect ChatGPT and Gemini responses.
- Ready-made scraper APIs
- Parsed JSON for Google Maps, Shopping, News, Trends, Flights, Hotels and Play Store, plus Amazon, Walmart and YouTube.
- Rendering and geo-targeting
- JavaScript rendering, scripted browser actions, sticky sessions and geo-targeting in more than 160 countries, with unlimited bandwidth.
- Asynchronous scraping
- Submit a list of target URLs as one job, get a job ID back at once and collect the results later, for background processing at scale.
ScraperAPI
- Google structured data endpoints
- Ready-made endpoints return Google Search, Shopping, Maps, News and Jobs results as JSON, without needing JavaScript rendering turned on.
- Proxy rotation and anti-bot handling
- Rotating proxy pools, premium residential and mobile IPs, CAPTCHA handling and automatic retries, with geotargeting by country on Business and up.
- JavaScript rendering and screenshots
- Load dynamic pages in a headless browser, follow a rendering instruction set, and capture screenshots of the result.
- Asynchronous API and DataPipeline
- Submit up to 50,000 jobs that retry until they succeed, or schedule large scraping jobs in DataPipeline without writing code.
- AI Parser and LLM-ready output
- Train a custom parser to get clean JSON from any source, or ask for pages as text or Markdown for language model pipelines.
- MCP server and integrations
- An MCP server, a CLI and SDKs, with LangChain, LlamaIndex, n8n and Zapier integrations.
Plans
Scrape.do
Free$0
1,000 successful API credits a month and 5 concurrent requests, with every feature unlocked.
Hobby$29
per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly
10 concurrent requests and email support. Enough for 25,000 Google searches at 10 credits each.
Pro$99
per month for 1,250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly
50 concurrent requests and priority email support. Enough for 125,000 Google searches.
Business$249
per month for 3,500,000 successful API credits, billed monthly
100 concurrent requests, premium residential and mobile proxies, dedicated support and team management.
Advanced$699
per month for 10,000,000 successful API credits, billed monthly
200 concurrent requests, custom firewall bypass strategies, a custom SLA and a dedicated Slack support channel.
EnterpriseCustom
Unlimited credits and concurrency on infrastructure built around the target sites. Through sales.
ScraperAPI
Free$0
1,000 API credits a month and 5 concurrent threads, to keep scraping after the trial ends.
Hobby$44.10
per month for 100K API credits, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)
20 concurrent threads, geotargeting in the US and EU only, and 30 days of analytics history.
Startup$134.10
per month for 1M API credits, billed annually ($149 billed monthly)
50 concurrent threads, with US and EU geotargeting only.
Business$269.10
per month for 3M API credits, billed annually ($299 billed monthly)
100 concurrent threads, country-level geotargeting worldwide and unlimited analytics history.
Scaling$427.50
per month for 5M API credits, billed annually ($475 billed monthly)
200 concurrent threads, and the first plan with pay-as-you-go credits past the monthly allowance.
Professional$877.50
per month for 10.5M API credits, billed annually ($975 billed monthly)
300 threads and priority support. Advanced is $1,777.50 a month billed annually for 21.5M credits; Enterprise is custom above 22M.
Ways to pay less
Scrape.do
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
Scrape.do's pricing FAQ says annual billing costs 10 months for 12 (Hobby is $290 a year) on every plan except Enterprise, arranged through support.
ScraperAPI
- Annual discount
10% off with yearly billing
ScraperAPI's pricing page lists 10% off every self-serve plan when billed yearly: Hobby is $44.10 a month instead of $49.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Scrape.do or ScraperAPI?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Scrape.do is cheaper to start with: $29 a month, against $44.10 a month for ScraperAPI. Scrape.do starts at $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly, and ScraperAPI starts at $44.10 per month for 100K API credits, billed annually ($49 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Scrape.do or ScraperAPI?
As of Oct 23, 2026, both Scrape.do and ScraperAPI have a free plan.
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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.