Scrape.do vs ScrapingAnt (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, ScrapingAnt grades higher than Scrape.do: 2.6 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA
ScrapingAnt grades higher on the free plan and platforms. They get the same grade on value for money, 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
ScrapingAnt
Web scraping API with headless Chrome, proxies and AI extraction
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 ScrapingAnt if
- Fits if you need the search results page and the pages it links to on one key
- Works for jobs that send many requests at once, since no plan caps concurrency
Look elsewhere if
- Watch out: search pages come back as HTML, and JSON through the AI extractor costs 1 more credit per 30 characters read and written
- Watch out: other pages cost 1 to 125 credits, with residential proxies and rendering the dearest
- Tight if your usage swings, since unused credits don't carry over to the next month
- Pricey if you need standalone proxies, which are billed by GB on top of API credits
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAScrape.doFair | 2.6GPAScrapingAntGood | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | BEnthusiast is $19 a month for 100,000 credits, on the line of this category's cheaper quarter. A Google request is 10 credits, so that's 10,000 result pages, $1.90 per 1,000, before any AI extraction. |
| 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. | BA free plan for good: 10,000 credits every month with no card, about 1,000 Google result pages, and failed requests aren't charged. A side project could run on that. |
| 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. | CHeadless Chrome, rotating proxies in 100+ countries, Markdown output and plain-English AI extraction, with Google, Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo pages on one key. The gap is in the listing: search pages come back as HTML, and JSON needs the AI extractor at extra credits. |
| 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: one endpoint, no concurrency cap and an MCP server. No rating on record, and requests range from 1 to 125 credits by browser and proxy choice. |
| 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 and an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf, plus n8n, Make and GitHub Actions. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | Google and AI search results as parsed JSON | search pages and the pages they link to |
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 ScrapingAnt. 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. ScrapingAnt starts at $19 a month and scores 2.3.
ScrapingAnt scores higher and starts $10 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, 9 score higher than Scrape.do for less, and 1 scores higher than ScrapingAnt 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 | ScrapingAnt | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly | $19 per month for 100,000 API credits |
| 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. | 10,000 API credits every month, with failed requests not charged. No card needed. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | PACKEND, LLC | DATAANT SP. Z O.O. |
| Price read from | scrape.do | scrapingant.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.
ScrapingAnt
- Google requests cost 10 credits each; other pages cost 1 to 125 credits by browser and proxy choice, with residential proxies and JavaScript rendering the most.
- Search pages come back as HTML by default; JSON needs the AI extractor, which adds 1 credit per 30 characters read and written.
- Unused credits do not carry over; a plan that runs out mid-month can be restarted at once by paying again.
- Standalone residential and datacenter proxies are billed by GB, separately from API credits.
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.
ScrapingAnt
- Headless Chrome rendering
- Each request runs in a fresh Chrome instance, with custom JavaScript snippets, waits for a CSS selector, and custom cookies and headers.
- Rotating proxies
- Datacenter and residential proxies across 100+ countries rotate per request, with geo-targeting by country code and CAPTCHA and Cloudflare handling.
- Search result pages
- Send a Google, Bing, Yandex or DuckDuckGo results address to the same endpoint to get the page back, then scrape the result pages on the same key.
- Markdown and AI extraction
- Get any page as LLM-ready Markdown, or describe fields in plain English and receive JSON, billed by the characters read and written.
- No concurrency cap
- Every plan can send requests in parallel without queues or throttling; ScrapingAnt allocates browsers and proxies per request.
- MCP server
- Adds tools for page HTML, Markdown and text to Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and other MCP clients, drawing on the plan's credits.
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.
ScrapingAnt
Free$0
10,000 API credits a month, enough for about 1,000 Google result pages at 10 credits each.
Enthusiast$19
per month for 100,000 API credits
Email support and documentation for integration help.
Startup$49
per month for 500,000 API credits
Priority email support and custom code snippets.
Business$249
per month for 3,000,000 API credits
Priority email support, debug sessions and expert assistance.
Business Pro$599
per month for 8,000,000 API credits
Priority debug sessions, custom proxy pools and custom anti-bot handling.
Custom$699
per month and up for 10M+ API credits
Priority and dedicated support, full onboarding and a dedicated account manager. Through sales.
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.
ScrapingAnt
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Scrape.do or ScrapingAnt?
As of Oct 23, 2026, ScrapingAnt is cheaper to start with: $19 a month, against $29 a month for Scrape.do. Scrape.do starts at $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly, and ScrapingAnt starts at $19 per month for 100,000 API credits.
Which has a free plan, Scrape.do or ScrapingAnt?
As of Oct 23, 2026, both Scrape.do and ScrapingAnt 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.