Scrape.do vs Scrapingdog (2026): which should you pick?
As of Oct 24, 2026, Scrapingdog grades higher than Scrape.do: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA
Scrape.do grades higher on value for money. Scrapingdog grades higher on features and platforms. They get the same grade on the free plan 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
Scrapingdog
Web scraping and Google SERP APIs on one shared credit plan
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 Scrapingdog if
- Fits if you need Google results and general page scraping from the same account
- Works for projects mixing search data with Amazon, YouTube or LinkedIn data
Look elsewhere if
- Watch out: a full Google search costs 10 credits, so Lite's 200,000 credits is about 20,000 searches
- Tight if you run out mid-month, as requests are refused until the next billing date, with no pay-per-use
- Skip it if you want unused credits kept on Lite, as rollover starts at Standard and plan changes aren't prorated
- Not for you if you want a free plan that renews, as the 100 credits come once
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAScrape.doFair | 2.4GPAScrapingdogFair | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | CLite is $40 a month for 200,000 credits, this category's middle. A full Google search is 10 credits, so that's about 20,000 searches, $2 per 1,000. Yearly billing gives two months free. |
| 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. | CNo lasting free plan: 100 credits on sign-up with no card, about 10 full Google searches. The pricing page shows a Free plan but doesn't say the credits renew. |
| 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. | BGoogle search, AI Mode, Maps, News, Shopping, Scholar, Trends and more, Bing and Brave search, a general scraper and scrapers for Amazon, YouTube and LinkedIn, all on one credit pool. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job. |
| 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: Python and Node.js SDKs and a Google Sheets add-on. No rating on record, and each API costs a different number of credits, so you work out what a search really costs. |
| 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, Python and Node.js SDKs, an MCP server, an n8n node, a Google Sheets add-on, LangChain and LlamaIndex. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | Google and AI search results as parsed JSON | Google results and web scraping on one plan |
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 Scrapingdog. 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. Scrapingdog starts at $40 a month and scores 2.7.
Scrapingdog scores higher, and starts $11 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 none scores higher than Scrapingdog 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 | Scrapingdog | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free trial |
| Starts at | $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly | $40 per month for 200,000 credits, 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. | None |
| Free trial | None listed | 100 free credits on sign-up with access to every API, no credit card required |
| Web | ||
| Made by | PACKEND, LLC | OpenData Labs Private Limited |
| Price read from | scrape.do | scrapingdog.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.
Scrapingdog
- A full Google search costs 10 credits and a light one 5, so plan credit counts overstate the number of searches.
- When credits run out, requests are refused until the next billing date unless you upgrade; there is no pay-per-use overage.
- Unused credits roll over only from the Standard plan up, and plan changes are not prorated.
- The pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 but describes the 100 credits as a sign-up allowance, without saying they renew.
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.
Scrapingdog
- Google APIs
- Google SERP Light at 5 credits a request and SERP Advance at 10, plus AI Mode, Images, Shopping, Maps, News, Scholar, Trends, Jobs, Hotels, Lens, Finance, Videos and Patents.
- Other search engines
- Bing and Brave search APIs at 5 credits a request, and a Universal Search API at 20.
- General web scraper
- Rotating proxies at 1 credit a request, JavaScript rendering at 5, premium proxies or geotargeting at 10, and an AI Parser at 10.
- Site-specific scrapers
- APIs for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, YouTube, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), TikTok, Yelp, Indeed and the Apple App Store, all drawing on the same credits.
- Failed requests refunded
- Failed, blocked and timed-out requests are credited back to the balance automatically.
- SDKs and no-code tools
- Python and Node.js SDKs, an MCP server, an n8n node and a Google Sheets add-on.
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.
Scrapingdog
Lite$40
per month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly
5 concurrent requests, geotargeting and email support; about 20,000 full Google searches at 10 credits each.
Standard$90
per month for 1 million credits, billed monthly
50 concurrent requests and priority email support. Unused credits roll over from this plan up.
Pro$200
per month for 3 million credits, billed monthly
100 concurrent requests, priority email support and team support.
Premium$350
per month for 6 million credits, billed monthly
150 concurrent requests, with team support.
Business$500
per month for 9 million credits, billed monthly
200 concurrent requests, with team support.
Business Plus$1,000
per month for 19 million credits, billed monthly
250 concurrent requests. Plans continue up to Nova Pro at $30,000 a month for 1.1 billion credits.
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.
Scrapingdog
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
Scrapingdog prices annual billing at ten months for twelve on every plan, the equivalent of two months free.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Scrape.do or Scrapingdog?
As of Oct 23, 2026, Scrape.do is cheaper to start with: $29 a month, against $40 a month for Scrapingdog. Scrape.do starts at $29 per month for 250,000 successful API credits, billed monthly, and Scrapingdog starts at $40 per month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly.
Which has a free plan, Scrape.do or Scrapingdog?
As of Oct 23, 2026, only Scrape.do has a free plan. Scrapingdog does not, though it 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.