Scrapeless vs ZenRows (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, ZenRows grades higher than Scrapeless: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Scrapeless grades higher on features. ZenRows grades higher on value for money and ease of use. They get the same grade on the free plan and platforms.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Scrapeless
Cloud browsers, scraping APIs and AI-engine scrapers
ZenRows
Web scraping API for protected sites, priced by monthly credits
Which one is for you
Pick Scrapeless if
- Fits if you run scrapers or AI agents that need hosted browsers and proxies
- Works for teams that prefer paying by use, since the base plan has no monthly fee
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you cannot code: browsers and scrapers are driven from scripts and APIs
- Watch out: the bill depends on which services you use, and the subscriptions only set the discount
- Watch out: unused monthly commitment is not kept, and automatic renewal charges the next cycle
- Watch out: raising concurrency or buying an enterprise package involves a KYC check
- Tight if you are testing: the free trial amount is not stated
Pick ZenRows if
- Fits if you scrape protected sites and want Google results from the same credits
- Works for AI agents that need web pages as Markdown or JSON
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you want a fixed SERP format, as the result groups vary with what Google or Bing shows
- Watch out: a page costs 1 credit plain, 5 rendered, 10 on premium proxies and 25 with both
- Watch out: residential bandwidth draws 25,000 credits per GB and the Browser 5 credits a minute
- Tight if you're on Free, which stops at 5,000 credits with no top-ups until the next month
- Pricey if your volume grows, as each plan's price steps up with its credit allowance
How we grade them
| 2.2GPAScrapelessFair | 2.4GPAZenRowsFair | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | CBasic has no monthly fee and bills at list prices: $1.00 per 1,000 Google searches and $0.09 an hour for a browser. Growth is $49 a month for 10% off, and unused funds do not carry over. | BBuild is $16 a month on yearly billing, $19 monthly, inside this category's cheaper quarter, for 45,000 credits. A page is 1 credit plain and 25 with rendering and premium proxies, so that's 1,800 to 45,000 pages. |
| Free plan and trial | CA free trial activates on sign-up, but the amount is not stated on the pricing page. There is no free plan after it. | CA free plan for good with no card: 5,000 credits a month with every tool except standalone residential proxies. At 25 credits for a rendered page on premium proxies that's 200 pages, and there are no top-ups. |
| Features | BCloud browsers, a search API, AI scrapers, a web unlocker, crawling and proxies from one account. The listing names no gap in the scraping job. | CFetch past anti-bot walls, Extract to JSON with no selectors, Crawl, Batch and a real Browser. The gap is in the listing: search results come from parsing a Google or Bing results page, so the groups returned vary with what the page shows. |
| Ease of use | DNo store rating on record. It is built for developers: you drive it from Puppeteer, Playwright or an API. | CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: Python, Node and Go SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server, all open source. No rating on record, and a request's cost changes with rendering and proxy choices. |
| Platforms and integrations | BWeb service and API, with Puppeteer, Playwright, Browser-Use and Stagehand listed. No desktop or phone app. | BWeb, with an API, SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Codex, plus Clay, Make, n8n, Zapier, LangChain and LlamaIndex. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top. |
| Best for | cloud browsers and scraping APIs for agents | scraping protected pages on one credit balance |
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: Scrapeless and ZenRows. How we grade
Price against what you get
Scrapeless starts at $49 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. ZenRows starts at $16 a month and scores 2.3.
They score the same, and ZenRows starts $33 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, 11 score higher than Scrapeless for less, and 1 scores higher than ZenRows 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
- Scrapeless also covers AI agents and AI search visibility.
At a glance
| Scrapeless | ZenRows | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free plan |
| Starts at | $49 per month, then usage at a 10% discount | $16 per month for 45,000 credits, billed annually ($19 billed monthly) |
| Free plan | None | 5,000 credits a month with every tool except standalone residential proxies, 5 concurrent requests and community support. No card needed. |
| Free trial | Free trial activated on sign-up; the amount is not stated on the pricing page | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | NST LABS TECH LTD | Zenrows |
| Price read from | scrapeless.com | zenrows.com |
| Checked | Nov 13, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Scrapeless
- Billing is by usage from a prepaid balance, so the monthly cost depends on which services are used; the subscriptions only set the discount and concurrency.
- Per the FAQ, if usage is below the monthly commitment the remaining funds are not kept, and automatic renewal charges the next cycle.
- The pricing page shows a yearly option that saves 10%; only the monthly figures were read.
- Raising concurrency limits or buying an enterprise package involves a KYC check by the sales team.
ZenRows
- A standard page costs 1 credit, 5 with JavaScript rendering, 10 with premium proxies and 25 with both; residential bandwidth is 25,000 credits per GB.
- Search results come from fetching a Google or Bing results address and parsing the page, so the groups returned vary with what the page shows.
- The free plan stops at 5,000 credits until the next month; paid plans can buy top-ups up to ten times a billing period.
- Each paid plan's price rises with its credit allowance, in three steps (five for Scale).
Key features
Scrapeless
- Google Search API
- Returns Google results as structured JSON with country and language targeting; proxy and CAPTCHA handling are included.
- AI scrapers
- Separate scrapers for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overview, returning responses and citations for AI-visibility tracking.
- Agent Browser
- A cloud browser compatible with Puppeteer and Playwright, with live view, session replay and persistent profiles.
- Web Unlocker and Crawl
- Web Unlocker returns rendered content for a URL and the vendor says you pay only for successful requests. Crawl collects whole sites in JSON, Markdown, HTML or screenshots.
- Proxies
- Residential, static ISP, datacenter and IPv6 proxies are sold on their own as well as underneath the other products.
ZenRows
- Fetch
- Returns any page as HTML, Markdown, JSON or a screenshot, getting past anti-bot walls, CAPTCHAs and fingerprint checks on protected sites.
- Extract
- Detects the data on a page and returns it as JSON with no selectors or schema to write. It currently costs nothing on top of the Fetch it uses.
- Search results as JSON
- Send a Google or Bing results address with a country and get organic results, related questions, videos and other groups back with their positions.
- Crawl and Batch
- Crawl collects every page behind a starting address, each billed as a Fetch; Batch runs large queued jobs with retries, webhooks and status tracking.
- Browser
- Drives a real browser for pages that need clicks, forms, logins or a session kept across a long job, billed at 5 credits a minute plus bandwidth.
- MCP server, CLI and SDKs
- An MCP server for Claude, Cursor and Codex, a command-line tool, and Python, Node and Go SDKs, all published as open source under MIT.
Plans
Scrapeless
Basic$0
no monthly fee, usage billed at list prices
Pay as you go at list prices, no subscription: Google Search API $1.00 per 1k requests, Browser $0.090 per hour, 50 concurrent sessions.
Growth$49
per month, billed monthly
Usage is billed at 10% off list prices, with 100 concurrent sessions. Google Search API is $0.90 per 1k requests.
Scale$199
per month, billed monthly
Usage is billed at 15% off list prices, with 200 concurrent sessions. Google Search API is $0.85 per 1k requests.
Business$399
per month, billed monthly
Usage is billed at 20% off list prices, with 400 concurrent sessions. Google Search API is $0.80 per 1k requests.
CustomCustom
Custom volume pricing, unlimited concurrency and custom proxies, arranged through sales.
ZenRows
Free$0
5,000 credits a month, refreshed monthly with no rollover or top-ups, 5 concurrent requests and community support.
Build$16
per month for 45,000 credits, billed annually ($19 billed monthly)
20 concurrent requests, email support and top-ups. Rises to $33 a month for 120,000 credits ($39 billed monthly).
Launch$58
per month for 250,000 credits, billed annually ($69 billed monthly)
50 concurrent requests and chat support. Rises to $108 a month for 700,000 credits ($129 billed monthly).
Growth$166
per month for 1.2M credits, billed annually ($199 billed monthly)
100 concurrent requests, priority support and the residential network at scale. Rises to $333 a month for 3M credits ($399 monthly).
Scale$458
per month for 5M credits, billed annually ($549 billed monthly)
200 to 400 concurrent requests and committed capacity options. Rises to $2,499 a month for 45M credits ($2,999 monthly).
EnterpriseCustom
Committed volume, 500 to 1,000+ concurrent requests, an SLA, a DPA and a dedicated account manager. Through sales.
Ways to pay less
Scrapeless
- Annual discount
Yearly billing saves 10%
The pricing page has a Yearly toggle labeled Save 10%.
ZenRows
- Annual discount
Two months free with annual billing
Zenrows says paying yearly gives two months free (pay for 10, get 12), shown as a 17% saving, with the year's credits up front.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Scrapeless or ZenRows?
As of Nov 13, 2026, ZenRows is cheaper to start with: $16 a month, against $49 a month for Scrapeless. Scrapeless starts at $49 per month, then usage at a 10% discount, and ZenRows starts at $16 per month for 45,000 credits, billed annually ($19 billed monthly).
Which has a free plan, Scrapeless or ZenRows?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only ZenRows has a free plan. Scrapeless 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.