ScrapeNinja vs ScrapingAnt (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 12, 2026, ScrapingAnt grades higher than ScrapeNinja: 2.6 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
ScrapingAnt grades higher on value for money, the free plan, ease of use and platforms. They get the same grade on features.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
ScrapeNinja
Scraping API with rotating proxies and Chrome fingerprinting
ScrapingAnt
Web scraping API with headless Chrome, proxies and AI extraction
Which one is for you
Pick ScrapeNinja if
- Fits if you scrape sites that block simple requests and are comfortable writing JavaScript
- Works for people who want to test cheaply before paying
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a no-code scraper, since you write extractors yourself
- Tight if you stay free: 100 requests a month
- Watch out: a JavaScript-browser request counts as 7 points, so a plan covers a seventh as many
- Watch out: there is no pricing page on its own site, so you buy through a marketplace
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
| 1.8GPAScrapeNinjaWeak | 2.6GPAScrapingAntGood | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C$25 a month for 100,000 requests on APIRoad, inside the middle of this category ($19 to $44.10). Browser-engine requests cost 7 points each. | 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 Basic plan with 100 requests a month, which the listing itself calls enough for testing. | 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 | CChrome fingerprint emulation, two engines, proxies with retries and JavaScript extractors. It is a general scraper with no ready-made site templates. | 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 | DNo store rating on record. You write the requests and the extractors in JavaScript, through a marketplace key. | 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, and it is sold through APIRoad and RapidAPI. | 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 | scraping sites that block simple requests | 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: ScrapeNinja and ScrapingAnt. How we grade
Price against what you get
ScrapeNinja starts at $25 a month and scores 1.7 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 $6 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, 12 score higher than ScrapeNinja for less, and 2 score 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
| ScrapeNinja | ScrapingAnt | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free plan |
| Starts at | $25 per month for 100,000 requests | $19 per month for 100,000 API credits |
| Free plan | Basic plan: 100 requests a month, $0. | 10,000 API credits every month, with failed requests not charged. No card needed. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| Made by | ScrapeNinja | DATAANT SP. Z O.O. |
| Price read from | apiroad.net (not the vendor's own page) | scrapingant.com |
| Checked | Nov 12, 2026 | Oct 23, 2026 |
Worth knowing
ScrapeNinja
- Plans are bought on the APIRoad marketplace, and ScrapeNinja's own site has no pricing page of its own.
- Browser-engine requests cost 7 billing points each, so a plan covers about one seventh as many /scrape-js calls.
- The Basic plan has only 100 requests a month, which is enough for testing only.
- It is a general scraping API; there is no dedicated SERP endpoint or SEO metrics on the site.
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
ScrapeNinja
- Chrome fingerprint emulation
- Sends requests that emulate a real Chrome browser without running Puppeteer, to avoid blocks based on TLS fingerprints.
- Two network engines
- Switch between raw network requests for speed and a headless browser with JavaScript evaluation for pages that need it.
- Rotating proxies and retries
- Rotating datacenter proxies in the US, EU, Germany, France and Brazil, with retries based on timeouts, status codes and page text.
- JavaScript extractors
- Short JS snippets pull JSON out of HTML, and an online builder and Cheerio playground help write and test them.
- Premium proxies
- Premium datacenter proxies cost from $1.50 per GB and come with a 50MB gift package for each customer.
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
ScrapeNinja
Basic$0
100 requests per month.
Pro$25
per month for 100,000 requests
100,000 basic requests per month.
Ultra$75
per month for 500,000 requests
500,000 basic requests per month.
Mega$150
per month for 1,500,000 requests
1,500,000 basic requests per month.
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.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, ScrapeNinja or ScrapingAnt?
As of Nov 12, 2026, ScrapingAnt is cheaper to start with: $19 a month, against $25 a month for ScrapeNinja. ScrapeNinja starts at $25 per month for 100,000 requests, and ScrapingAnt starts at $19 per month for 100,000 API credits.
Which has a free plan, ScrapeNinja or ScrapingAnt?
As of Nov 12, 2026, both ScrapeNinja 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.