ScraperAPI vs Scraping Robot (2026): which should you pick?

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

Pick Scraping Robot if

• Fits if you scrape now and then and don't want a monthly subscription
• Works for projects that need a scraping module built to order

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: the homepage and the pricing page give per-scrape prices that don't match, from $0.0018 down to $0.00004
• Skip it if you need webhooks, screenshots, POST requests or sessions, which are still coming soon
• Skip it if you want results sent to Zapier or Google Sheets, as that's not available yet
• Tight if you send a lot at once, with a soft limit of 100 requests a minute

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.

Scraping Robot

• The homepage lists $0.0018 a scrape up to 500,000 scrapes and as low as $0.00045 beyond, while the pricing page shows as low as $0.00004; the two could not be reconciled.
• There is no subscription: credits are bought up front and never expire, and failed results or timeouts are not charged.
• A soft limit of 100 requests a minute per customer applies unless support raises it.
• Webhooks, screenshots, POST requests, sessions and output to Zapier or Sheets are listed as coming soon.

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.

Scraping Robot

HTML API

Send a page address and a module name to one endpoint and get the page back, with JavaScript rendering available.

Proxies and browsers handled

Proxy management and rotation, browser scaling and changes in sites' anti-scraping measures are handled by Scraping Robot.

Parsed JSON output

Results come back as structured JSON; the homepage example shows a Google search parsed into results, related queries and result counts.

Credit endpoints

Check the credit balance and usage statistics over a chosen period through the API.

Custom modules

For data the ready-made modules do not cover, the team quotes for and builds a custom scraping module.

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.

Scraping Robot

Pricing could not be confirmed. See scrapingrobot.com.

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.

Scraping Robot

No public discounts listed.