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ScraperAPI vs WebScraping.AI (2026): which should you pick?

As of Nov 13, 2026, WebScraping.AI grades higher than ScraperAPI: 2.4 against 2.2 out of 4.0.

Checked Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 23, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA

WebScraping.AI grades higher on features. They get the same grade on value for money, the free plan, ease of use and platforms.

Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.

ScraperAPI

Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits

Free plan · from $44.10/mo
Full detailsscraperapi.com

WebScraping.AI

Scraping API with proxies, rendering and AI extraction

Free plan · from $29/mo
Full detailswebscraping.ai

Which one is for you

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 WebScraping.AI if

  • Fits if you want rendering, proxies and extraction in one call
  • Works for small projects that fit inside 2,000 free credits a month

Look elsewhere if

  • Tight if you stay on Free: 2,000 credits is 400 rendered pages
  • Watch out: cost per request varies from 1 to 50 credits depending on proxy and rendering
  • Watch out: pay-as-you-go credits are only used after the monthly quota runs out
  • Watch out: geotargeting covers proxies in 13 countries, or you bring your own
  • Skip it if you want annual billing: only monthly prices were found

How we grade them

2.2GPAScraperAPIFair2.4GPAWebScraping.AIFair
Value for money
CHobby is $44.10 a month on yearly billing ($49 monthly), at the dear end of this category's usual range. A Google or Bing request is 25 credits, so 100,000 credits is about 4,000 searches, around $11 per 1,000.
CPersonal is $29 a month for 250,000 credits, which is the middle of the $19 to $49 range for data APIs. Residential and stealth requests burn credits at 10 to 50 each.
Free plan and trial
CA 7-day trial of 5,000 credits with no card, then a free plan of 1,000 credits a month. At 25 credits a search, that's 40 Google searches.
CA free plan with 2,000 credits a month, 2 concurrent connections and no card. Rendered pages cost 5 credits, so it stretches to a few hundred.
Features
CGoogle Search, Shopping, Maps, News and Jobs endpoints, Bing, rendering, async jobs and a no-code DataPipeline. The gap is in the listing: Hobby and Startup geotarget only the US and EU, and country targeting starts at Business, $269.10.
BRendering, proxies, AI question answering and extraction, a Google SERP endpoint and structured endpoints for YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and more. Geotargeting covers 13 countries.
Ease of use
CJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: SDKs, a CLI and ready Google endpoints that need no rendering turned on. No rating on record, and credit costs stack up by site and option.
CNo store rating on record. SDKs in seven languages and Zapier, n8n and Make help, but you still wire up calls and pick credit-hungry options.
Platforms and integrations
BWeb, with an API, SDKs, a CLI and an MCP server, plus LangChain, LlamaIndex, n8n and Zapier. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top.
BWeb API with SDKs for Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java and C#, plus Zapier, n8n, Make, Pipedream and Claude. No desktop or phone app.
Best forGoogle results alongside shop and site scrapingscraping with rendering and AI extraction

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: ScraperAPI and WebScraping.AI. How we grade

Price against what you get

ScraperAPI starts at $44.10 a month and scores 2.3 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. WebScraping.AI starts at $29 a month and scores 2.7.

WebScraping.AI scores higher and starts $15.10 a month lower. Of the other SERP and SEO data APIs on the chart, 11 score higher than ScraperAPI for less, and none scores higher than WebScraping.AI for less.

Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged

D1.0C2.0B3.0A4.0Free$2$5$10$20$50$100$200$500$1kMore for lessCosts more, scores moreCosts less, scores lessCosts more, scores lessScraperAPIWebScraping.AI

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
The full chart of SERP and SEO data APIs, and the best at every price

Where they differ

    In commonFree planWebPublic APIAI featuresSERP API

    At a glance

    ScraperAPIWebScraping.AI
    PricingFree planFree plan
    Starts at$44.10 per month for 100K API credits, billed annually ($49 billed monthly)$29 per month for 250,000 credits
    Free planFree plan after the trial: 1,000 API credits a month and 5 concurrent threads, no credit card needed. A Google or Bing request costs 25 credits.2,000 API credits per month with up to 2 concurrent connections, no credit card required.
    Free trial7-day free trial with 5,000 API credits, no credit card requiredNone listed
    Web
    Made byScraperAPIWebScraping.AI
    Price read fromscraperapi.comwebscraping.ai
    CheckedOct 23, 2026Nov 13, 2026

    Worth knowing

    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.

    WebScraping.AI

    • Credits are spent at different rates: 1 for a plain datacenter request, 5 with JS rendering, 10 to 25 for residential proxies and 50 for stealth.
    • Geotargeting covers proxies in 13 countries, or you can bring your own proxy.
    • Pay-as-you-go credits are only used after a subscription's monthly quota runs out.
    • The pricing section on the home page shows monthly prices only; no annual option was found.

    Key features

    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.

    WebScraping.AI

    Rendering and proxies
    Pages load in a Chrome browser with datacenter, residential or stealth proxies, and challenge pages are not charged.
    AI extraction
    Question answering, field extraction to JSON and summaries of page content, for 5 extra credits per request.
    Google SERP endpoint
    Returns parsed Google results as JSON for 15 credits per results page of 10 results.
    Structured scraper endpoints
    Parsed JSON for sites including YouTube, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit and Indeed at 15 credits per page (50 for Reddit).
    SDKs and no-code connectors
    Official libraries for Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java and C#, plus Zapier, n8n and Make.

    Plans

    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.

    WebScraping.AI

    • Free$0

      2,000 API credits per month and a maximum of 2 concurrent connections.

    • Personal$29

      per month for 250,000 credits, billed monthly

      10 concurrent requests and geotargeting.

    • Plus$99

      per month for 1,000,000 credits, billed monthly

      25 concurrent requests and geotargeting.

    • Startup$249

      per month for 3,000,000 credits, billed monthly

      50 concurrent requests and geotargeting.

    • Pay as you go$20

      one-time top-up, used as you go

      100,000 credits at $0.0002 each; credits stay valid for 12 months and top-ups extend the balance.

    Ways to pay less

    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.

    WebScraping.AI

    No public discounts listed.

    Common questions

    Which is cheaper, ScraperAPI or WebScraping.AI?

    As of Nov 13, 2026, WebScraping.AI is cheaper to start with: $29 a month, against $44.10 a month for ScraperAPI. ScraperAPI starts at $44.10 per month for 100K API credits, billed annually ($49 billed monthly), and WebScraping.AI starts at $29 per month for 250,000 credits.

    Which has a free plan, ScraperAPI or WebScraping.AI?

    As of Nov 13, 2026, both ScraperAPI and WebScraping.AI 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.
    How we review and grade