ScraperAPI vs WebScrapingAPI (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 WebScrapingAPI if

• Fits if you only need Google and want a fixed number of searches each month
• Works for teams that also buy proxies or a general scraping API from the same vendor

Look elsewhere if

• Skip it if you need Bing, DuckDuckGo or Yandex without a sales review, as only Google is priced
• Watch out: each keyword counts once per market, device and refresh, so tracking adds up fast
• Pricey if you need general scraping too, as the Scraper API is a separate plan from $19 a month
• Watch out: residential proxies from $8.50 per GB and managed data from $299 a month sit outside these plans
• Tight if you're testing, with 100 trial searches and no free plan

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.

WebScrapingAPI

• Only the Google plans have published prices; Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yandex are quoted after a review.
• Usage is counted per request, so each keyword is multiplied by every market, device and refresh you track.
• The Scraper API is a separate subscription: 5,000 free requests, then $19 a month for 7,000 requests up to $599 for 450,000.
• Residential proxies start at $8.50 per GB and the managed data service at $299 a month, both outside these plans.

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.

WebScrapingAPI

Google Search API

Query Google web, image, video, news, shopping or job results and set the Google domain, location, language, device and result window.

Parsed results

Responses come back as JSON collections of organic results and other result modules with request metadata, or as CSV or raw HTML.

Other search engines

Separate endpoints return Bing results as JSON, localized Yandex result pages by region and device, and DuckDuckGo results.

Scraper API

A general scraping API with JavaScript rendering, proxy rotation, anti-bot handling, country targeting and automatic parsing, from $19 a month.

Proxies and ready data

Residential, datacenter and ISP proxies, an Amazon data API, a dataset marketplace, a web archive and a managed data service.

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.

WebScrapingAPI

• Starter$28

  per month for 10,000 Google searches

  Every plan includes global locations, parsed results, bulk processing, all devices, image search and JSON, CSV or HTML output.

• Grow$130

  per month for 50,000 Google searches

  The same Google features as Starter with a larger monthly allowance.

• Business$550

  per month for 250,000 Google searches

  The same Google features as Starter with a larger monthly allowance.

• Pro$1,600

  per month for 1,000,000 Google searches

  The same Google features as Starter with the largest published allowance.

• CustomCustom

  Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yandex searches, larger volumes and production support, priced after a review with the sales team.

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.

WebScrapingAPI

No public discounts listed.