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

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

Pick ScrapingBee if

• Fits if you need to scrape the pages behind the results as well as Google itself
• Works for feeding web pages to AI agents as Markdown or JSON

Look elsewhere if

• Watch out: JavaScript rendering is on by default and makes a request cost 5 credits instead of 1
• Watch out: a Google search costs 10 to 15 credits, so Hobby's 75,000 credits is 5,000 to 7,500 searches
• Skip it if you need Bing or other engines, as Google is the only search engine it lists
• Tight if your usage swings, since credits last a month and don't roll over
• Pricey if you need priority support or team management, which start at $249 a month

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.

ScrapingBee

• A request costs 1 credit at its simplest, 5 with JavaScript rendering (on by default), and 10 or 25 with premium proxies.
• A Google search costs 10 credits with Light Request enabled and 15 otherwise.
• Credits last one month and do not roll over; only successful requests are charged.
• Priority support, an account manager and team management start at the $249 Business plan.

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.

ScrapingBee

Headless browser rendering

Pages load in headless Chrome, with waits for selectors, set viewports and headers, and scripted clicks, scrolls and form fills before the scrape.

Proxy rotation and geotargeting

Proxies rotate on every request, with premium and stealth proxies for harder sites and routing through more than 200 countries and territories.

Google Search API

A dedicated endpoint returns Google results as JSON, with organic results, ads, local results, related questions and related searches.

AI and rule-based extraction

Pull fields out with CSS or XPath rules, describe them in plain language with an AI query, or get any page back as clean Markdown.

Ready-made scraper APIs

Separate endpoints for Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini answers, a sub-second search API and an employee search API.

CLI, MCP server and SDKs

A command-line tool, an MCP server and Python and Node.js SDKs connect the API to coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor.

Scraping Robot

Pricing could not be confirmed. See scrapingrobot.com.

ScrapingBee

• Hobby$19

  per month for 75,000 API credits

  25 concurrent requests, with JavaScript rendering, premium proxies, geotargeting, screenshots and the dedicated scraper APIs included.

• Freelance$49

  per month for 250,000 API credits

  50 concurrent requests and the same features as Hobby.

• Startup$99

  per month for 1,000,000 API credits

  100 concurrent requests and the same features as Hobby.

• Business$249

  per month for 3,000,000 API credits

  200 concurrent requests, and adds priority email support, a dedicated account manager and team management.

• Business +$599

  per month for 8,000,000 API credits

  400 concurrent requests with everything in Business.

• Enterprise 14$999

  per month for 14,000,000 API credits

  500 concurrent requests. Larger Enterprise tiers run up to $5,799 a month for 120 million credits and 900 concurrent requests.