Dumpling AI review (2026): is it worth $40 a month, billed yearly?
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Dumpling AI report card
Weak · out of 4.0 · graded Nov 12, 2026
Best for search, scraping and extraction through one API
Dumpling AI bundles web search, scraping, document extraction and social data behind one API, with a CLI and an MCP server. It has no free plan or trial, starts at $40 a month on yearly billing, and each request uses a variable number of credits.
Who Dumpling AI is for
- Fits if you want search, scraping and extraction from one account
- Works for people wiring up n8n or Make flows
Who Dumpling AI is not for
- Not for you if you want to try it free, since there is no free plan or trial
- Tight if your usage is uneven: subscription credits do not roll over
- Watch out: credits per request go from one to several depending on the action
- Watch out: only yearly-billed prices were readable, and the Starter plan is held to 30 requests a minute
Why Dumpling AI gets a 1.8
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for money$40 a month on yearly billing, between this category's cheaper quarter ($19) and dearer quarter ($44.10).
- FFree plan and trialNo free plan and no trial on the pricing page.
- CFeaturesSearch, scraping, document extraction, and social and enrichment data in one place. Each action costs one or more credits, so it is hard to price a job up front.
- CEase of useNo store rating on record. It is an API, so you need a key and some code or an MCP client.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb only, but it lists Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, n8n and Make, with HTTP, CLI and MCP access.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Dumpling AI's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Dumpling AI's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 0 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 2.
It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 12 of 48) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $40 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 22 of the 33 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 8 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 49 SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, cut by the letter each got. Dumpling AI’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 2 of 48, level with 26
- FFree plan and trialAbove 0 of 48, level with 2
- CFeaturesAbove 1 of 48, level with 31
- CEase of useAbove 1 of 48, level with 45
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 12 of 48, level with 36
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 34 SERP and SEO data APIs. Further left costs less, and higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Point at a dot to see which tool it is.
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
Keep Dumpling AI, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Dumpling AI you would be making search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 46 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. It costs $480 a year.
What you could not
- Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- An AI agent, with the models and the safeguards behind it.
- A library of papers and sources to search.
- It plugs into other products, Claude Code, Cursor and Codex among them, and has an API.
What this rests on. Dumpling AI’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
What is Dumpling AI?
DumplingAI is a single API, CLI and MCP surface that routes requests to providers for web search, scraping, document extraction, social and review data, and company enrichment. One credit balance covers more than 50 data capabilities, and requests can be pinned to a provider such as Serper or Firecrawl.
Worth knowing
- The pricing page opens on yearly billing; the monthly-billed prices were not readable, so only per-month-billed-annually figures are shown.
- Subscription credits do not roll over, while separately bought credit packs never expire.
- Each request costs from one to several credits depending on the action; a separate credit cost list exists.
- The homepage mentions a free tier but gives no allowance, and the pricing page lists no free plan.
Key features
- Search
- Web, news, maps and autocomplete lookups through one API, auto-routed or pinned to Serper, Perplexity or DataForSEO.
- Scraping
- Fetches static pages, rendered apps and full crawls, with Firecrawl, SpiderCloud and native routes supported.
- Document extraction
- Turns PDFs and other documents into text or structured data through doc-to-text and extract-document endpoints.
- Social and enrichment data
- YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn and Google Reviews data, plus email verification and company enrichment.
- CLI, MCP and HTTP
- The same capabilities are reachable from a command-line tool, an MCP server or plain HTTP calls.
Dumpling AI pricing
As of Nov 12, 2026, Dumpling AI is a paid product, starting at $40 per month, billed annually.
- Starts at
- $40 per month, billed annually
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- None listed
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | $40per month, billed annually | 1,200,000 credits per year, 30 requests per minute, basic support. |
| Pro | $124per month, billed annually | 4,200,000 credits per year, 60 requests per minute, standard support. |
| Business | $249per month, billed annually | 9,600,000 credits per year, 120 requests per minute, priority support. |
Read from dumplingai.com on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Dumpling AI before you buy.
Ways to pay less
- Annual discountYearly billing: 2 months free
The pricing toggle marks yearly billing as 2 months free compared with paying monthly.
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Dumpling AI alternatives
- Dumpling AI vs DataForSEO
Free trial · from $50
- Dumpling AI vs Serper
Free trial · from $50 one-time
- Dumpling AI vs Firecrawl
Free plan · from $16/mo
- Dumpling AI vs Apify
Free plan · from $19/mo
- Dumpling AI vs Scrapfly
Free trial · from $30/mo
Common questions
Does Dumpling AI have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Dumpling AI is listed for Web.
Does Dumpling AI have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Nov 12, 2026. Dumpling AI is listed for Web.
Is Dumpling AI open source?
Dumpling AI is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Nov 12, 2026.
Does Dumpling AI have an API?
Yes. Dumpling AI offers a public API, according to its own site.
Sources for this page
The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 12, 2026.