# ScrapeNinja review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Scraping API with rotating proxies and Chrome fingerprinting Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. ScrapeNinja is a web scraping API that handles proxies, retries and headless browsers and returns data as JSON. It offers a fast network engine that emulates Chrome requests and a real-browser engine with JavaScript evaluation, plus online tools for building extractors. Plans are sold through the APIRoad marketplace. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** ScrapeNinja - **Website:** https://scrapeninja.net - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a no-code scraper, since you write extractors yourself. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, ScrapeNinja has a free plan, and paid plans start at $25 per month for 100,000 requests. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** Basic plan: 100 requests a month, $0. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Basic | $0 | 100 requests per month. | | Pro | $25 per month for 100,000 requests | 100,000 basic requests per month. | | Ultra | $75 per month for 500,000 requests | 500,000 basic requests per month. | | Mega | $150 per month for 1,500,000 requests | 1,500,000 basic requests per month. | ScrapeNinja's own pricing page could not be read; these figures come from https://apiroad.net/marketplace/apis/scrapeninja on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ScrapeNinja before buying. ## Key features - **Chrome fingerprint emulation:** Sends requests that emulate a real Chrome browser without running Puppeteer, to avoid blocks based on TLS fingerprints. - **Two network engines:** Switch between raw network requests for speed and a headless browser with JavaScript evaluation for pages that need it. - **Rotating proxies and retries:** Rotating datacenter proxies in the US, EU, Germany, France and Brazil, with retries based on timeouts, status codes and page text. - **JavaScript extractors:** Short JS snippets pull JSON out of HTML, and an online builder and Cheerio playground help write and test them. - **Premium proxies:** Premium datacenter proxies cost from $1.50 per GB and come with a 50MB gift package for each customer. ## Good for - Developers who want proxies, retries and browsers handled for them - Small projects that fit the 100-request free plan - Teams that prefer an OpenAPI spec and docs an LLM can read ## Worth knowing - Plans are bought on the APIRoad marketplace, and ScrapeNinja's own site has no pricing page of its own. - Browser-engine requests cost 7 billing points each, so a plan covers about one seventh as many /scrape-js calls. - The Basic plan has only 100 requests a month, which is enough for testing only. - It is a general scraping API; there is no dedicated SERP endpoint or SEO metrics on the site. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. ScrapeNinja is a scraping API with Chrome fingerprint emulation, two network engines, rotating proxies and JavaScript extractors. Its own site has no pricing page, plans are sold through APIRoad, and the free plan is 100 requests a month, which is testing only. - **Value for money: C.** $25 a month for 100,000 requests on APIRoad, inside the middle of this category ($19 to $44.10). Browser-engine requests cost 7 points each. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free Basic plan with 100 requests a month, which the listing itself calls enough for testing. - **Features: C.** Chrome fingerprint emulation, two engines, proxies with retries and JavaScript extractors. It is a general scraper with no ready-made site templates. - **Ease of use: D.** No store rating on record. You write the requests and the extractors in JavaScript, through a marketplace key. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, and it is sold through APIRoad and RapidAPI. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ScrapeNinja's own pages on 12 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs - ScrapeNinja's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 1 of the 56 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on free plan and trial (C, above 5 of 56) and worst on ease of use (D, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $25 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 14 of the 39 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 1.7 out of 4. 14 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/seo-data-apis ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace ScrapeNinja 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: 52 of the 56 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. It costs $300 a year. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: It plugs into other products, APIRoad and RapidAPI among them, and has an API. - You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with APIRoad, RapidAPI **Tags:** SERP API, Public API, AI features ## Alternatives - [ScrapingBee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingbee): Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapeninja-vs-scrapingbee) - [ScrapingAnt](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingant): Web scraping API with headless Chrome, proxies and AI extraction. 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