# ScrapeOwl review (2026): is it worth $29 a month? > Web scraping API with residential proxies and JS rendering Checked Nov 12, 2026 ยท graded Nov 12, 2026 by ToolGPA. ScrapeOwl is a web scraping API that returns only the page elements a request names, or the full page if none are named. It offers residential proxies, JavaScript rendering, geo-targeting and CAPTCHA avoidance. Every feature is on every plan, and plans differ by credits, threads and support. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** ScrapeOwl - **Website:** https://scrapeowl.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay free: only the 1,000 sign-up credits. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 12, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 12, 2026, ScrapeOwl is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $29 per month for 250,000 credits. - **Pricing model:** Free trial - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** 1,000 free credits on sign-up, no credit card required. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Bootstrap | $29 per month for 250,000 credits | 10 threads, best-effort SLA and basic support with a response within 24 hours. | | Startup | $99 per month for 1M credits | 25 threads, a guaranteed SLA and priority support with a response within 8 hours. | | Business | $249 per month for 3M credits | 50 threads, a guaranteed SLA and priority support with a response within 8 hours. | Read from https://scrapeowl.com/pricing on Nov 12, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ScrapeOwl before buying. ## Key features - **Element extraction:** A request can name the elements to return, so no HTML parsing is needed; leaving the field empty returns the full page. - **Residential proxies and geo-targeting:** A premium_proxies option uses residential IPs, and a country can be set for localized results such as Amazon.fr and Amazon.ae. - **JavaScript rendering:** A render_js option runs Chrome instances, with optional custom JavaScript injected and screenshots for debugging. - **Captcha avoidance:** The homepage says requests avoid triggering captchas from Cloudflare, hCaptcha and Google reCAPTCHA. - **No-code connectors:** Requests can also be sent from Integromat, Parabola, Zapier and Postman as well as from cURL, Python, Ruby and Node. ## Good for - Developers scraping product, social or search pages at modest volume - Teams that want every feature on every plan - No-code builders using Zapier or Parabola ## Worth knowing - The pricing page does not say how many credits a request costs; options such as JS rendering and residential proxies are separate request parameters. - Only the 1,000 sign-up credits are free, and the site does not say whether they renew. - The Bootstrap plan has a best-effort SLA; a guaranteed SLA begins at Startup. - Pages show a 2025 copyright date, so check that the service is current before committing. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 12, 2026. ScrapeOwl is a scraping API with JavaScript rendering, residential proxies, geo-targeting and captcha avoidance. It starts at $29 a month for 250,000 credits, only 1,000 sign-up credits are free, and the page does not say how many credits a request uses. - **Value for money: C.** $29 a month for 250,000 credits, in the middle of this category ($19 to $44.10). The credit cost per request is not on the page. - **Free plan and trial: C.** 1,000 credits on sign-up with no card, but it is not stated whether they renew. - **Features: C.** Element extraction, residential proxies, geo-targeting, rendering and captcha avoidance. Each option is a separate request setting, so the real cost is unclear. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. An API key and parameters to learn, though Zapier and Parabola help. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with Zapier, Parabola, Integromat and Postman as the named connections. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from ScrapeOwl'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 - ScrapeOwl's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 3 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 7. - Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 16 of the 33 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 11 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 ScrapeOwl 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: 38 of the 48 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. It costs $348 a year. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Zapier, Parabola and Integromat among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Zapier, Parabola, Integromat, Postman **Tags:** SERP API, Public API ## Alternatives - [ScrapingBee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingbee): Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapeowl-vs-scrapingbee) - [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. 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