Scrapfly review (2026): is it worth $30 a month?
Web scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, browsers and AI extraction
Scrapfly report card
Fair · out of 4.0 · graded Oct 24, 2026
Best for scraping protected sites and several search engines
Scrapfly puts a scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, a cloud browser, a crawler, extraction and screenshots on one key and one pool of credits, and returns Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex or Baidu results as JSON. A request costs 1 to 60 credits depending on what it needs, the $30 plan stops dead at its quota, and team accounts start at $250 a month.
Who Scrapfly is for
- Fits if you track rankings on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex or Baidu from your own code
- Works for developers who want scraping, a hosted browser and screenshots on one key
Who Scrapfly is not for
- Watch out: a request costs 1 credit plain, 5 with a browser, 25 on residential proxies and 60 for a full-page screenshot
- Tight if your usage spikes on Discovery, which stops at its quota with no pay-as-you-go overflow
- Pricey if you need a team, since Discovery and Pro are single-user and team management starts at $250 a month
- Tight if your usage swings, as credits reset at renewal and don't roll over
Why Scrapfly gets a 2.4
Five grades, each with its reason. The GPA is their average: an A is 4 points, an F is none.
- CValue for moneyDiscovery is $30 a month for 200,000 credits, this category's middle. What that buys swings with the request: 1 credit plain, 5 with a browser or the Unblocker, 25 with residential proxies, so 8,000 to 200,000 pages. Pro is $100 for 1 million.
- CFree plan and trialNo free plan: 1,000 credits on sign-up with no card and no time limit, across every product. They don't renew, and at 25 credits on residential proxies that's 40 requests.
- BFeaturesSearch results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex and Baidu with positions and SERP features as JSON or CSV, anti-bot unblocking, proxies in more than 190 countries, a cloud browser, a site crawler, AI extraction and screenshots. Nothing in the listing shows a gap in the core job.
- CEase of useJudged on how fast a developer gets a first result: one flag for unblocking, SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy, and a CLI. No rating on record, and the credit cost of each request changes with its options.
- BPlatforms and integrationsWeb, with an API, SDKs, a CLI and a hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Cline and Windsurf, plus Zapier, Make, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex and CrewAI. No desktop or phone app, so B is the top.
What these grades rest on. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Scrapfly's own pages on 23 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. How we review and grade.
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Scrapfly's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 16 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 14.
It stands best on features (B, above 26 of 38) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0).
Its paid plans start at $30 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 14 of the 25 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 39 SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, cut by the letter each got. Scrapfly’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 1 of 38, level with 19
- CFree plan and trialAbove 2 of 38, level with 32
- BFeaturesAbove 26 of 38, level with 11
- CEase of useAbove 0 of 38, level with 36
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 9 of 38, level with 29
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 26 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 Scrapfly, or make your own?
Keep it
To replace Scrapfly 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.
It costs $360 a year.
What you could not
- Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- It plugs into other products, Zapier, Make and n8n among them, and has an API.
- AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Scrapfly’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 Scrapfly?
Scrapfly is a set of web scraping APIs that share one key and one pool of monthly credits: a scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, a cloud browser, a site crawler, a data extraction API and a screenshot API. It can return search results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and other engines as structured data, and the credits a request uses depend on whether it needs a browser, residential proxies or a screenshot.
Worth knowing
- A request costs 1 credit as plain HTTP on a datacenter IP, 5 with a browser or the Unblocker, 25 with residential proxies and 60 for a full-page screenshot.
- Discovery stops when its credits run out; only Pro and above continue as pay as you go.
- Credits reset at renewal and do not roll over. Failed requests are not charged.
- Discovery and Pro are single-user accounts; team management starts at Startup for $250 a month.
Key features
- Web Scraping API with Unblocker
- One flag handles anti-bot systems, browser rendering, proxy rotation and retries, with residential and datacenter proxies in more than 190 countries.
- Search result scraping
- Send a query with a location and get positions, titles, URLs, snippets and SERP features back as JSON or CSV from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex or Baidu.
- Cloud Browser and Crawler APIs
- Drive a hosted Chromium with Playwright or Puppeteer and keep sessions between calls, or crawl a whole site in one job with path filters and webhooks.
- Data Extraction API
- Turn pages into JSON with ready-made models for products, articles, reviews and jobs, with CSS or XPath templates, or with plain-language AI prompts.
- Screenshot API
- Full-page or viewport captures in PNG, JPEG or WebP, with auto-scroll and scheduled captures sent to a webhook.
- MCP server, CLI and SDKs
- A hosted MCP server for Claude, Cursor, Cline and Windsurf, a command-line tool, and SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy.
Scrapfly pricing
As of Oct 23, 2026, Scrapfly is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $30 per month for 200,000 API credits.
- Starts at
- $30 per month for 200,000 API credits
- Free plan
- None
- Free trial
- 1,000 free API credits on sign-up, no card needed and no time limit
| Plan | Price | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | $30per month for 200,000 API credits | 5 concurrent requests, 1 week of logs and one user. Stops at the quota, with no pay-as-you-go overflow. |
| Pro | $100per month for 1,000,000 API credits | 20 concurrent requests, 2 weeks of logs and one user. Extra credits at $3.50 per 10,000. |
| Startup | $250per month for 2,500,000 API credits | 50 concurrent requests, 3 weeks of logs and team management. Extra credits at $2.00 per 10,000. |
| Enterprise | $500per month for 5,500,000 API credits | 100 concurrent requests, 4 weeks of logs, team management and premium support. Extra credits at $1.20 per 10,000. |
| Custom | Custom | Negotiated volume above 5.5 million credits, with committed concurrency, dedicated residential IPs, a BAA and 24/7 support. |
Read from scrapfly.io on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scrapfly before you buy.
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Common questions
Does Scrapfly have an Android app?
No Android app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Scrapfly is listed for Web.
Does Scrapfly have an iPhone app?
No iPhone app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 23, 2026. Scrapfly is listed for Web.
Is Scrapfly open source?
Scrapfly is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 23, 2026.
Does Scrapfly have an API?
Yes. Scrapfly 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 Oct 23, 2026.