# Scrapfly review (2026): is it worth $30 a month?

> Web scraping API with anti-bot unblocking, browsers and AI extraction

Checked Oct 23, 2026 · graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA.

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.

- **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs
- **Made by:** Joam Intelligence, LLC (since 2020)
- **Website:** https://scrapfly.io
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Watch out: a request costs 1 credit plain, 5 with a browser, 25 on residential proxies and 60 for a full-page screenshot.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## 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.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **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 | $30 per 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 | $100 per 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 | $250 per 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 | $500 per 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 https://scrapfly.io/pricing on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scrapfly before buying.

## 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.

## Good for

- Developers scraping sites protected by anti-bot systems
- Rank tracking across several search engines from your own code
- Teams that want scraping, browsers and screenshots on one key

## 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.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. 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.

- **Value for money: C.** Discovery 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.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No 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.
- **Features: B.** Search 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.
- **Ease of use: C.** Judged 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.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, 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.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. 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.

## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs

- 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.

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 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.

- You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked.
- You could not: It plugs into other products, Zapier, Make and n8n among them, and has an API.
- You could not: AI features, unless you pay a model provider for each request yourself.
- You could not: The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.

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, Make, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, Scrapy, Cursor

**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/scrapfly-vs-scrapingbee)
- [ZenRows](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zenrows): Web scraping API for protected sites, priced by monthly credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zenrows)
- [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapfly)
- [Zyte](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zyte): Web scraping API with ban handling, AI extraction and a SERP endpoint. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-zyte)
- [Scrapingdog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingdog): Web scraping and Google SERP APIs on one shared credit plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingdog)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026:

- https://scrapfly.io/pricing
- https://scrapfly.io/use-case/seo-and-serp-web-scraping
- https://scrapfly.io/about-us

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