# Scraping Robot review (2026): is it worth it? > Pay-per-scrape web scraping API with no monthly subscription Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. Scraping Robot is a web scraping API that handles proxies, browsers and JavaScript rendering and returns pages, or parsed data such as Google search results, as JSON. It is sold by the scrape from credits bought up front that never expire, with no monthly subscription, and the company also builds custom scraping modules to order. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** Scraping Robot, LLC - **Website:** https://scrapingrobot.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: the homepage and the pricing page give per-scrape prices that don't match, from $0.0018 down to $0.00004. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing Scraping Robot's current pricing could not be confirmed from its own site. ## Key features - **HTML API:** Send a page address and a module name to one endpoint and get the page back, with JavaScript rendering available. - **Proxies and browsers handled:** Proxy management and rotation, browser scaling and changes in sites' anti-scraping measures are handled by Scraping Robot. - **Parsed JSON output:** Results come back as structured JSON; the homepage example shows a Google search parsed into results, related queries and result counts. - **Credit endpoints:** Check the credit balance and usage statistics over a chosen period through the API. - **Custom modules:** For data the ready-made modules do not cover, the team quotes for and builds a custom scraping module. ## Good for - Occasional scraping jobs that do not justify a monthly plan - Developers who want proxies and rendering handled for them - Projects that need a scraper built to order ## Worth knowing - The homepage lists $0.0018 a scrape up to 500,000 scrapes and as low as $0.00045 beyond, while the pricing page shows as low as $0.00004; the two could not be reconciled. - There is no subscription: credits are bought up front and never expire, and failed results or timeouts are not charged. - A soft limit of 100 requests a minute per customer applies unless support raises it. - Webhooks, screenshots, POST requests, sessions and output to Zapier or Sheets are listed as coming soon. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.0 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. Scraping Robot handles proxies, browsers and rendering and returns pages, or parsed data such as Google results, as JSON, sold per scrape from credits that never expire. Its own pages give per-scrape prices that don't agree, and webhooks, screenshots, POST requests and sessions are still listed as coming soon. - **Value for money: C.** No plan prices are on record. The homepage says $0.0018 a scrape, $1.80 per 1,000, up to 500,000 scrapes and as low as $0.00045 beyond, while the pricing page says as low as $0.00004, and the two couldn't be reconciled. Credits never expire. - **Free plan and trial: C.** No free plan: 5,000 free scrapes on sign-up, a one-off allowance. Failed results and timeouts aren't charged. - **Features: C.** One HTML API with JavaScript rendering, handled proxies, parsed JSON output and custom modules built to order. The gaps are in the listing: webhooks, screenshots, POST requests and sessions are coming soon, and no search engine is named beyond a Google example. - **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: one endpoint, a module name and endpoints to check credit use. No rating on record, and a soft limit of 100 requests a minute applies unless support raises it. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Web only, with a REST API. Output to Zapier or Google Sheets is listed as coming soon, and no integrations or SDKs are named. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Scraping Robot'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 - Scraping Robot's GPA of 2.0 is higher than 1 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 5. 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 Scraping Robot 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: 32 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs grade higher. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: An API that other software can build on. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **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/scraping-robot-vs-scrapingbee) - [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scraping-robot) - [Scrapingdog](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingdog): Web scraping and Google SERP APIs on one shared credit plan. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scraping-robot-vs-scrapingdog) - [Crawlbase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/crawlbase): Crawling API with built-in scrapers, Google SERP to JSON included. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/crawlbase-vs-scraping-robot) - [Scrape.do](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrape-do): Web scraping API with ready-made Google and AI search scrapers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scraping-robot) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 23, 2026: - https://scrapingrobot.com/pricing/ - https://scrapingrobot.com/ - https://scrapingrobot.readme.io/reference/basic-usage - https://scrapingrobot.readme.io/llms.txt - https://scrapingrobot.com/the-process/ - https://scrapingrobot.com/about-us/ - https://scrapingrobot.com/terms-of-service/ Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraping-robot Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).