# ScrapingAnt review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Web scraping API with headless Chrome, proxies and AI extraction Checked Oct 23, 2026 ยท graded Oct 24, 2026 by ToolGPA. ScrapingAnt is a web scraping API that loads each page in a fresh headless Chrome with rotating proxies and returns its HTML, clean Markdown or fields pulled out by a plain-language AI extractor. It reads Google, Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo result pages through the same endpoint, and the pages they link to, on one credit pool. Plans are monthly credit allowances with no cap on parallel requests. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** DATAANT SP. Z O.O. - **Website:** https://scrapingant.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Watch out: search pages come back as HTML, and JSON through the AI extractor costs 1 more credit per 30 characters read and written. - **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026 ## Pricing As of Oct 23, 2026, ScrapingAnt has a free plan, and paid plans start at $19 per month for 100,000 API credits. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 10,000 API credits every month, with failed requests not charged. No card needed. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 10,000 API credits a month, enough for about 1,000 Google result pages at 10 credits each. | | Enthusiast | $19 per month for 100,000 API credits | Email support and documentation for integration help. | | Startup | $49 per month for 500,000 API credits | Priority email support and custom code snippets. | | Business | $249 per month for 3,000,000 API credits | Priority email support, debug sessions and expert assistance. | | Business Pro | $599 per month for 8,000,000 API credits | Priority debug sessions, custom proxy pools and custom anti-bot handling. | | Custom | $699 per month and up for 10M+ API credits | Priority and dedicated support, full onboarding and a dedicated account manager. Through sales. | Read from https://scrapingant.com/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with ScrapingAnt before buying. ## Key features - **Headless Chrome rendering:** Each request runs in a fresh Chrome instance, with custom JavaScript snippets, waits for a CSS selector, and custom cookies and headers. - **Rotating proxies:** Datacenter and residential proxies across 100+ countries rotate per request, with geo-targeting by country code and CAPTCHA and Cloudflare handling. - **Search result pages:** Send a Google, Bing, Yandex or DuckDuckGo results address to the same endpoint to get the page back, then scrape the result pages on the same key. - **Markdown and AI extraction:** Get any page as LLM-ready Markdown, or describe fields in plain English and receive JSON, billed by the characters read and written. - **No concurrency cap:** Every plan can send requests in parallel without queues or throttling; ScrapingAnt allocates browsers and proxies per request. - **MCP server:** Adds tools for page HTML, Markdown and text to Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf and other MCP clients, drawing on the plan's credits. ## Good for - Developers who need search results and the pages they link to - AI agents reading web pages as Markdown through MCP - Jobs that send many requests in parallel ## Worth knowing - Google requests cost 10 credits each; other pages cost 1 to 125 credits by browser and proxy choice, with residential proxies and JavaScript rendering the most. - Search pages come back as HTML by default; JSON needs the AI extractor, which adds 1 credit per 30 characters read and written. - Unused credits do not carry over; a plan that runs out mid-month can be restarted at once by paying again. - Standalone residential and datacenter proxies are billed by GB, separately from API credits. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.6 out of 4**, graded Oct 24, 2026. ScrapingAnt loads each page in a fresh headless Chrome with rotating proxies and returns HTML, Markdown or AI-extracted fields, and it reads Google, Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo result pages through the same endpoint. Search pages come back as raw HTML, though: JSON means paying extra for the AI extractor, and unused credits don't carry over. - **Value for money: B.** Enthusiast is $19 a month for 100,000 credits, on the line of this category's cheaper quarter. A Google request is 10 credits, so that's 10,000 result pages, $1.90 per 1,000, before any AI extraction. - **Free plan and trial: B.** A free plan for good: 10,000 credits every month with no card, about 1,000 Google result pages, and failed requests aren't charged. A side project could run on that. - **Features: C.** Headless Chrome, rotating proxies in 100+ countries, Markdown output and plain-English AI extraction, with Google, Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo pages on one key. The gap is in the listing: search pages come back as HTML, and JSON needs the AI extractor at extra credits. - **Ease of use: C.** Judged on how fast a developer gets a first result: one endpoint, no concurrency cap and an MCP server. No rating on record, and requests range from 1 to 125 credits by browser and proxy choice. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API and an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and Windsurf, plus n8n, Make and GitHub Actions. 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 ScrapingAnt'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 - ScrapingAnt's GPA of 2.6 is higher than 31 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 3. - It stands best on free plan and trial (B, above 35 of 38) and worst on ease of use (C, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $19 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 3 of the 25 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. 1 tool scores higher and costs 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 ScrapingAnt 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 is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.6 is higher than 31 of the 38 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade. It costs $228 a year. - You could not: Search results fetched at scale from many countries without being blocked. - You could not: It plugs into other products, n8n, Make and Claude Code 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 n8n, Make, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Actions **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/scrapingant-vs-scrapingbee) - [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. 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