# Scrapingdog review (2026): is it worth $40 a month?

> Web scraping and Google SERP APIs on one shared credit plan

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

Scrapingdog sells more than 40 scraping APIs under one subscription: a general web scraper with proxies and JavaScript rendering, a range of Google APIs (search, AI Mode, Maps, News, Shopping, Scholar, Trends and more), Bing and Brave search, and scrapers for Amazon, YouTube, LinkedIn and other sites. Each plan is a monthly pool of credits shared across every API, and each API costs a set number of credits per request.

- **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs
- **Made by:** OpenData Labs Private Limited
- **Website:** https://www.scrapingdog.com
- **Runs on:** Web
- **Who should skip it:** Watch out: a full Google search costs 10 credits, so Lite's 200,000 credits is about 20,000 searches.
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 23, 2026

## Pricing

As of Oct 23, 2026, Scrapingdog is a paid product with a free trial, starting at $40 per month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free trial
- **Free plan:** None.
- **Free trial:** 100 free credits on sign-up with access to every API, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lite | $40 per month for 200,000 credits, billed monthly | 5 concurrent requests, geotargeting and email support; about 20,000 full Google searches at 10 credits each. |
| Standard | $90 per month for 1 million credits, billed monthly | 50 concurrent requests and priority email support. Unused credits roll over from this plan up. |
| Pro | $200 per month for 3 million credits, billed monthly | 100 concurrent requests, priority email support and team support. |
| Premium | $350 per month for 6 million credits, billed monthly | 150 concurrent requests, with team support. |
| Business | $500 per month for 9 million credits, billed monthly | 200 concurrent requests, with team support. |
| Business Plus | $1,000 per month for 19 million credits, billed monthly | 250 concurrent requests. Plans continue up to Nova Pro at $30,000 a month for 1.1 billion credits. |

Read from https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ on Oct 23, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Scrapingdog before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Two months free with annual billing** (Annual discount): Scrapingdog prices annual billing at ten months for twelve on every plan, the equivalent of two months free. Source: https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/

## Key features

- **Google APIs:** Google SERP Light at 5 credits a request and SERP Advance at 10, plus AI Mode, Images, Shopping, Maps, News, Scholar, Trends, Jobs, Hotels, Lens, Finance, Videos and Patents.
- **Other search engines:** Bing and Brave search APIs at 5 credits a request, and a Universal Search API at 20.
- **General web scraper:** Rotating proxies at 1 credit a request, JavaScript rendering at 5, premium proxies or geotargeting at 10, and an AI Parser at 10.
- **Site-specific scrapers:** APIs for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, YouTube, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), TikTok, Yelp, Indeed and the Apple App Store, all drawing on the same credits.
- **Failed requests refunded:** Failed, blocked and timed-out requests are credited back to the balance automatically.
- **SDKs and no-code tools:** Python and Node.js SDKs, an MCP server, an n8n node and a Google Sheets add-on.

## Good for

- Teams that need Google results and general web scraping from one account
- High-volume Google scraping at a low cost per credit
- Projects that mix SERP data with Amazon, YouTube or LinkedIn data

## Worth knowing

- A full Google search costs 10 credits and a light one 5, so plan credit counts overstate the number of searches.
- When credits run out, requests are refused until the next billing date unless you upgrade; there is no pay-per-use overage.
- Unused credits roll over only from the Standard plan up, and plan changes are not prorated.
- The pricing page lists a Free plan at $0 but describes the 100 credits as a sign-up allowance, without saying they renew.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Oct 23, 2026. Scrapingdog puts Google, Bing and Brave search, a general web scraper and more than 40 site scrapers on one monthly pool of credits. A full Google search costs 10 credits, so the plan figures overstate what you get, and when credits run out requests stop until the next billing date.

- **Value for money: C.** Lite is $40 a month for 200,000 credits, this category's middle. A full Google search is 10 credits, so that's about 20,000 searches, $2 per 1,000. Yearly billing gives two months free.
- **Free plan and trial: C.** No lasting free plan: 100 credits on sign-up with no card, about 10 full Google searches. The pricing page shows a Free plan but doesn't say the credits renew.
- **Features: B.** Google search, AI Mode, Maps, News, Shopping, Scholar, Trends and more, Bing and Brave search, a general scraper and scrapers for Amazon, YouTube and LinkedIn, all on one credit pool. 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: Python and Node.js SDKs and a Google Sheets add-on. No rating on record, and each API costs a different number of credits, so you work out what a search really costs.
- **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web, with an API, Python and Node.js SDKs, an MCP server, an n8n node, a Google Sheets add-on, LangChain and LlamaIndex. 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 Scrapingdog'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

- Scrapingdog'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 $40 a month, against a middle price of $29.49 for the category: 16 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 Scrapingdog 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 $480 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, Google Sheets and LangChain among them, and has an API.
- 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

n8n, Google Sheets, LangChain, LlamaIndex, MCP

**Tags:** SERP API, Public API

## Alternatives

- [SerpApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serpapi): Real-time search results API for Google and dozens of other engines. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-serpapi)
- [Serper](https://toolgpa.com/tools/serper): Google search results API sold in prepaid credit packs. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-serper)
- [SearchApi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/searchapi): Real-time SERP API for Google, AI answers and dozens of other sites. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-searchapi)
- [ScrapingBee](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scrapingbee): Web scraping API with a Google search endpoint, priced by credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-scrapingdog)
- [ScraperAPI](https://toolgpa.com/tools/scraperapi): Web scraping API with Google search endpoints, priced in API credits. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/scraperapi-vs-scrapingdog)

## Sources

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

- https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/integration/
- https://www.scrapingdog.com/about/

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