# WebScraping.AI review (2026): is the free plan enough? > Scraping API with proxies, rendering and AI extraction Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. WebScraping.AI is an API that fetches pages through rotating proxies and headless Chrome, returning HTML, text or AI-extracted JSON. It also has a parsed Google SERP endpoint. Plans are monthly credit allowances, with a pay-as-you-go credit option. - **Category:** SERP & SEO Data APIs - **Made by:** WebScraping.AI (since 2019) - **Website:** https://webscraping.ai - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Tight if you stay on Free: 2,000 credits is 400 rendered pages. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, WebScraping.AI has a free plan, and paid plans start at $29 per month for 250,000 credits. - **Pricing model:** Free plan - **Free plan:** 2,000 API credits per month with up to 2 concurrent connections, no credit card required. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | 2,000 API credits per month and a maximum of 2 concurrent connections. | | Personal | $29 per month for 250,000 credits, billed monthly | 10 concurrent requests and geotargeting. | | Plus | $99 per month for 1,000,000 credits, billed monthly | 25 concurrent requests and geotargeting. | | Startup | $249 per month for 3,000,000 credits, billed monthly | 50 concurrent requests and geotargeting. | | Pay as you go | $20 one-time top-up, used as you go | 100,000 credits at $0.0002 each; credits stay valid for 12 months and top-ups extend the balance. | Read from https://webscraping.ai/#pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with WebScraping.AI before buying. ## Key features - **Rendering and proxies:** Pages load in a Chrome browser with datacenter, residential or stealth proxies, and challenge pages are not charged. - **AI extraction:** Question answering, field extraction to JSON and summaries of page content, for 5 extra credits per request. - **Google SERP endpoint:** Returns parsed Google results as JSON for 15 credits per results page of 10 results. - **Structured scraper endpoints:** Parsed JSON for sites including YouTube, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit and Indeed at 15 credits per page (50 for Reddit). - **SDKs and no-code connectors:** Official libraries for Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java and C#, plus Zapier, n8n and Make. ## Good for - Developers who want rendering, proxies and extraction in one call - Small projects that fit the free 2,000 monthly credits ## Worth knowing - Credits are spent at different rates: 1 for a plain datacenter request, 5 with JS rendering, 10 to 25 for residential proxies and 50 for stealth. - Geotargeting covers proxies in 13 countries, or you can bring your own proxy. - Pay-as-you-go credits are only used after a subscription's monthly quota runs out. - The pricing section on the home page shows monthly prices only; no annual option was found. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 2.4 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. WebScraping.AI loads pages in Chrome, rotates proxies and pulls out data with AI in a single call. The free plan gives 2,000 credits a month and Personal is $29 a month for 250,000. Credit costs jump with the options you turn on: 5 for JavaScript rendering, 10 to 25 for residential proxies and 50 for stealth. - **Value for money: C.** Personal is $29 a month for 250,000 credits, which is the middle of the $19 to $49 range for data APIs. Residential and stealth requests burn credits at 10 to 50 each. - **Free plan and trial: C.** A free plan with 2,000 credits a month, 2 concurrent connections and no card. Rendered pages cost 5 credits, so it stretches to a few hundred. - **Features: B.** Rendering, proxies, AI question answering and extraction, a Google SERP endpoint and structured endpoints for YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and more. Geotargeting covers 13 countries. - **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. SDKs in seven languages and Zapier, n8n and Make help, but you still wire up calls and pick credit-hungry options. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web API with SDKs for Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java and C#, plus Zapier, n8n, Make, Pipedream and Claude. No desktop or phone app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from WebScraping.AI's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among SERP and SEO data APIs - WebScraping.AI's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 27 of the 56 other SERP and SEO data APIs we grade, and level with 19. - It stands best on features (B, above 37 of 56) and worst on value for money (C, above 3). - Its paid plans start at $29 a month, against a middle price of $29 for the category: 18 of the 39 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 WebScraping.AI 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 $348 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, n8n and Make 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. 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