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25 APEX alternatives in 2026

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The best alternatives to APEX for web scraping APIs: Scrappey, WebScraping.AI and APIFreaks, by our benchmark. APEX's website is apexfaucet.xyz.

Web scraping API alternatives

Scrappey, WebScraping.AI and APIFreaks are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our APEX plan pages, we compare each APEX plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 pages first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 pages
AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Standard$0.30
Decodo, $99 monthly, $99, POST /v1/scrape, 330,000 requests a month$0.30
JsonLink, $15 monthly, Hobbie, POST /api/markdown$0.30
ScrapeOps, $15 monthly$0.30
APIFreaks, $20 pack, One-Off 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API$1.00
Scrappa, pay as you go$1.00
SerpKite, $10 pack$1.00
WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering$1.00
FetchFox, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/visit$2.00
2s.io, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /api/search/extract$9.00

Compare every web scraping API plan: Web scraping API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Email verification API alternatives

pingutil, Validemail.co and looot are the best email verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our APEX plan pages, we compare each APEX plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 emails first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 emails
VerifNow, free$0.00
SendSure, $5,340 yearly, Growth Yearly, up to 500,000 / month, POST /api/scoring/batch$0.089
Antideo, $20 monthly$0.093
CleanTalk, $556.80 yearly, 500,000 checks a month, 12 months (20% off), GET /, email_check$0.093
Invertexto, R$49 monthly$0.096
BillionVerify, $20 pack, Starter, POST /verify/bulk$1.00
DeBounce, top-up from $200, 200K credits, GET /v1/, Single email validation$1.00
MillionPhones, $100 monthly$1.00
Prime Verifier, $200 pack, Pay-As-You-Go 200,000 credits, POST /v1/verify/single$1.00

Compare every email verification API plan: Email verification API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

Business verification API alternatives

GovFiles, CompanyData.com and Didit are the best business verification API providers in the Datacircle benchmark for companies in any country.

On our APEX plan pages, we compare each APEX plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 companies first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 companies
Ambolt, pay as you go, Pay per call with x402, GET /v1/lei-lookup$5.00
Asimplek, pay as you go, Pay per call with x402, POST /v1/entity/resolve$5.00
Companyfacts, $10 pack$5.00
OpenSOSData, $500 monthly, Scale Cached, POST /v1/lookup$5.00

Compare every business verification API plan: Business verification API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

News API alternatives

Scrappa, SerpScraper.dev and ReefAPI are the best news API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

On our APEX plan pages, we compare each APEX plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.

Provider and plan$ per 1,000 searches
CrustAPI, top-up from $10$1.00
ReefAPI, $50 monthly, Ultra monthly, POST /news-intel/v1/search$1.00
Scrappa, pay as you go, x402, GET /api/google/news$1.00
SerpKite, $10 pack$1.00

Compare every news API plan: News API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared

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