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Best Gemini scraper API in 2026

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Decodo, DataForSEO and Bright Data are the best Gemini scraper API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 3 providers. We list all three, ranked by score. For each one, we show its top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 answers cost. We rank 38 plans by price. Decodo's $19 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 answers: $1.00.

  1. #1 Decodo: Gemini scraper API

    Decodo, $19 monthly

    It returns 2 of the 8 key fields we check: Citations, Model.

    Overall score
    88.8
    $ per 1,000
    $1.00
    Price score
    88
    • $ per 1,000 prompts the provider gets no answer for: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 38
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 answers than this plan: 0
    Data score
    98
    Cost to get started score
    85
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $19
    Bundle score
    99
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 100 other calls
    Performance score
    52
    • This call's median time on 30 October 2026, minus the baseline: 31.716 s
    • DataForSEO, the fastest benchmarked provider: 16.608 s
    • On 30 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 prompts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9762 out of 1 on those 20 prompts. That gives this plan a Data score of 98 out of 100.

  2. #2 DataForSEO: Gemini scraper API

    DataForSEO, top-up from $50, Pay as you go

    It returns 4 of the 8 key fields we check: Citations, Images, Tables, Model.

    Overall score
    63.0
    $ per 1,000
    $4.00
    Price score
    35
    • $ per 1,000 prompts the provider gets no answer for: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 38
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 answers than this plan: 23
    Data score
    70
    Cost to get started score
    82
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $50
    Bundle score
    93
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: SERP API · AI Optimization API · Backlinks API · Content Analysis API · DataForSEO Labs API and 9 more
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 16.608 s
    • DataForSEO, the fastest benchmarked provider: 16.608 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 prompts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.6996 out of 1 on those 20 prompts. That gives this plan a Data score of 70 out of 100.

  3. #3 Bright Data: Gemini scraper API

    Bright Data, top-up

    It returns 3 of the 8 key fields we check: Citations, Links, Model.

    Overall score
    59.5
    $ per 1,000
    $1.50
    Price score
    67
    • $ per 1,000 prompts the provider gets no answer for: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 38
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 answers than this plan: 9
    Data score
    52
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: no minimum, you top up any amount
    Bundle score
    50
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: other scrapers in the Web Scraper API library
    Performance score
    35
    • This call's median time on 31 October 2026, minus the baseline: 47.829 s
    • DataForSEO, the fastest benchmarked provider: 16.608 s
    • On 31 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 20 prompts as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.5238 out of 1 on those 20 prompts. That gives this plan a Data score of 52 out of 100.

The Data score on Gemini scraper APIs

We score each provider's call out of 100 on how much of Gemini's answer the call returns. We ask Gemini one prompt at a time, from the United States. One prompt is "What are the best GitHub user repository APIs?". We check which parts of the answer the call returns. The parts are the text, the raw data, the model, the cited pages and the sources. Gemini gives a new answer each time you ask. So we don't compare the words of two answers. We compare each list with the longest list on the same prompt. The cited pages are one such list. We average the scores over all prompts. Each prompt counts the same. A prompt with no answer counts as 0. We compare a provider that ran on fewer prompts with the other providers on those same prompts. A provider can't score higher by running only on easy prompts. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer prompts than the benchmark has.

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