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Best web scraping API in 2026

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ScraperAPI, Scrapestack and HasData are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 4 providers and rank all 4 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 pages cost. We rank 473 plans by price. The cheapest plan is Scrapestack, $199.99 monthly, Business, at $0.067 per 1,000 pages.

Every web scraping API provider we score, ranked

  1. ScraperAPI, $475 monthly, Scaling: Overall score 83.4, Data score 72, $0.095 per 1,000 pages
  2. Scrapestack, $79.99 monthly, Professional: Overall score 83.0, Data score 72, $0.08 per 1,000 pages
  3. HasData, $249 monthly, Growth 3M: Overall score 81.9, Data score 74, $0.083 per 1,000 pages
  4. Scrapeless, $49 monthly, Growth: Overall score 71.1, Data score 72, $0.90 per 1,000 pages

  1. #1 ScraperAPI: Web scraping API

    ScraperAPI, $475 monthly, Scaling

    It returns 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML, Text.

    Overall score
    83.4
    $ per 1,000
    $0.095
    Price score
    97
    • $ per 1,000 pages the provider can't fetch: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 473
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 pages than this plan: 15
    Data score
    72
    Cost to get started score
    62
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $475
    Bundle score
    97
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Amazon Product API · Amazon Search API · Amazon Offers API · eBay Product API · eBay Search API and 32 more
    Performance score
    79
    • This call's median time on 28 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.121 s
    • Scrapestack, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.676 s
    • On 28 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 19 pages as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.9257 out of 1 on those 19 pages. We can be 95% sure it scores at least 0.72 out of 1. That gives it a Data score of 72 out of 100.

  2. #2 Scrapestack: Web scraping API

    Scrapestack, $79.99 monthly, Professional

    It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: HTML.

    Overall score
    83.0
    $ per 1,000
    $0.08
    Price score
    99
    • $ per 1,000 pages the provider can't fetch: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 473
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 pages than this plan: 3
    Data score
    72
    Cost to get started score
    75
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $79.99
    Bundle score
    50
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Scrape with premium_proxy=1
    Performance score
    100
    • This call's median time on 28 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.676 s
    • Scrapestack, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.676 s
    • On 28 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 19 pages as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.9257 out of 1 on those 19 pages. We can be 95% sure it scores at least 0.72 out of 1. That gives it a Data score of 72 out of 100.

  3. #3 HasData: Web scraping API

    HasData, $249 monthly, Growth 3M

    It returns 5 of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text, Links.

    Overall score
    81.9
    $ per 1,000
    $0.083
    Price score
    87
    • $ per 1,000 pages the provider can't fetch: $0.083
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 473
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 pages than this plan: 4
    Data score
    74
    Cost to get started score
    67
    • How you pay: monthly
    • Least to pay before your first result: $249
    Bundle score
    98
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 62 other calls
    Performance score
    94
    • This call's median time on 28 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.777 s
    • Scrapestack, the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.676 s
    • On 28 October 2026, we sent this provider the same 19 pages as every other provider in our benchmark.
    • We scored this plan 0.934 out of 1 on those 19 pages. We can be 95% sure it scores at least 0.74 out of 1. That gives it a Data score of 74 out of 100.

The Data score on web scraping APIs

Out of 100: how much of the page's text the call returns. Each web scraping API on this sheet fetches the page when you call the API. Within minutes of each call, we open the page in our own browser. We keep each line of the page with three words or more. A line counts when the answer's text, HTML or Markdown has the same line. For each page, we work out what share of the page's lines the answer holds. We average this share over all pages. Each page counts the same. A call that failed or returned no text counts as 0. Extra text in the answer that the page doesn't show doesn't change the score. We leave out a page our browser could not open. We also leave out a page with fewer than 10 lines. We then lower the score to the lowest score we are 95% sure the call earns. We lower the score more when we test fewer pages.

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