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ScraperAPI pricing and alternatives: cached web scraping API, GET /, Sync API with ultra premium

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43% complete: 3 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$14.70per 1,000 pagesHalf of the 15 plans we rank by price cost $3.80 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan is cheaper than 6% of the 15 plans.The cheapest plan we rank by price is Firecrawl, $399 monthly, at $0.798 per 1,000 pages.
Plan: Hobby one of ScraperAPI's 13 plans
Call: GET /, Sync API with ultra premium one of ScraperAPI's 2 calls for this API
API: Cached web scraping API one of ScraperAPI's 3 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 10 minutes old. You get the page from ScraperAPI's cache.
  • 3 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown, HTML, Text.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $49 for 100,000 credits, enough for about 3,333 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at renewal.
  • One call. You send url to GET /. You set ultra_premium to "true". You can also send country_code, device_type, output_format, follow_redirect, autoparse, max_cost and cache_control. The call returns the page's content.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScraperAPI: cached web scraping API alternatives

We list other providers' plans with a price per 1,000 pages.

This planScraperAPI, $49 monthly, Hobby, GET /, Sync API with ultra premiumFirecrawl, free
$ per 1,000 pages$14.70$0.00
Completeness43%86%
Billingmonthlyfree
Pay$49$0
Enough forabout 3,333 calls a month1,000 calls a month
Freshness10 minutes2 days
Who can get itanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian

Cached web scraping API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. docs.scraperapi.com/control-and-optimization/cached-responses
  2. docs.scraperapi.com/control-and-optimization/cost-control
  3. docs.scraperapi.com/control-and-optimization/premium-residential-mobile-proxy-pools
  4. docs.scraperapi.com/control-and-optimization/supported-parameters
  5. docs.scraperapi.com/getting-started/quick-start/credits-and-requests-costs
  6. docs.scraperapi.com/responses-and-formats/api-status-codes
  7. docs.scraperapi.com/responses-and-formats/output-formats
  8. scraperapi.com/pricing.md
  9. scraperapi.com
  10. scraperapi.com/pricing
  11. scraperapi.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Screenshot, not in the answer
  • Markdown
  • HTML
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$14.70
Billingmonthly
$ a month$49
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Amazon Product API · Amazon Search API · Amazon Offers API · eBay Product API · eBay Search API · Home Depot Product API · Home Depot Reviews API · Home Depot Search API · Walmart Product API · Walmart Search API · Walmart Category API · Walmart Reviews API · Google News API · Google Jobs API · Google Shopping API · Google Maps Search API · Redfin Agent Details API · Redfin 'For Rent' Listings API · Redfin 'For Sale' Listings API · Redfin Listing Search API · ChatGPT · Perplexity · Gemini · Google AI Mode · Google SERP API · Sync API · Sync API with JS rendering · Sync API with premium proxies · Sync API with premium proxies and JS rendering · Sync API with ultra premium and JS rendering · Sync API with screenshot · Async API · Async API with JS rendering · Async API with premium proxies · Async API with premium proxies and JS rendering · Async API with ultra premium · Async API with ultra premium and JS rendering
Overage
Units caphard
In their words
Their pitchWe also have a higher premium level that can be used on really tough target websites.
Data
Freshness10 minutes
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the Platform and Services solely for the purposes of data extraction from publicly accessible pages or APIs on publicly accessible websites [...] provided such use does not conflict with these Terms of Use. [...] It is strictly prohibited to gather data from third party sites in violation of the third party sites’ own terms of service, or by logging into a website that is protected by authentication and/or authorisation mechanisms such as OAUTH or API Key or login. [...] You may not: Use them in a manner likely to unreasonably limit usage by our other customers, including but not limited to burdening the server on which the Platform is located by automated requests outside the interface designed for such a purpose or otherwise harm other customers, us, our proxies or any target websites in any way, Gather, save, enable the transmission to third parties or enable access to the content that is (themselves or their accessibility) contradictory to the generally binding legal regulations effective under applicable law where the Platform or Services are used or where detrimental consequences could arise by taking such actions [...]
Plan
Pay$49
You get100,000 credits a month
Enough forabout 3,333 calls a month
Expiresat renewal
Rate limit
Concurrent20
The call
You sendurl, ultra_premium "true". Optional: country_code, device_type, output_format, follow_redirect, autoparse, max_cost, cache_control
MethodGET
Path/
About the plan
PlanHobby
Who can get itanyone
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

page HTML, page markdown, page text, credits used, from cache

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