Web ›Scraping ›Web scraping API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared ›106 Expand alternatives in 2026 106 Expand alternatives in 2026 By Wayne Hamadi , founder of Datacircle. Last updated: November 6, 2026 The best Expand alternatives for web scraping APIs: WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey, by our benchmark of October 29, 2026.
Web scraping API alternatives Expand is #17 of the 102 providers we rank.
Every provider of this API, ranked: Web scraping API: best providers in 2026
Rank Provider and plan Overall score Accuracy score $ per 1,000 pages 1 WebScraping.AI, $29 monthly, Personal 85.6 93 $0.116 2 ScraperAPI, $299 monthly, Business 85.2 93 $0.10 3 Scrappey, top-up, Pay As You Go 85.2 93 $0.113 4 APIFreaks, $100 monthly, Monthly 1,500,000 credits 84.9 98 $0.267 5 AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10 84.3 93 $0.20 6 FineData, $399 monthly, Team L 83.7 94 $0.08 7 Geonode, $100 pack, Try Unlimited, $100 for 48 hours 83.5 98 $0.20 8 Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go 83.1 91 $1.00 9 Scrappa, $10 pack 83.0 89 $0.303 10 Scrapestack, $79.99 monthly, Professional 82.7 93 $0.08 11 Crawl4AI Cloud, $10 monthly, Starter 82.5 94 $0.50 12 Desearch, top-up, Pay as you go 81.4 92 $0.50 13 SerpKite, $300 pack 79.3 92 $0.60 14 XCrawl, $499 monthly, Scale 78.4 95 $0.416 15 Bulkgrid, $79 monthly 76.8 93 $0.79 16 Scrapeless, $49 monthly, Growth 76.6 93 $0.90 18 FetchFox, $10 monthly, Monthly subscription 76.2 99 $1.00 19 Serpex, top-up from $50 75.7 93 $0.65 20 Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale 74.3 89 $1.00 21 DeepSFetch, $249 monthly 72.8 88 $0.996 22 SerpScraper.dev, top-up from $5 72.7 87 23 WebcrawlerAPI, $499 monthly, Business 72.0 95 $1.00 24 Exa, top-up from $5, Developer (pay as you go) 71.7 60 $1.00 25 GoLogin, $299 monthly 71.1 97 $0.598 26 DataBlue, $299 monthly 71.0 88 $1.04 27 API Ninjas, $299 monthly 70.8 92 $0.03 28 Litescrape, top-up from $10, Usage-based 70.6 98 $0.15 29 Context.dev, $500 monthly, Scale 69.4 100 $1.00 30 AnyCrawler, $80 monthly, Growth 69.1 91 $0.167 31 Nimble, pay as you go 68.8 93 $1.00 32 HasData, $249 monthly, Growth 3M 68.5 93 $0.083 33 Notte, $20 monthly 68.4 99 34 Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go 68.3 93 $0.10 35 ScrapingAnt, $49 monthly, Startup 68.0 93 $0.098 36 Ujeebu, $12 pack, Mini 67.9 93 $0.24 37 StealthASF, $17 monthly, Hobby 67.8 93 $0.243 38 Thunderbit, $120 monthly, Pro 67.8 78 $1.00 39 Decodo, $19 monthly, $19 67.4 100 $0.75 40 Scraping Robot, top-up, Business 67.3 92 $1.80 41 ScrapeOwl, $29 monthly, Bootstrap 67.1 93 $0.116 42 Irmu, $90 monthly, Standard 66.2 93 $0.09 43 Valyu, top-up from $10, Pay-as-you-go 66.2 78 $1.25 44 DomScan, $6 monthly 66.1 83 $0.24 45 ScrapingBypass, $129 pack, Advanced Plan (1-Month Plan) 65.6 93 $0.129 46 ContextFetch, $199 monthly, Startup 65.4 38 $0.796 47 AgentQL, $0 monthly 65.2 90 $0.00 48 LLMLayer, top-up, Pay as you go 65.2 93 $1.00 49 Scrapio, $79 monthly 65.2 92 $0.79 50 Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up 65.1 93 $0.89 51 Hyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup 65.1 100 $1.00 52 Geekflare, $349 monthly, Business 65.0 93 $0.349 53 Parallel, top-up 64.8 73 $1.00 54 Microlink, €39 monthly, Pro · 46,000 requests / month 64.7 99 $0.954 55 ScrapeUnblocker, pay as you go 64.7 94 $1.125 56 Browserless, $200 monthly, Starter 64.2 92 $0.556 57 Clawifi, $299 monthly, Scale 64.2 52 $0.598 58 AnyCrawl, $99 monthly 63.7 98 $0.66 59 ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly, Pro Plan 63.6 98 $0.667 60 Spidra, $249 monthly, Pro 63.6 84 $1.992 61 OpenGraph.io, $25 monthly, Developer 63.3 88 $0.50 62 Social Fetch, $29 monthly, Starter 63.3 100 $1.611 63 Tabstack, $10 monthly, Starter 63.0 96 $1.00 64 Novada, $20 monthly 62.4 94 $1.30 65 PhantomJsCloud, $10 monthly 60.8 93 $0.022 66 WaterCrawl, €19 monthly 60.7 93 $0.713 67 Zenscrape, $99.99 monthly, Medium 60.5 93 $0.10 68 LucidExtractor, $45 monthly, Professional 60.0 86 $1.80 69 crawlbrulee, €399 monthly, ultra 59.7 93 $0.898 70 ScrapeOps, $29 monthly 59.2 92 $0.116 71 CaptureKit, $89 monthly 58.5 93 $1.78 72 Supadata, $297 monthly 58.4 78 $0.99 73 You.com, top-up 58.1 72 $1.00 74 Urlbox, $266 monthly, Lo-Fi (70,000 renders a month) 58.0 93 $3.80 75 Anchor Browser, $50 monthly 57.4 95 $5.00 76 PagePixels, $59.99 monthly 57.1 87 $1.9997 77 JustSerpAPI, $400 monthly 57.0 82 78 ScreenshotOne, $259 monthly 56.7 93 $5.18 79 Trawlia, $49 monthly 56.5 44 $1.225 80 Steel, top-up from $10 55.9 99 $5.00 81 Parsera, $169 monthly, Business 55.7 99 82 Browserbase, $99 monthly, Startup 55.3 92 $9.90 83 apipick, $5 pack 55.1 77 $2.00 84 EnConvert, $99 monthly, Studio 54.8 86 $6.60 85 WebSearchAPI.ai, $189 monthly 54.3 93 $3.78 86 API.SH, $50 monthly, Monthly $50 54.1 60 $1.00 87 Search1API, $19 monthly, Basic 53.7 59 $0.76 88 Rayobyte, top-up 53.2 92 $1.80 89 ScreenshotAPI, $175 monthly 52.7 99 $1.75 90 WebScrapingAPI, $149 monthly, Advanced 51.8 93 91 glim.sh, top-up 51.1 64 $2.00 92 AnySearch, $3 pack 50.6 60 $3.00 93 The Drive AI, top-up, Pro 50.0 84 $10.00 94 PageBolt, $199 monthly 48.9 66 $1.99 95 Unstuckapi, $10 pack 48.6 56 $5.00 96 MrScraper, $19 monthly, Scraper Starter 47.6 50 97 API League, $39 monthly 42.8 12 $0.26 98 Surf, top-up from $20 42.2 56 $6.00 99 browserfoundry by keirolabs, $99.99 monthly 40.9 43 100 Axiom.ai (browser automation API), $250 monthly 40.5 49 101 NewsAPI.ai (Event Registry), $400 monthly 33.1 4 $0.40 102 World News API, $39 monthly, Reporter 26.7 9 $5.20
Web search API alternatives On our Expand plan pages, we compare each Expand plan with other providers' plans. We list other providers' plans below, cheapest per 1,000 searches first.
Provider and plan $ per 1,000 searches Zhipu, top-up, Prepaid balance (充值), POST /paas/v4/web_search, Search-Std $1.496 Firecrawl, $749 monthly, Scale, POST /v2/search, Search $1.498 Scrapingdog, $900 yearly $1.50 Social Fetch, $225 monthly $1.50 Scrapall, $45 pack $1.667 Hyperbrowser, contact us, Enterprise, POST /api/web/search, Search not published NOSIBLE, contact us, Production, POST /api/search/v2/bulk-search not published Octen, contact us, Enterprise, POST /pulse-search, Pulse Search not published WaterCrawl, contact us not published
Compare every web search API plan: Web search API pricing: free and cheapest plans compared
