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Oxylabs pricing and alternatives: Perplexity scraper API

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70% complete: 7 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields
$0.00per 1,000 answersWe rank 24 plans by price. Decodo's $19 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 answers: $1.00.
Plan: Welcome credits one of Oxylabs's 5 plans
Call: POST /v1/async/scrape/perplexity Oxylabs's only call for this API
API: Perplexity scraper API one of Oxylabs's 12 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Oxylabs asks Perplexity when you call the API.
  • 7 of the 10 key fields we check. Citations, Products, Places, Videos, Images, Model, Follow-up prompts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit once, enough for about 3,333 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
  • One call. You send query to POST /v1/async/scrape/perplexity. You can also send output, json, location, device, callback_url and storage. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Who can get it: new accounts, one $5 credit per team, not per user. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Oxylabs: Perplexity scraper API alternatives

The table starts with Oxylabs's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 answers closest to Oxylabs's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Oxylabs, $2,500 monthlyDecodo, $1,499 monthlyBright Data, $499 monthlyScrapeBadger, $490 yearly
$ per 1,000 answers$1.30$1.00$1.30$1.361
Completeness70%70%60%70%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$2,500$1,499$499$490
Enough forabout 1,923,076 calls a month1,499,000 calls a month384,000 results a month30,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelive
Who can get itbuyers who ask for an offer ("Get an offer"), plans start at $2,500 a monthanyoneanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone 18 or over

Perplexity scraper 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 2026-10-31.

  1. developers.oxylabs.io/api-reference/dedicated-scrapers/llm-and-ai-scrapers.md
  2. developers.oxylabs.io/dashboard/credit-based-billing.md
  3. developers.oxylabs.io/help-center/most-popular-questions/how-pricing-and-billing-work.md
  4. developers.oxylabs.io/products/web-scraper-api/targets/llms-and-ai/perplexity.md
  5. oxylabs.io/legal/oxylabs-terms-of-service
  6. oxylabs.io/legal/v1-acceptable-use-policy
  7. oxylabs.io/pricing
  8. oxylabs.io/products/web-api/scrape/pricing
  9. oxylabs.io/products/web-api/scrape/targets/pricing

Product details

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

  • Citations
  • Search results, not in the answer
  • Search queries, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Products
  • Places
  • Videos
  • Images
  • Model
  • Follow-up prompts
Price
$ per 1,000 answers$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 167 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchReturns Perplexity's answer to a question, with its cited sources.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataGeneral Conditions: “Without our written consent you may not access the Services for purposes of monitoring their availability, performance or functionality or for any other competitive purposes.” 4.2.5: “the Services can only be used for lawful and legitimate purposes as defined by the best practice standards and this Agreement. Pursuant to the preamble, the Services cannot be used for competitive purposes”. 4.2.9: “the Services shall be used only by and for the benefit of the Customer”. 4.2.10: “the Customer shall not: sell, resell (unless explicitly agreed otherwise in the SoW), license, sublicense, distribute, make available, rent or lease the Services, interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services, permit direct or indirect access to or use of the Services in a way that circumvents the agreed usage limits or other specifications, or use the Services in a manner that violates our Acceptable Use Policy, access or use any of Oxylabs’ intellectual property except as permitted under this Agreement, modify, copy, or create derivative works based on the Services or any part, feature, function or interface thereof, disassemble, reverse engineer, or decompile the Services, or access it to (1) build a competitive product or service, (2) build a product or service using similar ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Services, (3) copy any ideas, features, functions or graphics of the Services, (4) determine whether the Services are within the scope of any patent.” 4.2.11: “If the Customer uses the Services in relation to artificial intelligence (hereinafter - “AI”) systems or models [...] the Customer represents and warrants that such activities comply with all applicable AI laws, including but not limited to the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (the “EU AI Act”), and that it will not use the Services in connection with any AI system falling within Prohibited AI Practices, as defined in the EU AI Act or other activities prohibited by applicable AI laws.” 8.1: “You are solely responsible for the Data you Access by using the Services. As one of the conditions to your use of the Services you agree to not use the Services in a way that would infringe any applicable laws or third party rights, including privacy and intellectual property rights, this Agreement, including but not limited to Acceptable Use Policy.” “The Customer acknowledges that automated data gathering conducted by the Customer by using the Services may constitute input for AI training or development and undertakes to ensure that any such data collection is lawful, respects third-party rights, and is compatible with the Customer’s EU AI Act obligations and other AI Laws.” 4.3.9: “Oxylabs reserves the right to retain data gathered through the Customer's use of the Web Scraper API and Web Unblocker Services under this Agreement and may use it at its sole discretion. Oxylabs will take full responsibility for any and all Oxylabs's use of such data.” Acceptable Use Policy, Automated data gathering: “For this reason we require the Customer not to use the Services (or the data obtained through them) in a way that would: 1. Include collecting or accessing non-public data. Unless the Customer has permission from the site, only publicly available data may be scraped, 2. Be in violation of applicable terms of use/service or other legal documents, 3. Include collecting, accessing, requesting, querying, searching for, or otherwise processing special categories of personal data (e.g., health data), or personal data of minors without a valid legal basis and compliance with applicable legal requirements, 4. Include collecting, accessing, requesting, querying, searching for, or otherwise processing any personal data, unless the Customer (i) has a valid legal basis, (ii) ensures full compliance with all obligations to data subjects under applicable law, (iii) implements appropriate technical and organizational safeguards to protect personal data, and (iv) implements other relevant data protection requirements, 5. Include developing, training, deploying, operating or using Artificial intelligence systems in any manner that violates applicable laws or regulations (including the EU AI Act) or any third party rights. 6. Amount to the extraction or re-utilization of all or a substantial part of the contents of a third-party database, including through the repeated and systematic extraction of insubstantial parts thereof or by reconstructing such contents from data obtained through the Services.” Acceptable Use Policy, Prohibited activities: “The breach of AUP would be considered any of the activities established below (“Prohibited activities”): 1. Posting, requesting, searching for, querying, transmissioning, re-transmissioning, accessing or storing (“Access”) material on or through the Services, if in the sole judgment of Oxylabs such Access is: (a) in violation of any local, state, federal, or non-United States law or regulation (including rights protected by copyright and related rights, including but not limited to database, trade secret, patent or other intellectual property or similar laws or regulations), (b) threatening or abusive, (c) obscene, (d) indecent, or (e) defamatory. Each Customer shall be responsible for determining what laws or regulations are applicable to its use of the products and services. 2. Introduction of malicious programs into the Oxylabs servers (e.g., viruses, trojan horses, worms and etc.). 3. Causing or attempting to cause security breaches or disruptions of Internet communications. Examples of security breaches include but are not limited to accessing/ data of which the Customer is not an intended recipient, or logging into a server or account that the Customer is not expressly authorized to access/request. Examples of disruptions include but are not limited to port scans, flood pings, packet spoofing and forged routing information. 4. Circumventing user authentication or security of any host, network or account or any usage limit, rate limit or other restriction applied by Oxylabs to the Services . 5. Interfering with or denying service to any user other than the Customer's host (e.g., denial of service attack). 6. Furnishing false or incorrect data on the SoW (electronic or paper) or when signing up on Oxylabs self-service dashboard, including fraudulent use of credit card numbers or attempting to circumvent or alter the processes or procedures to document "use" of Oxylabs products or Services. 7. Sending unsolicited mail messages, including the sending of "junk mail" or other advertising material to individuals who did not specifically request such material, who were not previous customers of the Customer or with whom the Customer does not have an existing business relationship (e.g., E-mail "spam"), or distributing, advertising or promoting software or services that have the primary purpose of encouraging or facilitating unsolicited commercial E-mail or spam. 8. Using the Services in any way for the use of ticket buying bots or other automated purchasing tools where such use is prohibited by applicable law. 9. Using the Services in any way to generate invalid ad traffic (via clicks, impressions or otherwise). 10. Using the Services on behalf of or for the benefit of any person subject to sanctions, or to circumvent sanctions, export controls. 10. Using the Services to develop, train, deploy, operate or use any AI system or model that falls within the Prohibited AI Practices under the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (“EU AI Act”)(including, without limitation, biometric categorization based on sensitive traits, social scoring, emotion recognition in workplace or educational contexts, or the untargeted collection of facial images). Where the Services are used to develop, train, deploy, operate or use any High-Risk AI System or General-Purpose AI Model (GPAI) as defined by the EU AI Act, the Customer must ensure full compliance with all applicable obligations under the EU AI Act.”
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Enough forabout 3,333 calls, once
Expiresvalid indefinitely while on the free plan, carried into the first billing cycle of a plan started after it, then lapses
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendquery. Optional: output, json, location, device, callback_url, storage
MethodPOST
Path/v1/async/scrape/perplexity
About the plan
PlanWelcome credits
Who can get itnew accounts, one $5 credit per team, not per user
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

prompt, model, answer blocks, answer markdown, citations, images, hotels, places, videos, products, related prompts, displayed tabs, answer URL, raw answer

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