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ScraperAPI pricing and alternatives: Perplexity scraper API

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30% complete: 3 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: Free Plan one of ScraperAPI's 15 plans
Call: GET /structured/perplexity/search/v1 ScraperAPI's only call for this API
API: Perplexity scraper API one of ScraperAPI's 14 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 3 of the 10 key fields we check. Citations, Model, Follow-up prompts.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 40 calls. Unused credits expire at renewal.
  • One call. You send query to GET /structured/perplexity/search/v1. You can also send include_html. The call returns Perplexity's answer.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScraperAPI: Perplexity scraper API alternatives

The table starts with ScraperAPI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 answers closest to ScraperAPI's. We also show the Otterly.ai plan. Its price is farther from the price of ScraperAPI's cheapest paid plan.

ScraperAPI, $21,330 yearlyDecodo, $1,499 monthlyOxylabs, $500 monthlyBright Data, top-upScrapeBadger, $49 monthlyOtterly.ai, $189 monthly
$ per 1,000 answers$2.067$1.00$1.50$1.50$1.633$94.50
Completeness30%70%70%60%70%40%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Pay$21,330$1,499$500any amount$49$189
Enough for860,000 calls a month1,499,000 calls a monthabout 333,333 calls a monthas many as you pay for30,000 calls a month2,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownlivelivelivelive1 day
Who can get itanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone 18 or over, not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanonanyone 18 or overanyone

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. docs.scraperapi.com/getting-started/quick-start/credits-and-requests-costs
  2. docs.scraperapi.com/llms.txt
  3. docs.scraperapi.com/resources/faq/general
  4. docs.scraperapi.com/structured-data-endpoints/ai-results/perplexity.md
  5. scraperapi.com/pricing.md
  6. scraperapi.com
  7. scraperapi.com/pricing
  8. scraperapi.com/terms

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, not in the answer
  • Places, not in the answer
  • Videos, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
  • Model
  • Follow-up prompts
Price
$ per 1,000 answers$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Perplexity Search API endpoint fetches response data from a results page of a Perplexity prompt. Results can be returned in raw HTML format or as a structured JSON format.
Data
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$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for40 calls a month
Expiresat renewal
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendquery. Optional: include_html
MethodGET
Path/structured/perplexity/search/v1
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

prompt, answer URL, model, answer markdown, citations, related prompts

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