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Scrapio pricing and alternatives: Perplexity scraper API

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30% complete: 3 of the 10 key fields we checkSee the 10 fields

$17.40per 1,000 answersHalf of the 52 plans we rank by price cost $3.10 per 1,000 answers or less. This plan is cheaper than 36% of the 52 plans.PerceptLayer's $399 pack costs the least per 1,000 answers: $0.798.
Plan: Starter one of Scrapio's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/perplexity/prompt Scrapio's only call for this API
API: Perplexity scraper API one of Scrapio's 51 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Scrapio asks Perplexity when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 10 key fields we check. Citations, Model, Follow-up prompts.
  • A monthly subscription. You pay $29 a month for 25,000 credits, enough for about 1,666 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire at the end of the billing cycle.
  • One call. You send prompt to GET /v1/perplexity/prompt. You can also send geo. The call returns Perplexity's answer.
  • Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Scrapio: Perplexity scraper API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 answers. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planScrapio, $29 monthlyOxylabs, $500 monthlyBright Data, top-upScrapeBadger, top-up from $10cloro, $30 monthly, Lite, POST /v1/monitor/perplexity
$ per 1,000 answers$17.40$1.50$1.50$3.00$4.80
Completeness30%70%60%70%70%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstpay firstmonthly
Pay$29$500any amount$10$30
Enough forabout 1,666 calls a monthabout 333,333 calls a monthas many as you pay foras many as you pay for6,250 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contractanyoneanyone 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 2026-11-02.

  1. docs.scrapio.dev/api-reference/perplexity.md
  2. docs.scrapio.dev/rate-limits
  3. scrapio.dev
  4. scrapio.dev/pricing
  5. scrapio.dev/release-notes
  6. scrapio.dev/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$17.40
Percall
Billingmonthly
$ a month$29
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 169 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
In their words
Their pitchSends a prompt to Perplexity (which always performs a live web search) and returns the structured response: answer Markdown, suggested related queries, and cited sources.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataTerms of Service, 4. Acceptable Use: "You may only scrape or fetch content from websites you own, have explicit permission to access, or where doing so complies with applicable law and the target site's terms. You must not use the Service to collect personal data without a lawful basis under applicable privacy law (e.g. GDPR, CCPA). You must not use the Service to bypass authentication, circumvent paywalls, or engage in credential stuffing. You must not resell, sublicense, or white-label the Service without our written consent. You must not use the Service in a way that damages, disables, or impairs our infrastructure or that of third parties. Automated bulk collection of personal data, medical records, financial data, or government data is prohibited without our express written approval.", 7. Intellectual Property: "All content fetched through the Service remains the property of its respective owners.", 8. Data and Privacy: "You are solely responsible for the data you collect through the Service and for complying with all applicable data protection laws."
Plan
Pay$29
You get25,000 credits a month
Enough forabout 1,666 calls a month
Expiresat the end of the billing cycle
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendprompt. Optional: geo
MethodGET
Path/v1/perplexity/prompt
About the plan
PlanStarter
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contract
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

prompt, model, answer markdown, related prompts, citations

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