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ScraperAPI pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, POST /jobs, Async API with JS rendering

ScraperAPI's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026
43% complete: 3 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesThe cheapest of the 473 plans we rank by price is Scrapestack, $199.99 monthly, Business, GET /scrape, Scrape, at $0.067 per 1,000 pages.ScraperAPI, Scrapestack and HasData are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Plan one of ScraperAPI's 15 plans
Call: POST /jobs, Async API with JS rendering one of ScraperAPI's 13 calls for this API
API: Web scraping API one of ScraperAPI's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call fetches the page when you make it.
  • 3 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown, HTML, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 100 calls. Unused credits expire at renewal.
  • One call. You send url to POST /jobs. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json" and apiParams.render to "true". The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. Or the provider sends the answer to your webhook.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScraperAPI: web scraping API alternatives

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

ScraperAPI, $21,330 yearly, Advanced, POST /jobs, Async API with JS renderingZenRows, $990 yearly, Launch L2, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, JavaScript renderingCrawlForge, $990 yearly, Professional, POST /tools/extract_textHasData, $249 monthly, Growth 3M, POST /scrape/web, Web Scraping API, JavaScript renderingScrapingAnt, $249 monthly, Business, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Headless browser (JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy
$ per 1,000 pages$0.827$0.825$0.825$0.83$0.83
Completeness43%43%29%71%29%
Billingyearlyyearlyyearlymonthlymonthly
Pay$21,330$990$990$249$249
Enough for2,150,000 calls a month1,200,000 calls a year1,200,000 calls a year300,000 calls a month300,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone of legal age (18) with the legal capacity to contractanyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyoneanyone at least 18 years old, or with a parent's permission

Every web scraping API provider we score, ranked

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/asynchronous-api/callbacks-and-api-params
  2. docs.scraperapi.com/asynchronous-api/job-handling
  3. docs.scraperapi.com/asynchronous-api/overview
  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/javascript-rendering/overview
  7. docs.scraperapi.com/responses-and-formats/api-status-codes
  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$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWe've designed our Async API with high-reliability in mind. It allows you to submit a job (or a batch of jobs) that runs in the background until the requested pages are successfully scraped or for up to 24 hours.
Data
Freshnesslive
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 for100 calls a month
Expiresat renewal
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerby polling or webhook
The call
You sendurl, Content-Type header "application/json", apiParams.render "true". Optional: apiParams.wait_for_selector, apiParams.country_code, apiParams.session_number, apiParams.keep_headers, apiParams.device_type, apiParams.output_format, apiParams.follow_redirect, apiParams.autoparse, apiParams.retry_404, apiParams.max_cost, callback.type "webhook", callback.url, expectUnsuccessReport, timeoutSec, meta
MethodPOST
Path/jobs
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

job ID, job status, status URL, source URL, page HTML, page markdown, page text, response headers, status code, metadata

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