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ScrapeUp pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, POST /, Unlocker + rendering

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43% complete: 3 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 1,253 plans by price. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Lite Basic, 30-day free trial one of ScrapeUp's 11 plans
Call: POST /, Unlocker + rendering one of ScrapeUp's 12 calls
API: Web scraping API ScrapeUp's only API

About this item

  • Live. ScrapeUp fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • 3 of the 7 key fields we check. 1 is in the plan's price: HTML. 2 cost extra: Markdown, Text.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 25,000 credits, enough for about 333 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 30 days.
  • One call. You send url to POST /. You set unlock to "true" and render to "true". The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapeUp: web scraping API alternatives

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

ScrapeUp, $29 monthly, Lite Plus, POST /, Unlocker + renderingScrapingAnt, $19 monthly, Enthusiast, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Headless browser (JS rendering) + premium (residential) proxyStealthASF, €11 pack, 25k credit pack, POST /v1/scrape, Ultra requestScraperAPI, $49 monthly, Hobby, GET /, Sync API with ultra premium and JS renderingThunderbit, $192 yearly, Starter, POST /distill, Distill Single Page, full
$ per 1,000 pages$36.25$23.75$24.757$36.75$41.60
Completeness43%29%14%43%71%
Billingmonthlymonthlypay firstmonthlyyearly
Pay$29$19€11$49$192
Enough for800 calls a month800 calls a month500 callsabout 1,333 calls a monthabout 4,615 calls a year
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a confirmed email who accepts the Acceptable Use Policyanyone at least 18 years old, or with a parent's permissionanyoneanyoneanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greater

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 2026-10-30.

  1. scrapeup.com/acceptable-use
  2. scrapeup.com/documentation
  3. scrapeup.com/guide
  4. scrapeup.com/pricing/

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
  • Markdowncosts more
  • HTML
  • Textcosts more
  • 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
Extra fieldspage markdown, page text, URL, credits used: +$0.00 · extracted data, extraction model, URL, credits used: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Standard scrape · JavaScript rendering · Premium scrape · Premium + rendering · Web Unlocker
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchScrapeUp turns websites and documents into structured, validated data — through one API, extracted to the schema you define.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"You are responsible for ensuring your specific use complies with applicable law and any contractual or terms-of-service obligations you have with the sources you target.", "You may not use the Service to: Infringe intellectual property. Collect, reproduce, or redistribute copyrighted material [...] where you do not hold the rights or a valid license to do so, or where the collection facilitates unauthorized access to or distribution of such works. [...] Break the law. Engage in, facilitate, or support any activity that is illegal under applicable law [...] Access illegal or exploitative content. Collect, process, or transmit child sexual abuse material (CSAM) [...] Circumvent security or access controls. Defeat authentication, paywalls, encryption, or access-control measures in a manner that constitutes unauthorized access under applicable computer-fraud law [...] Collecting data behind credentials you are not authorized to use is prohibited. Violate privacy and data-protection law. Harvest personal data in violation of applicable privacy regulations [...], or collect sensitive personal information for purposes such as unlawful surveillance, stalking, doxxing, or discriminatory profiling. Enable spam, abuse, or attacks. Support unsolicited bulk messaging, credential stuffing, denial-of-service attacks, vulnerability exploitation, or the distribution of malware. Abuse the Service or its infrastructure. Resell or redistribute raw Service access, share credentials across unrelated parties, or generate request volumes or patterns that degrade Service quality, harm the reputation of shared proxy pools, or are designed to evade rate limits, plan tiers, or billing.", "We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to restrict, block, or refuse traffic to specific target domains, categories of targets, or request patterns that in our judgment create legal risk, infrastructure risk, reputational risk to shared proxy resources, or a violation of this AUP."
Plan
Pay$0
You get25,000 credits
Enough forabout 333 calls
Expires30 days
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl, unlock "true", render "true". Optional: lazy_load, hash, method, json, form, keep_headers, country_code, session_number, base_url, device, output, extract, extract_prompt, extract_model, include_html
MethodPOST
Path/
About the plan
PlanLite Basic, 30-day free trial
Who can get itanyone with a card on file and a confirmed email who accepts the Acceptable Use Policy, not billed until the trial ends
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

page HTML, status code, response headers, response cookies, request ID

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