Best Web Scraping APIs 2026

The 8 tools, at a glance

Sources (verified 25 Jul 2026): ScraperAPI pricing · Bright Data pricing · Oxylabs pricing · Zyte pricing · ScrapingBee pricing · Apify pricing · Scrapfly pricing · ScrapingDog pricing. Each vendor also links from its row above.

Honest summaries

ScraperAPI

ScraperAPI is a single API endpoint that handles proxy rotation, headless-browser rendering, and CAPTCHA/anti-bot handling behind one request. Paid plans run from $49/mo (100,000 credits, 20 concurrent threads) up to $1,975/mo (21,500,000 credits, 500 concurrent threads), billed monthly or at a discount if billed annually. The two entry tiers (Hobby, Startup) restrict geotargeting to the US and EU; global geotargeting starts on the Business tier and up. A 7-day free trial gives 5,000 credits with no credit card required. Source: scraperapi.com/pricing.

Bright Data (Web Scraper API)

Bright Data's Web Scraper API is priced per successfully-delivered record rather than per request — you aren't charged for failed deliveries. Pay-as-you-go runs $1.50 per 1,000 records; the Scale plan is $499/mo and includes 384,000 records with additional records at $1.30/1,000. A free tier gives 5,000 records/month with no credit card. Bright Data also sells a separate, lower-level "Web Unlocker API" (from roughly $1 per 1,000 requests) for teams that want raw page access rather than pre-parsed records — worth checking if $499/mo looks too high for your entry point. Source: brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper.

Oxylabs (Web Scraper API)

Oxylabs' Web Scraper API starts from $49/mo with a free trial (the pricing page does not publish an exact trial length or credit-request cap). Oxylabs positions itself on enterprise compliance — the FAQ cites SOC 2, ISO 27001, and GDPR — and also sells Residential Proxies (from $6/GB), Web Unblocker (from $9.40), Mobile Proxies (from $7.50/GB), ISP Proxies (from $16), and SOCKS5 Proxies (from $8) as separate line items. Source: oxylabs.io/pricing.

Zyte API

Zyte, built by the team behind the open-source Scrapy framework, prices per successful response with volume-committed discount tiers: a $100/mo commitment prices requests at $16.08 per 1,000; a $200/mo commitment drops that to $12.00 per 1,000; a $500/mo commitment drops it further to $9.60 per 1,000, with larger volumes negotiable direct with sales. The "from $0.06 per 1,000 successful responses" headline figure on the pricing page is the rate at the largest committed volumes, not the entry price — budget from the $100/mo tier instead. A free trial gives $5 of credit for 30 days with no commitment. Source: zyte.com/pricing.

ScrapingBee

ScrapingBee runs $49/mo for 250,000 credits (50 concurrent requests) up to $599/mo for 8,000,000 credits (400 concurrent requests), with a custom tier above that. As with ScraperAPI, a plain request costs 1 credit while JavaScript rendering, premium/stealth proxies, or AI extraction cost more. The company states SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance. A one-time 1,000-credit trial requires no credit card. Source: scrapingbee.com (pricing section).

Apify

Apify is structurally different from the rest of this list: instead of one generic "fetch this URL" endpoint, it's a marketplace of thousands of pre-built, task-specific scrapers ("Actors") you can run as-is, fork, or build your own on top of. Pricing is by compute unit (CU) — the Free plan is $0/mo with $5 of platform credit at $0.20/CU, no credit card required; Starter is $29/mo ($0.20/CU); Scale is $199/mo ($0.16/CU); Business is $999/mo ($0.13/CU). Because cost depends on the specific Actor's compute usage rather than a flat per-request rate, the "cheapest" plan for your use case depends heavily on which Actor you run. Source: apify.com/pricing.

Scrapfly

Scrapfly's headline differentiator on its own pricing page is that failed requests are never charged. A free API key has no credit card requirement and, per the vendor, "no time limit — use it forever for prototypes and smoke tests," alongside 1,000 free credits. Paid plans run $30/mo (Discovery, $0.15/1,000 credits) through $500/mo (Enterprise, $0.09/1,000 credits), with custom contracts from $1,200/mo to $30,000+/mo for very high volume. Source: scrapfly.io/pricing.

ScrapingDog

ScrapingDog has the lowest published entry price in this comparison: $0/mo forever with 200 request credits (1 concurrency, no credit card), then $40/mo for 200,000 credits (5 concurrency), scaling through Standard ($90/mo, 1,000,000 credits), Pro ($200/mo, 3,000,000 credits, the vendor's "Popular" tier), and further tiers up to enterprise volume. Like Scrapfly, failed requests are never charged. Source: scrapingdog.com/pricing.

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