Best ScraperAPI alternative for one price per page (2026)

ScraperAPI is one of the oldest scraping APIs still standing. Send it a URL and it fetches the page through rotating proxies, retries on failure for up to a minute, and returns the HTML. On top of that it sells structured endpoints for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, Google, Redfin, and lately ChatGPT and Perplexity results, an async API for jobs that can wait, and DataPipeline, a low-code tool that takes a list of up to 100,000 URLs and delivers the results. It bought Traject Data in April 2026, so the structured side is growing.

The pricing is per-site credits, and that's what makes the bill hard to guess. A plain page is one credit. Rendering it in a browser is ten. An Amazon page is five, a Google page twenty-five, a LinkedIn page thirty, and a site behind Cloudflare or DataDome adds ten on top. Your $49 Hobby plan is 100,000 credits, which is 100,000 plain pages or 4,000 Google pages, and whatever's left resets to zero at renewal.

Here's where ScraperAPI is the right choice, where paying per request wins, and what each job costs.

Where ScraperAPI is strong

ScraperAPI earns its place when scraping is an operation you run, not a call you make.

• It handles the jobs you'd rather not babysit. The async API takes a batch and works on it for up to 24 hours. DataPipeline takes a list of URLs, ASINs, or keywords, up to 100,000 at a time, and delivers HTML, JSON, or CSV on a schedule.
• It tries hard. ScraperAPI retries a failing request for up to 60 seconds before it gives up, its docs put the average success rate around 98%, and it only bills a 200 or a 404.
• It'll get through the hard sites, for a price. Premium proxies at 10 credits, ultra premium at 30, and a named bypass for Cloudflare, Turnstile, DataDome, and PerimeterX at 10 credits each. The max_cost parameter caps what any one request can spend.
• Structured endpoints keep coming. Amazon, Walmart, and eBay products and searches, Google search, news, jobs, shopping, and maps, Redfin listings, and results from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Mode.
• The plan comes with throughput. 20 concurrent threads on Hobby, 300 on Professional, and geotargeting to 80-plus countries from the Business plan up.

If that's you, ScraperAPI is a sensible buy. The rest of this post is for people who want the data, not the operation.

Where AnyAPI wins

If you make calls rather than run jobs, the per-site credit table is the whole problem, and the plan is the second one.

One price per call, no credit table

ScraperAPI's pricing is five monthly plans: Hobby at $49 for 100,000 credits and 20 threads, Startup at $149 for a million and 50 threads, Business at $299 for three million and 100 threads, Scaling at $475 for five million, and Professional at $975 for 10.5 million. Yearly billing takes 10% off. Credits reset when the plan renews, per ScraperAPI's own FAQ.

The credit table is where the price hides. On Hobby, a plain page is $0.49 per 1,000, but a rendered page is $4.90, an Amazon product $2.45, a Google results page $12.25, and a LinkedIn page $14.70. Startup halves and then some, but the shape is the same: the sites you actually want cost 5 to 30 times the headline rate.

Paying per request has one price on the endpoint page and it doesn't change with the plan, because there's no plan. A rendered page is $0.70 per 1,000, a Google results page $0.90, an Amazon product $1.00, an Amazon search $0.50, a LinkedIn company $1.43. A month with no calls is $0 instead of $49.

The data, already parsed

ScraperAPI's plain endpoint returns HTML, and the structured endpoints cover the stores and Google. Everything else you parse. AnyAPI's catalog is 366 endpoints, most of them the platforms a scraping API gets used for: an Instagram profile at $1.20 per 1,000, a TikTok profile at $1.20, a LinkedIn profile at $4.00, a Reddit search at $0.45, a YouTube transcript at $1.25, a Google results page at $0.90. One key, one request shape, one JSON envelope, and the response tells you what the call cost.

Failures are quick and free

ScraperAPI's docs say to expect latencies of 4 to 12 seconds and 1 to 3% of requests to fail unbilled. In a June test of ScraperAPI against ScrapingBee, its median for a rendered page was 13.5 seconds, and the requests that failed took 36 to 57 seconds to do it, because it retries internally before it gives up.

AnyAPI's page scraper takes a different approach to the same problem. Four providers sit behind it, the cheapest goes first, and a miss moves to the next one. Forty-eight test fetches had a 1.5 second median, and a call that fails on every provider costs nothing.

One call, and what it cost

Here's a Google results page the pay-per-request way: nine results as JSON for $0.0009 in 1.4 seconds on September 11, 2026. On ScraperAPI's Hobby plan the same page is 25 credits, or 1.2 cents.

curl https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/google.search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $ANYAPI_KEY" \
  -d '{"query": "best web scraping api"}'

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/google.search",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['ANYAPI_KEY']}"},
    json={"query": "best web scraping api"},
)
body = r.json()
print(body["costUsd"], len(body["output"]["data"]["results"]))
# 0.0009 9

const r = await fetch("https://api.getanyapi.com/v1/run/google.search", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.ANYAPI_KEY}` },
  body: JSON.stringify({ query: "best web scraping api" }),
});
const { costUsd, output } = await r.json();
console.log(costUsd, output.data.results.length); // 0.0009 9

Swap google.search for web.scrape and a URL, or amazon.product and an ASIN, and the call is otherwise the same.

The same eight pages through ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, and AnyAPI

Eight pages, three rounds each, on September 13, 2026, with JavaScript rendering on for all three services and the standard proxy tier on both credit vendors: a static page, two scraping sandboxes, the Hacker News front page, an e-commerce sandbox, an Amazon product page, a G2 review page behind Cloudflare, and a Best Buy search. A call counted only when the page's own text came back. AnyAPI's column is two runs, so 48 calls.

ScraperAPI's docs say to expect 4 to 12 seconds and a 1 to 3% failure rate. Rendered, it was slower than that and the failures took longer. Three things in the table decide the choice.

The Cloudflare page is the whole argument for fallback. ScrapingBee's standard tier got a 500 from G2 every time and, to its credit, charged nothing; getting through would mean its stealth proxy at 75 credits a page. ScraperAPI got through once in three at 30 credits and spent 29 seconds failing the other two. AnyAPI's cheapest provider missed it every time and the next one answered every time, for $0.001 a page instead of $0.0007. Same job, no setting to change.

Rendering is where ScraperAPI's credits go. A rendered page cost 10 credits on the sandboxes and 20 on the static page and the Best Buy search, so the same 24 calls that were 105 credits on ScrapingBee were 265 on ScraperAPI, and two of them never came back inside two minutes. ScrapingBee's rendered pages were 5 credits every time, which matches the June test. Speed followed the same order, 1.5 seconds here, 2.2 on ScrapingBee, 13 on ScraperAPI rendered, but that's the subtext; the credit table is the bill.

A 404 is billed on both credit vendors. Amazon answered the product URL with a 404 for both, and both charged for it, 5 credits on each. AnyAPI's provider got a 200 with a "Continue shopping" wall and charged $0.0007. Nobody got the product. If Amazon is the job, the Amazon product endpoint at $1.00 per 1,000 is the call to make, not a page fetch.

Other ScraperAPI alternatives worth a look

ScraperAPI's closest rivals sell the same thing, HTML back through someone else's proxies, on the same credit-bundle model with different multipliers. These are the ones that publish a usable number, read from their pricing pages on September 13, 2026, at the entry paid tier with every credit used.

ZenRows is the closest match in shape: a monthly credit bundle where rendering costs 5 credits and a premium proxy 10, so a rendered page on the $19 plan is $2.11 per 1,000. Two things it does that ScraperAPI doesn't: unused credits roll over for a month, and the free tier is 5,000 credits every month rather than once. Its pricing page shows the annual price until you click Monthly, so the $16 you'll see first is the yearly rate.

Scrapfly is the cheapest rendered page in this table on a plan, at $0.90 per 1,000 on $30 a month, and it lets you cap what any request can spend with a cost_budget parameter. Its anti-bot layer is free when the site isn't blocking and unpriced when it is, which is the part you'd want a number for. Residential proxies with rendering are 30 credits, or $4.50 per 1,000.

Zyte API prices per request by how hard Zyte rates the site, from $0.13 per 1,000 for a simple page to $1.27 for an advanced one, and $1.01 to $16.08 with a browser. No plan, no minimum, failures free. It's the best buy for easy sites at volume and the worst for a hard one, and you don't choose the tier, Zyte does.

ScrapingAnt is $19 for 100,000 credits with 10,000 free every month, plain pages at $0.19 per 1,000 and rendered at $1.90. Its multiplier table is the steepest here: a rendered page through a residential proxy is 125 credits, or $23.75 per 1,000.

Crawlbase is the one with a balance that never expires, on a ladder that starts at $3.00 per 1,000 and falls to $0.50 at a million, alongside a $99 plan. Residential proxies and CAPTCHA handling are in every request, and a site's difficulty tier multiplies the price by up to 20.

Bright Data's Web Unlocker and Oxylabs are the enterprise pair. Bright Data is $1.50 per 1,000 whether or not the page needs a browser, with 5,000 free a month and unlimited concurrency, so below that volume it's free and above it it's the dearest plain page in the table. Oxylabs is a monthly results plan from $49, with Amazon pages at $0.50 per 1,000 and everything else at $1.15. The best Bright Data alternative covers that side of the market.

The short version: plain pages at volume, Zyte for easy sites or Scrapfly on a plan. A free tier you can build on, ScrapingAnt or Bright Data's 5,000. A balance that never expires, Crawlbase. One price per rendered page with no bundle to fill, pay per request. ScraperAPI's other direct rival is priced in the best ScrapingBee alternative.

ScraperAPI vs paying per request, at a glance

Limitations and tradeoffs

Running a scraping operation with batches, schedules, and hard targets? Stay on ScraperAPI. The async API, DataPipeline, the named bypasses, and the thread counts are what an operation needs, and plain HTML at Startup's $0.15 per 1,000 is hard to beat.

Making calls for data? Pay per request. One price per endpoint, no credit table to reason about, no plan that resets, and the sites you actually want are the same price as the easy ones.

Two limits on AnyAPI's side. There's no batch or async mode, so a 100,000-URL job is 100,000 calls you make yourself. And a plain, unrendered page costs $0.70 per 1,000 here against $0.49 on ScraperAPI's Hobby plan, because every page goes through a browser.

For the head-to-head with its closest rival, see ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI, tested and the best ScrapingBee alternative. If search results are the main job, the best SerpApi alternative prices that on its own.

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