How much does Octoparse cost?
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- Free trial available on Standard and Professional via application; length not stated
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- No long-term contract. Monthly, quarterly and annual billing options; cancel any time from account settings
- Free plan. Free forever plan: 10 tasks, 1 device, local runs only, 50K rows of data export per month, up to 10K per export. Paid plans needed for cloud runs.
- Notice before price changes. At least 14 days notice before fee changes
Watch out for
- No refunds on a long commitment. 5-day money-back guarantee on paid plans; otherwise fees nonrefundable
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Free signup, no credit card required for Free plan; paid plans via Subscribe "The Octoparse Free plan is free forever with no credit card required."
- Setup
- Download desktop app or use web console; templates need no setup "Run a ready-made template, let AI Assistant browse the site and build the task for you, or start from Auto-detect in the desktop app and refine with drag-and-drop."
- When sales steps in
- Enterprise plan is contact sales (750+ tasks, 40+ concurrent cloud processes) "Contact Sales"
- Support
- Email support at support@octoparse.com "support@octoparse.com"
- Support
- Priority support on Professional, dedicated success manager on Enterprise "Priority support"
What Octoparse does
Octoparse turns websites into structured data through 680+ maintained templates, a visual desktop app with Auto-detect, and an AI Assistant that builds reusable scrapers. Tasks run locally or on Octoparse Cloud with IP rotation, CAPTCHA solving, scheduling, and access via API, MCP Server and CLI beta.
- Good for
- Small and mid-sized teams, business users, researchers, and developers or AI agent builders who need structured web data without writing code.
- Channels
- Desktop app, Web console, Template Gallery, API, MCP Server, CLI (beta)
- Main product
- Octoparse (web data platform: Desktop, Template Gallery, AI Assistant, Cloud, Open Platform)
- Also includes
- Octoparse Desktop app with Auto-detect, 680+ maintained templates, AI Assistant that builds scrapers, Octoparse Cloud execution, IP rotation and residential proxies, Automatic CAPTCHA solving
- Connects to
- Zapier, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Dropbox, Amazon S3, MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- AI/LLM data extraction
ask AI Assistant to build reusable scrapers
- Natural-language extraction prompts
Describe your data need and let a long-running agent research, build, and test a scraper you can reuse, schedu
- JavaScript rendering
It handles screen scraping, sites with Javascript, Ajax, scrolling, items within Iframe
- Anti-bot and CAPTCHA bypass
Automatic CAPTCHA solving
- Rotating proxies included
IP rotation
- LLM-ready markdown outputNot stated
- Scheduling and change monitoring
Task scheduling
- No-code visual interface
Three ways in, none of them code.
The same 8 checks appear on every tool in AI web scraping tools. Each tick quotes the vendor's own site.
Security and your data
| Question | Their answer | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|
| Trains AI on your data? | no (for data from Google Workspace APIs) | "We also do not retain user data obtained through Google Workspace APIs to develop, improve, or train generalized AI and/or ML models."privacy |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | Not stated | |
| GDPR | yes | "fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and EU data protection laws"home |
| CCPA | yes | "fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and EU data protection laws"home |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | Not stated |
Security answers are the vendor's own claims, quoted. We don't audit them.
Every plan
| Plan | Monthly | Billed yearly | Included | Over the allowance | Where it says so |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | – | 10 tasks50K data export per month | – | "Free" |
| Standard/MO | $83 | $69per month | 100 tasks | – | "From $83/MO" "From $69/MO" |
| Professional/MO | $299 | $249per month | 250 tasks | – | "$299/MO" "$249/MO" |
| Enterprise | Quote | – | 750 tasks | – | "Contact Sales" |
Free plan: Free forever plan: 10 tasks, 1 device, local runs only, 50K rows of data export per month, up to 10K per export. Paid plans needed for cloud runs.
Fine print
- Auto renew
- Subscriptions auto-renew monthly or annually "YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR SUBSCRIPTION IS SUBJECT TO AUTOMATIC RENEWALS"
- Billed beyond usage
- Add-ons are usage priced: residential proxies $3 per GB, CAPTCHA solving $1-1.5 per thousand, pay-per-result templates $ "$3 per GB"
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Contract
- Monthly, quarterly and annual billing options; cancel any time from account settings "You can cancel your Octoparse subscription or free trial at any time directly from your account settings."
- Price change notice
- At least 14 days notice before fee changes "You will receive notice of any fee changes at least fourteen (14) days before the scheduled date of the transaction"
- Refunds
- 5-day money-back guarantee on paid plans; otherwise fees nonrefundable "5 day money back guarantee on all Octoparse plans"
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- Octopus Data Inc.
- Address
- Irvine, CA (headquarters)
- Online since
- Mar 25, 2015 Domain registration date
- Ships updates
- 7 in the last 12 months Last on Aug 31, 2026, from their changelog
- Customers
- "4M+ registered users" their claim
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Questions
Is Octoparse free?
Yes. Free forever plan: 10 tasks, 1 device, local runs only, 50K rows of data export per month, up to 10K per export. Paid plans needed for cloud runs. Paid plans start at $83/month.
How much does Octoparse cost?
Paid plans start at $69 per month billed yearly, or $83 billed monthly.
Does Octoparse train AI on your data?
No (for data from google workspace apis), according to Octoparse: "We also do not retain user data obtained through Google Workspace APIs to develop, improve, or train generalized AI and/or ML models."
