How much does ScrapingBee cost?
- Free plan
- Not stated
- Free trial
- 1,000 free API credits, no credit card required (one-time, no time limit stated)
- Enterprise
- Contact sales
In your favor
- No long-term contract. Subscription billing cycles that auto-renew; cancel anytime
- Free trial. 1,000 free API credits, no credit card required (one-time, no time limit stated)
- Notice before price changes. Reasonable prior notice; changes effective at end of current billing cycle
Watch out for
- Their pages disagree: number of customers. "Trusted by 4,500+ developers using ScrapingBee as their web scraping A" vs "ScrapingBee is a SaaS web scraping platform that helps 3,500+ companie"
How you buy and get started
- Sign up
- Self-serve signup with email or Google, no credit card required "Get 1,000 free API Credits"
- Setup
- Start scraping in minutes "Start scraping in minutes with 1,000 free API credits."
- When sales steps in
- Talk to Product Expert for more credits or concurrency "Need more monthly credits or higher concurrency?"
- Support
- Priority email support on Business and above "Priority Email Support: Included"
- Support
- 24/7 Support "24/7 Support"
What ScrapingBee does
ScrapingBee is a credit-based scraping API that renders JavaScript in headless Chrome, rotates proxies, and handles anti-bot systems and CAPTCHAs. It outputs raw HTML, LLM-ready Markdown, or structured JSON via CSS/XPath rules or natural-language AI queries, plus dedicated APIs for Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini.
- Good for
- Developers and teams (AI, e-commerce, market intelligence, GTM, fintech, cybersecurity) who want to scrape public web data without running their own proxy, browser and anti-bot stack.
- Channels
- API, CLI, MCP server, Python SDK, Node.js SDK, n8n, Make, Zapier
- Main product
- HTML scraping API with AI data extraction, Markdown output, JavaScript scenarios, screenshots and dedicated scraper APIs
- Also includes
- JavaScript rendering in headless Chrome, Rotating and premium proxies, Geotargeting (200+ countries and territories), Screenshots and CSS/XPath extraction rules, AI extraction via natural-language queries, Markdown output
- Connects to
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Qwen, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Warp, Gemini CLI, Augment, Conductor
- Public API
- Yes
- MCP server
- Yes
- AI/LLM data extraction
Describe the fields, get back structured JSON. No selectors needed
- Natural-language extraction prompts
Natural-language extraction with AI queries
- JavaScript rendering
JavaScript rendering in headless Chrome
- Anti-bot and CAPTCHA bypass
ScrapingBee handles anti-bot systems, CAPTCHAs, headless browsers, and rotates 200M+ proxy IPs for you.
- Rotating proxies included
Automatic proxy rotation
- LLM-ready markdown output
Any page to clean Markdown or plain text, LLM-ready.
- Scheduling and change monitoringNot stated
- No-code visual interfaceNot stated
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? | Not stated | |
| HIPAA (signs a BAA) | Not stated | |
| SOC 2 | SOC 2 Type II | "We are happy to announce that we have obtained SOC 2 Type II compliance for the ScrapingBee API."security |
| GDPR | yes | "GDPR"security |
| CCPA | Not stated | |
| PCI | Not stated | |
| ISO 27001 | Not stated | |
| Single sign-on | Not stated | |
| Trust center | https://trust.scrapingbee.com/ | "Visit our Trust Center"home |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby/mo | $19 | – | 75000 credits25 concurrent requests | – | "$19/mo" |
| Freelance/mo | $49 | – | 250000 credits50 concurrent requests | – | "$49/mo" |
| Startup/mo | $99 | – | 1e+06 credits100 concurrent requests | – | "$99/mo" |
| Business/mo | $249 | – | 3e+06 credits200 concurrent requests | – | "$249/mo" |
| Business +/mo | $599 | – | 8e+06 credits400 concurrent requests | – | "$599/mo" |
| Enterprise 14/mo | $999 | – | 1.4e+07 credits500 concurrent requests | – | "$999/mo" |
| Enterprise 24/mo | $1,599 | – | 2.4e+07 credits600 concurrent requests | – | "$1,599/mo" |
| Enterprise 41/mo | $2,399 | – | 4.1e+07 credits700 concurrent requests | – | "$2,399/mo" |
| Enterprise 69/mo | $3,599 | – | 6.9e+07 credits800 concurrent requests | – | "$3,599/mo" |
| Enterprise 120/mo | $5,799 | – | 1.2e+08 credits900 concurrent requests | – | "$5,799/mo" |
Fine print
- Billing increment
- Not stated
- Billed beyond usage
- Not stated
- Contract
- Subscription billing cycles that auto-renew; cancel anytime "Cancel anytime, no questions asked!"
- Refunds
- Non-refundable "Any amount paid under the Agreement is non-refundable."
- Auto renew
- Subscription automatically renews each billing cycle unless terminated before renewal "At the end of each Billing Cycle, Subscription will be automatically renewed under the same conditions except regarding the Fees rate"
- Price change notice
- Reasonable prior notice; changes effective at end of current billing cycle "VostokInc will notify the User reasonably prior to any change in applicable Fees to provide the User an opportunity to terminate its Subscription before such change becomes effecti"
"Not stated" means we read their pricing page and terms and they don't say.
About the company
- Legal name
- VostokInc
- Address
- 66 Avenue des Champs Élysées, 75008 Paris, France
- Online since
- Sep 18, 2019 Domain registration date
- Customers
- "Trusted by 4,500+ developers" their claim
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Questions
Is ScrapingBee free?
There's no free plan. Free trial: 1,000 free API credits, no credit card required (one-time, no time limit stated). Paid plans start at $19/month.
How much does ScrapingBee cost?
Paid plans start at $19 per month.