ScraperAPI

The same comparison from the API:

curl -X POST https://scrapeselect.com/api/v1/compare \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"products":["scraperapi/scraping-api"],"workload":{"successful_pages_per_month":500000,"javascript_ratio":0.2,"anti_bot_level":"medium","target_country":"US","country_required":true,"peak_concurrency":40,"monthly_billing_only":true,"expected_success_rate":null,"average_page_size_kb":null,"average_browser_seconds":null}}'

{
  "products": [
    {
      "estimate": {
        "provider": "scraperapi",
        "provider_name": "ScraperAPI",
        "product": "scraping-api",
        "product_name": "ScraperAPI",
        "category": "scraping_api",
        "billing_model": "credit",
        "architecture": "managed_api",
        "feasible": true,
        "low": {
          "plan_key": "scaling",
          "plan_name": "Scaling",
          "monthly_cost_usd": 475,
          "cost_per_1k_pages_usd": 0.95
        },
        "expected": {
          "plan_key": "scaling",
          "plan_name": "Scaling",
          "monthly_cost_usd": 475,
          "cost_per_1k_pages_usd": 0.95
        },
        "high": {
          "plan_key": "professional",
          "plan_name": "Professional",
          "monthly_cost_usd": 975,
          "cost_per_1k_pages_usd": 1.95
        },
        "rejected_plans": {
          "hobby": "concurrency 20 < 40",
          "enterprise": "price not public",
          "startup": "needs 3,430,000 more credit than the plan allows",
          "business": "needs 1,430,000 more credit than the plan allows"
        },
        "sources": [
          {
            "key": "credits",
            "url": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/getting-started/quick-start/credits-and-requests-costs",
            "title": "Credits and request costs",
            "observed_at": "2026-09-25T06:10:05.286194Z",
            "excerpts": [
              "premium=true - 10 … render=true - 10 … scrensshot=true - 10 … ultra_premium=true - 30* … premium=true + render=true - 25 … ultra_premium=true + render=true - 75*",
              "E-Commerce Amazon, Walmart, eBay 5 · SERP Google, Bing - (applies to all subdomains) 25 · Social Media LinkedIn 30",
              "Cloudflare Bypass 10 … Datadome Bypass 10 … PerimeterX/Human Bypass 10",
              "We only charge for successful requests (200 and 404 status codes) and for requests that have been cancelled from your side before giving us enough time to finish them (70 seconds)."
            ],
            "fact_type": "official_claim",
            "freshness": "recent"
          },
          {
            "key": "premium",
            "url": "https://docs.scraperapi.com/control-and-optimization/premium-residential-mobile-proxy-pools",
            "title": "Premium residential and mobile proxy pools",
            "observed_at": "2026-09-26T06:10:04.146951Z",
            "excerpts": [
              "both javascript rendering and our premium proxy pools will be charged at 25 times the normal rate",
              "These two parameters are mutually exclusive"
            ],
            "fact_type": "official_claim",
            "freshness": "fresh"
          },
          {
            "key": "pricing",
            "url": "https://www.scraperapi.com/pricing/",
            "title": "ScraperAPI pricing",
            "observed_at": "2026-09-26T06:10:04.146951Z",
            "excerpts": [
              "Monthly / Yearly 10% off",
              "Hobby … $49 /month $44.10 /month billed annually … 100,000 API Credits 20 Concurrent Threads Geotargeting: US & EU only",
              "A standard page costs 1 credit. Amazon costs 5, Google and Bing (including their subdomains) cost 25, and LinkedIn costs 30. Sites behind bot protection like Cloudflare, Datadome, or PerimeterX add 10 credits per request when we bypass them.",
              "Pay-As-You-Go is available on our Scaling, Professional, Advanced, and Enterprise plans.",
              "you'll get a 429 response … There's no extra charge for going over",
              "Start collecting data with our 7-day trial and 5,000 API credits. No credit card required."
            ],
            "fact_type": "official_claim",
            "freshness": "fresh"
          }
        ]
      },
      "features": [
        {
          "key": "javascript-rendering",
          "label": "JavaScript rendering",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "credits"
        },
        {
          "key": "premium-proxy",
          "label": "Premium proxy",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "premium"
        },
        {
          "key": "country-targeting",
          "label": "Country targeting",
          "value": true,
          "notes": "Hobby and Startup are limited to US & EU.",
          "source": "pricing"
        },
        {
          "key": "city-targeting",
          "label": "City targeting",
          "value": false,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "geo-faq"
        },
        {
          "key": "sticky-session",
          "label": "Sticky session",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "sessions"
        },
        {
          "key": "screenshot",
          "label": "Screenshot",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "credits"
        },
        {
          "key": "async-request",
          "label": "Async request",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "pricing"
        }
      ],
      "limits": [
        {
          "key": "session-duration",
          "value": 900,
          "unit": "seconds",
          "plan": null,
          "notes": "Expires 15 minutes after last use.",
          "source": "sessions"
        },
        {
          "key": "request-timeout",
          "value": 60,
          "unit": "seconds",
          "plan": null,
          "notes": "Retries internally for up to 60 s before returning 500.",
          "source": "general-faq"
        }
      ],
      "notes": [
        "Credit costs are an absolute lookup table, not stacked multipliers (premium + render = 25, not 10 x 10).",
        "How domain costs combine with render/premium parameters is not documented; the provider points to its urlcost endpoint. Only the documented case (a standard page without render/premium) is encoded; other combinations fall back to the generic rows and are flagged as unverified.",
        "PAYG credits exist on Scaling and above but the per-credit rate is not published, so no overage is modelled; lower plans must upgrade.",
        "Professional and Advanced currently show limited-time bonus credits (+250K / +500K), not included here.",
        "Requests cancelled by the client before 70 seconds are billed."
      ],
      "url": "/products/scraperapi/scraping-api"
    }
  ],
  "assumptions": [
    {
      "key": "success_rate",
      "label": "Success rate",
      "value": "97% / 93% / 88%",
      "origin": "default",
      "note": "Low / expected / high scenario for medium anti-bot targets. Only changes cost where failed attempts are billed."
    },
    {
      "key": "protected_share",
      "label": "Pages needing premium proxies",
      "value": "20% / 30% / 45%",
      "origin": "editorial",
      "note": "Share of pages behind anti-bot protection for medium targets."
    },
    {
      "key": "difficulty_tier",
      "label": "Website difficulty tier",
      "value": "2 / 3 / 4",
      "origin": "editorial",
      "note": "Only used by providers that price by site tier (e.g. Zyte); their own estimator gives the real tier."
    },
    {
      "key": "page_size_kb",
      "label": "Average page size",
      "value": "300 KB",
      "origin": "default",
      "note": "Drives cost for traffic-billed products and proxy traffic."
    },
    {
      "key": "browser_traffic_multiplier",
      "label": "Browser page traffic",
      "value": "4x the HTML size",
      "origin": "editorial",
      "note": "Rendered pages also load scripts, styles and images."
    },
    {
      "key": "browser_seconds",
      "label": "Browser time per rendered page",
      "value": "10 s",
      "origin": "default",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "key": "compute_units",
      "label": "Compute per 1,000 pages",
      "value": "0.8 CU (HTTP), 6 CU (browser)",
      "origin": "public_observation",
      "note": "From Apify's Website Content Crawler README (0.8 CU HTTP, 2-20 CU browser)."
    },
    {
      "key": "geotargeting",
      "label": "Country targeting",
      "value": "US (required)",
      "origin": "user",
      "note": "Some providers only allow country targeting with premium proxies."
    }
  ],
  "engine_version": "0.1.0",
  "meta": {
    "data_checked_at": "2026-09-26T06:10:04.146951Z",
    "freshness": "fresh",
    "schema_version": "1.0"
  }
}