Guides

Comparisons built on the same catalog as the calculator: official prices, each with its source and check date.

• What 500,000 pages a month costs on 8 scraping APIs

  One workload priced on nine products at three difficulty levels. The cheapest option for easy pages is not the cheapest for hard ones, and the billing unit explains why.

  Sep 26, 2026

• Do scraping APIs charge for failed requests? What 9 products actually bill

  Every managed scraping API says you only pay for success. What counts as a success differs: 404s, 403s, cancelled requests and custom headers, from each provider's own docs.

  Sep 26, 2026

• The cheapest scraping API at every volume, from 10,000 to 5 million pages a month

  Seven managed scraping APIs priced at eight volumes. The cheapest changes six times for moderately protected pages, and self-serve plans run out above 2 million pages.

  Sep 26, 2026

• Scraping API credits explained: what a request really costs on ScrapingBee, ZenRows and ScraperAPI

  The three credit tables look alike, but a credit costs different amounts on each, rendering is 5 or 10 credits, and a country can cost nothing extra, 10x, or a bigger plan.

  Sep 26, 2026