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Import.io alternatives
3 tools to consider instead of Import.io, shown against it.
| Import.io | Octoparse | Diffbot | Bright Data | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vendor | Import.io | Octoparse Inc. | Diffbot Technologies Corporation | Bright Data Ltd. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing model | Subscription | Free tier + paid plans | Subscription | Usage-based | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud, Self-hosted | Cloud | Cloud | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Open source | No | No | No | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best for | Buyers who want scrapers built and maintained for them rather than operating their own extraction pipeline. | Non-developers and analysts who need recurring extraction without writing or maintaining scraper code. | Teams that need structured data from many unfamiliar sites without maintaining per-site extraction rules. | Teams that need IP diversity and anti-blocking infrastructure at scale rather than a scraping library. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pricing | Monthly plans include a successful-query allowance with per-query overage; a 30-day trial and a separate pay-per-call MCP scraper endpoint are also offered.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Monthly plans priced per task/device limits and cloud concurrency, cheaper when billed annually; a free desktop plan covers limited tasks and exports.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Monthly plans include a credit allowance consumed per successful API call, with per-credit overage pricing beyond the plan limit; higher tiers add crawl capacity and seats.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | Per-GB proxy pricing and per-request API pricing, split across separate product pages (proxies, Scraper APIs, Scraping Browser, SERP API, datasets); a free trial is offered on several products. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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