ScrapingBee alternatives

4 tools to consider instead of ScrapingBee, shown against it.

ScrapingBee Firecrawl Zyte Bright Data Oxylabs
Vendor ScrapingBee SAS Mendable AI, Inc. Zyte Group Ltd. Bright Data Ltd. Oxylabs UAB
Pricing model Subscription Free tier + paid plans Usage-based Usage-based Usage-based
Free tier No Yes Yes Yes Yes
Deployment Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud Cloud Cloud
Open source No Yes (AGPL-3.0) No No No
Best for Developers who need a simple, drop-in fetch API rather than a full scraping platform. Teams feeding web content into LLM, RAG or agent pipelines rather than building traditional scrapers. Teams building on Scrapy who want managed hosting, or anyone wanting a pay-per-request unblocking API. Teams that need IP diversity and anti-blocking infrastructure at scale rather than a scraping library. Teams needing IP diversity at volume for price monitoring, ad verification or large-scale collection.
Pricing

Monthly plans include an API-credit allowance; JavaScript rendering and premium proxies consume more credits per request. A free trial (no paid free tier) is offered.

Hobby $19/month
Freelance $49/month
Startup $99/month
Business $249/month

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 page scraped; higher tiers add crawling depth and priority support; pay-as-you-go credit top-ups available.

Free $0/month
Hobby $19/month ($16/month billed annually)
Standard $83/month billed annually
Growth $333/month billed annually

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Pay-as-you-go per 1,000 requests, priced by page difficulty tier (HTTP response body vs. browser-rendered), with lower rates at $100/$200/$500 monthly minimum-spend commitments; $5 free trial credit.

Pay as you go $0.13–$1.27 per 1,000 requests (HTTP); $1.01–$16.08 per 1,000 (browser-rendered)
$100/month commitment $0.10–$0.95 per 1,000 (HTTP); $0.75–$12.00 per 1,000 (browser-rendered)
$500/month commitment $0.06–$0.61 per 1,000 (HTTP); $0.48–$7.68 per 1,000 (browser-rendered)
Enterprise custom

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.

Proxies billed per GB or per port/month; scraper APIs billed as a monthly plan with included request volume; free trials offered on most products.

Residential Proxies from $6/GB
Web Scraper API from $49/month
Web Unblocker from $9.4/month
ISP Proxies from $16/month

Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget.

Features
  • Single API call for JavaScript-rendered page fetching
  • Automatic proxy rotation with premium/residential options
  • AI-based and CSS-selector data extraction
  • Screenshot capture endpoint
  • Geotargeting by country
  • Google search and Google Maps scraping endpoints
  • Concurrency-based rate limits per plan
  • URL-to-Markdown/JSON scraping API
  • Site crawl mode that follows internal links
  • Schema- or prompt-based structured extraction
  • JavaScript rendering for dynamic pages
  • Map endpoint for fast URL discovery across a domain
  • Open-source self-hosted engine available
  • SDKs for Python, Node.js and LangChain/LlamaIndex integration
  • Zyte API: single endpoint for fetching and unblocking any URL
  • Automatic proxy rotation and anti-bot handling, priced by page difficulty
  • Scrapy Cloud for hosting and scheduling Scrapy spiders
  • AI-assisted data extraction (auto-extract for products, articles)
  • Smart browser rendering only when JavaScript execution is needed
  • Maintainers of the open-source Scrapy framework
  • Managed data-extraction services for custom projects
  • Residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile proxy networks
  • Web Unlocker for automatic CAPTCHA/bot-detection handling
  • Managed Scraping Browser (headless browser as a service)
  • SERP API for search engine results
  • Pre-built Scraper APIs for specific sites (e-commerce, social, maps)
  • Ready-made and custom datasets marketplace
  • Geo-targeting and session control (country, city, sticky sessions)
  • Residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile and SOCKS5 proxy pools
  • Web Scraper API with JavaScript rendering and parsing
  • Web Unblocker for adaptive anti-bot bypass
  • Country/city-level geo-targeting and sticky sessions
  • Pre-built scrapers for e-commerce, SERP and real estate targets
  • Proxy rotation and session management dashboard
  • 24/7 account support on paid plans

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