Web Scraping API Cost Comparison

ScrapingBee: plain 1 / JS 5 credits per page on the cheapest monthly plan (no annual price listed); SERPs excluded because its Google API is priced separately. ScraperAPI: 1 credit per standard page (JS rendering listed as included), Google SERP = 25 credits each, cheapest plan (annual −10%). Firecrawl: 1 credit per page regardless of JS, Search 2 credits per 10 results (its own web search index, not a Google SERP), cheapest plan including $5 overage packs. SerpApi / Serper price only the SERP part (per search): add them to a page-only scraper bill to compare against ScraperAPI's 25-credit Google requests. Premium proxies, anti-bot bypass (+10 on ScraperAPI) and Amazon / LinkedIn domains are modeled on the single-provider calculators.

Unit conversion: request/credit APIs (ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI, Firecrawl) bill per page; Apify bills compute units (CU = 1 GB RAM × 1 hour) plus proxy; Bright Data residential bills GB of bandwidth. Apify row assumes ≈1,000 plain HTTP/Cheerio pages per CU and ≈60 browser (JS) pages per CU — rough estimates, tune them in the Apify calculator — plus Google SERP proxy ($2.5 → $1.7 / 1k by plan), cheapest of Free / Starter $19 / Scale $199 / Business $999 (fee = prepaid usage). Bright Data row = pages × avg KB → GB at list $/GB (PAYG $8, $499 @ $7, $999 @ $6, $1,999 @ $5 commitments), proxy bandwidth only: you still run your own scraper, retries and headers add bandwidth, SERPs not included; 50% coupon not applied. Browserbase row = headless browser hours (billed per minute, 1-minute minimum per session): JS pages assumed 10 pages × 6 s per session (≈1 min each — edit in the Browserbase calculator), plain pages via its Fetch API (does not run JavaScript; 1k / 10k included, then $1 / $0.5 per 1k), lookups via its Search API (1,000 included, then $7 / 1k; web search, not a Google SERP), no proxy; cheapest of Free / Developer $20 / Startup $99. Oxylabs row = same GB as Bright Data at the Oxylabs plan rate ($30 @ $6, $100 @ $5, $500 @ $4, Enterprise from $2,500 @ $2.5 / GB; plan fee becomes a shared credit balance that expires each cycle), proxy bandwidth only.

Residential proxy & browser-unit rows: Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) row = same GB as Bright Data / Oxylabs (pages × KB/page), cheapest of its monthly GB plans vs Pay As You Go $4 / GB (bought in whole GB, can't be combined with a plan), VAT excluded, bandwidth only. Webshare row = same GB on its smallest covering rotating-residential plan (shared; 1 GB $3.50 → 3,000 GB $1.40 / GB; yearly −30% when "annual" is ticked) — its per-proxy datacenter/ISP plans aren't in the table because cost depends on how many proxies you run, not GB (use the Webshare calculator). IPRoyal row = same GB rounded up to whole GB, cheaper of Pay As You Go (10 GB tier $5.51 / GB, traffic never expires) and monthly subscription (10 GB tier $5.25 / GB), VAT excluded. Browserless row = JS pages only, in the same browser sessions as the Browserbase row (10 pages × 6 s = 60 s ⇒ 2 units of 30 s each), no proxy or captcha units, cheapest plan incl. overage on monthly billing (annual rate when "annual" is ticked); plain pages and SERPs not included.

Difficulty multipliers / site tiers: ZenRows row = credits by page type — standard × 1, JS rendering × 5 (premium proxies × 10 and JS + premium × 25 are not assumed; a protected site can cost 10–25× a plain page), smallest rung covering the credits (e.g. Launch 500K $99 monthly / $83 annual), SERPs not included. Zyte API row = plain pages as HTTP response body and JS pages as browser-rendered, at site tier 2 "Easy" (an assumption: Zyte assigns tiers 1–5 per website, and tier 5 costs ≈10× tier 1), best of PAYG / $100 / $200 / $500 commitments, SERPs not included. Use the ZenRows and Zyte calculators to change the page mix or tier.

Estimates only. Official list prices as of 2026-10-31 (Asia/Shanghai); the provider's pricing page prevails. Sources: Webshare pricing · IPRoyal residential pricing · Decodo residential pricing · Browserless pricing · ZenRows pricing · Zyte API pricing · Browserbase plans · Oxylabs residential pricing · ScrapingBee pricing · ScraperAPI pricing · Firecrawl pricing · SerpApi pricing · Serper pricing

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