How much does it cost to scrape 10,000 pages?
10,000 plain HTML pages a month fit inside the free tiers of Decodo Web Scraping API and ScrapingAnt, or cost from $1.60 paid (WebScraping.AI); with JavaScript they cost from $9.60 (WebScraping.AI), and on sites that block bots from $19.60 (WebScraping.AI), at a 5% failure rate.
Worked out from each vendor's own pricing page; each vendor page on this site shows the day its price was read. 5% of requests are assumed to fail; bills that rest on an assumption are left out.| Page type | API | Monthly bill | Plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plain HTML | Decodo Web Scraping API | Free within its free tier | Free |
| ScrapingAnt | Free within its free tier | Free tier | |
| WebScraping.AI | $1.60 | Pay as you go | |
| Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API | $7.50 | Web Unlocker Pay as you go | |
| ScrapeOps | $9.00 | 25,000 credits | |
| Nimble | $10.00 | Pay as you go | |
| Scraping Robot | $18.00 | Business pay-as-you-go | |
| With JavaScript | WebScraping.AI | $9.60 | Pay as you go |
| Decodo Web Scraping API | $19.00 | $19 plan | |
| ScrapeOps | $19.00 | 100,000 credits | |
| ZenRows | $25.50 | Build B1 | |
| Scrape.do | $29.00 | Hobby | |
| Sites that block bots | WebScraping.AI | $19.60 | Pay as you go |
| Scrape.do | $29.00 | Hobby | |
| ScrapeOwl | $29.00 | Bootstrap | |
| ScrapeBadger | $49.00 | Starter | |
| HasData | $59.00 | Startup |
At this size the cheapest bill is often pay as you go or a free tier, not a plan: a $49 plan built for 250,000 pages is mostly unused credits at 10,000. If the job will grow, check how far each option stretches before you commit; the calculator shows the room each plan leaves.
Small jobs fit free tiers and pay-as-you-go
Ten thousand pages a month is a small job by scraping API standards: most plans start at 100,000 credits or more, so a $49 plan bought for 10,000 pages leaves most of its credits unused. At this size the cheapest options are free tiers that renew each month and APIs that bill only for what you use. The table lists both, with the free tiers first, because a job that fits one costs nothing.
Page type still decides the price
A plain HTML page is one request on most APIs; a page that needs JavaScript costs several times that, and a site that blocks bots needs premium proxies or a stealth mode on top. At 10,000 pages the difference is a few dollars a month, but it decides which free tiers are enough: a free allowance of 1,000 credits covers 1,000 plain pages and only 200 rendered ones on an API that charges 5 credits for rendering.
If the job will grow
A free tier or a pay-as-you-go rate that suits 10,000 pages can become the expensive choice at 100,000. Price your next volume too before you build on one API: the calculator prices any volume, and what 100,000 pages cost shows the next step up.