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Which scraping APIs have a free tier?

Answer first12 cited sourcesUpdated 2026-07-26

Nine reviewed platforms publish a free plan or free tier: Bright Data at 5,000 requests per month, Decodo at 2,000 standard requests per month, Firecrawl at 1,000 credits per month, Diffbot at 10,000 credits, Apify at $5 of monthly usage, Scrape.do at 1,000 successful calls per month, ScraperAPI at 1,000 free credits, ScrapingAnt at 10,000 credits per month, and ScrapingDog at 200 credits on a $0-forever plan. As of July 26, 2026, sources: Bright Data, Decodo, Firecrawl, Diffbot, Apify, Scrape.do, ScraperAPI, ScrapingAnt, and ScrapingDog, retrieved July 26, 2026.

Dated price checked 2026-07-26; cited vendor pages are listed below. This is not a live price check.Method

What each allowance means

Bright Data’s free Web Unlocker tier renews at 5,000 requests per month, requires no credit card, and includes browser rendering and CAPTCHA solving on the pricing page. Its Web Scraper API separately offers 5,000 records per month, so requests and records must not be added into one allowance. Bright Data Web Unlocker pricing and Web Scraper API pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026.

Decodo’s free monthly plan covers 2,000 standard-proxy requests, 1,000 standard-proxy requests with JavaScript, 1,000 premium-proxy requests, or 667 premium-proxy requests with JavaScript. Those are alternative yields from one plan, not simultaneous buckets. Decodo pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026.

Firecrawl’s free plan supplies 1,000 monthly credits, and its current pricing page equates that allowance to 1,000 scrape pages at 1 credit per page. The same page prices search and browser interaction with different meters, so the credit count is not a universal page count. Firecrawl pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026.

Diffbot’s free plan provides 10,000 credits, resets at the beginning of the billing period, permits 5 calls per minute, and requires no credit card. Extracting one page costs 1 credit, while extracting through its listed datacenter proxy costs 2. Diffbot pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026.

Apify provides $5 of prepaid platform usage per month on Free; compute costs $0.20 per compute unit on that tier, and other platform resources or Actor events can consume the same balance. Apify pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026.

Scrape.do’s free plan supplies 1,000 successful API calls per month with no credit card, while its request-cost schedule can apply different credit amounts to rendering and proxy modes. Scrape.do pricing and request costs, retrieved July 26, 2026.

ScraperAPI’s FAQ calls 1,000 credits with 5 concurrent connections a free plan, while the same page separately advertises a 7-day trial with 5,000 credits. It does not state that the 1,000-credit balance renews monthly. ScraperAPI pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026.

ScrapingAnt supplies 10,000 credits every month with no credit card. Its marketing page says one credit covers everything, but its v2 documentation lists 1 credit for a simple datacenter request and 10 for a JavaScript-rendered datacenter request; the documented Ant-credits-cost response header resolves actual consumption. ScrapingAnt pricing and credit costs, retrieved July 26, 2026.

ScrapingDog’s $0-forever plan has 200 credits and one concurrent request; a rotating-proxy request costs 1 credit and JavaScript rendering costs 5. ScrapingDog pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026.

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