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The best scraping API for your need

"Best" depends on what you need besides a low bill. Each page below states one need and one job, then lists the cheapest APIs that meet it, with the plan and the reason; nothing here is a rating.

• Best scraping API for AI agents

  10,000 extractions a month: WebScraping.AI at $9.60. It lists an MCP server, so an agent can call it as a tool, and it returns markdown, the format an LLM reads best.

• Best scraping API for beginners

  10,000 pages a month: ScrapingAnt's free tier covers it. It has a free tier that needs no card, so you can try it before you pay, and an official Python SDK or a no-code app (n8n, Make or Zapier).

• Best scraping API for developers

  100,000 JavaScript pages a month: ScrapingDog at $90.00. It has official SDKs in at least two languages and can work through a job in the background, by queue or webhook, rather than holding a connection open per page.

• Best scraping API for high volume

  1,000,000 JavaScript pages a month: ScrapingDog at $350.00. Any API with a published plan or rate that covers a million JavaScript pages a month.

• Best SERP API for real-time results

  100,000 live searches a month: ScrapingDog at $90.00. Results come back in the same response, so no queued plan counts, however cheap.

• Most reliable scraping API, by the vendors' own figures

  100,000 JavaScript pages a month: ScrapingDog at $90.00. Its own pages publish a success rate of 99% or more. That is the vendor's figure, measured its own way; this site has not tested it.

• Best scraping API on a small budget

  10,000 JavaScript pages a month: WebScraping.AI at $9.60. Any API, ranked by what 10,000 JavaScript pages cost in a month, plan minimums included.

• For ecommerce

  Amazon, Walmart, eBay and Shopify each price differently; the guide builds the job before comparing a bill.