Scraping API PricesScrape.do vs ScrapingAnt
The current volume and workload boundaries between Scrape.do and ScrapingAnt.
Scrape.do
ScrapingAnt
The difference
Both paths, one ruler
Scrape.do
Successes you want
100,000 pages
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- × 1
Attempts you are billed for
100,000 requests
Scrape.do does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.
- × 5
What the meter counts
500,000 credits
One attempt is not one billed unit here: this workload multiplies by 5 before any money is involved.
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Cash per month
$99.00 /mo
Pro. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
ScrapingAnt
Successes you want
100,000 pages
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- × 1
Attempts you are billed for
100,000 requests
ScrapingAnt does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.
- × 10
What the meter counts
1,000,000 credits
One attempt is not one billed unit here: this workload multiplies by 10 before any money is involved.
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Cash per month
$249.00 /mo
Business. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.
Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.
Both ladders share one linear scale, topping out at 1,000,000 counted units, so a longer bar means more billed work rather than a different drawing.
These figures are for one stated workload: 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate. This site has not computed a crossover volume for this pair, and does not claim one. Move the volume on either product page to see where the answer moves.
Decision boundary: for one-credit datacenter requests, ScrapingAnt has the lower computed bill through 100,000 requests. Scrape.do is lower from 100,001 to 250,000, ScrapingAnt from 250,001 to 500,000, and Scrape.do from 500,001 to 1,250,000. The bills tie from 1,250,001 to 3,000,000, Scrape.do is lower from 3,000,001 to 3,500,000, and ScrapingAnt is lower from 3,500,001 through the last shared public allowance of 8,000,000. (Scrape.do pricing, ScrapingAnt pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)
Rendered traffic changes those request boundaries because Scrape.do’s datacenter-plus-rendering bundle costs five credits while ScrapingAnt’s costs ten. Residential rendering changes them again: Scrape.do publishes a twenty-five-credit residential-plus-rendering bundle, while ScrapingAnt publishes a one-hundred-twenty-five-credit bundle. The plan label alone therefore says little until the proxy and rendering mix is specified. (Scrape.do request costs, ScrapingAnt credit costs, retrieved July 26, 2026)
Billing models side by side
Scrape.do sells monthly credits and assigns a replacement cost to each proxy and rendering bundle. Basic datacenter requests cost one credit, rendered datacenter requests five, residential or mobile requests ten, and residential or mobile rendering twenty-five. Ready-made targets and AI extraction use separate fixed costs. Its paid plans publish concurrency pools, and asynchronous calls can use thirty percent of the regular pool. (Scrape.do pricing, Scrape.do request costs, retrieved July 26, 2026)
ScrapingAnt also sells monthly credits. A non-rendered datacenter request costs one credit, a residential request twenty-five, a rendered datacenter request ten, and a rendered residential request one hundred twenty-five. Its paid plans are marketed without an enforced per-key concurrency cap, although the public error documentation still lists an HTTP 409 response for too many simultaneous requests. Credits do not roll over. (ScrapingAnt pricing, ScrapingAnt credit costs, retrieved July 26, 2026)
Scrape.do bills HTTP 2xx, 400, 404, and 410 responses, while other failed or blocked responses are not charged. ScrapingAnt describes billable delivery as HTTP 200 with content and says blocked or error responses are not billed. A workload with many missing URLs can therefore cross a different economic boundary than a workload made only of delivered pages. (Scrape.do request costs, ScrapingAnt migration guide, retrieved July 26, 2026)
What each provides that the other does not
Scrape.do is the only one of this pair whose reviewed billing table lists mobile proxy, AI extraction, and ready-made Amazon and Google request meters. It also returns an authoritative request-cost response header and can apply per-domain default bundles, which gives an application a way to record observed cost instead of assuming every domain uses the requested base. (Scrape.do request costs, retrieved July 26, 2026)
ScrapingAnt is the only one of this pair that markets paid plans without an enforced per-key concurrency cap. Its billing guide also exposes the much larger residential-rendering multiplier directly, making that workload expensive in credits but straightforward to model. (ScrapingAnt pricing, ScrapingAnt credit costs, retrieved July 26, 2026)
Who should pick which
Pick Scrape.do when the request mix contains substantial JavaScript, mobile routing, AI extraction, or domain-specific defaults, because those are explicit parts of its current billing model. Pick ScrapingAnt when basic datacenter volume falls in one of its lower plan-step bands, or when its concurrency policy matters more than a lower rendering multiplier. Recompute the seven basic ranges after multiplying each request type by its published cost. (Scrape.do pricing, ScrapingAnt pricing, Scrape.do request costs, ScrapingAnt credit costs, retrieved July 26, 2026)
The verification limit is on ScrapingAnt, where the pricing page’s rendered-request capacity claim conflicts with the billing documentation and no dependable numeric concurrency ceiling was obtainable. For Scrape.do, the complete live per-domain default-cost table was not available from the public page. Use observed request-cost headers and a small account debit test before committing a mixed workload. (Scrape.do request costs, ScrapingAnt credit costs, ScrapingAnt pricing, retrieved July 26, 2026)