Scrapfly vs ScrapingBee

The boundary

For basic datacenter requests under the published plan and overage rules, Scrapfly is cheaper through 200,000 requests a month. ScrapingBee becomes cheaper from 200,001 through 1 million, Scrapfly is cheaper from 1,000,001 through roughly 1.426 million, ScrapingBee is lower after that through 3 million, Scrapfly is lower from 3,000,001 through roughly 6.325 million, and ScrapingBee is lower after that through its final self-serve allowance of 8 million credits. The crossing points come from fixed plan jumps followed by Scrapfly’s published overage rates. (Scrapfly pricing, ScrapingBee pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26)

The first overage crossing follows a checkable formula. Scrapfly’s Pro plan costs $100 for 1 million credits and then $0.00035 per extra credit; it reaches ScrapingBee’s $249 Business price at about 1,425,714 basic requests. The later crossing uses Scrapfly’s $500 Enterprise plan, 5.5 million included credits, and $0.00012 overage; it reaches ScrapingBee’s $599 Business+ price at 6,325,000 requests. Cents rounding produces a small tie band around each exact equation, so the useful buying lines are roughly 1.426 million and 6.325 million rather than a claim of sub-cent precision. (Scrapfly pricing, ScrapingBee pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26)

Billing models side by side

Scrapfly sells monthly credits and publishes overage on Pro, Startup, and Enterprise. A datacenter request costs one credit, a residential request costs twenty-five, and JavaScript adds five credits to the selected proxy base. Excess request or response data can add bandwidth credits, and Automatic Scraping Protection can upgrade the proxy class. Unused credits do not roll over, and pay-as-you-go defaults to a cap tied to the monthly quota. (Scrapfly pricing, Scrapfly billing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26)

ScrapingBee sells fixed monthly credit bundles without a published self-serve overage rate. Classic requests cost one credit, JavaScript five, premium proxy ten, stealth seventy-five, and AI query adds five credits to the selected proxy mode. JavaScript is enabled by default, so the one-credit boundary requires the integration to turn rendering off. Unused credits do not roll over. (ScrapingBee pricing, ScrapingBee credit costs, ScrapingBee FAQ, retrieved 2026-07-26)

Failure billing is not equivalent. Scrapfly’s failure protection excludes eligible errors under stated conditions but leaves listed statuses billable and can turn off when eligible failures exceed its fairness threshold. ScrapingBee charges HTTP 200, 404, and 410. This page assumes the planned basic requests reach a billable outcome and does not invent a different success percentage for either vendor. (Scrapfly billing documentation, ScrapingBee FAQ, retrieved 2026-07-26)

What each does that the other does not

Scrapfly is the only member of this pair whose reviewed formula publishes response-size and request-size credit additions, automatic protection upgrades, conditional failure protection, and plan-specific automatic overage. ScrapingBee is the only member whose reviewed product exposes dedicated Google, Amazon, Walmart, and YouTube-oriented APIs plus an additive AI-query meter. Scrapfly gives the buyer a more resource-sensitive scraping formula; ScrapingBee gives the buyer more fixed-cost specialized endpoint choices. (Scrapfly billing documentation, ScrapingBee pricing, ScrapingBee credit costs, retrieved 2026-07-26)

Who should pick which

Pick by the applicable volume band only after confirming that calls are one-credit datacenter requests with ordinary payload sizes. Pick Scrapfly where its smaller plan or gradual overage avoids the next ScrapingBee bundle, or when its protection and bandwidth accounting are useful operational signals. Pick ScrapingBee where its plan step is lower, or when a dedicated target or AI endpoint removes development work. Recalculate rendered, residential, premium, stealth, AI, and large-payload traffic separately because those modes erase the basic-request boundary. (Scrapfly pricing, Scrapfly billing documentation, ScrapingBee pricing, ScrapingBee credit costs, retrieved 2026-07-26)

Scrapfly does not publish a domain-by-domain forecast for Automatic Scraping Protection upgrades. ScrapingBee’s examples do not fully reconcile every proxy bundle with the stated additive AI rule. Those unknown combinations need representative debit checks and stay outside the basic-request calculation. (Scrapfly billing documentation, ScrapingBee credit costs, retrieved 2026-07-26)