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The first 12 comparable products for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate. Sorted by the published bill and amount, never by who pays us; the full category route includes every relevant product.

Exact12 substitutions priced3 cheaper than CrawlbaseLatest recorded source date 2026-09-02

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$99.00What Crawlbase costs for this job using a dated price inside the comparison window. Older or unconfirmed prices do not produce comparative deltas.

The substitution

Pages per month100,000
JavaScript renderingrequired
Assumed success rate95%
Alternatives without a total10

Priced alternatives

Decodo Web Scraping API$49.00−50.00 vs Crawlbase. 63,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 39% of what you buyHasData$99.00same bill. cheapest way to buy that: Basic, 1,000,000 included = $99.00 per monthOlostep$99.00same bill. 100,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 50% of what you buyScrape.do$99.00same bill. 750,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 60% of what you buyScrapeOps$99.00same bill. cheapest way to buy that: 1M, 1,000,000 included = $99.00 per monthScrapeOwl$99.00same bill. 473,684 of the included allowance goes unused, 47% of what you buyWebScraping.AI$99.00same bill. 500,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 50% of what you buyOxylabs Web Scraper API$136.84+37.84 vs Crawlbase. cheapest way to buy that: Starter, $136.84 of metered usage = $136.84 per monthScrapingFish$199.50 prepaid+100.50 vs Crawlbase. cheapest way to buy that: Standard prepaid purchase at $20.00 plus 89,750 over the allowance at $0.002 each = $199.50 prepaid cash purchaseScrappa$50.00 prepaid−49.00 vs Crawlbase. 80,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 44% of what you buyScrapingDog$90.00−9.00 vs Crawlbase. 500,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 50% of what you buyScrapingBee$99.00same bill. 500,000 of the included allowance goes unused, 50% of what you buy

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Why teams leave Crawlbase

Crawlbase is hardest to approve when procurement needs to know the unit rate before a domain is submitted. The Crawling API is pay as you go and charges only when page content is delivered, but the rate is selected through a domain-complexity model and the complete numeric table is not exposed in static public text. JavaScript is a separate request treatment, and the public calculator requires a target domain before it can produce an estimate. A changing target mix can therefore change the bill even when successful-page volume is stable. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27; Crawlbase Crawling API documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

Teams also leave when they want one documented self-serve throughput ceiling or a fixed monthly bundle. General Crawling API concurrency is not published in the reviewed material, while the Enterprise Crawler has a stated starting throughput and raises it case by case. That is reasonable for managed crawling, but it is a sales dependency for a workload whose launch requirement needs a known operating envelope. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27.)

Alternatives worth considering

  • Scraping Robot: Consider it when a direct pay-as-you-go request meter, success-only billing, and non-expiring purchased credits matter more than domain-specific pricing. Failed results and timeouts are described as uncharged, and the default request limit can be discussed with the vendor. It is a narrower service than Crawlbase’s crawler and storage stack. (Scraping Robot, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

  • Scrappa: Look here when every successful call across the published endpoint catalog should consume the same single credit. Failed requests stay free and purchased packs have a stated validity period. This makes mixed endpoint volume easier to count, but it does not reproduce Crawlbase’s asynchronous Enterprise Crawler or storage workflow. (Scrappa pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27.)

  • ScraperAPI: Consider it when the application can classify requests into documented modes for standard pages, rendering, premium routing, stealth, screenshots, or named targets. Monthly credits do not roll over, and lower plans stop when their allowance is exhausted unless upgraded, so the trade is more visible mode pricing for a less flexible unused-capacity rule. (ScraperAPI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26; ScraperAPI credit rules, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

  • ZenRows: Look here when a visible replacement-credit ladder for basic, JavaScript, premium, and protected-site requests is preferable to per-domain assignment. Failed requests and internal retries are free under its documented rule, while its browser product uses a different time-and-bandwidth formula. (ZenRows pricing documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

  • Firecrawl: Consider it when the requirement has expanded from retrieving URLs to mapping sites, crawling them, searching, extracting structured data, or using browser sessions. Its operation-specific credits make those jobs explicit, although its page-error billing boundary differs from Crawlbase’s successful-content statement. (Firecrawl pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26; Firecrawl scrape API, retrieved 2026-07-26.)

Who should stay with Crawlbase

Stay when the target domains have already been classified, the measured rate is acceptable, and success-only pay-as-you-go billing is more important than having one universal public figure. Crawlbase also remains the right answer when the same token and integration need to extend from the Crawling API to an asynchronous Enterprise Crawler, SDKs, Web MCP access, or optional cloud storage. Its crawler can retry work, deliver callbacks, and pause when a customer webhook is unavailable, which is operational scope a basic request API does not automatically supply. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27.)

What the alternatives do not replace

The priced standard-page row does not include Crawlbase’s complete operating model. A simple pay-as-you-go alternative may not provide asynchronous crawl queues, callback delivery, managed retries, live queue monitoring, stable proxy sessions, or the same storage attachment. Conversely, products with crawl and browser features may bill those operations under separate meters. Test the exact target domains, JavaScript requirement, callback behavior, storage retention, SDK compatibility, and throughput before treating a lower page total as a migration verdict. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27; Crawlbase Crawling API documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26.)