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Kadoa alternatives

Kadoa has no public price for 100,000 extractions a month, so no saving can be worked out against it. The lowest complete bills for the same job are Valyu at $89.00, ScrapingDog at $90.00, WebScraping.AI at $99.00.

Why Kadoa has no price here: Kadoa publishes consumption-based plan descriptions without a billing unit or rate. Its public terms do not establish a bill for 100,000 extraction operations.

Prices read on each vendor's own pricing page; dates on every row. How we check prices

The lowest bills for 100,000 extractions a month

The whole job priced the way each vendor sells it.

  1. Valyu $89.00 a month Comfortably Pro plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Valyu's pricing
  2. ScrapingDog $90.00 a month Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapingDog's pricing
  3. WebScraping.AI $99.00 a month Plus plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check WebScraping.AI's pricing
  4. ScrapingBee $99.00 a month Startup plan · checked Oct 7, 2026 Check ScrapingBee's pricing
  5. ScrapingBot $99.99 a month Startup plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapingBot's pricing

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Why teams leave Kadoa

Kadoa’s public pricing page does not provide enough information to reproduce a bill. Flex is described as consumption-based, but the consumed unit and its rate are not published. The free evaluation’s size and duration are also unstated, and Enterprise usage limits and volume discounts are custom. This means even a careful buyer cannot identify the page, run, record, or monitor volume at which Flex stops making sense without obtaining account-specific terms. (Kadoa pricing, checked 2026-07-27.)

The other gaps are operationally material. Public pricing does not define concurrency, retention, overage behavior, or whether failed runs, blocked pages, and empty results consume usage. A team leaves when it needs an independently auditable estimate before a sales process, or when its use case is only extraction and does not justify buying a broader maintained-data workflow. The absence of a public formula is the switching reason; it is not evidence that Kadoa is expensive. (Kadoa pricing, checked 2026-07-27.)

Alternatives worth considering

  • Browse AI: Consider it when non-developers need visual robots, scheduled runs, and monitoring with a public credit-based plan ladder. Browse AI changes the workflow and meters automation work rather than promising Kadoa’s maintained enterprise data layer, but it gives a self-serve buyer a visible starting model. (Browse AI pricing, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • Apify: Look here when a marketplace of reusable Actors, custom code, scheduled runs, storage, proxies, and platform resource meters fits the engineering team. Apify’s bill combines platform usage and Actor-specific events or compute, so the reason to switch is control and inspectable infrastructure, not a universal per-page rate. (Apify pricing, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • Firecrawl: Consider it when developers primarily need scrape, crawl, map, search, extraction, and browser operations exposed through APIs. The credit rules are operation-specific and public, which helps classify workload before purchase. Firecrawl does not provide Kadoa’s entire monitoring and enterprise-integration posture. (Firecrawl pricing, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • ScrapeGraphAI: Look here when natural-language extraction and crawl outputs are the core job and a published credit model is preferable to an undisclosed Flex unit. Its meters differ by markdown, extraction, search, crawl, and agent operations, so each workflow still needs classification. (ScrapeGraphAI pricing, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • Diffbot: Consider it when the required output is structured entities, articles, products, discussions, or a knowledge graph rather than an operator-managed custom workflow. Diffbot’s public model is tied to extraction and knowledge products, so it changes both the schema and the commercial unit. (Diffbot pricing, checked 2026-07-26.)

Who should stay with Kadoa

Stay when Kadoa already owns a working extraction and monitoring workflow, the contract defines its consumption clearly, and the organization uses the capabilities that distinguish Enterprise from a basic scraper. Kadoa lists real-time monitors, Snowflake, S3 and MCP integrations, shared workspaces, SAML SSO, compliance controls, an enterprise service commitment, and a dedicated account manager. Rebuilding that operating layer around a lower-level API can cost more than keeping a negotiated platform agreement. (Kadoa pricing, checked 2026-07-27; Kadoa documentation, checked 2026-07-26.)

What the alternatives do not replace

None of the alternatives should be treated as a drop-in Kadoa clone. Browse AI emphasizes visual robots. Apify exposes a programmable platform and marketplace. Firecrawl and ScrapeGraphAI expose developer operations, while Diffbot provides predefined extraction and knowledge products. They do not automatically carry over Kadoa’s maintained workflows, real-time monitors, delivery integrations, collaborative controls, or enterprise governance. Compare the total workflow, including change handling, monitoring, destinations, access control, and support ownership, after obtaining Kadoa’s actual unit definition. (Kadoa pricing, checked 2026-07-27; Apify pricing, checked 2026-07-26; Firecrawl pricing, checked 2026-07-26.)