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ScrapeLens alternatives

ScrapeLens has no public price for 100,000 JavaScript pages a month, so no saving can be worked out against it. The lowest complete bills for the same job are ScrapingDog at $90.00, Scrape.do at $99.00, Olostep at $99.00.

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

The lowest bills for 100,000 JavaScript pages a month

The whole job priced the way each vendor sells it.

  1. ScrapingDog $90.00 a month Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapingDog's pricing
  2. Scrape.do $99.00 a month Pro plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Scrape.do's pricing
  3. Olostep $99.00 a month Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Olostep's pricing
  4. ScrapeOwl $99.00 a month Startup plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapeOwl's pricing
  5. ScrapingBee $99.00 a month Startup plan · checked Oct 7, 2026 Check ScrapingBee's pricing

Cheapest for plain HTML, no JavaScript

Priced for 100,000 pages a month: static pages, where rendering is wasted money. ScrapeLens has no complete published bill for 100,000 pages a month.

  1. BrowserCloud $0.19 per 1,000 pages $19.00 a month for this job. Hobby plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check BrowserCloud's pricing
  2. ScrapeOps $0.19 per 1,000 pages $19.00 a month for this job. 100,000 credits plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapeOps's pricing
  3. ScrapingAnt $0.19 per 1,000 pages $19.00 a month for this job. Enthusiast plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapingAnt's pricing
  4. WebScraping.AI $0.20 per 1,000 pages $19.60 a month for this job. Pay as you go · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check WebScraping.AI's pricing
  5. Scrape.do $0.29 per 1,000 pages $29.00 a month for this job. Hobby plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Scrape.do's pricing

Cheapest on sites that block bots

Priced for 100,000 JavaScript, protected-site pages a month, through each vendor's cheapest published mode for protected sites, named on the row. ScrapeLens has no complete published bill for 100,000 JavaScript, protected-site pages a month.

  1. Scrape.do $0.99 per 1,000 pages $99.00 a month for this job. via residential proxies · Pro plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Scrape.do's pricing
  2. ScrapeOwl $0.99 per 1,000 pages $99.00 a month for this job. via residential proxies · Startup plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapeOwl's pricing
  3. WebScraping.AI $0.99 per 1,000 pages $99.00 a month for this job. via residential proxies · Plus plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check WebScraping.AI's pricing
  4. HasData $1.19 per 1,000 pages $119.00 a month for this job. via residential proxies · Basic plan · checked Oct 8, 2026 Check HasData's pricing
  5. ScraperAPI $1.49 per 1,000 pages $149.00 a month for this job. priced with an assumption via protected-site rate · Startup plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScraperAPI's pricing

Bills only successful requests

At 5% failures, a vendor that bills errors charges for pages you never get.

  1. ScrapingDog $90.00 a month Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapingDog's pricing
  2. Scrape.do $99.00 a month Pro plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Scrape.do's pricing
  3. Olostep $99.00 a month Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Olostep's pricing
  4. ScrapeOwl $99.00 a month Startup plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapeOwl's pricing
  5. ScrapingBee $99.00 a month Startup plan · checked Oct 7, 2026 Check ScrapingBee's pricing

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Why teams leave ScrapeLens

ScrapeLens uses pay-as-you-go credit packs and deducts a fixed number of credits per request, but its public documentation does not say whether a failed scrape consumes that debit. Credit expiration and rate limits are also unpublished. Those gaps matter at the point where a test becomes a recurring pipeline: requested pages cannot be translated into paid useful results, and a buyer cannot prove that the service can finish a burst inside its required window. (ScrapeLens documentation, checked 2026-07-27.)

The capability boundary can also prompt a move. ScrapeLens automatically handles JavaScript rendering and rotating proxies, supports scripted waits and clicks, and can return full HTML or selector-defined structured output. A team that needs only static HTML may be buying a wider operation than necessary, while a team that needs a persistent interactive browser may outgrow a request API with a bounded script model. (ScrapeLens documentation, checked 2026-07-27.)

Alternatives worth considering

  • Scraping Robot: Consider it when the central requirement is a simple pay-as-you-go scrape with success-only billing and non-expiring purchased credits. Failed results and timeouts are described as free. Its public product is narrower, so confirm any JavaScript interaction and structured extraction requirements before switching. (Scraping Robot, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • Scrappa: Look here when a successful-call meter, broad prebuilt endpoint catalog, and packs with a stated validity period are more important than arbitrary scripted browser interactions. Failed calls consume no credits. Scrappa does not establish that every custom selector or multi-step page flow supported by ScrapeLens has an equivalent endpoint. (Scrappa pricing, checked 2026-07-27.)

  • ScrapeOwl: Consider it when the application can explicitly choose basic, rendered, residential, or rendered premium-proxy modes. ScrapeOwl documents the total credit debit for each mode and which listed response statuses consume credits. That visibility is useful, but the caller must classify the request instead of relying on ScrapeLens to handle the page behind one operation. (ScrapeOwl documentation, checked 2026-07-26; ScrapeOwl pricing, checked 2026-07-27.)

  • ScrapingBee: Look here when JavaScript, premium routing, stealth, screenshots, extraction, Google, and commerce targets need explicit request classes under one monthly balance. Credits do not roll over, so it trades ScrapeLens’s pack model for a recurring allowance with better-documented major multipliers. (ScrapingBee credit guide, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • ZenRows: Consider it when request-style scraping and a separate interactive Scraping Browser need to coexist. Universal Scraper uses replacement rates for basic, JavaScript, premium, and protected-site modes, while the browser uses time and bandwidth. The split makes persistent browser work explicit but requires two formulas. (ZenRows pricing documentation, checked 2026-07-26.)

Who should stay with ScrapeLens

Stay when a single POST operation already covers the required JavaScript rendering, rotating proxy, scripted waits or clicks, and selector-based nested extraction. ScrapeLens can return full HTML when no output schema is supplied, or structured data when selectors are provided. Its public offer has no monthly fee, so an irregular workload can avoid paying for a recurring allowance. If the team has confirmed failure treatment, pack life, and rate limits directly, those known account terms close the public gaps without forcing a rewrite. (ScrapeLens documentation, checked 2026-07-27.)

What the alternatives do not replace

A standard scrape price does not prove equivalence with ScrapeLens’s combined browser and extraction request. Scraping Robot and Scrappa may simplify billing but do not automatically reproduce the script array and nested selector output. ScrapeOwl and ScrapingBee expose page modes but use their own parameter and credit models. ZenRows separates request scraping from browser sessions. Test waits, clicks, selector types, nested arrays, timeout handling, full-HTML output, and error responses before treating any lower request total as the complete migration cost. (ScrapeLens documentation, checked 2026-07-27; ScrapeOwl documentation, checked 2026-07-26; ZenRows pricing documentation, checked 2026-07-26.)