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ScrapeOwl pricing
How ScrapeOwl replaces request credit bundles by proxy and rendering mode, what remains unpublished, and who fits.
Every available option was priced in advance from published vendor rules. Changing a control only switches between those checked options; nothing is sent anywhere and no account is needed.
Your job
What ScrapeOwl counts
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 pages
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- ÷ 0.95
Attempts you are billed for
105,263 requests
ScrapeOwl bills failed fetches, so a 5% failure rate is billed work.
- × 5
What the meter counts
526,316 credits
One attempt is not one billed unit here: this workload multiplies by 5 before any money is involved.
- =
Cash per month
$99.00 /mo
Startup. 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.
100,000 pages divided by 95% success → 526,316 credit → Startup $99.00/mo = $0.99 per 1,000 pages kept
The arithmetic, line by line
- pages: 1 credit per requestsource
- request.js_render: 5 credit per requestsource
- billed on 105,263 attempts, not 100,000 successes, because this vendor charges for failed requestssource
- consumes 526,315.79 credit per month
- cheapest way to buy that: Startup, 1,000,000 included = $99.00 per monthsource
- 473,684 of the included allowance goes unused, 47% of what you buy
Every ScrapeOwl plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bootstrap | $29.00 | n/a | n/a | 250,000 credit | 10 |
| Startup your job | $99.00 | n/a | n/a | 1,000,000 credit | 25 |
| Business | $249.00 | n/a | n/a | 3,000,000 credit | 50 |
What consumes a unit
This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.
| Operation | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| request.basic | 1 credit | request | source |
| request.js_render | 5 credit | request | source |
| request.residential_proxy | 10 credit | request | source |
| request.premium_proxy | 25 credit | request | source |
What ScrapeOwl does not publish
- Overage pricing is not published.
- Credit rollover and purchased-credit expiration are not published.
What ScrapeOwl is
ScrapeOwl is a web scraping and data extraction API that accepts a target URL plus optional elements to return. A request can instead return full HTML and can add headers, cookies, custom JavaScript, waits, POST data, country selection, or a sticky proxy session. It is for developers who want page retrieval and selector-based extraction in one request rather than running their own browser and proxy layer. Sources: ScrapeOwl and ScrapeOwl documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI, and ZenRows are the nearest named competitors. ScrapingBee combines an HTML API with dedicated structured endpoints, ScraperAPI combines a general scraping API with structured endpoints and an asynchronous service, and ZenRows offers a Universal Scraper API plus a separate Scraping Browser. ScrapeOwl’s narrower distinction is element-level extraction together with four clearly listed request bundles based on rendering and proxy choice. Sources: ScrapeOwl documentation, ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI, and ZenRows, retrieved 2026-07-27.
How billing works
One unit is a credit. A basic datacenter-proxy request uses one credit, adding JavaScript rendering replaces that with five, using premium residential proxies without rendering uses ten, and combining premium proxies with rendering uses twenty-five. These are alternative total request costs, not additive feature charges. HTTP 200 and 404 responses are billed; the documented 400, 401, 403, 429, and 500 responses are not. The buying mistake to avoid is assuming a missing target page is free. ScrapeOwl explicitly bills the 404 case. Source: ScrapeOwl documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
What ScrapeOwl does not publish
- An overage rate after the credits included in a listed plan are exhausted. Source reviewed: ScrapeOwl pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27.
- Whether unused monthly credits roll over or whether purchased credits expire. Sources reviewed: ScrapeOwl pricing and ScrapeOwl documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
- Annual self-serve pricing. Source reviewed: ScrapeOwl pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27.
- A fixed public price for a custom plan above the listed thread or credit allowances. Source reviewed: ScrapeOwl pricing, retrieved 2026-07-27.
Who it suits
ScrapeOwl suits a developer who can classify requests into basic, rendered, premium-proxy, or rendered premium-proxy modes and wants optional element extraction in the same API. It does not suit procurement that requires public overage, rollover, expiry, annual, or custom-plan rates, and it needs extra care when a missing page is an unacceptable result because that 404 still consumes credits. The reason is the combination of a clear per-mode request meter with incomplete plan-edge terms. Sources: ScrapeOwl pricing and ScrapeOwl documentation, retrieved 2026-07-27.
Answer
ScrapeOwl costs $99.00 for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages on its Startup offer. Every figure is sourced and dated.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.The published price on this page matched the vendor page when it was rechecked.