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Scraping from another country: who can, and what it costs

30 of the 75 APIs whose pages we read say how many countries you can target, from 1 to 245. Choosing a country is the hidden cost: on Decodo, ScrapeNinja, ScrapeOps, ScrapeOwl and 3 more it needs a dearer proxy, extra credits or a bigger plan, while 8 APIs state it costs nothing extra.

Read on each vendor's own pages on Oct 11, 2026. "Not listed" means the pages we read do not say.

Why the country changes the bill

A shop shows prices, stock and search results for the country it thinks you are in, so a price monitor for Germany has to look German. Most APIs do that by sending the request through a proxy in that country. On some, any request can name a country at no extra cost; on others the country comes only with residential proxies, which on several of them cost 10 to 25 times a basic request, or only on the bigger plans. For a cloud browser, the country comes with the proxy traffic, billed per gigabyte.

Web scraping APIs

20 web scraping APIs whose own pages state a country count or a price for choosing one.
API	Countries	What choosing a country costs
Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API	195	Not listed
Crawlbase	22	Not listed
Decodo Web Scraping API	240	Standard proxy pool covers only 8 locations; wider country choice needs the Premium pool, which is priced separately from Standard
HasData	Not listed	Included in every call
Oxylabs Web Scraper API	195	Not listed
Scrape.do	160	Not listed
ScrapeNinja	50	Basic geo pools (us, eu, de, fr, br) are included on free and paid plans; premium datacenter proxies for wider country selection cost 1.5 USD / GB
ScrapeOps	12	All countries need residential proxies (10 credits per request, 25 with JS rendering); no separate country charge is listed
ScrapeOwl	15	The country is set on the residential (premium) proxy, which costs 10 credits per request, or 25 with render_js
ScraperAPI	50	No extra credits for country_code; Hobby and Startup plans are limited to US and EU, individual countries from the Business plan up
Scrapfly	190	Not listed
ScrapingAnt	24	Not listed
ScrapingDog	Not listed	10 credits per Web Scraping request with country (vs 1 for a plain rotating-proxy request); available on every plan
ScrapingFish	1	Not listed
SOAX Web Data API	195	Not listed
Spider.cloud	199	Proxy requests bill like every other Spider request: bandwidth per gigabyte plus compute per minute of CPU
WebScraping.AI	13	Listed as a feature on every paid plan (Personal, Plus, Startup); no per-request surcharge stated
WebScrapingAPI	Not listed	Included in every Scraper API plan, trial included
ZenRows	190	Requires Premium Proxy (10 credits per request instead of 1; 25 with JS rendering)
Zyte API	Not listed	Using an extended geolocation affects request cost; the default (Zyte picks the location) does not

Prices for these APIs: web scraping APIs compared.

AI extraction APIs

1 AI extraction APIs whose own pages state a country count or a price for choosing one.
API	Countries	What choosing a country costs
Jina AI Reader and Search Foundation APIs	Not listed	key required

Prices for these APIs: AI extraction APIs compared.

Cloud browsers

10 cloud browsers whose own pages state a country count or a price for choosing one.
API	Countries	What choosing a country costs
Anchor Browser	Not listed	Geolocation is a Starter-plan-and-up feature ($50/month); built-in Anchor Proxy is $8 per GB
Browser Use Cloud	Not listed	Residential proxy is on by default at $5/GB; your own or direct proxy is $0.20/GB
Browserbase	200	Proxy traffic is billed by data: 1GB included then $12/GB on Developer; 5GB then $10/GB on Startup
BrowserCloud	195	Proxy traffic is billed in credits: 12 credits per MB datacenter, 80 credits per MB residential
Browserless	Not listed	Built-in proxy traffic is metered in units: residential 6 units/MB, datacenter 2 units/MB; city and state targeting need the Scale plan
Hyperbrowser	100	Fetch with proxy: +9 credits per page; proxy data in browser sessions: 10,000 credits per GB ($10/GB)
Kernel	Not listed	Configurable proxies are not on the free Developer plan; they start on Hobbyist ($30/month), and usage costs are quoted as no charges for proxies
Lightpanda Cloud	Not listed	Available to every account, on the shared datacenter proxy only (the country parameter is ignored by other proxies)
Scrapeless	195	Browser and Crawl proxy traffic is billed at $1.8 per GB plus a $0.09 per hour service fee
Steel.dev	200	Proxy bandwidth is metered: $10/GB on Launch, $6/GB on Scale; Steel-provided proxies need a $10 account-verification deposit on Launch

Prices for these APIs: cloud browsers compared.

Web search APIs

5 web search APIs whose own pages state a country count or a price for choosing one.
API	Countries	What choosing a country costs
Brave Search API	37	Not listed
Scavio	233	Not listed
Tavily	166	Not listed
TinyFish	7	Not listed
Valyu	36	Not listed

Prices for these APIs: web search APIs compared.

SERP APIs

7 SERP APIs whose own pages state a country count or a price for choosing one.
API	Countries	What choosing a country costs
Bright Data SERP API	195	free
Oxylabs SERP Scraper API	195	Not listed
SearchApi.io	Not listed	Listed as a built-in feature of the plans; no separate charge shown
SerpApi	245	Not listed
Serper.dev	Not listed	Listed as a feature of every credit pack; no separate charge shown
SERPHouse	245	Not listed
serpstack	Not listed	Listed as a feature of every plan including Free; no separate charge shown

Prices for these APIs: SERP APIs compared.

Pricing a job in one country

Where the country needs residential proxies, price the job as protected pages: on the main comparison, set "Protected sites" to yes and each API's bill uses its premium-proxy rate. For a cloud browser, add the proxy traffic: the proxies or an API tool turns pages and page size into gigabytes.