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Scraping API price statistics
What scraping, search and browser APIs cost and how they bill, worked out from each API's own pricing page. Every figure is one dated sentence with its own link.
Web scraping APIs
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$99
The median monthly bill for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages is $99 ($0.99 per 1,000 pages), across the 20 of 44 web scraping APIs tracked here that publish a complete bill for it, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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$49
The lowest complete monthly bill for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages is $49, on ScrapeBadger, among the 20 of 44 web scraping APIs tracked here that publish one, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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3.5 times
The highest complete monthly bill for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages is 3.5 times the lowest, across the 20 of 44 web scraping APIs tracked here that publish one, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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$49.99
The median monthly bill for 100,000 plain HTML pages, with no JavaScript rendering, is $49.99 ($0.50 per 1,000 pages), across the 27 of 44 web scraping APIs tracked here that publish a complete bill for it, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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$99.50
The median monthly bill for 100,000 pages from sites that block bots, through each API's own mode for them such as premium proxies, is $99.50 ($1.00 per 1,000 pages), across the 16 of 44 web scraping APIs tracked here that publish a complete bill for it, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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1.7 times
Rendering JavaScript makes 100,000 pages cost 1.7 times as much as plain HTML on the median web scraping API, across the 28 of 44 tracked here that publish both prices, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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76%
A JavaScript-rendered page costs 76% less at 1,000,000 pages a month than at 10,000 on the median web scraping API, across the 17 of 44 tracked here that publish a complete bill at both volumes, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
SERP APIs
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$1.43
The median SERP API price is $1.43 per 1,000 searches at 100,000 searches a month, across the 21 of 27 SERP APIs tracked here that publish a complete bill for it, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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$0.60
The lowest SERP API price at 100,000 searches a month is $0.60 per 1,000 searches, on DataForSEO SERP API, with results delivered through a queue rather than in the response, among the 21 of 27 tracked here that publish a complete bill for it, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
Web search APIs
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$3.49
The median web search API price is $3.49 per 1,000 searches at 100,000 searches a month, across the 21 of 27 web search APIs tracked here that publish a complete paid bill for it; 2 more cover that volume free within their published limits, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 17 and Oct 29, 2026.
Cloud browsers
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$0.12
The median cloud browser price is $0.12 per browser hour at 200 browser hours a month, before any proxy traffic billed on top, across the 10 of 22 cloud browsers tracked here that publish a complete bill for it, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 23 and Oct 29, 2026.
AI extraction APIs
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$2.99
The median AI extraction API price is $2.99 per 1,000 extractions at 100,000 extractions a month, across the 16 of 34 AI extraction APIs tracked here that publish a complete bill for it, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 23 and Oct 29, 2026.
Plans, free tiers and billing rules
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$30
The cheapest paid monthly plan costs $30 a month on the median API, across the 56 of the 78 APIs with a current price that sell a monthly subscription, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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35
35 of the 78 APIs with a current price (45%) give a free allowance that renews every month or every day, rather than once, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 17 and Oct 29, 2026.
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17%
Paying a year ahead takes 17% off the monthly price on the median API that sells a yearly plan, across the 19 of 56 subscription APIs with a current price that sell one, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 23 and Oct 29, 2026.
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41
41 of the 42 APIs with a current price that publish a rule for failed requests bill successful requests only; the other 36 of the 78 do not say, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 19 and Oct 29, 2026.
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59
59 of the 78 APIs with a current price (76%) sell an enterprise or custom tier without publishing its price, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 17 and Oct 29, 2026.
Price changes
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10
10 published plan prices changed on 8 APIs between Jul 30 and Oct 29, 2026, each change confirmed by this site's readings of the vendor's own pricing page before and after it.
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6
6 of those 10 price changes between Jul 30 and Oct 29, 2026 were cuts and 4 were rises, from the same readings.
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2
2 APIs withdrew or introduced a plan between Jul 30 and Oct 29, 2026, as confirmed by the same readings.
What the figures cover
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78
78 of the 91 scraping, search and browser APIs tracked here are still sold and have a dated price that can be compared, according to their own pricing pages as read between Oct 17 and Oct 29, 2026.
How these figures are worked out
Every figure comes from the vendor records behind this site's price pages and is worked out again each time the site is built, so it always matches the bills on the pages it summarises. None is typed in by hand.
What is counted. An API counts when it is still sold to new buyers and has a dated reading of its own pricing page. APIs the vendor has retired, that are closed to new buyers, that publish no price, or that bill in a way a per-page or per-search job cannot be priced on are left out. An API whose pricing page changed and is waiting to be checked again still counts, at its last confirmed price and with that reading's date. Each figure says how many APIs it counts and out of how many.
How plans become bills. Each API is priced for one stated job on its own published plans, the cheapest way its prices allow: 100,000 pages a month for web scraping APIs, with JavaScript rendering unless a figure says otherwise and one attempt in 20 failing, billed where the vendor bills failures; 100,000 searches a month for SERP and web search APIs; 200 browser hours a month for cloud browsers; and 100,000 extractions a month for AI extraction APIs. Prices are in US dollars, billed monthly unless a figure is about paying yearly.
What enters a median or a lowest price. Only complete bills: a bill that rests on an assumption the vendor's page does not settle, a one-off credit pack, a published minimum with no full price, or no price at all stays out. The median is the middle bill of those counted, or the average of the middle two when the count is even. A price per 1,000 is the monthly bill divided by the thousands of units in the job, so it includes any plan fee.
Multiples and savings compare each API with itself before the median is taken: its rendered price per page against its plain one, its price per page at 1,000,000 pages a month against 10,000, and, for paying a year ahead, its largest saving on a plan it sells both ways.
Dates. Each figure gives the first and last day on which the pricing pages it counts were read. This site's source watch reads every tracked pricing page each day; a page that did not load, or changed in a way that needs checking, keeps the date of its last confirmed reading, which is why a span can start days before the latest reading.
Price changes count only changes the vendor's own page made: a reading with the old price and not the new one, then a reading with the new price and not the old one, after which this site's record was updated to match. Corrections of this site's own readings are not counted. The record starts on Jul 30, 2026; each change is listed with its dates in the price change record.
Left out of every figure: taxes, proxy traffic and add-ons billed on top of a plan, enterprise contracts sold by quote, and discounts a vendor gives only on request.
Quoting a figure
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A reference can read: Scraping API Prices, "Scraping API price statistics", pricing pages read between Oct 17 and Oct 29, 2026, https://scrapingapiprices.com/scraping-api-price-statistics.