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Scraping Robot alternatives

14 APIs are cheaper than Scraping Robot for 100,000 JavaScript pages a month: ScrapingDog costs $90.00, $90.00 a month less than Scraping Robot's $180.00.

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 saves $90.00 a month · Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapingDog's pricing
  2. Scrape.do $99.00 a month saves $81.00 a month · Pro plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Scrape.do's pricing
  3. Olostep $99.00 a month saves $81.00 a month · Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Olostep's pricing
  4. ScrapeOwl $99.00 a month saves $81.00 a month · Startup plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapeOwl's pricing
  5. ScrapingBee $99.00 a month saves $81.00 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. Scraping Robot: $180.00 a month for the same job.

  1. BrowserCloud $0.19 per 1,000 pages $19.00 a month for this job. saves $161.00 a month · You lose: does not say whether it bills failed requests · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check BrowserCloud's pricing
  2. ScrapeOps $0.19 per 1,000 pages $19.00 a month for this job. saves $161.00 a month · 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. saves $161.00 a month · 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. saves $160.40 a month · 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. saves $151.00 a month · 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. Scraping Robot 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 saves $90.00 a month · Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapingDog's pricing
  2. Scrape.do $99.00 a month saves $81.00 a month · Pro plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Scrape.do's pricing
  3. Olostep $99.00 a month saves $81.00 a month · Standard plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check Olostep's pricing
  4. ScrapeOwl $99.00 a month saves $81.00 a month · Startup plan · checked Oct 9, 2026 Check ScrapeOwl's pricing
  5. ScrapingBee $99.00 a month saves $81.00 a month · Startup plan · checked Oct 7, 2026 Check ScrapingBee's pricing

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Why teams leave Scraping Robot

Scraping Robot’s public offer is intentionally simple: pay as you go for successful scrapes, with failed results and timeouts excluded and purchased credits not expiring. The switch usually comes from capability or throughput rather than the base billing rule. Its public API reference centers on a single endpoint and an HTML request module. A team that needs an explicit menu of rendering modes, residential geotargeting, structured AI extraction, screenshots, search endpoints, or persistent browser sessions may need a broader product. (Scraping Robot, checked 2026-07-26; Scraping Robot basic usage, checked 2026-07-27.)

Volume becomes a decision point when the default soft request limit or the public self-serve rate no longer fits. The default customer limit is a soft one hundred requests per minute and can be adjusted by contacting the vendor. Higher-volume economics above the published self-serve range require a quote, and no fixed Enterprise tier is public. That is acceptable for negotiated procurement, but it means a large launch cannot be approved entirely from the public record. (Scraping Robot, checked 2026-07-26.)

Alternatives worth considering

  • Scrappa: Consider it when one successful-call debit should extend across a broad catalog of search, maps, video, commerce, professional, and review endpoints. Failed calls consume no credits, and packs have a stated validity period. The reason to switch is endpoint breadth, not an improvement to Scraping Robot’s already simple success-only boundary. (Scrappa pricing, checked 2026-07-27.)

  • ScrapeOwl: Look here when the request needs explicit rendering, residential routing, country selection, sticky sessions, screenshots, custom JavaScript, or CSS and XPath extraction. Its four request modes use different credit totals, and 404 responses are billed, so the added capability comes with a more complex meter. (ScrapeOwl documentation, checked 2026-07-27.)

  • ScraperAPI: Consider it when standard pages must share one integration with JavaScript, premium routing, stealth, screenshots, and named target APIs. Major request classes are documented, while monthly credits reset and lower plans can stop at their allowance. This is a plan-based alternative to Scraping Robot’s non-expiring pay-as-you-go balance. (ScraperAPI pricing, checked 2026-07-26; ScraperAPI credit rules, checked 2026-07-26.)

  • ScrapeLens: Look here when browser-like interaction and selector-defined output should be part of one scrape request. ScrapeLens supports waits, clicks, JavaScript handling, proxy rotation, full HTML, and nested structured extraction. Its failure billing, credit expiry, and public rate limits remain unknown. (ScrapeLens documentation, checked 2026-07-27.)

  • Firecrawl: Consider it when a URL fetch has become a site map, crawl, search, extraction, or browser job. Firecrawl publishes operation-specific credit rules. Its target-error billing differs from Scraping Robot’s successful-result statement, so unsuccessful-page volume must be modeled separately. (Firecrawl pricing, checked 2026-07-26; Firecrawl scrape API, checked 2026-07-26.)

Who should stay with Scraping Robot

Stay when the required output is the existing Scraping Robot HTML workflow, the target set works within it, and a non-expiring pay-as-you-go balance is more useful than a monthly subscription. The incumbent’s strongest commercial feature is that only a valid result returned without errors is charged, while timeouts and failed results are excluded. A workload that is irregular, basic, and comfortably inside the soft request limit may gain nothing from moving to a platform with mode multipliers and expiring monthly capacity. (Scraping Robot, checked 2026-07-26; Scraping Robot basic usage, checked 2026-07-27.)

What the alternatives do not replace

Broader alternatives add features by changing the unit. ScrapeOwl, ScraperAPI, and Firecrawl classify rendering, target, or operation before billing. ScrapeLens adds scripted browser and extraction behavior but leaves more public commercial unknowns. Scrappa emphasizes prebuilt endpoints rather than Scraping Robot’s single HTML request path. If Scraping Robot already produces the required content, verify that an alternative’s extra capability is actually used, then compare failure rules, credit life, request limits, output format, and the cost of integration changes. (Scraping Robot, checked 2026-07-26; ScrapeOwl documentation, checked 2026-07-27; Firecrawl pricing, checked 2026-07-26.)