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WebScrapingAPI pricing
How WebScrapingAPI counts successful API calls with major features included, and where its first-party plan tables disagree.
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Your job
What WebScrapingAPI counts
What you pay
Successes you want
100,000 pages
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
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Attempts you are billed for
100,000 requests
WebScrapingAPI does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.
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What the meter counts
100,000 requests
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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Cash per month
$149.00 /mo
Advanced. 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 → 100,000 request → Advanced $149.00/mo = $1.49 per 1,000 pages kept
Cheaper for this job
Same 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.
Every WebScrapingAPI plan
| Plan | Monthly | If billed yearly | Prepaid pack | Included | Simultaneous sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $19.00 | n/a | n/a | 7,000 request | 20 |
| Basic | $49.00 | n/a | n/a | 20,000 request | 20 |
| Standard | $99.00 | n/a | n/a | 45,000 request | 50 |
| Advanced your job | $149.00 | n/a | n/a | 100,000 request | 100 |
| Premium | $249.00 | n/a | n/a | 180,000 request | 200 |
| Pro | $599.00 | n/a | n/a | 450,000 request | 500 |
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 request | request | source |
What WebScrapingAPI does not publish
- No public multiplier or feature-combination rules were obtainable.
- Billable HTTP status codes were not published.
- Annual prices and overage rates were not published.
- The pricing page and first-party quick-start guide disagree on the plan table.
What WebScrapingAPI is
WebScrapingAPI is a managed URL-retrieval API that handles proxies, JavaScript rendering, geotargeting, CAPTCHA handling, and browser-related access behind an HTTP request. It is for developers and data teams that want page content without operating proxy rotation or browser infrastructure themselves. The product page presents those capabilities as features of the scraper API rather than separate proxy products. Sources: WebScrapingAPI and WebScrapingAPI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, and ZenRows are the nearest named competitors. ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee use credits that vary by request mode or target, while ZenRows assigns replacement credit rates to Universal Scraper modes and separately meters its browser product. WebScrapingAPI’s public distinction is a monthly API-call allowance in which JavaScript, residential routing, geotargeting, and CAPTCHA handling are presented as included, with no public feature multiplier table. Sources: ScraperAPI pricing, ScrapingBee pricing, ZenRows pricing, and WebScrapingAPI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
How billing works
One unit is one successful API request. The workload multiplier is the number of successful calls, and plan cards publish concurrent-request limits. The pricing page says only successful requests are charged, but it does not publish a complete billable HTTP status list. It also presents rendering, premium residential access, geotargeting, and CAPTCHA handling as included without stating that any option consumes extra calls. The common buying mistake is to import a multiplier formula from another scraping API or from an older guide. The current pricing page is the live plan source, and it does not publish those feature multipliers. Source: WebScrapingAPI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
What WebScrapingAPI does not publish consistently
- A multiplier or combination rule for JavaScript, residential access, geotargeting, and CAPTCHA handling. Source reviewed: WebScrapingAPI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- The exact billable status codes, annual prices, and overage rates. Source reviewed: WebScrapingAPI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.
- One consistent first-party plan table. The dedicated pricing page and the current quick-start guide show different plan names and allowances. Sources reviewed: WebScrapingAPI pricing and quick-start guide, retrieved 2026-07-26.
Who it suits
WebScrapingAPI suits teams that want an apparently simple successful-call meter with major access features included and can confirm the live plan table during purchase. It is less suitable for buyers who need a reconciled public allowance table, an exact status-code policy, or published overage terms before signup. The reason is that the intended request unit is simple, but the vendor’s two current first-party plan references conflict. Sources: WebScrapingAPI pricing and quick-start guide, retrieved 2026-07-26.
Answer
WebScrapingAPI's dated 2026-07-26 price snapshot gives $149.00 for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages on its Advanced offer. This older figure is excluded from rankings; check the vendor before buying.
Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.We could not confirm this price in the latest check, so it remains visible for context but cannot lead a price ranking. Check the vendor's pricing page before buying.