ScrapingBee
ScrapingBee is a web scraping API that fetches pages through rotating proxies and a headless browser and returns HTML, Markdown or structured JSON, for developers and growth teams who need web data without running their own scraping setup.
Updated October 2026
Overview: What is ScrapingBee?
Plans start at $19 a month for 75,000 credits, and new accounts get 1,000 free credits with no credit card (checked October 2026).
You send a URL and options in one API call, and ScrapingBee handles proxy rotation, JavaScript rendering, retries and CAPTCHAs. Beyond the general HTML API it has dedicated endpoints for Google Search, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini. For a sales team it's raw material, not a contact database: you use it to pull company pages, directories or listings into an enrichment or list-building workflow.
Fit: Ideal customer profile.
Developers and GTM engineers who need pages from many sites, including ones with bot protection, and who are comfortable working with an API or a no-code tool like Make, n8n or Zapier. Teams that want ready-made B2B contacts should use a data provider instead, since ScrapingBee returns page data, not verified emails.
- Scraping sites that block bots
- Feeding web data into Clay or n8n
- Search and ecommerce data
Capabilities
Key features.
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JavaScript rendering in headless Chrome, with click, scroll and form scenarios
02
Rotating, premium and stealth proxies with country geotargeting
03
CSS and XPath extraction rules, plus AI extraction from plain-language prompts
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Markdown, plain text, JSON or screenshot output
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Dedicated APIs for Google Search, Fast Search, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini
06
Make, n8n and Zapier integrations, an MCP server and a CLI
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SOC 2 Type II compliance
Usage
How to use ScrapingBee.
Sign up for an API key and build a test request in the dashboard, which shows the credit cost before you send it. Call the API from your code, or drop it into Make, n8n or Zapier for no-code workflows. Turn off JavaScript rendering for static pages, because it's on by default and costs five times the credits of a plain request.
Cost
Pricing.
$19/ month
Monthly prices exclude VAT (checked October 2026). A plain request costs 1 credit, JavaScript rendering 5, premium proxies 10 to 25 and stealth proxies 75. Google URLs cost 15 and AI extraction adds 5. Only successful requests are charged (HTTP 200, 404 and 410), and you can buy add-on credits mid-cycle.
Hobby
$19.00
- 75,000 API credits
- 25 concurrent requests
Freelance
$49.00
- 250,000 API credits
- 50 concurrent requests
Business
$249.00
- 3,000,000 API credits
- 200 concurrent requests
Business +
$599.00
- 8,000,000 API credits
- 400 concurrent requests
Enterprise
$999.00
- From 14,000,000 API credits
- 500 or more concurrent requests
- Tiers up to $5,799 for 120,000,000 credits
At a glance
Quick facts.
- Stack position
- Enrichment
- Category
- Data Sources
- Best for
- Scraping sites that block bots, Feeding web data into Clay or n8n, Search and ecommerce data
- Pricing
- From $19/month
Subcategories
- Web Scrapers
Questions
Frequently asked.
How much does ScrapingBee cost?
Hobby is $19 a month for 75,000 credits, Freelance $49 for 250,000 and Business $249 for 3 million, with Enterprise tiers from $999. There's a free trial of 1,000 credits.
How do ScrapingBee credits work?
Each request costs credits based on its options: 1 for a plain request, 5 with JavaScript rendering, 10 or 25 with premium proxies and 75 with stealth proxies. The dashboard shows the cost before you send.
Does ScrapingBee charge for failed requests?
No. It charges only for requests that return HTTP 200, 404 or 410.
What are ScrapingBee's limits?
Credit costs climb fast on protected sites, where a stealth request uses 75 credits. JavaScript rendering is on by default, so static pages cost more unless you switch it off, and it returns page data, not contact data.
What are the alternatives to ScrapingBee?
ScraperAPI, ZenRows, Scrapingdog and ScrapeOwl are similar scraping APIs with credit-based pricing. Bright Data sells a proxy network and ready-made web datasets.
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