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ScrapingBee
The clearest multiplier ladder in this market, and the widest: 1 credit plain, 5 rendered, 10 premium, 25 premium rendered, 75 stealth. On the $19 Hobby plan's 75,000 credits that is $0.25 per 1,000 plain pages and $19 per 1,000 through the stealth pool, a 75x spread on the same URL. Two traps. render_js defaults to true, so the naive call bills five credits rather than one and the headline rate is not what a first-time user pays. And stealth has no option to turn rendering off, so there is no cheaper way to get past an anti-bot wall. Markdown and plain-text output are free parameters rather than a priced product, which makes it one of the cheapest LLM-ready fetches here. Plans hard-cap with no overage and credits do not roll over, but ScrapingBee bills successful requests only, and mode=auto with max_cost will hunt for the cheapest configuration that works instead of leaving you to guess. Left null: annual discount (the page offers no annual option), any published uptime SLA, and the founding year.
Plain page, by volume
| Pages per month | Monthly bill | Per 1,000 | Cheapest route | Allowance unused |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1k | $19.00 | $19.00 | Hobby | 74,000 units |
| 10k | $19.00 | $1.90 | Hobby | 65,000 units |
| 100k | $49.00 | $0.490 | Freelance | 150,000 units |
| 1M | $99.00 | $0.099 | Startup | - |
How ScrapingBee compares
At 10,000 pages a month ScrapingBee costs $1.90 per 1,000, 14.6x the cheapest published route and 2.7x AnyAPI.
| Provider | 1k a month | 10k a month | 100k a month | 1M a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Z  Zyte API | $0.130 | $0.130 | $0.130 | $0.100 |
A  AnyAPI | $0.700 | $0.700 | $0.700 | $0.700 |
| S ScrapingBee | $19.00 | $1.90 | $0.490 | $0.099 |
S  ScrapingAnt | $19.00 | $1.90 | $0.190 | $0.249 |
Z  ZenRows | $19.00 | $1.90 | $0.390 | $0.199 |
List prices, dollars per 1,000 Plain pages at the cheapest published route to each volume. How this is worked out
Every published plan
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Overage each | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hobby | $19.00 per month | 75,000 | hard cap | 25 concurrent requests. JS rendering, rotating and premium proxies and geotargeting are included; screenshots, extraction rules and the Google Search API are not. All prices exclusive of VAT. |
| Freelance | $49.00 per month | 250,000 | hard cap | 50 concurrent requests. Same feature set as Hobby on the grid. Exclusive of VAT. |
| Startup | $99.00 per month | 1,000,000 | hard cap | 100 concurrent requests. Marked "Recommended". Exclusive of VAT. |
| Business | $249 per month | 3,000,000 | hard cap | 200 concurrent requests. Adds the dedicated scraper APIs, priority email support and team management. Exclusive of VAT. |
| Business + | $599 per month | 8,000,000 | hard cap | 400 concurrent requests. Adds a dedicated account manager. Exclusive of VAT. |
| Custom | on request | - | not published | "Need more monthly credits or higher concurrency? Talk to Product Expert" - no published price. |
Knowledge-base article "Credit system explained", the full HTML API list: "Classic proxies without JS rendering: 1 credit. Classic proxies with JS rendering: 5 credits. Premium proxies without JS rendering: 10 credits. Premium proxies with JS rendering: 25 credits. Stealth proxies (no option to disable JS rendering at the moment): 75 credits." Premium is the residential tier the country_code parameter rides on, and stealth is the anti-bot tier, which cannot be bought without rendering, so 75 is both the stealth and the stealth-plus-browser price. Markdown is 1 because return_page_markdown and return_page_text are ordinary HTML API parameters and the credit article charges nothing for them, so a plain fetch returned as Markdown is the same 1 credit; ask for Markdown on a rendered page and it is 5. Watch the default: render_js defaults to true in the HTML API, so a call made with no parameters at all bills 5, not 1. Adding an AI query costs 5 more on top of whichever tier you are on (classic 10, premium 20, stealth 80). Two multipliers outside this site's five: a Google URL through the generic HTML API is 15 credits on classic or premium and 75 on stealth whether or not JS is disabled, and the dedicated scraper APIs have their own flat prices (Google and Walmart 10 light / 15 normal, Amazon 5 light / 15 normal, ChatGPT 15, Gemini 15, YouTube 5, Fast Search 10, Agentic Search 3,750). A mode=auto parameter lets ScrapingBee pick the cheapest configuration that succeeds, with max_cost capping the credits it may spend.
Cost by kind of fetch
Per 1,000, at 10,000 pages a month.
What it can do
Only what the provider's own pages state.
Where these numbers came from
- https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/ read 2026-09-14 / five plan cards with monthly USD, API credits and concurrency (19/75,000/25, 49/250,000/50, 99/1,000,000/100, 249/3,000,000/200, 599/8,000,000/400), the feature grid, "Talk to Product Expert" for anything larger, "All prices are exclusive of VAT", "Try ScrapingBee with 1,000 free API credits" with "No credit card required", no annual billing toggle, and the header claim "Pay only for successful requests, cancel anytime, no questions asked!"
- https://help.scrapingbee.com/en/article/credit-system-explained-1h2ackp/ read 2026-09-14 / the full credit list: HTML API 1 / 5 / 10 / 25 / 75, the AI query surcharge of 5, the Google-URL prices of 15 and 75, and the flat prices of every dedicated scraper API. Updated 07/08/2026
- https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/ read 2026-09-14 / HTML API parameter list: render_js default true, premium_proxy, stealth_proxy, country_code ("Premium proxy geolocation"), return_page_markdown, return_page_text, extract_rules, ai_extract_rules, own_proxy, session_id, mode=auto and max_cost; the docs nav also carries Proxy Mode and the dedicated Scraper APIs
- https://www.scrapingbee.com/features/markdown-scraper/ read 2026-09-14 / "ScrapingBee's return_page_markdown and return_page_text parameters automatically convert web pages into structured, LLM-ready formats"; the FAQ confirms only the AI extraction surcharge: "AI web scraping requests cost an additional five credits on top of the regular API cost"
- https://help.scrapingbee.com/en/article/what-will-happen-to-my-unused-credits-11zt09p/ read 2026-09-14 / credit expiry, quoted above; an upgrade or downgrade does carry unused credits across
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