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ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI: what an AI agent can replace

Pick ScrapingBee if you scrape ordinary sites in volume and want the lower entry price and more concurrency per plan. Pick ScraperAPI if you scrape hard targets like Google, Amazon or LinkedIn and want per-domain credit rates and charges only on 200 and 404 answers.

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ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI: plans, free tier and API

Read from each vendor's own pages on 2026-11-03. Prices change, so follow the source link before you buy.

  • Entry paid plan

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    Hobby $19 a month: 75,000 credits, 25 concurrent requests; Freelance $49: 250,000 credits, 50 concurrent

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    Hobby $49 a month ($44.10 billed annually): 100,000 credits, 20 concurrent threads

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

  • Mid plans

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    Startup $99: 1,000,000 credits, 100 concurrent; Business $249: 3,000,000 credits, 200 concurrent

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    Startup $149 ($134.10 billed annually): 1,000,000 credits, 50 threads; Business $299 ($269.10): 3,000,000 credits, 100 threads

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

  • Free tier or trial

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    1,000 free API credits, no credit card

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    7-day trial with 5,000 API credits, no credit card

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

  • A JavaScript page

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    JavaScript rendering is on by default and costs 5 credits; a plain request is 1

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    A plain request is 1 credit; render=true adds 10

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

  • Premium proxies

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    Premium proxy 10 credits, or 25 with JavaScript; stealth proxy 75

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    Premium 10 extra, premium with rendering 25; ultra premium 30 extra, or 75 with rendering, on paid plans

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

  • Hard domains

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    No per-domain rate on the pricing page

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    Amazon 5 credits, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30; plus 10 when bot protection is bypassed

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

  • Failed requests

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    Auto mode charges 0 credits when every setup fails; stealth proxy bills successful calls only

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    Charged only for 200 and 404 answers

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

  • API access

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    Every plan is the API; credits last one month and do not roll over

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    Every plan is the API; Ultra Premium included on all plans

    Source, checked 2026-11-03

Which one to pick

Pick ScrapingBee if most of your pages are ordinary sites and you want more parallel requests for the money: at the same 1,000,000 credits its Startup plan lists a lower price and twice the concurrency of ScraperAPI's. Turn JavaScript off when a page does not need it, because rendering is on by default and costs 5 credits.

Pick ScraperAPI if your targets are Google, Amazon or LinkedIn. It publishes a credit rate per domain, so you can price a job before you run it, and it charges only for 200 and 404 answers.

Do the credit math on your own mix. A request that needs premium proxies and rendering costs 25 credits on both, which turns a million credits into 40,000 pages.

Where looot fits

An agent with one looot key gets pages without a monthly plan: a page as markdown, a page through a real browser, and a Google results page, each paid per call with no credits to expire. The live price of each is listed below.

ScrapingBee and ScraperAPI are both in the catalog as coming soon and will need your own key. Until then the agent uses the providers below; for sites with heavy bot protection, test a few URLs first and keep a fallback.

  • Read a web page as markdown (Jina Reader)price shows when the catalog answers
  • Scrape a web page to markdown (Context.dev)price shows when the catalog answers
  • Scrape a page with a real browser (Olostep)price shows when the catalog answers
  • Scrape a page to markdown or HTML (Steel)price shows when the catalog answers
  • Scrape a web page (Serper)price shows when the catalog answers
  • A Google results page (Serper)price shows when the catalog answers

Verdicts

ScrapingBee and ScraperAPI, side by side

Each score is the share of that tool's listed jobs an agent running looot covers. It is not a score of the tool.

ScrapingBee logo

ScrapingBee

Yes

90%

of its listed jobs an agent running looot covers. A partly covered job counts half.

Covered
4
Partly
1
Not covered
0
ScraperAPI logo

ScraperAPI

Yes

100%

of its listed jobs an agent running looot covers. A partly covered job counts half.

Covered
4
Partly
0
Not covered
0

Job by job

Which jobs an agent covers for each

Jobs of the same kind sit in one row. A job with no match on the other side is listed alone.

  • Fetch a page through proxies

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    • Fetch a page through proxiesCovered

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    • Fetch a page through proxiesCovered

  • Render JavaScript pages

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    • Render JavaScript pagesCovered

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    • Render JavaScript pagesCovered

  • Extract a page into fields

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    • Extract a page into fieldsCovered

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    • Extract a page into fieldsCovered

  • Research and scrape the web

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    • Scrape search resultsCovered

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    • Scrape search resultsCovered

  • Control a browser session

    ScrapingBee logoScrapingBee

    • Control a browser sessionPartly

    ScraperAPI logoScraperAPI

    No matching job on our list.

Shared jobs

Jobs both do that an agent can take over

Both tools list these jobs and an agent running looot covers at least part of each. The logos are the providers it would call.

  • Fetch a page through proxies

    ScrapingBee: Fetch a page through proxies. ScraperAPI: Fetch a page through proxies.

  • Render JavaScript pages

    ScrapingBee: Render JavaScript pages. ScraperAPI: Render JavaScript pages.

  • Extract a page into fields

    ScrapingBee: Extract a page into fields. ScraperAPI: Extract a page into fields.

  • Research and scrape the web

    ScrapingBee: Scrape search results. ScraperAPI: Scrape search results.

What you keep

What you keep each tool for

These are the jobs an agent does not fully cover, with the reason.

looot is not ScrapingBee and not ScraperAPI. Each product does things looot does not, and the lists below name them. Use this page to decide which jobs an agent can take over, not which tool to choose.

ScrapingBee logo

Keep ScrapingBee for

  • Control a browser sessionPartly

    Sessions are billed and handled differently per provider.

ScraperAPI logo

Keep ScraperAPI for

Nothing on our list. That does not mean ScraperAPI has no other features, only that we found none an agent cannot cover.

Prompts

Ask your agent to take over the jobs

One prompt for each tool's jobs. Paste it into the agent you already use, after setting up looot.

ScrapingBee jobs
Use looot to fetch the pages at the URLs I give you, render the JavaScript, and return the title, price and main text of each as a table. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

ScraperAPI jobs
Use looot to fetch each URL I give you through a scraping proxy, render the page if needed, and return the main text and key fields. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

Questions about ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI

ScrapingBee, if you scrape ordinary sites in volume and want more concurrency per plan. ScraperAPI, if you scrape Google, Amazon or LinkedIn and want a published credit rate for each domain. Both offer free credits with no card, so run your real URLs through both trials.

Checked 2026-11-03: ScrapingBee starts at $19 a month for 75,000 credits, with Startup at $99 for 1,000,000 and Business at $249 for 3,000,000. ScraperAPI starts at $49 a month for 100,000 credits, with Startup at $149 for 1,000,000 and Business at $299 for 3,000,000.

On ScrapingBee, rendering is on by default and costs 5 credits a request; with premium proxies it is 25. On ScraperAPI, render=true adds 10 credits, and premium proxies with rendering cost 25. Turn rendering off when the page works without it.

Checked 2026-11-03: ScraperAPI charges 25 credits for a Google or Bing request, so its $149 Startup plan covers about 40,000 Google pages. ScrapingBee sells a separate Google search endpoint; its credit cost is not on the pricing page, so check its documentation before you compare.

ScraperAPI charges only for 200 and 404 answers. ScrapingBee's auto mode costs nothing when every setup fails, and its stealth proxy bills successful calls only. Read each one's documentation for the cases in between, such as a request you cancel.

Both give free credits with no card: ScrapingBee 1,000 API credits, and ScraperAPI a 7-day trial with 5,000 credits. ScraperAPI's FAQ also mentions a free plan with 1,000 credits.

Yes. With one looot key an agent reads a page as markdown, renders a page in a real browser, or fetches a Google results page, paid per call with the price shown before the run. ScrapingBee and ScraperAPI themselves will run there with your own key once they leave coming soon.

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vendor plan, free tier and API facts with sources, checked 2026-11-03, plus coverage of jobs by an agent running looot
coverage
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