Best Real Estate Scraping APIs: October 2026 Benchmark
Firecrawl is the best web scraping API for real estate sites, with a 100% combined success rate across 6 web scraping APIs benchmarked against live real estate sites in October 2026. 2 of the 6 cleared above 90%.
A real estate scraper needs the listing as a buyer sees it: price, address, beds and baths, photos and price history. Zillow and Realtor.com are two of the largest US property portals, and both put an anti-bot in front of their listing and search pages. Both can answer a scraper with a challenge page that still returns a 200 status.
This page combines the two site benchmarks into one ranking of web scraping APIs. With only two sites, a provider that does well on one and poorly on the other lands in the middle, so read each site's results too. The benchmark is refreshed once a month, with no affiliate links and no sponsors.
Ranked by combined real estate success rate, best first:
- 🥇 Firecrawl: 100% success on real estate sites
- 🥈 Scrapfly: 99% success on real estate sites
- 🥉 ZenRows: 89% success on real estate sites
All 6 web scraping APIs for real estate, ranked
| # | Service | Success | Speed | Cost/1k |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1
🥇
|
100%
|
5.3s | $0.83 | n/a | |
|
2
🥈
|
99%
|
16.0s | $2.38 |
(237)
★ 4.9
|
|
|
3
🥉
|
89%
|
11.0s | $6.90 |
(103)
★ 4.8
|
|
|
4
|
68%
|
4.8s | $0.49 |
(62)
★ 4.6
|
|
|
5
|
46%
|
18.3s | $2.45 | n/a | |
|
6
|
40%
|
7.2s | $5.00 | n/a | |
| – | Not tested this month |
(137)
★ 4.9
|
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How to read this table
Each row averages a provider's results on Zillow and Realtor.com, and both sites count the same. Success is the share of requests that returned the expected page content. Speed is the average response time of successful requests. Cost is what 1,000 successful requests cost on the provider's entry plan. With two sites, one weak result pulls a provider's average down by half the gap, so a provider in the middle of this table may be strong on the one site you need. Check that site's page before you choose.
We benchmark self-serve web scraping APIs. The methodology explains which providers are included and which are not.
Results by site
| Target | 🥇 | 🥈 | 🥉 | Protected by | Pages tested |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zillow.com |
Firecrawl
|
ScraperAPI
|
Scrapfly
|
PerimeterX | Property listing and search pages |
| realtor.com |
Firecrawl
|
Scrapfly
|
ZenRows
|
Kasada | Property listing and search pages |
How we benchmark web scraping APIs on real estate sites
Every API is tested against the same live URLs on each site at the same time. A request only counts as a success when the response contains the expected page content. A challenge page, a block page or an empty shell counts as a failure whatever its status code. Speed covers successful requests only. Cost is measured per 1,000 successful requests on each provider's cheapest entry plan, and includes charges for failed requests where a provider bills for them. On both Zillow and Realtor.com we test property listing and search pages. We publish results once a month after validating the run and checking failures for configuration or detection errors. We pay for the plans ourselves. No affiliate links. No sponsors. Just data.
Latest data: Oct 01 to Nov 01, 2026.
- Zillow: up to 1,550 requests per API
- Realtor.com: up to 830 requests per API
Frequently asked questions about real estate scraping APIs
What is a real estate scraping API?
A web scraping API that fetches property pages for you. It handles proxies, browser rendering and anti-bot challenges, so your code gets the listing instead of a block. Teams use one to collect prices, listing details and price history from portals such as Zillow and Realtor.com.
How is the combined ranking calculated?
Each provider's success rate, speed and cost is the plain average of its results on Zillow and Realtor.com. Both sites count the same. The site pages linked above show each result on its own.
Which Zillow and Realtor.com pages are tested?
Property listing and search pages on both sites. Other page types, such as agent profiles, are not part of the benchmark, so results there may differ.
Do these APIs return structured property data?
The benchmark checks for expected page content. It does not score how accurately or completely a provider extracts individual property fields. If you need specific fields, check each provider's documentation for extraction support and any extra cost.
Which API is cheapest for real estate scraping?
Sort the table by cost per 1,000 successful requests, then read down to the first provider that still clears both sites, or the one you need. Sticker price is a poor guide: an API that fails often makes you pay for retries, and some providers also bill for failed requests.
How often is this benchmark updated?
Once a month. Results are published after we validate the run and check failures for configuration or detection errors.