ScraperAPI Review: 60% Success Rate, $5.81/1k Across 11 Targets (2026)
In Scrapeway's latest benchmark (October 2026), ScraperAPI achieved a 60% overall success rate across 11 target websites, ranking #5 out of 6 tested APIs, with an average response time of 10.6s and a cost of $5.81 per 1,000 requests.
ScraperAPI is a popular web scraping tool founded in 2018. It was created by a team of developers with a shared vision: to help companies collect clean, insightful data without getting blocked.
Having built many web scrapers, we repeatedly went through the tiresome process of finding proxies, setting up headless browsers, and handling CAPTCHAs. That’s why we decided to start ScraperAPI, it handles all of this for you so you can scrape any page with a simple API call!
Overall ScraperAPI performs well with Scrapeway's benchmarks showing it has a great anti-bot bypass success rate, speed and reliability.
ScraperAPI features are on par with industry average, offering features like residential proxy support, geolocation, and Javascript rendering.
Pros & Cons
- Effective scraper blocking bypass.
- Integrations for Python, Javascript, Ruby, PHP, NodeJS
- Automatic data parsing option.
- Detailed web dashboard for reviewing scraping performance.
- Web scheduler (called Datapipeline) that can scrape and deliver results on a defined schedule at extra cost.
- Web UI player for testing and experimenting.
- 10 minute result cache forced on difficult targets leading to stale data.
- Steep entry point at $49.
- Often charges for blocked requests.
- Small geolocations pool, only US and EU locations on starting plans.
- Limited javascript rendering feature set.
- Credits do not carry over month-to-month.
ScraperAPI vs Other Services
How ScraperAPI compares against other web scraping APIs in success rate, speed and cost.
- ScraperAPI has a below-average success rate of 60.1% vs industry average 72.3%
- ScraperAPI has an above-average speed of 10.6s vs industry average 11.8s
- ScraperAPI has an above-average price of $5.81/1000 vs industry average $3.88
ScraperAPI Benchmarks
Per-target benchmark results from our latest report.
ScraperAPI Ranking History
ScraperAPI Pricing
ScraerAPI is a credit-based service where each scrape request can cost 1-75 credits depending on the used features, scraped website type and the required anti-bot bypass.
| Plan | Price | Credits | Concurrency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business | 299 | 3,000,000 | 100 |
| Enterprise | — | — | — |
| Hobby | 49 | 100,000 | 20 |
| Startup | 149 | 1,000,000 | 50 |
| Custom | 79 | 250,000 | 25 |
Overall ScraperAPI entry point plan is well below industry average though it evens out with higher tiers.
ScraperAPI Features
Overall, ScraperAPI offers a wide range of features matching the industry average. It offers the standard feature set of for all plans:
| Feature | Availability |
|---|---|
| Integrations | Python, Javascript, Ruby, PHP, NodeJS |
| Proxy support | Datacenter default, Residential optional, Mobile for custom plans |
| Geolocation | 2 countries (13 for the highest tier) |
| Webhook support | Yes |
| Javascript rendering | Yes, at extra cost |
| Custom JS evaluation | No |
| Browser control | No |
| Screenshots | No |
| Sessions | Yes, persistent IP for 15min |
To add, ScraperAPI offers some unique features at no extra cost included with every plan:
- Structured data scraping for select targets: Amazon, Google, Walmart.
- Autoparse which will attempt to extract relevant data from the HTML as JSON automatically.
- Datapipeline - tool for scheduling scraping tasks at extra credit cost.
Unfortunately, the service still lacks important features like even basic browser controls when javascript rendering is enabled, any screenshot controls.