Scrapfly Overview

2025-02-05

In Scrapeway's latest benchmark (May 2026), Scrapfly achieved a 99% overall success rate across 11 target websites, ranking #1 out of 8 tested APIs, with an average response time of 8.4s and a cost of $3.65 per 1,000 requests.

Scrapfly was originally an insider product and battle-tested before becoming publicly accessible in early 2017. It was then opened to everyone in 2020.

Our mission is to simplify the work of data engineers and analysts to access the data. The internet is the largest database in the world, yet it remains the least accessible, both technically and legally.

Overall Scrapfly performs exceptionally well with Scrapeway's benchmarks showing it to be one of the best-performing services in terms of bypassing anti-bot measures and general price value.

Scrapfly offers a wide range of features beyond industry average like dynamic pricing which still can be controlled through API options making this a great fit for both beginners and advanced scrapers.

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monitoring
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log detail
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api player
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docs
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project creation
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learning platform
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • Exceptional and fair scraper blocking bypass.
  • Below average pricing for most targets.
  • Javascript rendering with custom javascript evaluation.
  • Full browser control through Javascript Scenarios.
  • Python, Scrapy and Typescript SDKs for easy integration.
  • Detailed web dashboard for reviewing scraping performance.
  • Multi-project support with dedicated environments and quotas.
  • Feature rich with many unique features
  • Low entry point at $30.
  • Web UI player for testing and experimenting.
Cons
  • Credits do not carry over month-to-month.
  • No annual plans are available.
  • Above average pricing for some targets in favor of higher success rate and reliability.

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Scrapfly vs Other Services

How Scrapfly compares against other web scraping APIs in success rate, speed and cost.

# Service Success Speed Cost/1k Capterra rating
1 Scrapfly 99% 8.4s $3.65
4.9
(237)
2 WebScrapingAPI 89% 21.3s $2.71 compare
3 Zenrows 66% 11.1s $5.22
4.8
(103)
compare
4 Scraperapi 61% 7.5s $3.21
4.6
(62)
compare
5 Firecrawl 57% 3.7s $4.76 compare
6 Scrapingdog 42% 3.8s $2.28 compare
7 Scrapingbee 35% 2.9s $1.48
4.9
(137)
compare
8 Scrapingant 34% 16.9s $1.11 compare
Data range May 02 - May 08
  • Scrapfly has an above-average success rate of 98.9% vs industry average 60.3%
  • Scrapfly has an above-average speed of 8.4s vs industry average 9.5s
  • Scrapfly has an above-average price of $3.6/1000 vs industry average $3.1
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Scrapfly is ranked #1 overall
Based on benchmarks from May 02 to May 08
Scrapfly Benchmarks

Per-target benchmark results from our latest report.

Target Success Speed Cost/1k
walmart.com 100% 2.5s $0.18
instagram.com 100% 6.6s $4.25
etsy.com 100% 3.6s $3.84
stockx.com 100% 9.4s $6.8
realtor.com 99% 3.9s $4.18
zillow.com 99% 4.4s $2.66
twitter.com 99% 13.5s $1.03
amazon.com 99% 9.6s $1.62
linkedin.com 99% 26.9s $6.87
booking.com 97% 6.5s $2.65
indeed.com 96% 5.4s $6.05
Data range May 02 - May 08
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Scrapfly Ranking History
Historic Rankings

Scrapfly Pricing

Scrapfly is a credit-based service where each scrape request can cost 1-25 credits depending on the used features and required anti-bot bypass.

Plan Price Credits Concurrency
Discovery 30 200,000 5
Pro 100 1,000,000 20
Startup 250 2,500,000 50
Enterprise 500 5,500,000 100
Custom

Overall Scrapfly offers a very attractive pricing model for all plan levels especially when combined with Scrapfly's dynamic credit pricing (ASP) which enables itself based on required anti-bot bypass.

Scrapfly Features

Overall, Scrapfly offers a wide range of features far beyond the industry average. It offers the standard feature set for all plans:

Feature Availability
Integrations Python, Typescript
Proxy support Datacenter default, Residential optional
Geolocation 50+ countries
Webhook support Yes
Javascript rendering Yes, at extra cost
Custom JS evaluation Yes, up to 160s
Browser control Yes, up to 160s
Screenshots Yes, full page and individual elements
Sessions Yes, persistent IP & cookies

To add, Scrapfly offers some unique features at no extra cost included with every plan:

  • AI auto extraction for extracting common data structures like reviews, products, articles etc.
  • LLM query engine for prompting scraped results through an LLM engine.
  • Multi project support with separate keys, quotas etc.
  • Result caching for days to weeks (based on plan).
  • SSL analysis for scraping SSL certificate details.
  • DNS scraping for collecting latest DNS entries.
  • Scraper throttling configurations for managing scraping speeds.
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