Scrapingdog Overview
In Scrapeway's latest benchmark (May 2026), Scrapingdog achieved a 42% overall success rate across 12 target websites, ranking #6 out of 8 tested APIs, with an average response time of 3.8s and a cost of $2.28 per 1,000 requests.
Scrapingdog was founded in 2018 with the goal of revolutionizing the world of web data extraction, making it blockage-free and hassle-free.
Our mission is guided by Manthan's vision: to simplify and streamline the web scraping process for everyone. We understand the challenges faced by businesses and individuals in their quest to extract valuable data from the web.
Overall Scrapingdog performs very well on Scrapeway's benchmarks supporting most web scraping targets and bypassing most anti-bot measures.
Scrapingdog offers core web scraping API features like headless browser scraping, anti-bot bypass and proxy support though uniquely it provides special APIs for specific web scraping targets.
- Low entry point of $40.
- Autoparse can output structured JSON for some targets.
- High concurrency for higher plans.
- Dedicated APIs for Google Search, Amazon, Linkedin, Twitter and Indeed scraping.
- No charge for blocked scrape requests.
- Not a generic web scraping API as many targets require dedicated API configuration (amazon, google, yelp etc.)
- No integration SDKs.
- Basic web interface.
- Limited feature set and headless browser support.
- Some targets are not supported (see benchmarks).
- Credits do not carry over month-to-month.
How Scrapingdog compares against other web scraping APIs in success rate, speed and cost.
- Scrapingdog has a below-average success rate of 41.6% vs industry average 60.3%
- Scrapingdog has an above-average speed of 3.8s vs industry average 9.5s
- Scrapingdog has a below-average price of $2.3/1000 vs industry average $3.1
Per-target benchmark results from our latest report.
Scrapingdog Pricing
Scrapingdog 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lite | 40 | 200,000 | 5 |
| Standard | 90 | 1,000,000 | 50 |
| Pro | 200 | 3,000,000 | 100 |
| Enterprise | 500 | 8,000,000 | 200 |
| Custom | — | — | — |
Overall Scrapingdog pricing is inline with other web scraping APIs, with a slightly lower than average entry-point of $40 and above average concurrency rates.
Scrapingdog Features
Overall, Scrapingdog focuses on core features and distinct web scraping target. It offers the standard feature set of for all plans:
| Feature | Availability |
|---|---|
| Integrations | No |
| Proxy support | Datacenter, Residential extra cost |
| Geolocation | 15 countries |
| Webhook support | Yes |
| Javascreipt rendering | Yes, at extra cost |
| Custom JS evaluation | No |
| Browser control | No |
| Screenshots | Yes, full page only |
| Sessions | Yes, persistent IP |
To add, Scrapingdog offers some unique features at no extra cost included with every plan:
- Autoparse for select targets that outputs structured JSON.