Web Scraping Tools Comparison With Pricing for 23 Vendors

Scraping tools are hard to compare because each one bills a different thing: credits, requests, browser hours, gigabytes or a license. The table below puts 23 vendors on one screen with what each bill counts and where paid plans start, and links the full side-by-side for every one. WebRobot bills delivered records at a flat $79 a month for 10,000.

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What each web scraping tool charges for

Sorted with the tools business teams ask about most first. The second column matters more than the third: it tells you what makes the invoice grow.

Tool	What the bill counts	Where paid plans start	Full pages
WebRobot	Delivered records at a flat monthly price, so a page that returns no rows uses none of the allowance	Launch $79 a month, or $39 billed yearly, for 10,000 records	WebRobot pricing
Octoparse	Tasks, cloud concurrency, plus proxy and CAPTCHA add-ons	Standard $83 a month, or $69 billed yearly	Octoparse alternative Octoparse pricing
Browse AI	Credits (1 credit covers 10 rows, a detail page is 1 credit)	Personal $48 a month, or $19 billed annually	Browse AI alternative Browse AI pricing
Apify	Prepaid usage spent on compute units, proxies and rented actors	Starter $19 a month, compute units from $0.13 to $0.20	Apify alternative Apify pricing
Bright Data	Records per 1,000 on scraper APIs, gigabytes on proxies	$1.50 per 1,000 records, or $499 a month for 384,000	Bright Data alternative Bright Data pricing
Zyte	Requests per 1,000, priced by how hard the site is	$0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP requests, $1.01 to $16.08 rendered	Zyte alternative Zyte pricing
Firecrawl	Credits per page, 5 credits when you want structured JSON	Hobby $19 a month for 5,000 credits	Firecrawl alternative Firecrawl pricing
PhantomBuster	Execution hours and automation slots	Start $69 a month for 20 hours and 5 slots	PhantomBuster alternative PhantomBuster pricing
Outscraper	Records per 1,000, with each enrichment billed on top	Google Maps $3 per 1,000 places after 500 free	Outscraper alternative Outscraper pricing
WebHarvy	A one-time Windows license per user	$99 single user, $699 site license	WebHarvy alternative WebHarvy pricing
ParseHub	Pages per run and number of private projects	Standard $189 a month for 10,000 pages per run	ParseHub alternative
Import.io	Successful queries, with per-1,000 overage	Starter $11 a month, or $9 billed annually, for 5,000 queries	Import.io alternative
Thunderbit	Credits per row, doubled when a subpage is opened	Starter $15 a month for 500 credits, or $9 billed yearly	Thunderbit alternative
Bardeen	Credits per row an action creates	Premium $50 a month for 1,000 credits, $500 for 10,000	Bardeen alternative
Diffbot	Credits per extracted page or API call	Startup $299 a month for 250,000 credits	Diffbot alternative
ScrapingBee	API credits, 1 to 75 per request	Hobby $19 a month, Freelance $49	ScrapingBee pricing
ScraperAPI	API credits, 1 to 75 per request	$49 a month for 100,000 credits	ScraperAPI pricing
ZenRows	Credits, 5 with JavaScript, 25 with JavaScript and premium proxies	From $19 a month for 45,000 credits	ZenRows pricing
Oxylabs	Results per 1,000 on the scraper API, gigabytes on proxies	Web Scraper API from $49 a month	Oxylabs pricing
Decodo	Requests per 1,000 by proxy type and rendering	Web Scraping API from $19 a month	Decodo pricing
Browserless	Units of 30 seconds of browser time	Prototyping $35 a month for 20,000 units	Browserless pricing
Webscraper.io	URL credits and concurrent cloud scrapers	Cloud $50 a month for 5,000 URL credits	Webscraper.io pricing
ScrapeHero	Cloud credits, or a managed service priced per site	Cloud from $5 a month, full service from $199 per site	ScrapeHero pricing
Price2Spy	Product URLs monitored	Basic $157.95 a month for 2,000 URLs	Price2Spy pricing

How to choose

Pick the billing model before you pick the tool

Most regret in this category comes from buying the wrong meter, not the wrong vendor. Five models cover every tool in the table.

Model 01

Credits per page or row

Firecrawl, Browse AI, Thunderbit, Bardeen and Diffbot sell a monthly bucket of credits. It looks cheap until you read the multipliers: structured output, detail pages and enrichment each cost extra credits, so a 3,000 credit plan can mean 600 finished rows. Fine for small, steady lists. Check the multiplier table first.

Model 02

Requests through a developer API

Zyte, ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, ZenRows, Oxylabs and Decodo charge per request, with JavaScript rendering and residential proxies priced at 5 to 75 times a plain request. The lowest cost per page at volume, if you have an engineer to write and maintain the parser. If you do not, the API fee is the small part of the cost.

Model 03

Compute time and browser hours

Apify, Browserless and PhantomBuster bill the time a browser runs. A slow site or a retry loop costs money whether or not rows come back, so the invoice is hard to predict before the first month. Good for varied jobs you script yourself, awkward for a fixed budget.

Model 04

Per record or per gigabyte at enterprise scale

Bright Data, Outscraper and Import.io price by the thousand records or queries, with proxies by the gigabyte. Predictable per unit and strong on the big marketplaces and Google Maps. Minimums and overage rates decide whether it suits a team pulling tens of thousands of rows instead of millions.

Model 05

A desktop license or a project cap

WebHarvy is paid once and runs on your own Windows PC. Octoparse and ParseHub cap tasks, projects and pages per run. Cheapest for one person with a stable source. The hidden cost is the hours spent rebuilding click-recorded steps after a site redesign.

WebRobot

Flat price per delivered record

You describe the data in a sentence, an AI agent browses the page like a person and the rows arrive on a schedule as CSV, Excel, a Google Sheet or JSON from the web scraping API. $79 a month covers 10,000 records and 5 robots. There is no free tier, so for a one-off list a free plan elsewhere is the cheaper answer.

Comparisons

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FAQ

Questions buyers ask when comparing scraping tools

For 10,000 structured rows a month on a daily schedule, a flat record plan is usually the lowest bill. WebRobot Launch is $79 a month, or $39 billed yearly, for 10,000 records. Credit tools charge more once rows need detail pages or structured JSON: Firecrawl bills 5 credits for a structured page, and Thunderbit and Bardeen bill extra credits for every subpage or enrichment.

Each vendor meters a different thing. Developer APIs such as Zyte, ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee charge per request or credit, so the bill moves with retries and JavaScript rendering. Platforms such as Apify and Browserless charge for compute time. Desktop tools such as WebHarvy sell a license. WebRobot charges for delivered records, so a page that returns no rows uses none of the allowance.

Compare what one finished row costs, who repairs the job when the site changes, and whether logins, scheduling and delivery are included or add-ons. A $19 API plan still needs a developer to write the parser, the retry logic and the cron job. A no-code tool at $80 to $250 a month usually replaces that work, which is the larger cost for most business teams.

Zyte, Firecrawl, ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, ZenRows, Oxylabs, Decodo, Browserless, Diffbot and most of Apify and Bright Data are built for developers and return raw responses or JSON to your own code. Octoparse, ParseHub, Browse AI, Thunderbit, Bardeen, WebHarvy, Webscraper.io and WebRobot are built for people who do not write code.

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