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Crawlbase Pricing, Every Plan and the Cost per 1,000 Requests

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Crawlbase pricing has two modes. Pay as you go has no monthly fee and bills successful requests on a ladder from $3.00 down to $0.02 per 1,000, so 100,000 standard requests cost $76.40. Subscriptions start at $99 a month for 200,000 credits and reach $599 for 2,000,000. JavaScript rendering doubles the cost of a request, and failed requests are never billed.

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The plans

Crawlbase subscription plans and what a credit costs on each

USD per month. Every plan draws on one balance across the Crawling API, Crawler, Smart AI Proxy, Cloud Storage and screenshots. Yearly billing gives one month free, which is 8 percent off.
Plan Monthly Yearly Credits a month Effective price per 1,000 credits
Pay as you go$0 feen/aBilled in arrears$3.00 falling to $0.02 by volume
Starter$99$1,089200,000about $0.50
Scale 500K$199$2,189500,000about $0.40
Scale 1M$349$3,8391,000,000about $0.35
Growth$599$6,5892,000,000about $0.30

Past the included block, usage continues as pay as you go at the bracket your volume already reached, so an overage is not punished with a worse rate. Above 2,000,000 credits a month the answer is an enterprise quote, with custom volume, an SLA and invoicing. The vendor lists the same numbers on its own pricing page.

Pay as you go

Crawlbase pay as you go rate card per 1,000 successful requests

The ladder works like income tax. Volume fills each bracket at that bracket's own rate, so no single rate applies to everything.
Monthly volume bracket (standard requests)Price per 1,000
First 1,000$3.00
Next 10,000$2.00
Next 100,000$0.60
Next 1,000,000$0.50
Next 10,000,000$0.10
Next 100,000,000$0.05
Next 1,000,000,000$0.04
Beyond$0.02

The arithmetic for 100,000 standard requests is $3.00 for the first thousand, $20.00 for the next ten thousand and $53.40 for the remaining 89,000 at $0.60, which is $76.40, or about $0.76 per 1,000. At one million it is $527.50 and at ten million $1,471.90, which is why Crawlbase is so cheap for crawls that run into the millions and comparatively pricey for a few thousand pages.

The meter

How Crawlbase counts credits for rendering, difficult sites and storage

One credit is one successful standard request. Everything else converts into the same balance.
ItemEffect on the bill
Standard request, standard site1 credit
JavaScript renderingx2 on the request
Moderate difficulty sitex1.5 on that group's ladder total
Complex, heavily defended sitex2 on that group's ladder total
Cloud Storage, one page for a month0.5 credits
Full-page screenshot2 credits
Failed or blocked requestNot billed

The multipliers are the part to model before you buy. A retail catalog that needs rendering and sits behind a defended site can cost four times the sticker rate, so 100,000 requests that look like $76.40 can become about $300. The vendor applies the difficulty multiplier automatically, and it says most of the web counts as standard.

Worked bills

What Crawlbase costs for three common jobs

Thirty-day months, standard sites, successful requests only. We computed these from the published ladder.

500 competitor product pages, daily, rendered

15,000 requests a month is $25.40 on the ladder ($3 plus $20 plus $2.40), and rendering doubles it to about $50.80 pay as you go. Cheap on the meter. The bill does not include a parser, a schedule, a table that keeps history or a person to fix it when the layout changes.

2,000 listings, daily, rendered

60,000 requests is $52.40 on the ladder, about $104.80 with rendering. 120,000 credits fits inside Starter at $99. The same 2,000 records a day on WebRobot is about 60,000 records a month, inside Scale at $249, and arrives as named columns instead of HTML.

1,000,000 plain pages, monthly

$527.50 pay as you go, or $349 on Scale 1M because the credit block is cheaper than the ladder. At this volume Crawlbase is the right tool and a record-priced product is not competitive.

Subscribing beats pay as you go as soon as you use more than roughly 140,000 credits a month, because $99 for 200,000 credits is cheaper than the $127.50 the ladder charges for 200,000 requests.

Compare

Crawlbase pricing compared with other scraping APIs and WebRobot

Each vendor counts something different, which is why headline prices do not line up.
Tool Entry paid plan What the meter counts Who does the parsing and scheduling
Crawlbase$99, 200,000 credits, or pay as you goSuccessful requests, x2 for rendering, multiplier for hard sitesYou
ScraperAPI$49, 100,000 creditsCredits per request, 1 to 75You (ScraperAPI pricing)
Scrapingdog$40, 200,000 creditsCredits per request, 1 to 50You (Scrapingdog pricing)
ZenRows$19, 45,000 creditsCredits, 5 rendered, 25 with premiumYou (ZenRows pricing)
WebRobot$79 Launch, 10,000 recordsRows delivered, whatever the site needsWe do: named columns, schedule, Sheets or API, alerts on Scale

Crawlbase wins on raw volume and on its spend cap, and we say so plainly. WebRobot costs more per unit because a record is a finished row with the scheduler, parser, retries and delivery done. The Crawlbase alternative page walks through that trade, and the web scraping API page shows how our records arrive as JSON.

Fit

Which Crawlbase plan to buy, or when to skip it

Stay on pay as you go

Under about 140,000 requests a month, or a spiky workload. You pay for what you used and can set a hard cap so a loop in your code cannot run up the bill.

Subscribe

Steady volume from 200,000 credits up. Scale 1M at $349 is the vendor's most popular plan and the best price per credit before the enterprise tier.

Skip the API

Nobody on the team writes code, or the data has to land in a sheet every morning with an alert when a number moves. That is what competitor price monitoring on WebRobot is for.

FAQ

Crawlbase pricing questions, answered

Crawlbase has no required monthly fee. Pay as you go bills successful requests on a ladder from $3.00 down to $0.02 per 1,000, so 100,000 standard requests cost $76.40. Optional subscriptions are Starter $99 for 200,000 credits, Scale 500K $199, Scale 1M $349 and Growth $599 for 2,000,000 credits.

Only to test. Every new account gets 1,000 free credits with no card, and finishing the setup steps raises that to up to 5,000. After that you pay as you go or subscribe. Support, proxies and CAPTCHA handling are included in every request, so there is no separate add-on bill.

One successful request to a standard site costs one credit. JavaScript rendering doubles it, a heavily defended site carries a 1.5x or 2x difficulty multiplier, storing a page costs 0.5 credits a month and a screenshot costs 2. Failed or blocked requests are never billed.

No. Crawlbase bills only successful requests, and a request that fails or is blocked costs nothing on any site or rendering mode. That makes a monthly bill easier to predict than on APIs that charge for attempts, though you still pay the multiplier for rendered and defended pages.

Yes. You can set an optional hard spend cap on the account or a single workspace, and usage pauses before the bill passes it. On a subscription you can also turn pay as you go off, so requests stop at the end of the included credit block.

For a developer who needs a proxy and rendering API at volume, yes. 1,000,000 standard requests cost $349 on Scale 1M or $527.50 pay as you go. It is a weaker fit for a business team with nobody to write parsers, schedule runs and store results, because Crawlbase returns pages, not finished rows.

Rows in your sheet instead of pages in your code

Describe the data, pick the schedule, and get named columns in Google Sheets, Excel or the API. Flat monthly plans from $79.