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Scrapingdog pricing starts at $40 a month for 200,000 credits and climbs to $1,000 for 19,000,000, with a free plan of 100 credits for testing. A plain request costs 1 credit, JavaScript rendering 5, a premium proxy 10, and rendering on a premium proxy 25, so the same $90 plan buys anywhere from 40,000 to 1,000,000 pages. Failed requests are credited back, which keeps the bill honest.
figures taken from scrapingdog.com/pricing
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The plans
| Plan | Monthly | Credits | Concurrency | Price per 1,000 plain requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 | 1 | Testing only, no card |
| Lite | $40 | 200,000 | 5 | $0.20 |
| Standard | $90 | 1,000,000 | 50 | $0.09 |
| Pro | $200 | 3,000,000 | 100 | $0.067 |
| Premium | $350 | 6,000,000 | 150 | $0.058 |
| Business | $500 | 9,000,000 | 200 | $0.056 |
| Business Plus | $1,000 | 19,000,000 | 250 | $0.053 |
| Business Pro | $1,500 | 29,000,000 | 300 | $0.052 |
The ladder keeps going through Corporate and Enterprise tiers up to $30,000 a month for 1.1 billion credits. The biggest discount on it is the step from Lite to Standard: five times the credits for a bit more than twice the price. Annual billing is priced at ten months for twelve, so Standard works out to $75 a month if you commit for the year.
The meter
| Request type | Credits |
|---|---|
| Rotating proxy, general web page | 1 |
| Amazon search, Amazon product, Yelp, Indeed | 1 |
| JavaScript rendering | 5 |
| Google Maps, Google News, Google Scholar, Google SERP Light | 5 |
| Bing, Walmart, eBay, screenshot | 5 |
| Premium proxy, geo-targeted request, AI parser | 10 |
| Google SERP Advance, Shopping, Images, Lens | 10 |
| Universal search | 20 |
| JavaScript rendering with premium proxy | 25 |
| Profile scraper | 50 |
Two things to notice. Rendering is five times the sticker price, and most modern shops, directories and listings need it. And geotargeting is a 10 credit request, so a US-only price check on a store that serves different prices by country can double the meter without you asking for anything special.
Real pages
| Plan | Plain pages (1) | Rendered pages (5) | Premium proxy (10) | Rendered and premium (25) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite $40 | 200,000 | 40,000 | 20,000 | 8,000 |
| Standard $90 | 1,000,000 | 200,000 | 100,000 | 40,000 |
| Pro $200 | 3,000,000 | 600,000 | 300,000 | 120,000 |
| Premium $350 | 6,000,000 | 1,200,000 | 600,000 | 240,000 |
Worked bills
15,000 pages a month at 5 credits is 75,000 credits, which fits Lite at $40. A bargain on the meter. What the $40 does not include is a parser, a schedule, a table to keep history in and a person to fix it when the layout changes.
60,000 pages at 25 credits is 1,500,000 credits, which needs Pro at $200. 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.
1,200 requests at 5 credits is 6,000 credits, so the free plan is too small and Lite at $40 is plenty. Scrapingdog is hard to beat on price for a narrow endpoint like this one.
None of these include engineering time. When a scraper job quietly fails, you also need to know about it, and uptime and site monitoring is the usual way to catch a dead endpoint before the sheet goes stale.
Compare
| Tool | Entry paid plan | What the meter counts | Who does the parsing and scheduling |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scrapingdog | $40, 200,000 credits | Credits per request, 1 to 50 by endpoint and options | You |
| ScraperAPI | $49, 100,000 credits | Credits per request, 1 to 75 | You (ScraperAPI pricing) |
| Scrapfly | $30, 200,000 credits | Credits per request, 1 to 60 by options | You (Scrapfly pricing) |
| ScrapingBee | $49, 250,000 credits | Credits per request, JavaScript on by default | You (ScrapingBee pricing) |
| ZenRows | $19, 45,000 credits | Credits, 5 rendered, 25 with premium | You (ZenRows pricing) |
| Crawlbase | $99, 200,000 credits, or pay as you go | Successful requests, x2 with rendering | You (Crawlbase pricing) |
| Scrape.do | $29, 250,000 credits | Successful requests, 1 to 25 credits | You (Scrape.do pricing) |
| WebRobot | $79 Launch, 10,000 records | Rows delivered, whatever the site needs | We do: named columns, schedule, Sheets or API, alerts on Scale |
On raw volume Scrapingdog is among the cheapest in the category, 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. If you are weighing the two, the ScraperAPI alternative page walks through the same trade, and the web scraping API page shows how our records arrive as JSON.
Fit
Buy Lite or Standard
A developer, a narrow job such as Google Maps or Amazon, and a script that already runs. Standard is the value tier and the first with credit rollover.
Buy Pro or Premium
You render most pages or need premium proxies at volume, and concurrency of 100 or more matters for finishing a big crawl inside the night.
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
Describe the data, pick the schedule, and get named columns in Google Sheets, Excel or the API. Flat monthly plans from $79.