// scorecard · 64/100
verified 1mo agoAgent-readiness20/35
Agent registration (api_key)6/9
Public API5/5
OpenAPI spec0/9
MCP server9/9
llms.txt0/3
Reliability & performance12/15
Actively maintained8/8
Production-ready4/4
Updated recently—
Pricing10/13
Itemized public pricing6/6
Free tier / trial4/4
Free-tier generosity0/3
Docs & DX8/12
Docs quality6/8
Public API2/2
Quickstart / examples—
Security & compliance10/12
SOC 26/6
ISO 270012/2
GDPR0/2
Security / trust page2/2
Openness4/10
Open source0/6
Open / un-gated API4/4
Company maturity0/3
Company size—
Years operating—
// rankings · cost per standard workload
#8 in Scraping$49/ 100k pages
1 credit/standard scrape (JS-render = 5, premium proxy = 10-25). 100k = 100k credits → Freelance $49/mo (250k credits). Caveat: default behavior is JS-render at 5 cr.
// overview
ScrapingBee is a developer-friendly web scraping API for reliably collecting live public web data without managing proxies, browsers, or anti-bot infrastructure.
Best for: Developers, data teams, and GTM/RevOps teams that need scalable public web data for lead enrichment, account intelligence, competitor monitoring, SERP tracking, price monitoring, and AI/RAG workflows without maintaining scraping infrastructure.
// pricing
Free tier · generosity 0/5
Includes: 1,000 free API credits
Freelance$49 /mo
- 250,000 API Credits
- 50 Concurrent requests
Startup$99 /mo
- 1,000,000 API Credits
- 100 Concurrent requests
Business$249 /mo
- 3,000,000 API Credits
- 200 Concurrent requests
Business +$599 /mo
- 8,000,000 API Credits
- 400 Concurrent requests
CustomCustom
- Custom API Credits
- Custom Concurrent requests
// security & compliance
✓ SOC 2✓ ISO 27001✗ GDPR✗ HIPAA
// features
- REST web scraping API for fetching public web pages
- Headless Chrome JavaScript rendering
- Automatic proxy rotation
- Premium residential and stealth proxies
- Country-level geotargeting
- CSS/XPath extraction rules
- AI extraction with structured JSON outputs
- Markdown and plain-text scraper for LLM/RAG workflows
- Browser-rendered screenshots
- Dedicated Google Search, Amazon, YouTube, Walmart, ChatGPT, and Fast Search APIs
pros
- Strong fit for GTM data workflows such as enrichment, account intelligence, market research, and SEO/SEM monitoring
- Reduces engineering work by bundling browsers, proxies, geotargeting, and anti-bot handling
- Clear public pricing and generous included credits versus many enterprise-only scraping vendors
- AI, Markdown, CLI, and MCP features make it useful for AI agents and RAG pipelines
cons
- No permanent free plan beyond the 1,000-credit trial
- Advanced features such as JavaScript rendering, premium proxies, and AI extraction consume more credits
- HTML API users may still need to build and maintain parsers unless using extraction rules or dedicated APIs
- Higher-volume or enterprise needs require Custom pricing conversations