7 ScrapingBee Alternatives in 2026

Choose a ScrapingBee alternative based on your workload: fetching known URLs, crawling a website, handling protected pages, or running the crawler yourself. The shortlist below groups seven options by their main use case.

• Free, LLM-ready page fetching with real-browser rendering: TinyFetch. It costs $0.00 per URL within its free limits of 150 URLs/min and 1,000 URLs/day, and it returns Markdown, HTML or JSON.
• Closest like-for-like credit-based scraping API with anti-bot handling: ZenRows.
• Protected-site scraping with configurable proxy and rendering options: scrape.do.
• Crawling whole sites into Markdown, with a self-host option: Firecrawl.
• High-throughput crawling with usage or flat concurrency pricing: Spider.
• Open-source, self-hosted crawling: Crawl4AI.
• One subscription across proxies and scraping, with ISO/IEC 27001:2022 coverage: Oxylabs.

If you need more than 1,000 URLs/day, ISO 27001 or VPC deployment, talk to TinyFish sales.

Why people look for a ScrapingBee alternative

Most people looking for a ScrapingBee alternative want a different fit, not a fix. ScrapingBee is a capable scraping API, and it deserves credit before we compare.

As of 30 October 2026, ScrapingBee:

• handles anti-bot systems and CAPTCHAs, and rotates 200M+ proxy IPs
• returns clean HTML, LLM-ready Markdown or AI-extracted JSON
• is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, and also lists GDPR
• offers 1,000 free API credits with no credit card required

The differences start with billing. ScrapingBee sells monthly subscription plans, and each plan includes a fixed number of API credits. JavaScript rendering is on by default, and a rendered request costs 5 credits. ScrapingBee does not state a per-page dollar price, so your cost per page comes from credit maths. For example, the Hobby plan includes 75,000 credits at $19/mo (scrapingbee.com/pricing). If every request renders JavaScript, that covers 15,000 requests a month. (This is our calculation: 75,000 ÷ 5.)

Concurrency also depends on the plan. ScrapingBee publishes 25 concurrent requests on Hobby, rising to 900 on Enterprise 120.

When teams compare alternatives, they are usually trying to get one of these jobs done:

• A free or per-URL model instead of a monthly credit allotment.
• Whole-site crawling from a starting URL, rather than fetching one page at a time.
• Self-hosting the scraping stack on their own infrastructure.
• A different compliance or proxy setup, such as a specific certificate or a single vendor for proxies and scraping.
• Output for AI pipelines. ScrapingBee already offers Markdown, so this one is about defaults and price, not missing features.

Which ScrapingBee Alternative Fit Your Use Case?

This shortlist compares published features, pricing, and limits. The recommendations reflect documented capabilities rather than a hands-on performance benchmark.

Use this table to shortlist tools by your main use case. Then review each tool’s pricing, limits, and trade-offs in the sections below before testing it on your target URLs.

1. TinyFetch

Best for: getting clean, LLM-ready content from URLs you already have, including JavaScript-heavy pages, at no cost within the free limits. It suits RAG, research, monitoring and any app that needs page text rather than raw HTML.

TinyFetch loads pages in a real browser before extraction, so JavaScript-rendered content comes through. It removes navigation, cookie banners, ads and repeated footers, and it keeps the headings, lists and text. Markdown is the default output. HTML and a JSON document tree are also available through the format parameter.

You can send up to 10 URLs in one request. Each URL is processed independently. If one URL fails, it appears in an errors[] list next to a 200 response, and the rest of the batch still returns. If you only need part of a page, use CSS selectors (include_selectors, exclude_selectors) to narrow what gets extracted. TinyFetch also extracts text from PDFs.

from tinyfish import TinyFish

client = TinyFish()
result = client.fetch.get_contents(
    urls=["https://tinyfish.chat/"],
    format="markdown",
)
for page in result.results:
    print(page.title, "→", page.text[:100])

Pricing (as of 30 October 2026):

• TinyFetch costs $0.00 per URL.
• The free limits are 150 URLs/min and 1,000 URLs/day.
• TinyFish pricing has no plans and no minimums.
• On Enterprise, rate limits and concurrency are set to your workload.

Where it falls short:

• The free allowance is 1,000 URLs/day. For higher-volume workloads, confirm the available limits and pricing with TinyFish sales team.
• A single request can include at most 10 URLs.
• TinyFetch works on URLs you give it. It does not follow links across a site. You can set links: true to get every link on a page and fetch those links yourself, but if whole-site crawling is your main job, Firecrawl, Spider, ZenRows or Crawl4AI are a better fit.
• If heavily protected sites make up most of your workload, ZenRows and scrape.do are built around anti-bot handling and are worth testing first.
• ISO 27001 and VPC deployment are listed only on the Enterprise plan.

Get an API key and fetch your first URLs free, or talk to sales about higher limits, ISO 27001 or VPC deployment.

2. ZenRows

Best for: teams that want a model close to ScrapingBee's. ZenRows is credit-based, handles anti-bot measures and offers optional JavaScript rendering.

ZenRows handles anti-bot walls, CAPTCHAs and fingerprint checks. It renders JavaScript with a headless browser when you set js_render. Its Crawl feature follows links from a starting page to whatever depth you choose, and each page is billed as a Fetch. Batch runs thousands of URLs as one managed job. Output can be HTML, Markdown, JSON or a screenshot.

Pricing (as of 30 October 2026, zenrows.com/pricing and docs):

• The free tier gives 5,000 credits/month and 5 concurrent requests, with no card required.
• The first paid tier, Build, includes 45,000 credits a month at [VERIFY: $19/month per docs vs $16/mo on pricing page].
• A standard request costs 1 credit. JS rendering costs 5, premium proxies cost 10, and both together cost 25.
• One credit balance is shared across all ZenRows products.

Where it falls short:

• Harder requests use more credits, up to 25 per request. If you are leaving ScrapingBee because of credit maths, ZenRows uses the same kind of model.
• SOC 2, ISO 27001 and an SLA are listed on Enterprise.
• Concurrency is set by plan: Free 5, Build 20, Launch 50, Growth 100, Scale 200–400, and Enterprise custom.

3. scrape.do

Best for: teams comparing proxy and JavaScript-rendering options for protected websites.

scrape.do uses custom bypass methods for anti-bot systems, WAFs and CAPTCHAs. It rotates datacenter, residential and mobile proxies. Setting the render parameter turns on JavaScript rendering in a headless browser. The output parameter returns raw output or Markdown.

Pricing (as of 30 October 2026, scrape.do/pricing):

• The free tier gives 1,000 successful API credits and 5 concurrent requests, with no card required.
• Hobby is $29 billed monthly. It includes 250,000 successful API credits, 10 concurrent requests and email support.
• On Hobby, that works out to $0.11 per 1K credits.
• You are charged only for successful requests. Credit cost per request varies by proxy type and rendering.

Where it falls short:

• Hobby allows 10 concurrent requests. ScrapingBee Hobby allows 25.
• At $29, its entry price is higher than ScrapingBee Hobby at $19 (scrapingbee.com/pricing).
• Credit cost changes with proxy type and rendering.
• Only raw and Markdown output are documented.

4. Firecrawl

Best for: turning whole sites into LLM-ready content, using Crawl and Map endpoints, with the option to self-host.

Firecrawl handles proxies, anti-bot measures, JavaScript rendering and dynamic content. The Crawl endpoint covers entire websites, and the Map endpoint lists every URL on a site. Output can be Markdown, HTML or structured JSON. You can self-host Firecrawl, and its docs list an Open Source option.

Pricing (as of 30 October 2026, firecrawl.dev/pricing):

• The free tier gives 1,000 credits a month, refreshed monthly, with no credit card required.
• Hobby is $19/month billed monthly, or $16/month billed annually. It includes 5,000 credits a month, which covers 2,500 searches or 5,000 pages scraped.
• A basic scrape, crawl or map costs 1 credit per call.
• Pay-as-you-go top-ups are available.

Where it falls short:

• Credit cost varies by endpoint and feature, so check costs beyond a basic scrape before you budget.
• Rate limits are set per endpoint: 10 requests/min on Free and 100/min on Hobby. Higher plans allow 500 (Standard), 5,000 (Growth) and 10,000 (Scale).
• Hobby includes 5,000 credits a month, while ScrapingBee Hobby includes 75,000. Each vendor defines credits differently, so do not compare those numbers directly. Compare cost per page on your own URLs.

5. Spider

Best for: high-volume crawling, with a choice between usage-based billing and a flat monthly price set by concurrency.

The Spider API handles proxy rotation, JavaScript rendering, rate limiting and anti-bot detection. Protected pages load in Spider's native browser, with rotating proxies and automatic retries. Heavily protected sites are routed to a cloud browser. The /crawl endpoint starts from a URL and follows links. Output can be HTML, raw, plain text or several Markdown formats, and responses come back as JSON, JSONL, CSV or XML. Each account can make up to 10,000 core API requests per minute by default.

Pricing (as of 30 October 2026, spider.cloud/pricing):

• Pay-as-you-go bills bandwidth plus CPU time. [VERIFY: rates of $1 per GB and $0.0001 per CPU minute]
• Failed requests cost $0, and there is no minimum.
• JavaScript rendering has no multiplier. It is billed as compute.
• The Unlimited plan gives unlimited requests for a flat monthly price set by concurrency, starting at 2 concurrent requests. [VERIFY: $40/mo starting price]
• New accounts get 2,500 free credits, worth $0.25, if signup passes Spider's checks.

Where it falls short:

• Spider publishes no fixed per-page price. It says only that "most pages land at a fraction of a cent," which makes budgeting harder.
• The free credit is small and depends on signup passing checks.

6. Crawl4AI

Best for: teams that want open source and self-hosting, with an optional hosted Cloud.

Crawl4AI is licensed under Apache-2.0, and you can self-host it with pip or Docker. It supports deep crawling with BFS and BestFirst strategies. It produces clean, LLM-ready Markdown, and the hosted API also returns JSON. On Cloud, JS-heavy pages and bot walls are handled automatically.

Pricing (as of 30 October 2026, crawl4ai.com):

• Free gives 1,000 credits a month, 10 requests a minute and 2 at a time, with no card required.
• Starter starts at $10 a month, with 10,000 credits a month, 120 requests a minute and 10 at a time.
• 1 credit costs $0.001. A page costs 0.1 credit, a real browser 0.5 credit and a hard site 2 credits.
• Higher tiers go up to 1,500 requests a minute and 50 at a time on Scale.

Where it falls short:

• When you self-host the library or server, handling JS-heavy pages and bot walls depends on your own settings and proxies.
• The free tier is small, at 10 requests a minute and 2 at a time.

7. Oxylabs

Best for: teams that want proxies and a scraping API on one subscription, backed by ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification.

Oxylabs' Scrape product returns clean, structured data from any URL. Its ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification covers its Datacenter Proxies, Residential Proxies and Web API solutions. One subscription gives you access to all Oxylabs products.

Pricing (as of 30 October 2026, oxylabs.io/pricing):

• Starter costs $15/mo, and VAT may apply.
• Scrape starts at $0.50 per 1K results and drops to $0.25 per 1K at 10M+ results.
• New accounts get $5 in free welcome credits to use on any product.

Where it falls short:

• Its entry price is higher than ScrapingBee Hobby.
• The free offer is a $5 welcome credit, not a monthly free tier.
• The pages we checked do not cover JavaScript rendering or anti-bot handling for Scrape. Test these on your own target sites.

ScrapingBee Alternatives Compared at a Glance

Use this table to shortlist two or three tools, then test them on your own URLs. Read across by job. If cost per page matters most, compare the fetch pricing column. If you are feeding an LLM, check the output formats column. If you run large batches, look at the rate or concurrency column first. ScrapingBee sits in the last row as a reference.

Pricing as of 30 October 2026. Credits are not comparable across vendors.

How Do You Choose the Right ScrapingBee Alternative?

Start from your main job. Then test on the URLs you actually scrape.

• You need content from known URLs and expect to stay within the free allowance: start with TinyFetch: use TinyFetch. If you need more volume, ISO 27001 or VPC deployment, talk to TinyFish sales. [VERIFY: route above free limits, docs say wallet balance]
• You want the same credit-and-anti-bot model as ScrapingBee: use ZenRows. Compare ZenRows and scrape.do on your target sites, checking usable results and credits consumed under the required proxy and rendering settings.
• You need to crawl or map whole sites: use Firecrawl for Crawl and Map endpoints with Markdown output, or Spider for high request volume and flat concurrency pricing. Use Crawl4AI if you want to self-host.
• Your choice depends on compliance: pick by certificate.
• Oxylabs: ISO/IEC 27001:2022, covering its proxies and Web API solutions.
• ZenRows: SOC 2 and ISO 27001 on Enterprise.
• TinyFish: ISO 27001 on Enterprise.
• ScrapingBee: SOC 2 Type 2.

TOOL CHOICE

Which web scraping tool should you use?

What is your main job?

Get content
from known URLs
(within free limits)

Pick

TinyFetch

Use a credit
model with
anti-bot handling

Pick

ZenRows

scrape.do

Crawl or map
whole sites

Pick

Firecrawl

Spider

Self-host
the solution

Pick

Crawl4AI

Need to meet
compliance
requirements?

Pick by certificate

Oxylabs — ISO/IEC 27001:2022

ZenRows — SOC 2, ISO 27001

TinyFish — ISO 27001

ScrapingBee — SOC 2 Type 2

Next, run the same set of target URLs through each free tier. Use pages that look like your real workload, such as JavaScript-heavy pages, protected pages and PDFs. Compare output quality and the true cost per usable page, not the advertised credit counts. Use the free allowances below for an initial test. Larger or more demanding workloads may require paid testing:

1. TinyFetch: 1,000 URLs/day at $0.00 per URL.
2. ZenRows: 5,000 credits a month.
3. scrape.do: 1,000 successful credits.
4. Firecrawl: 1,000 credits a month.
5. Crawl4AI: 1,000 credits a month.

If your job means working inside pages rather than fetching them, see our guide to web scraping tools.

Try TinyFetch free

Get an API key and fetch your first URLs today. TinyFetch costs $0.00 per URL within 150 URLs/min and 1,000 URLs/day, and it returns Markdown by default. You don't need a card or prepaid Wallet funds to start.

See the TinyFetch page and pricing for details.

For higher-volume requirements, contact TinyFish sales to confirm available limits and pricing. Enterprise options include ISO 27001 and VPC deployment.

Contact the TinyFish Sales Team!