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ScraperApi vs Crawlbase
Best Crawlbase Alternative

Trusted by 10,000+ web scraping and data teams who switched from solutions like Crawlbase for predictable pricing, higher request volumes, and fully automated data extraction without the need for manual adjustments.

Quick Overview

About ScraperAPI

ScraperAPI is a powerful and efficient web scraping API and tool designed to empower developers, data scientists, and businesses with reliable data extraction at scale.

 

  • Success rate 95%+ even on complex sites
  • Transparent pay-per-successful-request pricing model
  • Advanced bypassing mechanisms
  • JS rendering, CAPTCHA handling, and worldwide geotargeting
  • Structured outputs like JSON, CSV, Text, and Markdown

About Crawlbase

Crawlbase is a web crawling and scraping service that includes proxy management, CAPTCHA bypassing, and automated data extraction. However, it has key limitations:

 

  • Pricing is not straightforward, requiring users to rely on a pricing calculator to estimate costs based on domain complexity and request type.
  • Advanced features like smart proxy, JavaScript rendering, and CAPTCHA solving may incur additional costs, making full automation more expensive.

Why Choose ScraperAPI Over Crawlbase

Crawlbase offers a web scraping API, but its tiered domain pricing, unpredictable pay-as-you-go pricing system, and separate proxy costs make it difficult to scale efficiently. ScraperAPI provides a transparent pricing model, unlimited scraping flexibility, and fully automated data extraction without hidden fees.
Here’s why ScraperAPI is the better choice:

  • Flat, predictable pricing: Crawlbase charges different rates for “Standard,” “Moderate,” and “Complex” sites, while ScraperAPI keeps costs straightforward with per-request pricing.
  • Higher request volume: Crawlbase limits requests based on pricing tiers, while ScraperAPI provides up to 3,000,000 monthly requests at a lower cost.
  • No extra proxy fees: Crawlbase charges separately for smart proxies, while ScraperAPI includes built-in proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving at no additional cost.
  • Optimized eCommerce Scraping: ScraperAPI provides dedicated Structured Data Endpoints (SDEs) for Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and more, delivering structured results without extra effort.

ScraperAPI offers unlimited scalability, structured data endpoints, and flexible scraping options—without the complexity of Crawlbase’s multi-tiered pricing and add-ons.

So, how do our prices and features compare to Crawlbase?

Pricing Overview

Features

API Credits

Requests per month

 

Javascript Rendering

 

Proxy Rotation

 

Premium Proxies

Geotargeting

CAPTCHA Handling

Data Output

Support

Price

ScraperAPI’s Business Plan

3,000,000

Up to 3,000,000 successful requests

 

✅ Included at no extra cost

 

✅ Smart proxy rotation included

 

✅

150+ countries

✅ Built-in

JSON, CSV, Text, Markdown, HTML, XML

24/7 expert assistance

$299

Crawlbase (Complex Sites – $899/month)

N/A

~750,000 requests( at $0.0012 per request with JS)

✅ Included, but increases request cost

✅ Included, but a different service to purchase

❌

✅ Available

✅ Available

JSON, HTML

 

24/7 Support

$899

Simple, Transparent Pricing

Crawlbase’s pricing fluctuates based on domain complexity, JavaScript rendering, and other variables, making it difficult to estimate costs—especially for large-scale scraping. For example, scraping a JavaScript-heavy site costs $0.0012 per request, which adds up quickly when making thousands or millions of requests.

ScraperAPI eliminates this uncertainty with fixed monthly plans that include up to 3,000,000 requests, regardless of the website’s complexity. There are no per-site fees, no unpredictable pricing tiers, and no extra charges for JavaScript rendering—just straightforward, cost-effective web scraping.

Reliable and Efficient Data Extraction

Crawlbase operates on a pay-as-you-go model, meaning every request you send is billed—whether or not it returns usable data. If a page is blocked, restricted, or empty, you still get charged, leading to higher costs when scraping complex or protected websites. Retrying blocked or incomplete requests quickly add up, leading to higher costs on Crawlbase’s pay-as-you-go model.

ScraperAPI eliminates this issue by charging only for successful requests—if a request fails due to a block or restriction, you aren’t billed for it. With built-in CAPTCHA solving, automatic retries, and smart proxy rotation, ScraperAPI ensures high success rates while minimizing wasted requests and unpredictable costs.

All-in-One Scraping Solution Without Extra Costs

Crawlbase requires users to purchase proxies separately from its Crawling API, meaning you have to manage and pay for proxy services on top of your scraping costs, which makes it difficult to scale efficiently.

ScraperAPI offers a fully integrated solution that includes premium proxies, automatic CAPTCHA solving, JavaScript rendering, Structured Data Endpoints (SDEs), DataPipeline for scheduling extractions, and Async Scraper for high-speed requests—all under a single, cost-effective plan. There are no hidden fees, no need to configure multiple services, and no complex setup. Everything you need for large-scale, hassle-free web scraping is built-in, so you can focus on extracting data instead of managing infrastructure.

Built-in support for eCommerce and SERP Data

Crawlbase provides a dedicated Amazon scraper but lacks structured data extraction for other major eCommerce platforms. If you need clean, structured product data from Walmart, eBay, or other marketplaces, you must manually build your own scrapers or extract raw HTML. Similarly, while Crawlbase supports general web scraping, it doesn’t offer pre-built solutions for search engine result pages (SERPs).

ScraperAPI includes Structured Data Endpoints (SDEs) for Google, Amazon, Walmart, eBay, and more—delivering fully structured JSON or CSV data without additional parsing. Whether you’re monitoring search rankings, tracking product prices, or gathering business insights, ScraperAPI eliminates the need for custom scraping scripts, reducing development time and effort.

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ScraperAPI vs Crawlbase: What's Different

FeatureScraperAPICrawlbaseWhat it means
Success-Based PricingCharges only for successful requests, reducing wasted costs.The pay-per-request model charges even for blocked or failed requests.ScraperAPI ensures you only pay for successful extractions, while Crawlbase charges per request—even if the data is blocked or incomplete. This makes ScraperAPI more cost-effective, especially for high-volume users
Requests per month3,000,000 requests for $299 (Business Plan)Pay-as-you-go model with varying costs per requestScraperAPI offers a fixed number of high-volume requests at a predictable price, while Crawlbase charges per request, making costs harder to predict and scale.
Automated ConfigurationNo manual setup is required—proxies, CAPTCHA solving, and retries are fully automated.Requires manual configuration for JavaScript rendering, AJAX wait times, and geolocationScraperAPI handles complex scraping settings automatically, saving time and reducing technical guesswork. Crawlbase requires users to manually adjust settings, which can lead to trial and error and failed requests.
Proxy Rotation & CAPTCHA HandlingSmart proxy rotation and CAPTCHA solving are included at no extra cost.Crawlbase offers a separate proxy service, and scraping complex sites incurs higher request costs.ScraperAPI provides built-in proxy rotation and CAPTCHA bypassing at no additional cost, ensuring smooth scraping. Crawlbase offers its proxy service for purchase, and requests to complex sites with CAPTCHA protection result in higher costs.
Data Output FormatsJSON, CSV, HTML, Text, Markdown JSON, HTMLScraperAPI offers multiple output formats, making it more flexible for different data processing needs.
Scalability & Request VolumeSupports high request volumes with reliable performance, up to 3M+ requests per monthRestricted by pricing tiers and site complexity, large-scale scraping is more expensive.ScraperAPI offers unlimited scalability with high request limits. Crawlbase limits request volume based on pricing tiers and site difficulty, making it costly for large-scale extractions.

Enterprise Features Without the Price Tag

Dedicated Account Manager

Your account manager will be there any time your team needs a helping hand.

Professional support

Premium Support

Enterprise customers* get dedicated Slack channels for direct communication with engineers and support.

geolocation

100% Compliant

All data collected and provided to customers are ethically obtained and compliant with all applicable laws.

IP locatations

Global Data Coverage

Your account manager will be there any time your team needs a helping hand.

Integration tutorials

Powerful Scraping Tools

All our tools are designed to simplify the scraping process and collect mass-scale data without getting blocked.

Designed for Scale

Scale your data pipelines while keeping a near-perfect success rate.

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Simple, Powerful, Reliable Data Collection That Just Works

Web data collection doesn’t have to be complicated. With ScraperAPI, you can access the data you need without worrying about proxies, browsers, or CAPTCHA handling.

Our powerful scraping infrastructure handles the hard parts for you, delivering reliable results with success rates of nearly 99.99%.

Extract Clean, Structured Data from Any Website in Seconds

No more struggling with messy HTML and complex parsing. ScraperAPI transforms any website into clean, structured data formats you can immediately use.

 

Our structured data endpoints automatically convert popular sites like Amazon, Google, Walmart, and eBay into ready-to-use JSON or CSV, with no parsing required on your end.

 

Instead of spending hours writing custom parsers that break whenever websites change, get consistent, reliable data with a single API call.

EXPLORE STRUCTURED ENDPOINTS
Auto Parsing​

Test it yourself

Python
import requests

payload = {
    'api_key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'url': 'https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-Unlocked-Smartphone-High-Res-Manufacturer/dp/B0DCLCPN9T/?th=1',
    'country': 'us',
    'output_format': 'text'
}


response = requests.get('https://api.scraperapi.com/', params=payload)
product_data = response.text

with open('product.text', 'w') as f:
    f.write(product_data)
    f.close()

Feed Your LLMs with Perfect Web Data, Zero Cleaning Required

Training AI models requires massive amounts of high-quality data. The problem is that web content is often too messy and unstructured for models to make sense of it.

 

ScraperAPI solves this with our output_format parameter. It automatically converts web pages into clean Text or Markdown formats, which is perfectly suited for LLM training.

 

Simply add "output_format=text" or "output_format=markdown" to your request, and we’ll strip away irrelevant elements while preserving the meaningful content your models need.

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Collect Data at Scale Without Writing a Single Line of Code

Set up large-scale scraping jobs with our intuitive visual interface. All you have to do is:

 

  • Upload your target URLs
  • Choose your settings
  • Schedule when you want your data collected

DataPipeline handles everything from there: proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, retries, and delivering your data where you need it via webhooks or downloadable files.

 

Scale up to 10,000 URLs per project while our infrastructure manages the technical complexity, or use its dedicated endpoints to add even more control to your existing projects.

schedule scraping jobs
Data Pipeline
ScraperAPI geotargeting

See Websites Exactly as Local Users Do with Global Geotargetting

Many websites show different content based on where and how you’re accessing them, which limits your ability to collect comprehensive, quality data.

 

With ScraperAPI’s geotargeting capabilities, you can access websites from over 150 countries through our network of 150M+ proxies and see exactly what local users see.

 

Simply add a country_code parameter to your request, and ScraperAPI will automatically route your request through the appropriate location with no complex proxy setup required.

 

Uncover region-specific pricing, product availability, search results, and local content that would otherwise be invisible to your standard scraping setup.

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All the Data You Need. One Place to Find It

Automate your entire scraping project with us, or select a solution that fits your business goals.

Residential Proxies

Proxy Management

Integrate our proxy pool with your in-house scrapers or our Scraping API to unlock any website.

  • 40M+ IPs
  • 99.99% Uptime
  • Geotargeting
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Scraping Solutions

Easily scrape data, automate rendering, bypass obstacles, and parse product search results quickly and efficiently.

  • JS rendering
  • Smart IP Rotation
  • Amazon / Walmart Scraper
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Hosted Scraper

Put ecommerce data collection on autopilot without writing a single line of code.

  • Visual interface
  • Built-in scheduler
  • Ready-to-use templates
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What Our Customers
Are Saying

One of the most frustrating parts of automated web scraping is constantly dealing with IP blocks and CAPTCHAs. ScraperAPI gets this task off of your shoulders.

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based on 50+ reviews

The team at ScraperAPI was so patient in helping us debug our first scraper. Thanks for being super passionate and awesome!
Cristina Saavedra
Cristina SaavedraOptimization Director at SquareTrade
A dead simple API plus a generous free tier are hard to beat. ScraperAPI is a good example of how developer experience can make a difference in a crowded category.
Ilya Sukhar
Ilya SukharFounder of Parse, Partner at YCombinator
I researched a lot of scraping tools and am glad I found ScraperAPI. It has low cost and great tech support. They always respond within 24 hours when I need any help with the product.
Alexander Zharkov
Alexander ZharkovFullstack Javascript Developer
BigCommerce

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Hobby

Ideal for small projects or personal use.

Hobby

$49

/ month

$44

/ month, billed annually

  • 100,000 API Credits
  • 20 Concurrent Threads
  • US & EU Geotargeting
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Startup

Great for small teams and advanced users.

Startup

$149

/ month

$134

/ month, billed annually

  • 1,000,000 API Credits
  • 50 Concurrent Threads
  • US & EU Geotargeting
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Business

Perfect for small-medium businesses.

Business

$299

/ month

$269

/ month, billed annually

  • 3,000,000 API Credits
  • 100 Concurrent Threads
  • All Geotargeting
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Scaling

Most popular

Perfect for teams looking to scale their operations.

Business

$475

/ month

$427

/ month, billed annually

  • 5,000,000 API Credits
  • 200 Concurrent Threads
  • All Geotargeting
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Enterprise

Need more than 5,000,000 API Credits with all premium features, premium support and an account manager?

  • 5,000,000+ API credits and 200+ Concurrent Threads
  • Dedicated Account Manager
  • Slack Support
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Frequently Asked Questions

ScraperAPI includes premium proxies, JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and Structured Data Endpoints (SDEs) in a single plan, while Crawlbase charges separately for proxies and varies pricing based on domain complexity. With 3,000,000 requests for $299, ScraperAPI delivers higher request limits and a more cost-effective solution.

Yes! With 3,000,000 requests per month for $299, ScraperAPI lets you scrape more for less compared to Crawlbase’s pay-as-you-go model, where costs increase for complex sites. Plus, ScraperAPI only charges for successful requests, so you don’t waste money on failed or blocked attempts—ensuring maximum data extraction at a lower cost.

ScraperAPI is an all-in-one scraping solution, while Crawlbase requires separate purchases for proxies and additional configurations for JavaScript rendering, AJAX, and geolocation. ScraperAPI provides automated proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and an Async Scraper for high-speed extractions—all included in one plan with no hidden costs.

Switching is seamless. ScraperAPI eliminates the need for separate proxy configurations—just update your requests with our API key and start scraping immediately. Transitioning is seamless with structured data endpoints, built-in automation, and a simple API request format.

5 Billion Requests Handled per Month

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