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Best ScrapingAnt Alternative in 2025: Why ScraperAPI Outperforms

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ScraperApi vs ScrapingAnt
Best ScrapingAnt Alternative

Trusted by 10,000+ web scraping and data teams who switched from solutions like ScrapingAnt for direct geotargeting control, broader programming language support, and fully autonomous CAPTCHA handling.

Quick Overview

About ScraperAPI

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

  • Built-in support for a wide range of programming languages and frameworks, including Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and NodeJS
  • Achieves 95%+ success rate even on Javascript-intensive and heavily secured sites
  • Pricing based solely on successful requests avoids unnecessary costs and hidden charges.
  • Integrated proxy rotation removes the need for third-party proxy services.
  • Provides JS rendering, CAPTCHA handling, and worldwide geotargeting
  • Receive data as structured outputs like JSON, CSV, Text, and Markdown formats.
  • Around-the-clock technical support delivers expert help with response times under one hour.

About ScrapingAnt

ScrapingAnt is a relatively new web scraping tool that offers cheaper billing fees but fewer scraping integrations and limited advanced proxy management features for efficient and scalable data extraction.

  • Provides support mainly for Javascript and Python use cases
  • Cheaper billing price tiers.
  • Offers fewer out-of-the-box integrations, which make it less flexible for projects requiring smooth connections with diverse systems or custom workflows.
  • Lacks advanced proxy management features like dynamic mobile proxies and geotargeting.
  • Returns data in JSON, CSV, HTML, and Markdown formats.
  • As a relatively new option, its smaller user community limits the available channels for technical support.

Why Choose ScraperAPI Over ScrapingAnt

Web scraping shouldn’t feel like reinventing the wheel every time. ScraperAPI not only speaks your language by supporting Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and NodeJS but also streamlines the entire process so you don’t have to spend time manually reconfiguring your existing workflows.

Unlike ScrapingAnt, which struggles with advanced proxy setups and limited integrations, ScraperAPI automates proxy rotation (even with dynamic mobile proxies), CAPTCHA solving, and JS rendering, ensuring you stay one step ahead of even the most aggressive anti-bot measures.

With a monthly subscription that guarantees constant updates, premium proxies, auto-parsed JSON outputs, and unlimited bandwidth, ScraperAPI delivers the robust, future-proof solution you can count on to power your web scraping needs.

So, how do our pricing and features compare to ScrapingAnt?

Pricing Overview

Features

API Credits

Built-in support for Multiple Programming Languages

Javascript Rendering

Browser Automation

 

 

Access to Premium Proxies

 

IP Rotation

Built-in Geotargeting

Built-in CAPTCHA Handling

Data Output

Domain Target Scrapers

Concurrency thread limit

No Code Web Scraping

Support

Price

ScraperAPI’s Business Plan

3,000,000 API Credits

✅ (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, PHP, and NodeJS)

✅

✅ Advanced headless browser rendering with customizable scripting.

✅(Residential, Data Centre, Mobile, SOCKS5, and lots more)

✅

150+ countries

✅

JSON, CSV, Text, Markdown, HTML, XML

✅

100 concurrent threads

✅

Around-the-clock expert assistance

$299 (Monthly)

ScrapingAnt Business Plan

3,000,000 API Credits

Limited to mainly JavaScript and Python.

✅

Robust headless browser control, JavaScript rendering, with some custom JavaScript evaluation.

Limited to residential and data center proxies only.

✅

❌

❌

JSON, CSV, HTML

❌

Unlimited concurrent threads

✅

Robust support

$249 (Monthly)

Scrape the Web, No Matter Your Programming Language

ScraperAPI is built with a developer-friendly mindset and supports a wide range of programming languages. Instead of being confined to just Python or JavaScript, you can work with Ruby, PHP, and NodeJS. This way, you can work in whatever language you’re already proficient in. There’ll be no need to rewrite or adapt your scraping logic for different environments. 

And, if your project includes multiple programming languages across different modules or services, you can maintain a consistent scraping strategy without duplicating code. Ensuring your project’s code reusability and reducing maintenance.

Scrape “Impossible” Websites with Ease

While ScraperAPI and ScrapingAnt offer datacenter and residential proxies, ScraperAPI also includes mobile proxy options on custom plans. Mobile proxies are dynamic and less prone to flagging by anti-bot security measures from websites.

Mobile proxies use IPs that frequently change and appear as genuine mobile users, making it significantly harder for website firewalls to detect them. In contrast, residential and datacenter proxies are static, making them easier to spot.

Target Specific Websites with Dedicated Scrapers

ScraperAPI offers specialized Structured Data Endpoints for high-value targets such as Amazon, eBay, Google SERP, and more. Instead of building a custom scraper for every website, you can leverage these dedicated scrapers for:

  • Powerful Data Extraction: ScraperAPI regularly updates its dedicated scrapers to handle changes in website layouts and dynamic content, so you don’t have to worry about your target sites modifying their structures or enhancing anti-scraping measures being a barrier.
  • Effortless Integration: Ready-made endpoints for these popular websites also remove the need to develop custom parsers. You can set up quickly and integrate whatever formats you prefer to have your data, like JSON or CSV, into your workflow.
  • Consistent Performance: You can always be sure of fast scraping speeds and intact data with dedicated scrapers, unlike general scrapers, which are less reliable when target sites update their layouts or intensify their security.
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ScraperAPI vs ScrapingAnt: What's Different

Let’s take a closer look at the defining features of both ScraperAPI and ScrapingAnt, compare them side-by-side, and explain what each feature means when it comes to web scraping:

FeatureScraperAPIScrapingAntKey Difference
Proxy Rotation & IP PoolRobust, extensive global proxy network with fully automatic rotationProvides proxy rotation; however, its network scale and diversity is less emphasizedScraperAPI offers a more extensive proxy network with full automation compared to ScrapingAnt’s limited rotation options.
CAPTCHA BypassingBuilt-in, automatic CAPTCHA solving with advanced anti-bot measuresOffers CAPTCHA handling but requires extra configuration in certain casesScraperAPI automatically handles CAPTCHAs within its API, while ScrapingAnt requires additional setup to bypass CAPTCHA challenges.
JavaScript RenderingOffers headless browser rendering to fetch dynamic content reliablySupports headless browser rendering as wellBoth platforms support JS rendering, providing similar capabilities for scraping dynamic content from sites.
Structured Data EndpointsOffers pre-configured endpoints for popular websites such as Walmart, Redfin, eBay, Amazon, Google, etc.Requires you to build custom parsers yourself.ScraperAPI offers ready-made endpoints for domain-specific scraping, whereas ScrapingAnt leaves you to do further data parsing yourself.
Geotargeting ImplementationDirect API parameter for country selection within your codeGeotargeting by proxy location selection, limiting you to the proxy locations they offer and requiring you to have extensive knowledge on complex proxy managementScraperAPI allows for easy geotargeting through direct API parameters, while ScrapingAnt’s approach requires more complex proxy management and limits you to regions where they have active proxies.

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.

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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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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

Simple Pricing. No Surprises.

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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

ScrapingAnt can bypass common CAPTCHA challenges using proxy rotation and headless browser techniques. However, you might still encounter occasional challenges on sites with very advanced or adaptive CAPTCHA systems. 

In such cases, additional configuration or integration of a third-party CAPTCHA solver will be necessary, making your workflow more complex.

While ScrapingAnt offers a REST API that can work with various programming languages, its primary documentation and SDKs are tailored for Python and Javascript. 

If you’re a developer working in other environments like Ruby, PHP, or Java, you’ll need to build custom wrappers or rely on libraries that do not offer the same level of support.

ScraperAPI offers a more predictable and cost-efficient pricing model over time. It uses a fixed credit system with clear, per-request costs—for example, 1 credit for a standard request, 5 for e-commerce, 25 for SERPs, and 30 for social media.

ScrapingAnt, on the other hand, uses variable pricing based on request type and enabled features. A single request with JavaScript rendering and premium proxies can cost up to 125 credits, making long-term budgeting more difficult. ScraperAPI also includes advanced features like JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA handling, proxy rotation, and geotargeting—all bundled in one plan with no extra charges.

ScraperAPI automates the entire proxy management process by routing each request through its pool of over 40 million proxies. 

It works because the system intelligently selects the optimal proxy in real-time, adapting to changing anti-scraping measures and blocking patterns, so you never need to configure IPs to rotate manually. 

ScrapingAnt also offers proxy rotation through its headless browser cluster. However, its setup relies on you specifying the parameters (choosing between datacenter proxies and premium residential proxies or setting a target geolocation).

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