Octoparse does not sell requests, pages or rows. It sells software, a number of saved tasks, and a number of things that may run at once. That makes the usual conversion impossible, because nothing here is metered by volume. What can be converted is the price of a task and of a cloud process. Both are below. Every figure was read from their pricing page on 9 September 2026.
We sell a competing scraper API, so weigh our reading accordingly. The plan figures are theirs and the division is ours.
The short version
The Standard card says $99 a month and the comparison table on the same page says $119 billed monthly. The $99 is the annual equivalent. A task costs almost exactly $1.00 a month on both paid tiers, so what a bigger plan really buys is concurrency. On Standard, quarterly billing at $99.67 a month is marginally cheaper than annual at $99.92, with a quarter of the commitment.
What Octoparse publishes
The plan cards and the comparison table give different numbers, so both are below. The cards show the annual equivalent, and the table shows what each billing period actually costs.
Octoparse plans, as published
| Item | Free | Standard | Professional | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Advertised on the card | Free | $99/MO | $249/MO | Contact sales |
| Billed monthly | free | $119 | $299 | custom |
| Billed quarterly | free | $299 | $779 | custom |
| Billed annually | free | $1,199 | $2,999 | custom |
| Tasks | 10 | 100 | 250 | 750 or more |
| Devices | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 or more |
| Users | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 admin, 2 or more agents |
| Concurrent cloud runs | none | up to 6 | up to 20 | 40 or more |
| Concurrent boost runs | none | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Data retention | none | 30 days | 60 days | 90 days |
| Data export limit | 50K per month | unlimited | unlimited | unlimited |
| Free add-on credit | none | $4 per month | $9 per month | custom |
octoparse.com pricing page, read 9 September 2026
Start with the gap between the two price rows. The Standard card says $99 a month while the table says $119 billed monthly. Both appear on the same page.
The $99 is the annual figure, since $1,199 over twelve months is $99.92. Anyone paying month to month pays about 20 percent above the advertised number.
That is a common pattern across this market, and it is worth checking on every vendor. We found the same shape at Firecrawl, where the card also showed the annual rate.
Quarterly beats annual on the Standard plan
The three billing periods are usually assumed to rank in one order. On this pricing page they do not, and the difference is easy to miss.
Monthly equivalent of each billing period
| Billing period | Standard, per month | Professional, per month |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $119.00 | $299.00 |
| Quarterly | $99.67 | $259.67 |
| Annual | $99.92 | $249.92 |
our own arithmetic on advertised figures, 9 September 2026
On Standard, the quarterly price works out marginally cheaper per month than the annual one. It also commits you to three months instead of twelve, so it wins twice.
On Professional the usual order returns, and annual is the cheaper option by about ten dollars a month. Anyone buying Standard should check the quarterly row before signing for a year.
What a task actually is
The word task carries the whole pricing model here, and it does not mean what most buyers assume. A task is a saved scraper configuration, not a page, a row or a request.
Standard includes 100 tasks and Professional includes 250. Data export is unlimited on both, and there is no cap on pages per run.
So the plan does not limit how much data you extract. It limits how many different scrapers you may save, and how many may run at once.
That is why no cost per page appears in this article. The published figures do not contain one, and an invented pages-per-hour average would be a guess.
What the tiers really price
Two conversions do work, and together they explain the whole ladder:
Cost per task and per cloud process
| Plan | Per month | Per task | Per cloud process |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard, annual | $99.92 | $1.00 | $16.65 |
| Professional, annual | $249.92 | $1.00 | $12.50 |
| Standard, monthly | $119.00 | $1.19 | $19.83 |
| Professional, monthly | $299.00 | $1.20 | $14.95 |
our own arithmetic on advertised figures, 9 September 2026
A task costs almost exactly one dollar a month on both paid tiers. That symmetry is too neat to be accidental, and upgrading buys no discount on tasks.
Concurrency is where the tier actually pays. A cloud process costs $16.65 a month on Standard and $12.50 on Professional, which is about 25 percent cheaper.
So the upgrade decision has one question behind it. Buy Professional when you need more than six things running at once, not when you need more scrapers.
What is metered on top
Three add-ons carry real per-unit prices, and they are the only volume-based numbers on the page.
Octoparse add-ons, and one comparison
| What you buy | Published as |
|---|---|
| Residential proxies | $3 per GB |
| Automatic CAPTCHA solving | $1 to $1.50 per thousand |
| Pay-per-result templates | $0.001-3 per thousand results, as printed |
| Crawler setup service | starting at $399 |
| Managed data service | starting at $599 |
| HProxy residential bandwidth | $0.50/GB, from a balance rather than a plan |
vendor pricing page, read 9 September 2026
Residential bandwidth at $3 per gigabyte is the one line that compares cleanly across this market. It undercuts the $8 we recorded at Apify and sits inside the range we calculated for ZenRows.
The included add-on credit is small enough to notice. At $3 per gigabyte, the $4 monthly credit on Standard covers about 1.3 gigabytes of residential traffic.
A headless browser can move that in a few hundred page fetches, as our bandwidth study measured. Anyone doing cloud extraction at volume should treat proxies as a separate line rather than an included extra.
The minimum, the commitment and the expiry
The free plan is genuinely free and has no time limit. It gives 10 tasks, one device, local extraction only, and 50,000 rows of export a month.
Note what the free tier excludes, because it is the whole cloud product. There is no cloud extraction, no IP rotation and no scheduling below the Standard plan.
The commitment depends on the billing period you pick, and the shortest paid option is one month at $119. A five day money-back guarantee is advertised on all paid plans.
Nothing here expires in the way a credit allowance does, because nothing is metered. What does expire is stored data, at 30 days on Standard, 60 on Professional and 90 on Enterprise.
Two discounts sit outside the ladder. Startups are offered 30 percent for a year. Students and educators are invited to apply for a further discount.
Who this pricing suits
Octoparse suits people who do not want to write code, and that is the honest centre of it. The point-and-click builder and the preset templates are the product, and no API in this comparison replaces them.
It suits steady work across many small targets. A hundred saved tasks at a dollar each is reasonable if you actually maintain a hundred scrapers.
It suits high volume against few targets poorly. You would buy tasks you do not need in order to reach the concurrency you do. The per-task price never falls to soften that.
It also suits cost-per-page comparisons poorly, because that answer is not on the page. If your decision rests on a rate per thousand requests, an API priced that way compares more fairly.
The conversions for those APIs sit in our Apify, Firecrawl and ScraperAPI teardowns. The market spread is in what scraping APIs really charge.
What we could not verify
The pay-per-result template price is printed as $0.001-3 per thousand results, and we could not resolve that range. It may span many templates, and we did not assume a value.
No pages-per-hour or requests-per-hour figure is published for a cloud process. Without it, no cost per page can be derived from these plans honestly.
The Enterprise tier is custom throughout, so it has no rate to print. We recorded only its published limits of 750 or more tasks and 40 or more concurrent cloud processes.
We did not find a statement about what happens to tasks saved beyond your limit after a downgrade. That matters on a product where tasks are the unit, and the page is silent.
Prices move, and this page carries two different figures for the same plan. Everything here was read on 9 September 2026, so check both the card and the table before subscribing.
Sources
- Octoparse, pricing page cards, read 9 September 2026. The advertised $99 and $249 monthly figures and the feature lists behind them.
- Octoparse, pricing page comparison table, read 9 September 2026. Monthly, quarterly and annual prices of $119, $299 and $1,199 on Standard, and $299, $779 and $2,999 on Professional.
- Octoparse, pricing page comparison table, read 9 September 2026. Task counts, device counts, user counts, concurrent cloud runs, boost runs, retention periods and export limits.
- Octoparse, pricing page, read 9 September 2026. Add-on prices for residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving, crawler setup and the managed data service.
- Octoparse, pricing page, read 9 September 2026. The free add-on credit of $4 and $9 a month, the five day money-back guarantee, and the startup and education discounts.
- Our own bandwidth study of August 2026, for the gigabyte comparison against a headless browser workload.
- Our own arithmetic on those published figures, 9 September 2026, shown in every table above.