Comparison

ScrapeGraphAI alternatives: what to check before you switch

Comparing a ScrapeGraphAI alternative? The published numbers, the questions their pricing page leaves open, and a ten minute test that beats every review.

HProxy Team··5 min read
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Residential proxies

This page exists because the search you ran has almost no honest results. Nearly every page ranking for "ScrapeGraphAI alternative" earns a commission on the answer it gives you. We earn money if you pick us, which we are stating in the first paragraph rather than the footer.

What we can and cannot tell you about ScrapeGraphAI

The company behind the name sits at scrapegraphai.com.

What we do not hold is a current, sourced price for ScrapeGraphAI. Rather than print a figure we cannot stand behind, this page leaves it out and tells you what to look for when you read their page yourself.

Copy down the entry rate, the commitment attached to the cheapest rate, the minimum top-up and the expiry rule. Those four turn a marketing figure into something you can compare.

What ScrapeGraphAI says about itself today

On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "ScrapeGraphAI". Written for search engines, their description says: "The web scraping API built for the AI era. Extract structured data from any website. No proxies, no selectors, no maintenance needed."

Also on the page, stated plainly:

The product lines named on that page are a scraping or SERP API. The page offers some form of free trial.

Nothing there has been tested. It is a record of what the page said on the day, which is the honest limit of what a page like this can offer without a measurement.

The domain record

The domain was registered on 29 April 2024, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 2 years old. Registry data as of 9 September 2026. It is paid up until 29 April 2027.

Read that as a floor rather than a recommendation. Longevity says somebody has kept paying the registrar, and in a market with this much churn that is worth ten seconds of your attention.

How much site there is

A crawl of 478 pages on 19 June 2026 returned 297 blog pages, 1 pricing page, 1 use-case page and 1 integration page.

That mix tells you how the company sells. Heavy location pages mean a geography-led pitch, heavy blog means a search-led one, and a single pricing page usually means one simple offer or one sales call.

The activity record

Our crawl of their site found 380 pages carrying a date, 208 of them articles. The oldest is from April 2025 and the newest from August 2026. 337 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.

An actively maintained site is table stakes rather than a recommendation. It does rule out the failure that costs buyers the most here, which is prepaying a company that has quietly stopped.

The questions ScrapeGraphAI gets asked

The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 30 a month: 20 a month for their pricing and 10 a month for an alternative to them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.

Monthly searches carrying the ScrapeGraphAI name, by what the searcher wants
Looking for the price
20 a month
Looking for an alternative
10 a month
Source: Google Keyword Planner, worldwide, read 9 September 2026. Terms counted: scrapegraphai pricing, scrapegraphai alternative.

Weighted towards people trying to work out what it costs. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.

The top bid on those terms reaches $5.18 a click. That is the market pricing its own customers, and it explains why almost every other result you found is an affiliate page.

Where published figures stop being useful

A pool total is not a promise

The number that matters is how many usable exits you can reach in the one country your job needs, this week. A pool total averages that away, which is why two providers with similar totals produce opposite results on the same site.

Money you paid for and did not spend

Expiry is the quietest price increase in this market. A plan sized for a busy month is expensive in a slow one, and the difference never appears in any comparison table, including ones written by vendors who benefit from it.

The rate behind the sales call

The lowest published rate in this market usually sits behind a monthly commitment measured in thousands. Quoting it beside a pay as you go rate is not a comparison. Compare the rate you can reach today.

A comparison that admits what it cannot say

The rows below are the ones that change what you pay and whether the job runs:

Question to askScrapeGraphAIHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?On their own terms pageNever
Minimum commitmentRead their current termsNone
Identity checksWorth confirming in writing before you commitCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingRead their current termsCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateWorth confirming in writing before you commitFree proxy list and proxy checker

Blanks in that table are deliberate. We print what we read and date it, and leave the rest empty rather than repeating something we cannot stand behind.

How to settle it yourself in ten minutes

Run this before you commit any volume. It replaces every opinion on this page, including ours.

  1. Start with the smallest purchase each vendor allows, so the test costs less than the decision it replaces.
  2. Use your own scraper and your own target. A benchmark against a neutral site measures nothing you will experience.
  3. Count how many requests returned what you wanted, and how much bandwidth each side spent doing it.
  4. Spot-check the exits. Confirm they are in the country you paid for and the connection type you were sold.
  5. Keep whichever pool won on your job. Re-run this whenever success rate drops or the bill moves.

Who else is in this bracket

The same treatment, applied to the providers most often weighed against this one:

Where HProxy sits in that test

We sell residential proxies from $0.44 per GB with no subscription and a balance that does not expire, plus ISP, mobile and datacenter in the same account. That is the pitch, and the test above is a better judge of it than this paragraph.

Frequently asked questions

How do I compare two providers fairly?
Match the units first, because residential is billed per gigabyte, datacenter and ISP per address, and mobile per day or per port. Then compare the rate you can actually reach today rather than the volume tier behind a commitment. Finish by measuring the success rate on your own target, since a cheap request that fails costs more than a dearer one that works.
How is HProxy different?
The models differ more than the products do. HProxy is pay as you go from a balance you top up when you want, the balance does not expire, there is no subscription unless the optional discount suits you, and residential starts at $0.44 per GB with city and ISP targeting included. Whether that beats a tiered plan depends on your usage pattern, which a short test settles.
Do I have to talk to sales or sign a contract to switch?
Not with us. You can sign up, add funds and send traffic without a call, a minimum or a subscription. Whether another provider requires any of those is on their own pricing page and is worth reading, because a required commitment is part of the price even when it is not part of the rate.
How often should I re-test a provider?
Quarterly is a reasonable rhythm for most workloads, and immediately after a noticeable drop in success rate. Pools are rebuilt, suppliers change and detection improves, so a benchmark from last year describes a network that no longer exists.
Does a bigger pool mean better results?
No. Your job meets only the exits it draws, in the countries it needs, against one target's defences. Freshness and rotation policy move the outcome far more than the headline total, and pool totals across this market are counted generously and rarely audited.

Proxies that don't die mid-job

Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.

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