Nothing here is a hit piece. ScrapeHero has customers who are well served by it, and this page says which ones. It also says where we think the model costs a buyer money.
What we can and cannot tell you about ScrapeHero
The company behind the name sits at scrapehero.com. We carry them as a scraping API.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for ScrapeHero recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Note the price, the unit it is quoted in, the minimum, and the expiry. Unit and expiry are where most comparisons in this market quietly go wrong.
What ScrapeHero says about itself today
On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "Web Scraping Services based in the USA, ScrapeHero". The blurb under their search result reads: "ScrapeHero is a web scraping services provider based in the USA. We take care of web crawling, data extraction, automated quality checks and deliver usable structured data."
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
The product lines named on that page are a scraping or SERP API. Their pricing page is titled "ScrapeHero Pricing [2026], Affordable Web Scraping Plans and Solutions".
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 3 June 2014, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 12 years old. Registry data as of 9 September 2026. It is paid up until 3 June 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
Our own crawl reached 804 of their pages. The mix was 2 blog pages and 1 pricing 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 804 pages carrying a date. The oldest is from April 2019 and the newest from August 2026. 361 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 ScrapeHero gets asked
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 20 a month: 10 a month for their pricing and 10 a month for a review of them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people trying to work out what it costs. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
What the advertised numbers cannot tell you
Per gigabyte against per address
Half this market prices bandwidth and half prices addresses. A per-address plan is cheap for heavy traffic through few exits and ruinous for light traffic through many, and the reverse holds for per-gigabyte plans.
Advertised rate against the rate you reach
A starting rate is a marketing number. What you pay depends on the tier your volume lands in, the minimum purchase, and what happens to traffic you bought and did not use. An expiring balance quietly raises the price of every unit you did consume.
What actually caps your throughput
Rate limits are often enforced per account rather than per plan, which means buying more traffic does not raise them. Confirm how yours scales before you assume a bigger plan runs faster.
What separates them, in a table
The rows below are the ones that change what you pay and whether the job runs:
| Question to ask | ScrapeHero | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Their terms page answers this | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Check the current terms, this one moves | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
That comparison covers what is publishable. What is not publishable, and what actually decides this, is how many of your requests come back correct.
How to settle it yourself in ten minutes
Run this before you commit any volume. It replaces every opinion on this page, including ours.
- Buy the minimum each side offers. Prefer a small paid batch over a trial, because trial traffic does not always ride the same pool.
- Send an identical workload through each: same target, same tooling, same time of day, same request mix.
- Measure what came back correctly and what it consumed, then divide the spend by the successes.
- Push a sample of exit addresses through an independent checker and confirm the country and connection type are what was advertised.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
Who else is in this bracket
The same treatment, applied to the providers most often weighed against this one:
- Parsera alternatives
- Scrapeless alternatives
- ScrapeOps alternatives
- Scrapeowl alternatives
- ScrapingAnt alternatives
- ScrapingDog alternatives
The competing offer, for completeness
We are the pay as you go option in this market. Residential from $0.44 per GB, ISP and datacenter per address, mobile alongside them, all from one balance with nothing to forfeit. That model wins on irregular volume and loses on very large steady volume, which is worth knowing before you test.
