ScrapingAnt sits in a market where the advertised number and the number you pay are frequently different, because tiers, minimums and expiry all sit between them. Untangling that is most of the work here.
What we can and cannot tell you about ScrapingAnt
ScrapingAnt operates from scrapingant.com. Our classification for them is scraping API.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for ScrapingAnt recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Look for the tier you would actually land in, not the one at the bottom of the table, and find the expiry and failed-request clauses before the rate impresses you.
What ScrapingAnt says about itself today
Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "ScrapingAnt , Web Scraping API, Proxies, and AI Extraction in One Stack". The blurb under their search result reads: "ScrapingAnt is a Web Scraping API for builders: Headless Chrome, 3M+ rotating proxies, AI extraction, hosted MCP server for AI agents , one credit pool, one key. 10K free credits, no card."
What else that page states, without interpretation:
The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter and a scraping or SERP API. They advertise 100 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: cards. The page offers some form of free trial. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.
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.
What the registration record shows
The domain was registered on 31 March 2020, through Amazon Registrar, Inc, which makes it about 6 years old. Registry data as of 9 September 2026. It is paid up until 31 March 2027.
Age is not quality. A long registration does not make a network good, and a new one does not make it bad. What it does rule out is the shortest-lived pattern in this market, which is a site that appears, sells, and is gone inside a year.
Where the interest in ScrapingAnt goes
Google reports 10 searches a month worldwide across the terms carrying this brand: 10 a month for their pricing. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Most of that demand is people trying to work out what it costs. That is what this page is written for, and it is why the sections above lead with what is published rather than with a verdict.
The top bid on those terms reaches $9.18 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
Units first, prices second
Work out what your job actually consumes, in gigabytes or in concurrent addresses, before you look at any price. Without that number, no two quotations in this market can be compared at all.
A commitment is part of the price
Treat a required call with a salesperson as a cost. It delays the work, it usually arrives with an annual term attached, and it exists because the published price is negotiable in one direction only.
A verdict has a shelf life
Every review of this market, this one included, is a photograph of a moving thing. Read the date on any comparison you find, and discount it heavily once it is more than a few months old.
A comparison that admits what it cannot say
The rows that matter, with our own answers stated plainly:
| Question to ask | ScrapingAnt | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Check the current terms, this one moves | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Read their current terms | None |
| Identity checks | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | On their own terms page | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Every unfilled cell above is a question to put to them directly, in writing, before money changes hands. Vendors answer those questions readily; comparison sites guess at them.
The ten minute version of this decision
For a few dollars you can get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page can honestly promise you.
- 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.
- Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
- Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
- Keep whichever pool won on your job. Re-run this whenever success rate drops or the bill moves.
Others in this market
Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:
- Scrapeowl alternatives
- Anti-Captcha alternatives
- Coresignal alternatives
- Crustdata alternatives
- Ficstar alternatives
- Import.io alternatives
The competing offer, for completeness
HProxy suits buyers who want to add funds, send traffic and stop thinking about it. Residential from $0.44 per GB, no commitment, nothing expiring. Buyers who need procurement paperwork and a named account manager are better served elsewhere, and we would rather say so here than waste your afternoon.
