The main Scrapingdog alternatives are other scraping APIs, such as ScrapingBee, ScraperAPI and WebScraping.AI, or raw proxies with your own scraper. Scrapingdog itself starts at $40 a month for 200,000 credits, and JavaScript with a premium proxy costs 25 credits a request. Unused credits expire when you cancel or downgrade.
We run a competing proxy network, so weigh this page accordingly. Every Scrapingdog figure below comes from its own pricing page, terms and documentation, read on November 7, 2026.
What Scrapingdog sells
Scrapingdog describes itself as an "all-in-one Web Scraping API, effortlessly managing proxies and headless browsers". Its documentation shows the model: one GET request to its scrape endpoint with your API key and the target URL, and Scrapingdog handles rotating proxies, CAPTCHAs and optional JavaScript rendering. Its pricing page also lists dedicated APIs, among them more than a dozen for Google (Search, Maps, News, Shopping, Jobs and more).
How much does Scrapingdog cost?
The pricing page sells credits by the month. It promises 100 free credits to start, "27 plans", every API on every plan, and "failed requests are never charged". The first steps of the ladder, on monthly billing:
| Plan | A month | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 |
| Lite | $40 | 200,000 |
| Standard | $90 | 1,000,000 |
| Pro | $200 | 3,000,000 |
| Premium | $350 | 6,000,000 |
| Business | $500 | 9,000,000 |
The rate per credit falls as plans grow: Pro prints "$0.067 per 1,000 credits", against $0.20 on Lite. Annual billing adds two months. The ladder runs on to plans of $2,000 a month and more.
What does one request really cost?
Credits buy requests at different rates. A request with JavaScript rendering takes 5 credits; a premium proxy or country targeting takes 10; JavaScript with a premium proxy takes 25. Scrapingdog prints what that means per 1,000 requests on each plan:
- Lite
- Pro
So a hard target that needs both JavaScript and a premium proxy costs 25 times a plain credit. On Lite, 200,000 credits buy 8,000 such requests. Our data studies on scraping API credit multipliers and the scraping API price spread compare this model across vendors.
The terms buyers ask about
- Failed requests. The pricing page says they are never charged.
- Unused credits. The terms say: "If you cancel or downgrade your subscription, any unused credits from your current Billing Period will expire at the end of that Billing Period and will not roll over to the next month or be refunded."
- Refunds. The same terms rule out refunds of amounts paid.
- A free start. 100 credits with no card required.
What the public record shows
The .com registry dates the current registration of scrapingdog.com to April 4, 2020, running to April 4, 2027; the record last changed on March 7, 2026.
Apr 4, 2020
scrapingdog.com registered
at the .com registry
Mar 7, 2026
Registry record last changed
Nov 7, 2026
Pricing and terms read
27 plans, from $40 a month
Apr 4, 2027
Registration ends
unless renewed
Six years on the record says nothing about success rates. It does rule out the shortest-lived pattern in this market, a vendor that appears, sells and disappears inside a year.
What the advertised numbers cannot tell you
Success on your target
Rival vendors publish clashing numbers for Scrapingdog. ScrapeBadger claims a 34% overall success rate on its own test, and a Prospeo roundup cites a third-party benchmark of 39%. Both are rivals' claims, and neither method was visible in the text we read. The only success rate that decides your cost is the one on your own target.
Cost per successful request
Divide what you spend by the requests that came back with the data you wanted. A cheap credit that fails, or a request that needs 25 credits, can cost more than a pricier plan or a raw proxy.
A monthly floor
Every paid plan is a subscription, and unused credits expire on cancel or downgrade. Steady volume fits that well; spiky volume pays for credits it never uses.
How to settle it yourself
- Start with the free 100 credits, then the smallest paid plan you need.
- Aim it at the page that matters to you, with the features that page needs.
- Count the successful replies and the credits they used, then work out the cost per success.
- Run the same test on an alternative, and on raw proxies with your own scraper if you run one.
- Keep the winner, and test again every quarter.
Where else buyers look
The same treatment for other scraping APIs: Scrapeless alternatives and Crawlbase alternatives. If you would rather run your own scraper, proxies for web scraping covers the setup, and how to avoid IP bans the habits that keep it working.
Scrapingdog also sells a SERP API. If Google results are what you need, cloro returns Google Search and AI answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, AI Overview and AI Mode as structured JSON, at $1.20 per 1,000 Google searches on its Hobby plan, with a free plan of about 166 searches a month (cloro's pricing page, read November 2, 2026).
What we sell, stated plainly
We sell raw proxies, without the scraping layer. Our residential proxies cost from $0.18 per GB, pay as you go, with no subscription. You bring the scraper, and you pay for traffic instead of credits. Our free proxy checker and free proxy list let you test before you pay.
What this page could not check
We bought no plan and sent no requests through Scrapingdog or any alternative, so success rates and speed are untested here. The rival benchmarks above are their claims. We show the first six plans of a 27-plan ladder. Prices, credit costs and terms change: check every figure by January 7, 2027.
Sources
- Scrapingdog, pricing page (plans and credit costs per feature), read November 7, 2026.
- Scrapingdog, terms (credit rollover and refunds), read November 7, 2026.
- Scrapingdog, homepage and Web Scraping API documentation, read November 7, 2026.
- Verisign, RDAP record for scrapingdog.com, read November 7, 2026.
- cloro, SERP API page, read November 7, 2026 (the partner paragraph cites its pricing page of November 2, 2026).
