The answer to "what should I use instead of Webscrapingapi" depends entirely on why you are leaving. Price, a commitment, a country, a support experience and a blocked target all point at different replacements.
Everything we can stand behind
You will find them at webscrapingapi.com.
There is no price in this comparison because we do not have one we can date and attribute. What follows instead is the set of questions that decide the cost once you do read their page.
The four figures worth copying down are the rate without a commitment, the smallest purchase allowed, what happens to unspent balance, and whether a failed request still costs money.
The site, as it reads today
On 9 September 2026 the site introduced itself as "Web Scraping API, Proxies and Ready Web Data". In the description they hand to search engines: "Collect public web data with residential, datacenter and ISP proxies, five web access APIs, ready-to-use datasets, recurring feeds or managed delivery."
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential and a scraping or SERP API. The page offers some form of free trial. Their pricing page is titled "Residential Proxy Pricing and Plans".
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.
Age, and why it matters here
The domain was registered on 3 November 2020, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 5 years old. We pulled that from the registry on 9 September 2026. The current registration term ends 3 November 2026.
None of it predicts success rate. It is here because domain age and archive depth are free to check, and a provider whose public record starts last quarter deserves a smaller first order.
Their published surface
Our own crawl reached 1.679 of their pages. The mix was 42 pricing pages and 84 use-case pages.
Site size is a signal about marketing budget rather than network quality, and the two are frequently unrelated. It is useful for a different reason: a provider with many pricing pages is usually segmenting hard, and a provider with none is selling by quotation.
The questions behind the numbers
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.
The reputation you inherit
Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.
The line item hidden in the success rate
Some vendors bill every request, some bill only successful ones, and the difference is the whole comparison once a target starts blocking. A cheap rate with a fifty percent success rate is twice its advertised price.
The comparison, honestly framed
Here are the comparisons that survive contact with a real workload:
| Question to ask | Webscrapingapi | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Read their current terms | Never |
| Minimum commitment | On their own terms page | None |
| Identity checks | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | On their own terms page | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Where a cell points you at their terms, that is because the answer moves and a stale quotation would be worse than none. The missing row, in every table of this kind, is the one only your own measurement can fill.
The test that beats this page
It is a small amount of money for an answer that is actually about your target.
- Take the smallest paid unit each provider will sell you. A free trial works for a first pass, though trials sometimes ride better pools than paid plans do.
- Fire the same batch through both on one afternoon. Different days are different conditions, and that ruins the comparison.
- Write down two numbers per provider: the share of requests that succeeded, and the traffic it cost.
- Take a handful of the addresses you were given and verify their country and type against a checker you do not control.
- Go with whichever performed, then measure again next quarter. Networks change underneath you.
Where else buyers look
If this one does not fit, these are the nearest comparable providers we have written up, each on the same terms as this page.
- Shakergainske alternatives
- Shanchendaili (闪臣代理) alternatives
- Shellfire alternatives
- Shenlongip (神龙代理) alternatives
- Shifter alternatives
- ShiftProxy alternatives
What we sell, stated plainly
If you want our side of it: $0.44 per GB for residential, pay as you go, nothing expires, and the free tools stay free. We would rather you measured than believed us, which is why the test comes before this paragraph rather than after it.
