ScrapingBee vs Scrapfly on price
Across 16 workloads (10,000 to 1,000,000 successful pages a month, four kinds of page), ScrapingBee is cheaper in 8, Scrapfly in 3; 5 need a custom plan on one of them. By page kind: plain HTML, it depends on volume; JavaScript rendering, ScrapingBee at most volumes; premium proxies, ScrapingBee at most volumes; JavaScript + premium proxies, ScrapingBee at most volumes.
What one page costs in credits
| Page kind | ScrapingBee | Scrapfly |
|---|---|---|
| Plain HTML | 1 credit | 1 credit |
| JavaScript rendering | 5 credits | 6 credits |
| Premium proxies | 10 credits | 25 credits |
| JavaScript + premium proxies | 25 credits | 30 credits |
Plain HTML
| Pages a month | ScrapingBee | Scrapfly | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $49 Freelance | $30 Discovery | $4.90 vs $3 |
| 50,000 | $49 Freelance | $30 Discovery | $0.98 vs $0.60 |
| 250,000 | $49 Freelance | $100 Pro | $0.20 vs $0.40 |
| 1,000,000 | $99 Startup | $100 Pro | $0.10 vs $0.10 |
JavaScript rendering
| Pages a month | ScrapingBee | Scrapfly | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $49 Freelance | $30 Discovery | $4.90 vs $3 |
| 50,000 | $49 Freelance | $100 Pro | $0.98 vs $2 |
| 250,000 | $249 Business | $250 Startup | $1.00 vs $1 |
| 1,000,000 | $599 Business + | Custom | $0.60 vs – |
Premium proxies
| Pages a month | ScrapingBee | Scrapfly | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $49 Freelance | $100 Pro | $4.90 vs $10 |
| 50,000 | $99 Startup | $250 Startup | $1.98 vs $5 |
| 250,000 | $249 Business | Custom | $1.00 vs – |
| 1,000,000 | $999 Enterprise 14 | Custom | $1.00 vs – |
JavaScript + premium proxies
| Pages a month | ScrapingBee | Scrapfly | Per 1,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $49 Freelance | $100 Pro | $4.90 vs $10 |
| 50,000 | $249 Business | $250 Startup | $4.98 vs $5 |
| 250,000 | $599 Business + | Custom | $2.40 vs – |
| 1,000,000 | $2,399 Enterprise 41 | Custom | $2.40 vs – |
Cheapest published plan a month with monthly billing; bold marks the cheaper. "Custom" means the volume needs more than the largest published plan.
What the numbers say
- A page that needs JavaScript rendering costs 5 times a plain page on ScrapingBee; on Scrapfly it costs 6 times a plain page. A protected page (JavaScript and premium proxies) costs 25 times a plain page on ScrapingBee; on Scrapfly it costs 30 times a plain page.
- The gap is widest at 50,000 pages through premium proxies a month: ScrapingBee costs $99, 60% less than Scrapfly at $250.
- Per 1,000 plain pages, the price falls with volume: ScrapingBee from $4.90 at 10,000 pages to $0.10 at 1,000,000; Scrapfly from $3 at 10,000 pages to $0.10 at 1,000,000.
- The cheapest way in is $49 a month (Freelance) on ScrapingBee and $30 a month (Discovery) on Scrapfly.
- Neither lists a yearly price.
Worth knowing
- ScrapingBee: JavaScript rendering is on by default; plain pages need render_js=false.
- Scrapfly: JavaScript costs 6 credits per Scrapfly's billing docs; its pricing page says 5. We use the higher figure.
Price your own volume on all 10 APIs, or compare every API's credit multipliers.
Prices checked against each platform's own pricing page on .