ScrapingBee by ScrapingBee
Web scraping API that handles headless browsers, proxies and anti-bot, returning HTML, markdown or JSON.
Scraping and crawling Official MCP server
Price
Free plan
paid plans from $49/mo
Free tier
Yes
1,000 free API credits, no credit card
SDK downloads
88.9K
npm scrapingbee · PyPI scrapingbee
Pricing
| Free tier | 1,000 free API credits, no credit card |
|---|---|
| Cheapest paid plan | $49 a month |
| Usage price | Freelance $49/month for 250,000 credits; Startup $99 for 1,000,000; Business $249 for 3,000,000 |
| Good to know | Credits per request vary: JavaScript rendering is on by default at 5 credits; plain request 1; premium/stealth proxies up to 75; AI extraction +5. Auto-mode charges 1-75 credits for the configuration that worked. Prices exclude VAT. |
From the official pricing page, checked Oct 9, 2026. Prices change: confirm before you buy.
Use it from an agent
| MCP server | Official: https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp |
|---|---|
| npm | npm install scrapingbee |
| PyPI | pip install scrapingbee |
| GitHub | scrapingbee/scrapingbee-python · 132 stars · last push Sep 1, 2026 |
Alternatives to ScrapingBee
| API | Free | Price | SDK downloads / wk | GitHub stars | MCP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crawl4AI Open-source LLM-friendly crawler you can self-host, now also offered as a hosted cloud API. |
Self-host free (open source); Cloud Free... | $0.5 / 1k requests · free tier | 292K | 85.1K | MCP |
| Bright Data (Unlocker API) Unblocking scraping API, SERP API, scraping browser and proxy network for large-scale web data. |
5K Unlocker requests/month, no credit card | $1.5 / 1k requests · free tier | 28K | 2,664 | MCP |
| Firecrawl Scrapes, crawls, maps and searches websites, returning clean markdown or JSON for LLMs. |
1,000 credits/month, no credit card (500... | $5 / 1k requests · free tier | 2.5M | 190K | MCP |
| Apify Platform of ready-made scrapers (Actors) plus serverless runtime and proxies for web data. |
$5/month of platform usage, no credit card | Free plan · paid from $19/mo | 1M | 99 | MCP |
| Spider Fast crawling and scraping API built on the open-source Rust spider engine, streaming markdown or JSON. |
New accounts start with a free balance... | Free plan · paid from $40/mo | 110K | 2,766 | MCP |
| Jina Reader (r.jina.ai) Converts any URL (including PDFs) into clean LLM-ready markdown by prefixing r.jina.ai. |
Free without a key at 20 RPM; 10M free... | Free plan | — | 12.1K | MCP |