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An economical alternative to ScrapingBee

Scrapingdog gives you the same web-scraping experience at around 15% less on starting plans, and around 25% less on higher plans.

Since ScrapingBee's acquisition by Oxylabs in January 2026, many teams are re-evaluating both platforms. Scrapingdog gives you an independent alternative to either.

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TL;DR

Scrapingdog is the better ScrapingBee alternative if you want predictable pricing — ScrapingBee charges 5 credits for JS rendering (on by default), up to 25 for premium proxies, and up to 75 for stealth mode, so a "250,000 credit" plan can shrink fast. Scrapingdog charges a flat 1–5 credits per request, costs $200 vs $249 for 3M credits, and includes instant chat support. Need enterprise-scale proxy volume instead? See the decision guide below.

Why ScrapingBee's pricing is hard to predict

ScrapingBee bills in credits, not requests — and one request rarely costs one credit.

FeatureCredits per request
Standard request1 credit
JavaScript rendering (on by default)5 credits
Premium proxies10 credits
Premium proxies + JS25 credits
Stealth proxies (hardest sites)up to 75 credits

Scrapingdog's flat rate

Scraping Google 5 credits
Scraping YouTube 5 credits
Scraping Amazon 1 credit
Stealth-mode surprises None

How do we compare?

Up to 25% less Scrapingdog
ScrapingBee
Tested on (real sites)
Amazon, Google, YouTube, Idealista, Glassdoor
Amazon, Indeed, GitHub, Zillow, Capterra, X
Cost of 3 million API credits
$200
$249
Google SERP API
Credit cost for scraping Google
5
15
Universal Search API
Bing Search API
YouTube Scraper API
Credit cost for scraping YouTube
5
10
LLM-Ready Data
Amazon Scraper API
Credit cost for scraping Amazon
1
15
Success rate with top-level domains
Around 99%
Around 95%
Instant chat support

Benchmarked June 2026 across Amazon, Google, and YouTube. Third-party figures shown for ScrapingBee reflect independently published test conditions.

Which alternative should you choose?

Being honest about fit — not everyone should switch.

Choose Scrapingdog if

  • ✓ You want predictable, flat-rate credit pricing with no stealth-mode surprises
  • ✓ You need AI/LLM-ready structured output alongside raw HTML
  • ✓ You scrape Amazon, Google, or YouTube regularly
  • ✓ You want live chat support at every plan tier
  • ✓ You're a solo dev or small team wanting to start free

Choose ScrapingBee / Oxylabs if

  • — You need the largest possible proxy network at enterprise scale
  • — You rely on ScrapingBee's plain-English AI extraction parameters
  • — Your team has deep ScrapingBee-specific tooling already built

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Features of Scrapingdog you can't skip

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  • Smart domain security level detection

    Scrapingdog uses a combination of headless Chrome and the right proxy to go undetected on the target website. We reduce the number of steps you take to get results, and so offer a more optimized and economical solution.

  • Bypass any on-site protection

    Scrapingdog has a pool of 10M+ IPs, with dedicated IPs for certain domains. Our API uses the appropriate proxy and header combination to avoid any CAPTCHA.

  • Wait parameter & other APIs

    Some websites take longer to load every component because of excessive API calls. We use the wait parameter to load the website completely before extracting any data.

  • Faster & reliable

    Scrapingdog constantly upgrades so you get seamless data. You will notice a faster and more reliable data pipeline when you use our scrapers.

Benefits of using Scrapingdog over ScrapingBee

  • More features at less price

    With Scrapingdog you get more features and more reliability, because any data blockage destroys your data stream. Important features like the wait parameter, screenshot, and a success-rate calculator are absent in ScrapingBee.

  • Better documentation

    Scrapingdog's documentation is simple and straightforward. No matter which programming language you use for web scraping, we have a dedicated page for almost every major language.

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  • Web scraping tutorials & blogs

    We have written web scraping tutorials for almost every programming language, covering beginners and advanced developers across most languages and libraries. They can help you start your scraping journey.

    Check out our blogs

  • Tools for non-developers

    Once you sign up, your dashboard has a tool where you just paste a target URL and press Scrape to get the raw data. From there you can copy it and send it to anyone. Yes, it really is that simple with Scrapingdog.

Loved by developers

4.8 TrustScore on Trustpilot

  • So far VERY pleased with how it is working! Set up took me 2 minutes compared to other alternatives. Also, I used one of their recently published scraping guides, and it worked 100% as advertised!!

    Gerard

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  • Very easy to use. The pricing is way, way better than most of the competition. Quite happy, and easy to integrate in production.

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  • Scrapingdog is faster than all the scraping APIs that I have used in the past.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Yes. Scrapingdog covers the same surface, Google SERP, Universal Search, Bing, YouTube, Amazon and LLM-ready data, at around 15% less on starting plans and around 25% less on higher plans, with much lower per-scrape credit costs.
  • 3 million credits cost $200 on Scrapingdog versus $249 on ScrapingBee. Scraping Google costs 5 credits (vs 15), YouTube 5 (vs 10) and Amazon just 1 credit (vs 15), so heavy workloads cost dramatically less.
  • It matches the core APIs (Google SERP, Universal Search, Bing, YouTube, Amazon, LLM-ready data) and adds instant chat support, the wait parameter, screenshots and a success-rate calculator.
  • Yes. Scrapingdog uses a simple REST API, so switching just means updating your base URL and API key, most parameters map over directly.
  • Yes. ScrapingBee was acquired by Oxylabs in January 2026. If you're moving away from ScrapingBee, Oxylabs, or both, Scrapingdog gives you an independent option tied to neither.
  • ScrapingBee bills in credits that multiply by feature: JS rendering costs 5 credits (on by default), premium proxies up to 25, and stealth mode up to 75 per request. A "250,000 credit" plan can cover far fewer real requests than expected. Scrapingdog's credit costs stay flat regardless of proxy tier.
  • Scrapingdog starts at $40/month for 200,000 credits, with 3 million credits costing $200 total versus ScrapingBee's $249. Test with 200 free credits before committing.
  • Yes. Scrapingdog offers LLM-ready structured data output at the same 1-credit cost as a standard extraction, so scraped data feeds directly into AI pipelines without extra parsing.
  • Most teams migrate in minutes. Scrapingdog uses a simple REST API, so switching mainly means updating your base URL and API key.

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