ScraperAPI
ScraperAPI exposes Hobby through Scaling tiers ($49–$475 monthly) on a public, anonymous pricing grid plus an Enterprise contact-sales tier, with monthly/yearly toggle and a no-card 1,000-credit free entry. xpay verified self-serve checkout for all four paid tiers and accessible docs, but observed no PAYG path beneath $49/month and no machine-readable pricing manifest.
Start Scraping — Start collecting data with our 7-day trial and 5,000 API credits. No credit card required.
credit-based; varies by request complexity
$0
$49
per monthSelf-serve
Self-serve
Contact sales
How ScraperAPI scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
8 / 25
Self-serve checkout
12 / 15
Public API
15 / 15
Low / no minimum
8 / 10
Unauth automated payment
3 / 10
Bonus (machine-readable pricing)On top of /100 base
0 / 5
Total
61 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from ScraperAPI?
Discover price
https://www.scraperapi.com/pricing/ — five visible tier cardsSelect a plan
Hobby / Startup / Business / Scaling / Enterprise distinguishablePay per task
Credit-based metering inside fixed monthly buckets; Scaling+ has fixed PAYG overageAvoid a sales call
Four tiers self-serve, only Enterprise contact-salesAPI docs without auth
https://docs.scraperapi.com — publicEstimate cost upfront
Per-credit overage rate visible only on Scaling+; cost-per-URL not declared upfront on lower tiersPros and cons for AI agents
Observational summary written by xpay from the signals captured on 2026-05-03. Not a review of the product — only of its current pricing posture for agent buyers.- Pricing is publicly visible on an indexable page — agents can read tiers without scraping past auth.
- API documentation is reachable without a login — discovery and integration can happen in one session.
- A free tier exists, lowering the bar for an agent builder to prototype before committing budget.
- No per-unit price was advertised, so an agent has no way to estimate the cost of a single task.
- Some tiers are sales-led; the highest-capacity surfaces are not self-serve.
- PPU requires account creation and an issued API key; a fully unauthenticated agent purchase is not yet supported.
- No /.well-known/ai-pricing.json or equivalent machine-readable pricing manifest is published — agents must rely on HTML scraping.
- A unit price is published but consumption per task is not declared upfront — cost predictability is partial.
How ScraperAPI could lift its score
ScraperAPI lands in Verified. Two missing points: (1) expose a default PAYG rate alongside the trial credits so agents can buy a single batch without subscribing; (2) publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json with the credit-per-URL matrix.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Start Scraping — Start collecting data with our 7-day trial and 5,000 API credits. No credit card required. |
| tier_count | 5 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 49 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | 1,000 free credits ongoing + 7-day 5,000-credit trial, no card |
| per_unit_price | credit-based; varies by request complexity |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 4 |
| sales_only_tiers | 1 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://docs.scraperapi.com |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
ScraperAPI
61
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Data & Scraping APIs
Start Scraping — Start collecting data with our 7-day trial and 5,000 API credits. No credit card required.
5
Yes
1,000 free credits ongoing + 7-day 5,000-credit trial, no card
$49/mo
credit-based; varies by request complexity
4 / 1
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03