ScrapingBee
ScrapingBee publishes four self-serve subscription tiers ($49/$99/$249/$599 monthly) on a public anonymous page, with a no-card 1,000-call free tier and an explicit credit cost model (5 credits per JS-rendered request). xpay verified that all paid tiers can be purchased via web checkout, though the cheapest paid entry sits at $49/month rather than a true PAYG drop-in, and no machine-readable manifest is published.
Simple, transparent pricing. Cancel anytime, no questions asked!
credit-based; default 5 credits/request with JS rendering
$0
$49
per monthSelf-serve
Self-serve
How ScrapingBee scores on the 7 agent-ready dimensions
Public pricing
15 / 15
Usage-based / metered
8 / 25
Self-serve checkout
15 / 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
64 / 100
Six-step check: can an agent actually buy from ScrapingBee?
Discover price
https://www.scrapingbee.com/#pricing — four tier cards with $/mo and credit countsSelect a plan
Freelance / Startup / Business / Business+ programmatically distinguishablePay per task
Credits consumed per request, but bundled into monthly subscriptions, no PAYGAvoid a sales call
All four advertised tiers self-serve via dashboard signupAPI docs without auth
https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/ — publicEstimate cost upfront
Default 5 credits/request published in docs and FAQPros 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.
- Every advertised tier is self-serve; no tier requires scheduling a call.
- 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.
- 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 ScrapingBee could lift its score
ScrapingBee already lands in Verified. Two missing points: (1) add a true PAYG option below the $49/mo Freelance floor; (2) publish /.well-known/ai-pricing.json with the credit-cost matrix to enable agent-side cost estimation.
| pricing_visible | true |
| headline_phrasing | Simple, transparent pricing. Cancel anytime, no questions asked! |
| tier_count | 4 |
| lowest_paid_entry_usd | 49 |
| free_tier | true |
| free_tier_terms | 1,000 free API calls, no credit card required |
| per_unit_price | credit-based; default 5 credits/request with JS rendering |
| annual_required | false |
| self_serve_paid_tiers | 4 |
| sales_only_tiers | 0 |
| public_api_docs_url | https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/ |
| api_docs_auth_walled | false |
| ai_pricing_json_present | false |
| agents_txt_present | false |
| anonymous_purchase_path | false |
ScrapingBee
64
/ 100 (rubric v1.1)Data & Scraping APIs
Simple, transparent pricing. Cancel anytime, no questions asked!
4
Yes
1,000 free API calls, no credit card required
$49/mo
credit-based; default 5 credits/request with JS rendering
4 / 0
Public
No
Not published
2026-05-03