What is ScrapingBee?
Send a URL, get the page back: rotating IPs, headless Chrome and anti-bot handling done for you.
Who is ScrapingBee best for?
ScrapingBee is best for developers and data teams who pull web pages at scale without running proxies or browsers.
Sites that block scrapers
Rotating and premium proxies in 200+ countries, headless Chrome and anti-bot handling sit behind one API call.
Search and shopping data
Dedicated APIs return Google results, Amazon and Walmart listings, YouTube data and ChatGPT or Gemini answers.
AI and RAG pipelines
Pages come back as Markdown, plain text or JSON, and AI queries pull fields you describe in plain words.
Pages behind clicks
JavaScript scenarios click, wait and fill forms before extraction, and screenshots capture the rendered page.
How much does ScrapingBee cost?
ScrapingBee gives 1,000 free API credits to try it; paid plans start at $19 a month for 75,000 credits on Hobby, and Freelance costs $49 a month for 250,000.
- 75,000 API credits a month
- 25 concurrent requests
- JavaScript rendering, premium proxies, geotargeting
- 250,000 API credits a month
- 50 concurrent requests
- Dedicated Google, Amazon and ChatGPT APIs
- 1,000,000 API credits a month
- 100 concurrent requests
- 3,000,000 API credits a month
- 200 concurrent requests
- Priority support and team management
Business+ is $599 a month for 8M credits, and Enterprise plans run from $999 to $5,799 a month for 14M to 120M credits. A plain request costs 1 credit, JavaScript rendering 5 and premium proxies 10 or 25. Credits last one month and do not roll over. The free trial gives 1,000 credits with no card. Prices exclude VAT. Full pricing on scrapingbee.com. We checked these prices on .
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How do I connect ScrapingBee to my AI agent?
ScrapingBee MCP is ScrapingBee's official MCP server. Add it to your agent once, then ask it to scrape pages and run web searches with ScrapingBee.
Your agent can fetch and read live web pages through ScrapingBee, which deals with proxies, CAPTCHAs and JavaScript-heavy sites for you.
$ claude mcp add --transport http scrapingbee https://mcp.scrapingbee.com/mcp
Claude Code connects to ScrapingBee over the web.
Run /mcp and sign in to ScrapingBee in the browser.
Then ask your agent
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- On the web
- Sign-in
- OAuth
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- mcp.scrapingbee.com
What are the best ScrapingBee alternatives?
One tool on Recaply does ScrapingBee's job. It is open source, so you can run it on your own server.
Questions about ScrapingBee
What is ScrapingBee?
Send a URL, get the page back: rotating IPs, headless Chrome and anti-bot handling done for you.
Who is ScrapingBee for?
ScrapingBee is best for developers and data teams who pull web pages at scale without running proxies or browsers.
Is ScrapingBee free?
You can try ScrapingBee free before paying; paid plans start at $19 per month.
How much does ScrapingBee cost?
ScrapingBee's paid plans are Hobby at $19 per month, Freelance at $49 per month, Startup at $99 per month and Business at $249 per month.
Does ScrapingBee have an MCP server?
Yes. ScrapingBee MCP is ScrapingBee's official MCP server, so agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and GitHub Copilot can scrape pages and run web searches with ScrapingBee. ScrapingBee runs it on the web and you sign in with your ScrapingBee account.
Is there an open source alternative to ScrapingBee?
Yes. Firecrawl is an open source tool that does the same job, so you can run your own.
What are the best ScrapingBee alternatives?
The closest alternatives on Recaply are Firecrawl.
Where can I try ScrapingBee?
On its official website, scrapingbee.com.
How many credits does a ScrapingBee request use?
A basic ScrapingBee request costs 1 API credit. Turning on JavaScript rendering makes it 5 credits, and premium proxies cost 10 or 25 credits depending on whether rendering is on.
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