--- description: Review of ScrapingBee Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: ScrapingBee | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice AU --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Web Scraping](/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) > [ScrapingBee](/software/267767/scrapingbee) # ScrapingBee Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/267767/scrapingbee Page: 1 / 7\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/267767/scrapingbee?page=2) > ScrapingBee is an API for web scraping, designed in small and large companies. Supply a URL, and ScrapingBee will handle headless browsers, proxies and CAPTCHAs solving. ScrapingBee renders web pages like a real browser, manages instances using Chrome and focuses on data extraction. You can use React, Vue.js or AngularJS to scrape pages. ScrapingBee's proxy pool rotates among thousands of servers around the world. > > Verdict: Rated **4.9/5** by 139 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.9/5** | 139 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.9/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: VostokInc - **Founded**: 2019 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: USD 49.00 - **Pricing model**: Flat Rate (Free version available) (Free Trial) - **Pricing Details**: $49 for 100k API credits / 1 concurrency $99 for 1M API credits / 10 concurrency $249 for 2M5 API credits / 40 concurrency Custom plan on demand - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based - **Supported Languages**: English - **Available Countries**: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium and 208 more ## Features - API - Access Controls/Permissions - Auto Extraction - Batch Processing - Data Aggregation and Publishing - Data Connectors - Data Extraction - Data Import/Export - Document Extraction - Email Address Extraction - HTML Parsing - IP Address Extraction - IP Rotation - Image Extraction - JavaScript Rendering - Metadata Management - Multiple Data Sources - Phone Number Extraction - Pricing Extraction - Proxy Rotation ## Support Options - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Chat ## Category - [Web Scraping](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) ## Related Categories - [Web Scraping](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) - [Data Extraction Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/directory/4555/data-extraction/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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When I got stuck, customer support solved it within 5 min. ----- ### "An easy to use tool that allows you to scale you web crawling project" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *30 November 2021* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10 > > **Pros**: The API is easy to use and documented in detail. It also proved to be very similar to other tools in the market which I consider an advantage as it reduces vendor lock-in. It comes with a shallow learning curve and all the tools you need to monitor your progress, especially if you are familiar with how APIs work. It also offers a lot of useful \& flexible options that allow you to customize how you used the tool and the burn rate of your credits. Also responses proved to be very quick from websites. The pricing is absolutely competitive after comparing it with other similar options. Before using ScrapingBee I didn't think it would be possible to scale our web crawling operations in such an easy way. > > **Cons**: The only disadvantage I could find is that a few websites still manage to block crawling attempts or recognize ScrapingBee's default US servers as Canadian IP addresses which can complicate our web crawling attempts. I have also found that you need some trial and error to decode the error codes returned by the tool and understand the root cause of any issues we come across. > > I'm very happy with our decision to work with ScrapingBee and would still recommend this as a competitive option that can scale in a pretty nice way. ----- ### "The Best & Easy Scraping API we could find" — 4.0/5 > **Koen** | *28 January 2024* | Utilities | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: ScrapingBee is really easy to setup and to start with. They have good documentation available. We are using the product already for years, and there has been almost no down-time in those years. Also there request builders are really easy to use, and you can each language you prefer. In general they have a lot of options, to build the perfect request you need to get the data from any service you want, without getting blocked. Overall I would say the best and most easy scraping service you will find. > > **Cons**: The request costs of some endpoint with specific parameters are pretty high, which makes that you need a bigger plan earlier. Pricing plans is also high for us, but not compared to other services who are offering the same. ----- ### "Simply great." — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *13 June 2022* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: We've used ScrapingBee for almost two months now and the speed and success rate of their proxies have been great, we scrape a variety of Ecommerce stores, including ASOS, Nike and Zalando that do heavy bot throttling and prevention, and with the premium proxies we se great success rate, and the standard proxies are decent and fast for the sitres that don't require very stealthy proxies. I really like that you can use this service with "proxy mode", instead of having to integrate the hTTP api, this made it really easy to "drop in" to our existing application with minimal configuration. The support is quite responsive and they fixed a simple Dashboard UI fix a few minutes after being made aware of it. > > **Cons**: The concurrency limit is 10 for the lowest paid plan, and 40 for the "business" plan, this might be a bit low for our use case, and limits throughput a bit, but I hear from the grapevines that there will be higher or more customisable plans in the future, however, if you need very high concurrency, this might not fit the bill for you. > > Overall I am quite happy with ScrapingBee ----- ### "Best scraping api out there" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *27 September 2022* | Online Media | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The web interface is great you can try out various queries right in the browser and get full cost control. Also sending XHR requests and basically a complete browser dump in the scraping response is unmatched in the industry > > **Cons**: The pricing is a bit too high. I understand that it is expensive to run such a large network, but geo location + javascript makes a request 5 times more expensive which can get really price fast. Also I find it misleading that the prices are listed without VAT, it wasn't obvious to me. ----- Page: 1 / 7\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/267767/scrapingbee?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/267767/scrapingbee) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | ----- ## Structured Data