ScraperAPI gives new accounts a one-time signup credit rather than an ongoing free tier. The free plan includes 7-day trial with 5,000 API credits, 1,000 free API credits for a free account, and Maximum of 5 concurrent connections on the free account. No credit card is required to sign up.
About
ScraperAPI is a web scraping API that fetches public web pages while handling proxies, browser rendering, CAPTCHA challenges, and IP rotation on the caller’s behalf. It exposes a simple API interface for collecting data from websites at scale, with structured data endpoints for selected domains and SDK/documentation support for cURL, Python, NodeJS, PHP, Ruby, Java, and DataPipeline.
The pricing page lists a 7-day trial with 5,000 API credits and no credit card required, plus a separate free plan mentioned in the FAQ with 1,000 free API credits and a maximum of 5 concurrent connections. Paid plans start at 100,000 API credits per month and scale up to 5,000,000+ credits with country-level geotargeting, JS rendering, structured data APIs, and higher concurrency.
- 7-day trial with 5,000 API credits
- Free plan with 1,000 API credits
- Maximum 5 concurrent connections
- Proxy rotation and CAPTCHA handling
- JS rendering and structured data APIs
- Country-level geotargeting on higher plans
Free Tier Value
This free tier is a short trial plus a small credit allowance, so it is best treated as a one-time starter offer rather than a recurring monthly plan. The cheapest paid plan is $49/month, and the free offer gives a modest but real amount of usage plus access to the core scraping features, so its practical value is roughly in the low teens per month; however, because it is credit-based rather than a monthly allowance, a precise monthly value would be misleading.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 7-day trial with 5,000 API credits.
- 1,000 free API credits for a free account.
- Maximum of 5 concurrent connections on the free account.
See ScraperAPI pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Hobby
- API credits
- 100,000
- Concurrent threads
- 20
- Geotargeting
- US & EU only
- Small projects and personal use
- Start trial
- Ultra Premium
- Full crawler access
Startup
- API credits
- 1,000,000
- Concurrent threads
- 50
- Geotargeting
- US & EU only
- Low-volume scraping workflows
- Start trial
- Ultra Premium
- Full crawler access
Business
- API credits
- 3,000,000
- Concurrent threads
- 100
- Geotargeting
- Global
- Production-grade scraping at moderate scale
- Start trial
- Ultra Premium
- Full crawler access
Scaling
- API credits
- 5,000,000
- Concurrent threads
- 200
- Geotargeting
- Global
- Scaling scraping operations
- Start trial
- Ultra Premium
- Full crawler access
- Unlimited analytics history
- Pay as you go
Professional
- API credits
- 10,500,000
- Concurrent threads
- 300
- Geotargeting
- Global
- Recurring, high-volume scraping
- Start trial
- Priority support
- Ultra Premium
- Full crawler access
- Unlimited analytics history
- Pay as you go
Advanced
- API credits
- 21,500,000
- Concurrent threads
- 500
- Geotargeting
- Global
- Continuous, multi-source data pipelines
- Start trial
- Priority routing
- Ultra Premium
- Full crawler access
- Unlimited analytics history
- Pay as you go
Pricing extracted from ScraperAPI's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is ScraperAPI free forever?
No. ScraperAPI gives new accounts a one-time signup credit, spent at normal usage rates, then the account moves to pay-as-you-go.
Does ScraperAPI require a credit card?
No. You can start on ScraperAPI's free tier without entering card details.
What happens when you exceed ScraperAPI's free tier?
Once the signup credit runs out the account moves to pay-as-you-go pricing. ScraperAPI's cheapest published paid plan is Hobby at $49 / month.
