Yes, Zenscrape has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans. The free plan includes 1,000 searched credits included in the free plan. FreeTier.co estimates the free tier at about <$1/mo.
About
Zenscrape is a web scraping API that returns the HTML of websites and handles proxy rotation and headless browser execution. The service includes automated handling for Cloudflare protection and other anti-bot measures, so developers can fetch pages without managing browser infrastructure themselves.
The pricing page lists a free plan with 1,000 searched requests, plus paid plans with higher credit and concurrency limits. The free offering is suitable for evaluating the API or running small scraping workloads, while larger plans add geotargeting, standard and premium proxies, concierge onboarding, SLA coverage, and prioritized queueing.
- 1,000 searched requests free
- Proxy rotation and premium proxies
- Headless browser support
- Cloudflare and anti-bot handling
- 10 to 100 concurrent requests
- Worldwide geotargeting on paid plans
- Service level agreement on larger plans
Free Tier Value
This free tier gives 1,000 searched credits, while the cheapest paid plan starts at $59.99/month for 250,000 credits. That means the free tier provides about 0.4% of the Small plan’s credit volume, so its practical value is roughly $0.24/month. It is a useful starter taste of the service, but it lacks most of the capacity and pro features of the paid plans.
What's included in the free tier
Verified
- 1,000 searched credits included in the free plan.
See Zenscrape pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Small
- credits
- 250,000
- concurrent_requests
- 10
- 250,000 Credits
- 10 Concurrent Requests
- Worldwide Geotargeting
- Standard Proxies
- Premium Proxies
- Self-Service Onboarding
Medium
- credits
- 1,000,000
- concurrent_requests
- 25
- 1,000,000 Credits
- 25 Concurrent Requests
- Worldwide Geotargeting
- Standard Proxies
- Premium Proxies
- Concierge Onboarding
- Service Level Agreement
Large
- credits
- 3,000,000
- concurrent_requests
- 50
- 3,000,000 Credits
- 50 Concurrent Requests
- Worldwide Geotargeting
- Standard Proxies
- Premium Proxies
- Concierge Onboarding
- Service Level Agreement
Professional
- credits
- 5,000,000
- concurrent_requests
- 100
- 5,000,000 Credits
- 100 Concurrent Requests
- Worldwide Geotargeting
- Standard Proxies
- Premium Proxies
- Concierge Onboarding
- Service Level Agreement
- Prioritized Queue
Pricing extracted from Zenscrape's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
Common questions
Is Zenscrape free forever?
Yes. Zenscrape has a permanent free tier alongside its paid plans, though the allowance typically resets each month.
What happens when you exceed Zenscrape's free tier?
You move to a paid plan. Zenscrape's cheapest paid plan is Small at $59.99 / month.
What is Zenscrape's free tier worth?
Zenscrape's free tier is worth about <$1 per month. That maps to an FTV score of 28/100. The FTV score is explained at freetier.co/ftv.
