ScraperAPI and ScrapeIt sell different things. ScraperAPI is a scraping API for developers: your code sends a URL, the service handles proxies, browsers and CAPTCHAs and returns the page, on published plans from 49 US dollars a month. ScrapeIt is a managed service where an engineering team builds the scraper for your target list, runs it and delivers the dataset, with nothing for you to run.
Choose ScraperAPI if
- Your developers write and own the scrapers
- Its structured endpoints already cover your targets
- You want to start today, on a free trial
Choose ScrapeIt if
- Nobody on your side will write or repair parsers
- You want a checked dataset, not API responses
- You need a fixed price for a defined job
What each company actually is
ScraperAPI
Founded in 2018. Its terms name ScraperAPI LLC and are governed by Nevada law, United States. The main product is a scraping API: you send a URL with your API key and get the page back, with proxies, JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHAs handled. Around it sit Structured Data Endpoints that return JSON or CSV for domains including Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin, an AI Parser that generates a parser from example URLs, an Async Scraper for large batches, and DataPipeline, a low-code tool for scheduled projects.
ScrapeIt
Scrapeit Sp. z o.o., registered in Bialystok, Poland and trading since 2021. No console, no catalogue and no self-serve product. An engineer scopes your target list and fields, builds the scraper, runs it and repairs it when a target changes, with manual checks before delivery. The price list is published: EUR 199 for a one-time extract of up to 100,000 rows, and subscriptions from EUR 169 to EUR 549 per month.
Side by side
When ScraperAPI is the better choice
- You have developers who want to own the scraper. ScraperAPI takes over proxies, headless browsers and CAPTCHAs and leaves the logic in your code. ScrapeIt does not sell that layer separately.
- A structured endpoint covers your target. For Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay or Redfin the data arrives parsed, and ScraperAPI maintains the parser. Calling a ready endpoint is faster than commissioning a build.
- You want to test today. The 7-day trial comes with 5,000 API credits and no credit card, and there is a free plan with 1,000 credits. ScrapeIt's first delivery typically takes one to ten days.
- Volume is large and moves month to month. Published plans go from 100,000 to 21,500,000 API credits a month, and the larger ones add pay-as-you-go.
- You are wiring web data into AI agents. ScraperAPI lists an MCP server, a CLI, LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations, and connectors for n8n and Zapier.
When ScrapeIt is the better choice
- Nobody on your side will write or repair parsers. Outside the structured endpoints you write the parser or generate one with the AI Parser, and you redo it when the site changes.
- Your targets have no ready endpoint. ScrapeIt builds each scraper to order, to your field list.
- The data has to be checked, not only fetched. Manual checks before delivery are part of the service.
- You want a fixed price for the job. ScraperAPI states that credit use depends on the site and the parameters you send, and offers a cost estimator and a per-request cap. ScrapeIt charges the plan price from its published list.
- You need an EU data processor. ScrapeIt acts as data processor for client projects, with a mutual NDA as standard and a DPA when personal data is involved. Under ScraperAPI's terms you do the scraping, and it is neither controller nor processor of personal information you scrape.
The honest summary
For a team with developers, ScraperAPI is very likely the faster and cheaper route, and this page will not pretend otherwise. Access starts at 49 US dollars a month, and for the domains with structured endpoints there is no parser to write at all.
ScraperAPI's FAQ says it does not develop custom scrapers for users, and ScrapeIt does nothing else. If you have engineers to build on the API, buy the API. If you do not, you are comparing a tool with a finished dataset.
How to decide in one pass
- List your targets and check them against ScraperAPI's structured endpoints. If every one is covered, start with its free trial.
- For every other target, name who writes the parser, or generates it with the AI Parser, and who repairs it when the site changes. No name means a managed vendor.
- Price the API in credits: pages per month times the credit cost per domain, which ScraperAPI's dashboard estimates. Add engineering hours, then compare with a fixed plan.
- Test one real target on each side: the trial at ScraperAPI, a one-time extract for EUR 199 at ScrapeIt.
Keep reading
Is ScrapeIt a ScraperAPI alternative?
Yes, for teams that do not want to write or maintain scrapers themselves. ScraperAPI is an API your developers call: it handles proxies, browsers and CAPTCHAs and returns the page. ScrapeIt builds the scraper, runs it, repairs it and delivers the dataset, so there is nothing for you to run.
Does ScrapeIt have a scraping API like ScraperAPI?
Not a self-serve one. ScrapeIt has no console and no endpoint you send URLs to, because every scraper is built to a brief. The finished data can arrive through our API or a JSON feed, as CSV, JSON or XLSX files, by FTP or S3, or as a load into your database, and an MCP server is available on request. If you want an endpoint to call from your own code today, ScraperAPI is the right product.
Which is cheaper, ScraperAPI or ScrapeIt?
For a team with developers ScraperAPI usually is: its published plans start at 49 US dollars a month for 100,000 API credits, and there is a free plan. That price buys API credits, and outside the structured endpoints your team writes the parser or generates one with the AI Parser, and runs the pipeline. ScrapeIt charges EUR 199 for a one-time extract of up to 100,000 rows, or EUR 169 to EUR 549 per month for a service where it builds, runs and repairs the scraper.
When is ScraperAPI the better choice?
When you have developers who want to keep the scraping logic in their own code, or when your targets are covered by its structured endpoints for domains such as Amazon, Google, Walmart, eBay and Redfin. It is also the faster start: sign-up is self-serve and the 7-day trial includes 5,000 API credits. ScrapeIt builds every scraper to order, so a first delivery typically takes one to ten days.
