Best Scrapers · Updated 2026-07-28
Managed unlocker APIs ranked on block resistance, JS rendering quality and cost per 1,000 successful pages.
A scraping API hands off proxy rotation, headless rendering and anti-bot solving to a vendor. You pay a premium per page and buy back weeks of engineering.
We benchmarked each API against protected pages behind Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX and Akamai, then computed the true cost per successful page including retries.
A single proxy endpoint that solves challenges, rotates fingerprints and retries until it returns clean HTML — billed per successful request.
Why it ranks here: Highest pass rate against the hardest anti-bot stacks we tested.
Rendering, ban handling and automatic extraction as one API from the team that maintains Scrapy.
Why it ranks here: Smartest automatic ban handling and the best cost control on mixed workloads.
Enterprise scraper APIs with AI parsing over a 175M+ IP pool, returning structured JSON for SERP, e-commerce and real estate.
Why it ranks here: Strong structured parsers for search and retail targets.
Simple per-credit scraping API with proxy rotation, rendering and structured endpoints for Amazon, Google and Walmart.
Why it ranks here: Easiest drop-in migration with predictable credit pricing.
Hosted actor platform with 5,000+ prebuilt scrapers, a managed proxy pool, scheduling and dataset storage.
Why it ranks here: Best when you want an actor marketplace and scheduling instead of raw requests.
Pass rate against Cloudflare, DataDome, PerimeterX and Akamai-protected pages.
Pages per minute at a fixed concurrency on identical hardware.
Docs quality, typed SDKs, retries, observability and local debugging.
How cleanly the tool accepts rotating residential or SOCKS5 upstreams.
Cost per 1,000 successful pages including retries and JS rendering.
Scores are recomputed whenever a vendor changes pricing, sourcing or infrastructure. This list was last verified on 2026-07-28. We earn commission from some links on this page; placement is decided from test data before any commercial terms are discussed.
Below ~1M pages a month, an API is usually cheaper once you price engineering time. Above that, self-hosting on raw proxies wins on unit cost.
All five do, at a higher per-request price. Only enable rendering for targets that genuinely need it — it typically costs 3–10x a plain fetch.
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