Scrapingant Overview

2024-06-05

In Scrapeway's latest benchmark (May 2026), Scrapingant achieved a 36% overall success rate across 12 target websites, ranking #8 out of 8 tested APIs, with an average response time of 16.3s and a cost of $1.11 per 1,000 requests.

Scrapingant has been founded in 2020 with goal of revolutionizing the world of web data extraction, making it blockage-free and hassle-free.

Overall ScrapingAnt performs relatively well on Scrapeway's benchmarks supporting most web scraping targets and bypassing most anti-bot measures.

ScrapingAnt offers feature set on par with the industry average with features like headless browser scraping, anti-bot bypass and residential proxy support. Uniquely it provides special APIs for specific web scraping targets.

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Pros & Cons
Pros
  • Unlimited concurrency.
  • Low entry point of 19$.
  • Integrations for Python and Javascript
  • Optional Javascript rendering for scraping dynamic pages.
  • Optional AI-powered structured data parser.
  • Web UI player for testing and experimenting.
Cons
  • Poor scraper blocking bypass.
  • Often charges for blocked requests.
  • Basic web UI.
  • Credits do not carry over month-to-month.

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Scrapingant vs Other Services

How Scrapingant compares against other web scraping APIs in success rate, speed and cost.

# Service Success Speed Cost/1k Capterra rating
1 Scrapfly 99% 8.3s $3.37
4.9
(237)
compare
2 WebScrapingAPI 90% 22.4s $2.71 compare
3 Zenrows 66% 11.7s $5.22
4.8
(103)
compare
4 Firecrawl 61% 6.2s $6.65 compare
5 Scraperapi 61% 5.4s $3.24
4.6
(62)
compare
6 Scrapingdog 44% 4.2s $2.7 compare
7 Scrapingbee 43% 2.8s $1.46
4.9
(137)
compare
8 Scrapingant 36% 16.3s $1.11
Data range May 16 - May 22
  • Scrapingant has a below-average success rate of 35.8% vs industry average 62.4%
  • Scrapingant has a below-average speed of 16.3s vs industry average 9.7s
  • Scrapingant has a below-average price of $1.1/1000 vs industry average $3.3
Scrapingant Benchmarks

Per-target benchmark results from our latest report.

Target Success Speed Cost/1k
instagram.com 94% 10.8s $1.9
walmart.com 91% 45.8s $1.9
twitter.com 59% 13.5s $1.9
etsy.com 43% 51.7s $1.9
amazon.com 38% 23.3s $1.9
indeed.com 30% 18.5s $1.9
zillow.com 0% - -
stockx.com 0% - -
linkedin.com 0% - -
realtor.com 0% - -
booking.com 0% - -
Data range May 16 - May 22
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Scrapingant Pricing

ScrapingAnt is a credit-based service where each scrape request can cost 1-25 credits depending on the used features and required anti-bot bypass.

Plan Price Credits Concurrency
Enthusiast 19 100,000 unlimited
Startup 49 500,000 unlimited
Pro 249 3,000,000 unlimited
Custom

ScrapingAnt's entry tier is well above the industry average offering a great option for small projects. Though it averages out on the higher end for larger projects.

Scrapingant Features

Overall, ScrapingAnt focuses on core features aligned with the industry average. It offers the standard feature set for all plans:

Feature Availability
Integrations Python, Javascript
Proxy support Datacenter default, Residential optional
Geolocation 15 countries
Webhook support Yes
Javascreipt rendering Yes, at extra cost
Custom JS evaluation Yes, up to 60s
Browser control No
Screenshots Yes, full or visible page only
Sessions Yes, persistent IP

To add, ScrapingAnt offers some unique features at no extra cost included with every plan:

  • Autoparse for select targets that outputs structured JSON.
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