Scrapingdog

Scrapingdog is an established web scraping API founded in 2021 that has grown to $2 million in annual revenue, according to the company's own disclosure. The founders, Manthan Koolwal and Darshan Khandelwal, previously built hotel and flight price scraping APIs before launching Scrapingdog to serve as a general-purpose tool for extracting data from any website. The service maintains a pool of 40 million rotating proxies, handles headless Chrome rendering for JavaScript-dependent sites, automatically solves CAPTCHAs, and geotargets requests to specific countries. The credit-based pricing model means users only pay for successful requests, so a CAPTCHA that the service cannot solve or a block that causes a timeout incurs no charge. The platform has achieved a 4.8 TrustScore on Trustpilot and reports that over 1,000 developers use the service.

The pricing structure is straightforward and transparent. Scrapingdog offers a free plan with 200 credits and a single concurrent request. The Lite tier begins at $40 per month for 200,000 credits and permits 5 concurrent requests. The Standard plan is $90 monthly for 1 million credits and 20 concurrent connections. The Pro tier, marked as the popular choice, costs $200 per month and includes 3 million credits with 50 concurrent requests. The Premium plan is $350 monthly for 6 million credits and 100 concurrent connections. Higher tiers exist for teams with larger volumes, scaling up through Business, Corporate, and Enterprise offerings at $500 to $3,000 per month and beyond. All paid plans include geotargeting at no additional cost. Importantly, customers can add one-time credits mid-cycle if they exhaust their monthly allocation, avoiding the friction of downtime until the next billing period. Annual billing offers a discount of two months' worth of credits when paid upfront, which aligns with standard SaaS practices.

Scrapingdog's core capabilities reflect the full modern scraping stack. The 40 million rotating proxies automatically cycle IP addresses to avoid detection by sites that block repeated requests from the same IP. Headless Chrome rendering means pages built with React, Vue, or other client-side frameworks that fetch data on load are fully rendered, not returned as blank HTML skeletons. The CAPTCHA solver handles reCAPTCHA, hCaptcha, and other challenge types without manual intervention. Geotargeting lets developers request content as though originating from Germany, Japan, or any country in the proxy network, essential for testing geo-restricted content or country-specific pricing. Concurrency limits vary by plan, so the free tier's single concurrent request suits small experiments and the free tier, while the Pro plan allows 50 parallel requests suitable for medium-scale production scraping. The service returns both raw HTML and pre-parsed JSON output depending on the request, reducing the burden of writing CSS selectors for common extraction patterns.

The platform offers dedicated APIs for specific targets as a secondary feature. The Google SERP API returns Google search results as structured JSON. The Google News API extracts articles from Google News with timestamps and summaries. The Google Maps Search API pulls business listings from Google Maps. The Amazon Scraping API extracts product data, reviews, and pricing without requiring Amazon account integration. The Walmart API and LinkedIn Profile Scraper are also available. These specialized endpoints are available within the same account as the general-purpose API, requiring no separate subscriptions, and they accept the same credit system. The primary focus remains the general web scraping API, but the dedicated scrapers provide shorthand for common use cases without custom selector engineering.

Scrapingdog earns a B grade because it is a stable, feature-complete web scraping API with transparent pricing, real scale, and a track record backing its claims. The 4.8 TrustScore on Trustpilot is a third-party endorsement that the service delivers on its promises, and the founding in 2021 with reported $2 million ARR provides confidence in stability and longevity. The pay-per-success model and explicit concurrent request limits per tier make cost estimation predictable for different scraping volumes. The major limitation is that the service is a traditional horizontal web scraper rather than a specialized vertical like some competitors. If you need to extract product data from Amazon or search results from Google, Scrapingdog's dedicated APIs are competitive, but the service does not offer managed data scraping where the company's team runs your custom scraper code in their infrastructure. The geotargeting capability is solid, but the patent and feature set are standard across the category. The support model includes community support on the free tier and email support on paid plans, with no guarantee of response time or direct engineer access as some competitors offer. The concurrency limits are reasonable for the price but may constrain very high-volume operations. The lack of annual discount prominence and the absence of published documentation about specific failure modes or timeout behavior are minor drawbacks.

The credit-per-request cost varies by API type and complexity. A simple HTTP fetch might consume 1 to 5 credits depending on whether rendering and CAPTCHA solving are needed. A Google SERP request costs 5 credits per query. An Amazon product extraction costs more, reflecting the added complexity of accessing the site's structure. The pricing tiers are designed so a team can start at Lite for $40 per month, complete a hundred requests at roughly 1,000 credits, and grow into Standard ($90) for 10,000 requests or Pro ($200) for 30,000 requests. Teams that process millions of requests monthly will find the Corporate tiers more economical on a per-request basis. Annual billing offers a welcome discount and is a sensible choice for committed teams.

Scrapingdog is the right choice for teams that need a reliable, feature-rich web scraping API without the complexity of managing infrastructure, want transparent pricing with clear tiers, and can tolerate email support response times rather than requiring instant engineer access. The service is particularly strong if your scraping targets include Google, Amazon, or other sites where Scrapingdog's dedicated APIs provide pre-built extraction patterns. The 4.8 TrustScore reflects real customer satisfaction, and the processing of millions of monthly requests demonstrates the platform's ability to handle production volumes. The B grade reflects a solid, established service with strong fundamentals, transparent pricing, and real third-party validation, positioned as the middle ground between smaller, newer competitors and the most premium, white-glove platforms that offer managed scraping or specialized verticals.