ScrapingBee Alternative: ProxyField Proxies
ProxyField is the ScrapingBee alternative with no monthly plan: run your own scraper on residential proxies from $1.95/GB, about $0.39 to $0.59 of traffic per 1,000 pages of 200 KB, or send URLs to per-result scraper APIs; start with the Easy Trial, 1 GB for $2.95. Is ScrapingBee worth its price at a few hundred thousand pages a month? Yes for plain and JS pages if you do not want to run browsers: 300,000 JS-rendered pages use 1.5M credits, its $249 Business plan, or $0.83 per 1,000. Not when your targets need premium proxies (25 credits a page: the $599 plan) or stealth proxies (75 credits: the $1,599 plan); there ProxyField's proxy route costs about $159 to $374 in traffic for the same 300,000 pages, at 200 to 500 KB a page, with your own browser, retries and parsing on top.
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Is ScrapingBee worth the price for a few hundred thousand pages a month?
Yes, if you do not want to run browsers and most pages are plain or JS-rendered: at 300,000 pages a month ScrapingBee costs $0.33 to $0.83 per 1,000 pages. No, if your targets need premium or stealth proxies (25 or 75 credits a page): the same 300,000 pages then need its $599 or $1,599 plan, and ProxyField's proxy route costs less in traffic, with the browser on your side.
| 300,000 pages a month | ScrapingBee credits each | Credits needed | Smallest ScrapingBee plan | Per 1,000 pages | ProxyField alternative |
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| Plain HTML, render_js=false | 1 | 300,000 | Startup, $99 (1M credits) | $0.33 | proxies at 50 KB a page: 15 GB, $41.85 at $2.79/GB |
| JS rendering (the default) | 5 | 1.5M | Business, $249 (3M) | $0.83 | proxies at 200 KB: 60 GB, $159.00 at $2.65/GB, plus your browsers |
| Premium proxy + JS | 25 | 7.5M | Business +, $599 (8M) | $2.00 | proxies at 500 KB: 150 GB, $373.50 at $2.49/GB, plus your browsers |
| Stealth proxy (JS only) | 75 | 22.5M | Enterprise 24, $1,599 (24M) | $5.33 | the same proxy route; test your targets first |
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The biggest cost lever: ScrapingBee renders JavaScript by default, at 5 credits a request; render_js=false makes a plain page 1 credit. 300,000 plain pages then need 300,000 credits, the $99 Startup plan instead of the $249 Business plan.
Before you pay either side: run your real targets on the 1,000 API credits ScrapingBee gives at sign-up (no card) and count the credits one real page uses; in Auto-Mode the Spb-auto-cost response header shows what each request cost. Run the same targets through ProxyField with the Easy Trial, 1 GB for $2.95, and compare the cost per 1,000 successful pages.
ScrapingBee plans and credits as seen on scrapingbee.com/pricing and in its documentation on 2026-10-25; prices exclude VAT. The ProxyField column is traffic only: on the proxy route you run the headless browser, the retries and the parsing, and blocked requests use traffic too. Hobby ($19, 75,000 credits) covers 15,000 JS-rendered pages a month.
ScrapingBee alternatives with a lower cost per successful request
The short answer: ProxyField's proxy route costs less than ScrapingBee wherever ScrapingBee needs premium or stealth credits: about $0.98 to $1.48 of residential traffic per 1,000 pages of 500 KB, against $2.08 (premium + JS) and $6.23 (stealth) per 1,000 on ScrapingBee's $249 Business plan, plus your own browser. For plain and JS pages at full plan use, ScrapingBee ($0.08 and $0.42 per 1,000 on Business) is below ProxyField's Web Scraping API ($0.50 and $2.00 at entry, $0.20 and $1.00 at volume). The other per-request APIs people compare are in the second table below.
| Per 1,000 requests, seen 2026-10-25 | ProxyField proxies (your scraper) | ProxyField Web Scraping API, entry → volume | ScrapingBee Hobby ($19 / 75,000) | ScrapingBee Business ($249 / 3M) | ScrapingBee Enterprise 120 ($5,799 / 120M) |
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| Plain HTML | about $0.10 to $0.15 at 50 KB | $0.50 → $0.20 | $0.25 | $0.08 | $0.05 |
| JS rendering | about $0.39 to $0.59 at 200 KB, your browser | $2.00 → $1.00 | $1.27 | $0.42 | $0.24 |
| Premium proxy + JS | about $0.98 to $1.48 at 500 KB, your browser | – | $6.33 | $2.08 | $1.21 |
| Stealth proxy | the same proxy route | – | $19.00 | $6.23 | $3.62 |
| Failed requests | use traffic: blocked and retried requests count | not billed: successful results only | 400, 401, 403, 429 and 500 not billed; 404 and 410 billed | ||
| Monthly plan | none; traffic never expires | none | yes; whether unused credits carry over is not stated |
ScrapingBee figures: plan price ÷ credits × credits per request, at full plan use, from its pricing and its documentation (credits per request and billing by status code). The API's volume price starts at 10,000 successful results in one purchase;
Other per-request scraper APIs, per 1,000 successful requests
| Seen 2026-10-25 | Plain HTML | JS rendering | Failed requests | Plan |
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| ProxyField Web Scraping API | $0.50 → $0.20 | $2.00 → $1.00 | not billed | none; per 1,000 successful results |
| ZenRows Build ($19 / 45,000 credits) | $0.42 | $2.11 | not charged; 404 and 410 count as successful | monthly |
| ZenRows Growth ($199 / 1.2M credits) | $0.17 | $0.83 | as above | monthly |
| ScrapingAnt Enthusiast ($19 / 100,000 credits) | not stated on its pricing page | $1.90 (the default request, 10 credits) | "failed requests cost 0" | monthly |
| ScrapingAnt Business ($249 / 3M credits) | not stated on its pricing page | $0.83 | as above | monthly |
| Zyte API, pay as you go | $0.13 to $1.27, by site difficulty | $1.01 to $16.08, by site difficulty | priced per successful response | none; monthly commitments from $100 lower the rate |
| ScraperAPI Hobby ($49 / 100,000 credits) | $0.49 | not stated on its pricing page | not stated on its pricing page | monthly |
| ScraperAPI Business ($299 / 3M credits) | $0.10 | not stated on its pricing page | as above | monthly |
How to read it: the plan prices assume you use every credit each month, and a site the provider rates as harder costs more credits per request (ScraperAPI lists 25 credits for Google). For Google results, ProxyField's Google SERP API costs $1.20 per 1,000 successful results, from $0.80, with no plan.
ZenRows vs ScrapingBee for Cloudflare-protected sites
The short answer: ZenRows if you want one protection setting; ScrapingBee if you want the lower price per hard request and more parallel requests per dollar; neither pricing page names Cloudflare (both seen 2026-10-25), so test your own target. At equal credits, a JS + premium-proxy request costs about $4.90 per 1,000 on ScrapingBee Freelance ($49, 250,000 credits) and $6.90 on ZenRows Launch ($69, 250,000 credits). The third option is ProxyField: your own browser on residential or mobile IPs, from $2.95/GB for 1 GB down to $1.95/GB, where ZenRows' residential bandwidth works out at $4.15/GB on its $199 Growth plan (25,000 credits per GB).
| Seen 2026-10-25 | ZenRows (pricing) | ScrapingBee (pricing, documentation) |
|---|---|---|
| How protection is chosen | "Set the protection level"; it routes through its residential network, fingerprinting and retries | you add premium_proxy or stealth_proxy, or Auto-Mode picks the configuration that works |
| Credits per request | 1 standard, 5 JS, 10 premium proxy, 25 JS + premium proxy; residential bandwidth 25,000 credits per GB | 1 without JS, 5 JS, 10 or 25 premium proxy, 75 stealth (JS only) |
| JS + premium proxy, per 1,000 at full use | $10.56 (Build $19), $6.90 (Launch $69), $4.15 (Growth $199) | $6.33 (Hobby $19), $4.90 (Freelance $49), $2.08 (Business $249) |
| Concurrent requests | 5 (Free), 20 (Build), 50 (Launch), 100 (Growth), 200 to 400 (Scale) | 25 (Hobby), 50 (Freelance), 100 (Startup), 200 (Business), up to 900 (Enterprise 120) |
| Failed requests | not charged; 404 and 410 count as successful | 400, 401, 403, 429 and 500 not billed, 404 and 410 billed; Auto-Mode: 0 credits if every configuration fails |
| Entry | Free: 5,000 credits a month, no card; paid from $19 (Build, 45,000 credits) | 1,000 credits at sign-up, no card; paid from $19 (Hobby, 75,000 credits) |
| About $200–250 a month | Growth $199: 1.2M credits = 48,000 JS + premium requests | Business $249: 3M credits = 120,000 premium + JS or 40,000 stealth requests |
The ProxyField route for the same sites:
- Sites that flag datacenter traffic: your own browser on ProxyField residential or mobile proxies, with sticky sessions up to 36 h that keep one IP through a whole visit, city targeting that matches the location the site expects, and unlimited concurrent threads.
- What it costs: 50 GB of residential traffic is $132.50 ($2.65/GB), about 100,000 pages of 500 KB, with no plan and no expiry. All traffic counts, including blocked and retried requests.
- Test before you choose: run your real target on the Easy Trial, 1 GB for $2.95. No proxy or API gets through every site.
Why sites flag a scraper: How to Unblock Cloudflare and Cloudflare 403 Forbidden.
Two ways to replace ScrapingBee with ProxyField
Run your own scraper through ProxyField's residential proxies and pay per GB, or send URLs to ProxyField's Web Scraping API and pay per 1,000 successful results. Neither has a monthly plan.
| Item | Your scraper + ProxyField proxies | ProxyField Web Scraping API |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | Your code (Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, Python requests) sends requests through gate.proxyfield.io:7000 | Fetches any URL, as plain HTTP or with JS rendering |
| You pay | Per GB: residential $2.95/GB (1–9 GB), $2.79 (10–49 GB), $2.65 (50–99 GB), $2.49 (100–249 GB), $2.29 (250–499 GB), $2.09 (500–999 GB), $1.95 (1,000+ GB); mobile $3.45 down to $2.45 | Per 1,000 successful results: HTTP $0.50 down to $0.20; JS rendering $2.00 down to $1.00 |
| Failed or blocked requests | Use traffic: per-GB billing counts all traffic | Billed on successful results only |
| You handle | JS rendering, retries and parsing | Sending the URL |
| How to start | Easy Trial: 1 GB for $2.95 | Contact sales |
API availability: through Contact sales.
Setup guides for the proxy route: Playwright proxy setup and Puppeteer proxy setup.
ProxyField vs ScrapingBee: what you get
ProxyField sells proxies per GB and APIs per successful result, with nothing to use up each month. ScrapingBee figures were seen on scrapingbee.com on 2026-10-25; follow the links to check them.
| Item | ProxyField | ScrapingBee |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | proxies per GB, one-off; APIs per 1,000 successful results; no plan | API credits on a monthly plan: Hobby $19 (75,000 credits) to Enterprise 120 $5,799 (120,000,000) a month; "All prices are exclusive of VAT." (pricing) |
| Smallest purchase | Easy Trial: 1 GB for $2.95, once, no minimum purchase | Hobby plan, $19 a month; 1,000 API credits at sign-up with no credit card (same page) |
| Unused allowance | proxy traffic never expires | whether unused credits carry over: not stated on its pricing page |
| Concurrency | unlimited concurrent threads on the proxies | 25 concurrent requests (Hobby) to 900 (Enterprise 120) (same page) |
| Cost per request | no credits: per GB on the proxies, one price per successful result for each kind of API target | 1 credit without JS, 5 with JS rendering (the default), 10 or 25 with premium proxies, 75 with stealth proxies (documentation) |
| Hardest sites | your own browser on residential or mobile IPs, sticky sessions up to 36 h; all traffic is billed, including retries | stealth proxies at 75 credits per successful request |
| IP types | residential and mobile (5G, 4G, LTE), targeting by country, region (state) and city | classic, premium and stealth proxy pools (same documentation) |
| Perplexity answers | a dedicated Perplexity scraper API | no dedicated Perplexity API; its general HTML API on a Perplexity URL (Perplexity page) |
What 1,000 pages cost on ProxyField proxies
Cost per 1,000 pages = the data transferred per page × 1,000 × the price per GB, plus the traffic of failed and retried requests. Estimates use 1 GB = 1,000,000 KB.
| Transferred per page | GB per 1,000 pages | At $2.95/GB (1–9 GB) | At $2.65/GB (50–99 GB) | At $1.95/GB (1,000+ GB) |
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| 50 KB (HTML or JSON only) | 0.05 | about $0.15 | about $0.13 | about $0.10 |
| 200 KB | 0.2 | about $0.59 | about $0.53 | about $0.39 |
| 500 KB | 0.5 | about $1.48 | about $1.33 | about $0.98 |
| 1 MB (a headless browser loading assets) | 1 | $2.95 | $2.65 | $1.95 |
The other four tiers ($2.79, $2.49, $2.29, $2.09) fall between these columns. Block images, fonts and media in your headless browser to cut the GB per page. For HTML-only targets that do not need residential IPs, datacenter proxies cost $0.29/GB down to $0.22/GB, and that traffic never expires too.
Scraper APIs priced per successful result
ProxyField's Google SERP API returns the Google results page as JSON, with the AI Overview, the People Also Ask block and the local pack parsed, for $1.20 per 1,000 successful results, from $0.80 at volume. The pool is clean for Google, checked and segmented.
The Google AI Mode API, ChatGPT scraper API, Perplexity scraper API and Google Maps scraper API cost $1.50 per 1,000 successful results, from $1.00; the Amazon scraper API costs $0.60, from $0.30. Every API is billed on successful results only, with no credits and no plan.
What the proxies give your scraper
HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; a new IP on every request or sticky sessions from 30 s to 36 h; targeting by country, region (state) and city; unlimited concurrent threads; username and password or an IP whitelist; real-time usage stats; and 24/7 live chat, including help with setup and integration. They work with Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Beautiful Soup, Python requests, Node.js and cURL.
curl -x gate.proxyfield.io:7000 -U "<login>-country-us-city-new_york:<password>" https://api.ipify.orgThe username above targets New York in the United States. Region, session ID and session time in the username: -region-<region>, -session-<id> and -ttl-<seconds> (30 to 129,600 seconds, 20 minutes by default) after the location, as in <login>-country-us-region-new_york-city-new_york-session-he9f2qga-ttl-600. See Python proxy setup and Proxies for web scraping.
All purchases are final. In return, your traffic never expires: what you buy stays on your balance until you use it. Pay in USDT, BTC, ETH or 10 other coins: Buy with crypto.
Switch from ScrapingBee in 3 steps
List what you use, pick a route and test it on your own targets, then move the jobs.
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List the ScrapingBee features you use
JS rendering, premium proxies, screenshots, extraction rules, dedicated APIs.
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Pick a route and test it
If you only need the page, over HTTP or with JS rendering, contact sales about the Web Scraping API. If you need control, point your own client at
gate.proxyfield.io:7000, buy the Easy Trial (1 GB for $2.95) and run your real targets for a day. -
Compare and move
Compare the cost per 1,000 successful pages with your ScrapingBee plan, then move the jobs.
ScrapingBee and ZenRows are trademarks of their owners. Prices change: the ScrapingBee and ZenRows figures on this page were seen on 2026-10-25 and are re-checked every 90 days. More comparisons: All alternatives pages. Prices per GB: Pricing per GB.
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What are the best ScrapingBee alternatives with a lower cost per successful request?
ProxyField costs less per request where ScrapingBee needs premium or stealth credits: your own scraper on residential proxies uses about $0.98 to $1.48 of traffic per 1,000 pages of 500 KB, against $2.08 per 1,000 premium + JS requests and $6.23 per 1,000 stealth requests on ScrapingBee's $249 Business plan at full use. For plain and JS pages, the per-request APIs compare like this per 1,000 (seen 2026-10-25): ScrapingBee Business $0.08 and $0.42, ZenRows Growth ($199) $0.17 and $0.83, ScrapingAnt Business ($249) $0.83 for its default JS request, Zyte API pay as you go from $0.13 (HTTP) and $1.01 (browser) on its simplest sites, and ProxyField's Web Scraping API $0.50 and $2.00, down to $0.20 and $1.00 at volume, with no plan. Test the proxy route on your real targets with the Easy Trial, 1 GB for $2.95.
Is ScrapingBee worth the price for scraping a few hundred thousand pages a month?
Yes for plain and JS pages if you do not want to run browsers: 300,000 JS-rendered pages use 1.5M credits, its $249 Business plan, or $0.83 per 1,000 pages, and with render_js=false 300,000 plain pages fit the $99 plan. No for premium proxies (25 credits: the $599 plan) or stealth (75: the $1,599 plan), where ProxyField's proxy route at 200 to 500 KB a page is about $159 to $374 of traffic, plus your own browsers (pricing, seen 2026-10-25). Test first on ScrapingBee's 1,000 sign-up credits and on ProxyField's Easy Trial, 1 GB for $2.95.
ZenRows vs ScrapingBee: which is better for scraping Cloudflare-protected sites?
ZenRows if you want one protection setting, ScrapingBee if you want the lower price per hard request: at equal credits a JS + premium-proxy request costs about $4.90 per 1,000 on ScrapingBee Freelance ($49, 250,000 credits) and $6.90 on ZenRows Launch ($69, 250,000 credits), both with 50 concurrent requests. Neither pricing page names Cloudflare (seen 2026-10-25), so test both on your real target. Test ProxyField too: your own browser on residential or mobile IPs with sticky sessions up to 36 h, from $2.95/GB down to $1.95/GB, starting with the Easy Trial, 1 GB for $2.95.
What are good alternatives to ScrapingBee for scraping protected sites?
ProxyField residential and mobile proxies with your own browser: 412M+ residential and 10.2M+ mobile IPs, sticky sessions up to 36 h that keep one IP through a visit, and targeting by country, region (state) and city, for sites that turn away datacenter traffic. No proxy or API gets through every site, so test on your own targets with the Easy Trial (1 GB for $2.95); on the proxy route, blocked requests use traffic too.
Is there a ScrapingBee alternative without a monthly plan?
ProxyField has no monthly plan: residential proxies are sold per GB from 1 GB ($2.95), with no subscription and traffic that never expires, and its scraper APIs bill per 1,000 successful results. ScrapingBee's plans are monthly, from $19 to $5,799 a month (pricing, seen 2026-10-25).
What is ScrapingBee?
ProxyField sells proxies and per-result scraper APIs; ScrapingBee is a web scraping API: you send a URL and it returns the page, running headless browsers and rotating proxies for you. It is billed in API credits from a monthly plan, and it also sells dedicated APIs for Google, Amazon, ChatGPT and other sites (pricing, seen 2026-10-25).
What does ScrapingBee offer?
ProxyField offers proxies for your own scraper and per-result scraper APIs. ScrapingBee's pricing page listed, on 2026-10-25, an HTML API with JS rendering, screenshots, AI data extraction, Markdown output, JavaScript scenarios and CSS/XPath extraction, dedicated APIs for Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Amazon, Walmart and YouTube, and a CLI, an MCP server and integrations such as n8n and Make, all drawing on one monthly credit balance.
What is ScrapingBee best at?
ProxyField fits teams that already run Playwright, Puppeteer or Scrapy and want per-GB proxies with no plan. ScrapingBee is built for handing the whole fetch to one API: JS rendering, proxy rotation and retries in one call, plus extras such as screenshots and AI extraction.
Why consider alternatives to ScrapingBee?
ProxyField's case: no monthly plan, per-GB proxies whose traffic never expires, and unlimited concurrent threads for your own scraper. Look at alternatives if premium or stealth requests (25 or 75 credits each, per its documentation) spend your credits fast, if your plan's concurrency limit holds you back, or if you want to run your own scraper.
What makes ScrapingBee different from other scraper APIs?
ProxyField's APIs have one price per 1,000 successful results for each kind of target, such as $1.20 for Google results. ScrapingBee's pricing is a pool of monthly credits, and each request costs 1 to 75 credits depending on JS rendering and the proxy pool, so the cost per page depends on the options you use (documentation, seen 2026-10-25).
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How does ScrapingBee handle JavaScript-heavy websites compared to other web scrapers?
ProxyField's Web Scraping API also offers JS rendering, billed per 1,000 successful results, and on the proxy route you render pages yourself with Playwright or Puppeteer. ScrapingBee loads every page in a headless browser by default, at 5 credits a request; render_js=false skips the browser for 1 credit (ScrapingBee documentation, seen 2026-10-25).
Is ScrapingBee more cost-effective for large-scale scraping projects?
ProxyField's proxy route at scale costs the rate of your purchase, $1.95/GB from 1,000 GB, or about $0.39 per 1,000 pages of 200 KB before retries, with no plan to use up. ScrapingBee's cost per request falls as its monthly plans grow: a JS request costs $1.27 per 1,000 on Hobby and $0.24 on Enterprise 120 at full use (pricing, seen 2026-10-25), so compare at your own page size and the credits your requests use.
What is the difference between Puppeteer and ScrapingBee?
ProxyField lets you keep Puppeteer and route it through gate.proxyfield.io:7000: Puppeteer proxy setup. Puppeteer is a library: you run headless Chrome yourself and bring your own proxies. ScrapingBee is a hosted API that runs the browser and the proxies for you, billed per credit.
How do I switch from ScrapingBee to another web scraping provider?
ProxyField's switch takes three steps: list the ScrapingBee features you use, then pick a route: the Web Scraping API through Contact sales if you only need the page, or your own client on ProxyField proxies if you need control. Test the proxy route with the Easy Trial (1 GB for $2.95) on your real targets side by side, then move the jobs.
Why use ScrapingBee for price scraping?
ProxyField offers two routes for price monitoring: the Amazon scraper API, billed per 1,000 successful results through Contact sales, or your own scraper on residential proxies in the shoppers' country. ScrapingBee returns rendered pages and sells dedicated Amazon and Walmart APIs (pricing), so you do not run browsers yourself. See Price scraping.
How much does ScrapingBee cost?
ProxyField has no plan: residential proxies from 1 GB for $2.95 and APIs per 1,000 successful results. ScrapingBee's plans on 2026-10-25 were Hobby $19 a month (75,000 credits), Freelance $49 (250,000), Startup $99 (1M), Business $249 (3M), Business + $599 (8M) and Enterprise plans from $999 (14M) to $5,799 (120M), exclusive of VAT (ScrapingBee pricing). A JS-rendered request costs 5 credits, so Hobby covers 15,000 such pages a month.
How many credits does a ScrapingBee request use?
ProxyField's APIs use no credits: each kind of target has its own price per 1,000 successful results. A ScrapingBee request used 1 credit without JS, 5 with JS rendering (the default), 10 or 25 with premium proxies (without or with JS) and 75 with stealth proxies; Google search requests cost 10 (light, the default) or 15 (regular) and ChatGPT requests 15 (documentation, Google API docs, ChatGPT API docs, seen 2026-10-25).
Does ScrapingBee charge for failed requests?
ProxyField's APIs are billed on successful results only, while its proxies count all traffic, including blocked and retried requests. ScrapingBee's documentation bills by status code: 400, 401, 403, 429 and 500 responses are not billed, 404 and 410 are, and in Auto-Mode a request where every configuration fails costs 0 credits (documentation, seen 2026-10-25).
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