Scrapingdog Pricing: Cost per 1,000 Pages

Scrapingdog advertises a price per request that looks tiny, and for plain HTML it is. The number that decides a real bill is how many credits your pages cost, because the same $90 plan buys a million plain pages, two hundred thousand rendered ones or forty thousand protected ones. The pricing page publishes all of that, spread across a table with one column for every plan. This post does the reading for you.

Every figure below was read from scrapingdog.com/pricing on 27 September 2026, and the per-1,000 rates were checked by dividing each plan price by its credits. They close exactly. Review sites still quote older numbers, including a larger free allowance than Scrapingdog now gives, so treat aggregator figures with care.

Scrapingdog pricing plans

There are 27 paid plans plus a free tier. Every plan unlocks every API, so the only things that change as you climb are the monthly credits and the concurrency limit. The first six paid plans cover almost every team that is not buying at enterprise scale.

Between Business Plus and Nova Pro sit twenty more plans, named Business Pro, Corporate, Enterprise, Global, Ultra, Titan and Nova, from $1,500 to $28,000 a month. They follow the same pattern: more credits, more concurrency and a slowly falling rate. From Enterprise Plus upward they add dedicated support, and from Ultra Starter a named account manager.

How many credits does a Scrapingdog request cost?

A plain request through the rotating proxy costs 1 credit. JavaScript rendering costs 5, premium residential proxies cost 10, a request with a country set costs 10, and JavaScript with premium proxies costs 25. The multiplier, not the plan price, is what sets your cost per page, so measure it on your own targets first.

The dedicated APIs carry their own fixed prices. Most Google endpoints, Google Maps, the Amazon Bestsellers, Walmart and eBay scrapers, the Twitter, TikTok and YouTube scrapers and the Screenshot API cost 5 credits a call. Google SERP Advance, Google Shopping, Google Images and Google AI Mode cost 10. Amazon Search, Amazon Product, Yelp, Indeed and YouTube Transcript cost 1. LinkedIn posts cost 25, the Universal Search API 20 and the profile scraper 50, the most expensive call on the card.

Scrapingdog also sells an AI Parser at 10 credits a request, which is the line to watch if you want model-ready output rather than raw HTML. On Standard that is $0.90 per 1,000 parsed pages, twice the price of a rendered page.

What happens when you run out of Scrapingdog credits?

Requests stop. Scrapingdog has no overage billing: once the monthly credits are gone, the API returns an over-limit response until the credits reset on your next billing date. You can upgrade from the dashboard and the new credits apply immediately, prorated for the rest of the month. Downgrades take effect from the next cycle.

That is a clean rule for budgeting, since the invoice can never exceed the plan price. It is a poor rule for a scheduled job. A nightly price check that runs out of credits on the 24th simply returns errors for a week unless something is watching. Put an alert on the remaining balance, not on the job exit code.

Do unused Scrapingdog credits roll over?

The pricing page says both yes and no. One section says that from the Standard plan upward, credits you do not use carry over to the next billing cycle. The FAQ on the same page says monthly credits reset on your billing date. We could not reconcile the two from anything Scrapingdog publishes.

If your volume swings month to month, rollover is worth real money, so get the answer in writing before you size a plan around it. Budget as if credits reset, and treat any rollover as a bonus.

Does Scrapingdog charge for failed requests?

No. Failed, blocked and timed-out requests are credited back to your balance automatically, so you pay only for responses you receive. That is the same rule most of the category follows now, and it matters most on the 25-credit protected requests, where a retry loop against a hard target would otherwise drain a Lite plan in a day.

Is Scrapingdog annual billing worth it?

Annual billing is priced at ten months for twelve, the equivalent of two months free, or about 17% off. Standard becomes $900 a year instead of $1,080. It pays when your volume is steady and you are confident about the plan size, because the real risk on this pricing model is outgrowing a plan mid-month rather than overpaying for one.

Which Scrapingdog plan is the best value?

Standard, for most teams, and not only on rate. For $50 more than Lite it gives five times the credits, a 55% lower price per credit, and ten times the concurrency: 50 parallel requests against 5. Lite covers 40,000 rendered pages a month at 5 concurrent requests, which is a prototyping budget. If your jobs render JavaScript or run on a schedule, start at Standard and move to Pro once you regularly pass 200,000 rendered pages, which is where Standard runs out.

A lot of Scrapingdog accounts are really lead-generation accounts: the Google Maps API at 5 credits a call to list local businesses, then an enrichment step on top. If the step you actually need is a checked contact address for each business, an email finder with verification built in is easier to budget, because you pay for addresses found rather than for pages that never had one on them.

Scrapingdog vs ClawEngine on price

On plain HTML, Scrapingdog is cheaper than we are by a wide margin and we will not pretend otherwise: $0.09 per 1,000 pages on Standard against $0.40 on our Startup plan. On rendered pages the gap closes, because our page price includes rendering and returns clean markdown or typed JSON rather than raw HTML.

Two rows decide it for many buyers, and neither is in that table. Scrapingdog runs premium proxies, geotargeting and dedicated scrapers for Google, Amazon and LinkedIn, and we do none of that: we read public and permitted pages only and defeat no anti-bot system. If your targets fight back or you need a SERP, Scrapingdog is the relevant purchase. There is also no free plan here, while Scrapingdog gives 100 credits to test with.

Where we win is the work after the fetch. A crawl here follows links from a seed URL inside one request, and each page comes back as markdown or as fields matching a schema you send, which is what an agent or a retrieval index actually consumes. The JavaScript rendering API page shows what that single call returns.

If you are comparing credit-based vendors, Crawlbase pricing per 1,000 pages works through a graduated ladder with site difficulty multipliers, and ScrapingBee pricing and ZenRows pricing use the same 1, 5, 10 and 25 credit pattern Scrapingdog does. The cheapest web scraping API table ranks the whole field by monthly budget.