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[Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated August 26th, 2026 # Reviews of ScrapingBee Ease of use 4.9 Customer Service 4.9 ## Pros and Cons in Reviews AK Arvind K ProprietorFinancial Services, Self-employedUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “even with the lowest cost settings of render\_js = false and using US data centers, i am able to get all the extraction i need.“ December 8, 2025 NS Nick S ManagerComputer Software, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “Credits are consumed quickly when using JavaScript rendering or advanced features, making it harder to justify for smaller projects or teams with unpredictable scraping volumes.“ January 9, 2026 NF Nickolas F Associate ProfessorHigher Education, 501 - 1,000 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “You can build and test requests using the online request builders in your account, and the team is incredibly knowledgeable and responsive.“ July 15, 2025 Eshwaran V CTORetail, 2 - 10 employeesUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “Lack of more structured responses for SERP API, and instead returning only HTML which requires further parsing“ January 26, 2026 AK Arvind K ProprietorFinancial Services, Self-employedUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “i particularly like the extraction (css, xpath) feature, because with this extraction i dont have to do my own DOM.“ December 8, 2025 Mark M DeveloperComputer Software, Self-employedUsed the software for: Less than 6 months. “There was something I didnt quite get about the website and dashboard - not 100% sure what it is - but it could be a bit 'clearer / cleaner'. Once I worked it our“ January 9, 2026 TE Thomas E CTOComputer Software, Self-employedUsed the software for: 6-12 months. “ScrapingBee is a solid and efficient tool, well suited for developers who want reliable scraping without too much overhead.“ January 6, 2026 NS Nick S ManagerComputer Software, 201 - 500 employeesUsed the software for: 1-2 years. “The main downside is pricing, which can get expensive as usage scales.“ January 9, 2026 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-25 of 139 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use Shotaro Y. Front-End Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Effortless Web Scraping API: Handles JavaScript, Proxies, and CAPTCHAs with Ease" August 20, 2026 5.0 ScrapingBee is a reliable, time-saving tool for web developers, data engineers, and growth marketers needing data extraction at scale without the headache of building and maintaining infrastructure. By outsourcing proxy rotation, headless browser automation, and CAPTCHA handling, it allows teams to focus entirely on parsing data. Despite the credit system requiring careful management for high-volume JS rendering, the product delivers outstanding value and stability. Pros Hassle-free Proxy & CAPTCHA Management: Completely eliminates the need to manage residential IP pools or bypass anti-bot mechanisms like Cloudflare. Headless Browser & JS Rendering: Simple render\_js=true parameter allows seamless extraction of dynamic single-page applications (SPAs) like React or Vue. Great Documentation & Dev Experience: Clear API documentation paired with fast, responsive customer support when troubleshooting edge cases. Cons Credit Consumption on Heavy Requests: Advanced features (like JavaScript rendering, premium proxies, or screenshots) consume multiple API credits per request, which can burn through lower-tier plans quickly. Concurrency Limits on Entry Plans: Lower-tier plans have concurrency caps that may bottleneck large-scale parallel scraping jobs unless upgraded. Switched from [ScraperAPI](https://www.capterra.com/p/238595/Scraper-API/) I switched because the quality wasn't very good and errors during web scraping were becoming frequent. Review Source Tina J. CEO Translation and Localization Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "A reliable scraping backbone for multilingual market analysis" January 9, 2026 5.0 Our overall experience with ScrapingBee has been very positive. We use it as part of our outbound sales automation to scrape websites and extract practical signals like where traffic seems to come from and which languages a site is available in, and it has been consistently reliable. It removes a lot of the usual scraping headaches around proxies, blocks, and rendering, which means we can focus on using the data rather than fighting with the setup. It feels stable, well thought out, and easy to integrate, and it has scaled nicely as our usage has grown. It is not flashy, but it does exactly what it promises, which is honestly what you want from a scraping service. Pros It is easy to use and has the features we needed to build our tool. Best price on market. Very reliable and easy to integrate, it saves us time by handling blocks and rendering so we can focus on the data. Cons If I have to mention something it would be, that the documentation could be more detailed in some edge cases, and debugging failed requests sometimes requires a bit of trial and error. Alternatives considered [Similarweb](https://www.capterra.com/p/148472/SimilarWeb-Pro/) Reason for choosing ScrapingBee because of price and it gave us the same features. Review Source WF Washington F. CTO Computer Networking Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great Scraper with filtering features" January 23, 2024 5.0 Very good! Makes my life easier by scraping content on our projects. Pros It’s reliable and we have filters to do searches from elements inside a page scrap, this is the best feature so far. Their premium proxy is also very good and makes that all scrap don’t get caught by any captcha or something like. Cons Maybe if we have more plans options it would be great. Alternatives considered [ScrapingAnt](https://www.capterra.com/p/214735/ScrapingAnt/) Reason for choosing ScrapingBee Specially the filter that we can return the scraping as json from elements we want on page. Switched from [ScraperAPI](https://www.capterra.com/p/238595/Scraper-API/) Premium proxy and filter for elements on the page. Review Source EB Ernesto B. Owner Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Solved the part of web scraping I never wanted to maintain" August 19, 2026 5.0 Good. I am a one-person company and my rule is that a tool either removes work or it goes. This one removed a category of work I was never going to be good at — keeping proxies alive and browsers from breaking. It runs unattended and I have not had to think about it since I set it up, which is the highest compliment I can give a piece of infrastructure. I also had one question for their support team and got a working answer in about 20 minutes, which is not something I expected from an API product at this price. Pros I run a small ecommerce operation by myself, so anything I add has to work without me babysitting it. ScrapingBee replaced the whole proxy-rotation-and-headless-browser stack with a single API call. I send a URL, tell it whether I need JavaScript rendered, and I get clean HTML back. Setup took an afternoon. The documentation is straightforward and the credit system is transparent enough that I can estimate what a job will cost before I run it. For pulling public product specs and images to enrich my catalog, it has been reliable. Cons Honestly not much to complain about. The only thing I would tell someone evaluating it: this is an API, not a dashboard product. There is no built-in scheduler or UI for recurring jobs, so you plug it into whatever automation you already have. That was fine for me, but if you are looking for a no-code tool out of the box, adjust your expectations. Same with credits — JavaScript rendering uses more of them, which makes sense, you just want to be intentional about when you turn it on. Review Source AK Arvind K. Proprietor Financial Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "strongly recommend" December 8, 2025 5.0 excellent. happily recommend to anyone. support is the best. hardly any down time. very low error rates. even with the lowest cost settings of render\_js = false and using US data centers, i am able to get all the extraction i need. Pros good value. excellent support. i primarily use the scraping. i particularly like the extraction (css, xpath) feature, because with this extraction i dont have to do my own DOM. Cons there is a learning curve. and documentation is bulky takes a day to a week to read through. they should have provided an AI feature on documentation which could build query / fetch requests. also they do not provide examples in javascript, which is what i use. the examples are in python, cURL etc. Alternatives considered [ScrapingAnt](https://www.capterra.com/p/214735/ScrapingAnt/) Reason for choosing ScrapingBee i considered scrapingdog, but it is not on the list. scrapingbee looked ok. i did not have strong reasons then to choose, since i needed to migrate out and desperately needed a tool. Switched from [Web Scraping API](https://www.capterra.com/p/10002279/Web-Scraping-API/) problems with billing and support. in terms of billing they did not conform to the latest banking requirements in india. in terms of support they are very poor. Review Source Eshwaran V. CTO Retail Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Buzz into the web with ScrapingBee" January 26, 2026 5.0 ScrapingBee is a great proxy service to use at scale for companies looking to ingest tons of web data Pros Request times, ease of integration, cost effective, ScrapingBee's customer relationship management and documentation. Cons Lack of more structured responses for SERP API, and instead returning only HTML which requires further parsing Switched from [ScraperAPI](https://www.capterra.com/p/238595/Scraper-API/) ScraperAPI had unexpected cost hikes without intimiating users, making our ScraperAPI costs jump 10x overnight. ScrapingBee has a more uniform and predictable approach to pricing. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Rock-solid web scraping that powers our production AI app" January 9, 2026 5.0 Very positive. ScrapingBee has been stable, predictable, and easy to integrate into a production Bubble app. It’s a foundational part of our AI workflow, and their support team has been responsive and genuinely helpful whenever we’ve had questions. It’s rare to find a tool that works this well and has a team that stands behind it. Pros ScrapingBee has been extremely reliable in production and is a core piece of our Bubble app. It allows us to consistently scrape client websites, pass that data into our AI assistant, and generate highly customized outputs at scale. The API is straightforward, the results are clean, and it handles real-world sites far better than most alternatives we tested. On top of that, their support team is excellent—fast responses, clear explanations, and they went above and beyond to help us. Cons Honestly very little. Like any scraping solution, you still need to think through usage limits as you scale, but that’s expected. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great product" December 11, 2025 5.0 Pros Scrapingbee offers a lot of different scraping options that will help you with your scraping tasks. And if you cannot figure it out on your own, they have great support that will help you almost immediatly. Cons Sometimes some domains are difficult to scrape but usually Scrapingbee will find a solution for these difficult to scrape domains. Review Source Mark M. Developer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Scraping Bee really grew on us!" January 9, 2026 5.0 Very good so far, will continue using for a large project coming up as it just provides the consistency we need Pros It just worked and worked consistently. We tried many different services before this (mostly a bit cheaper), but there was always something not quite working from rate limits to availability or being blocked. ScrapingBee has been consistently good. It was also really good that the 1000 credits are available to properly test Cons There was something I didnt quite get about the website and dashboard - not 100% sure what it is - but it could be a bit 'clearer / cleaner'. Once I worked it our it is actually very good! Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Product Manager Venture Capital & Private Equity Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great service, highly recommend" January 9, 2026 5.0 Pros Very easy to use, reliable, fast and efficient! They reliably are not blocked, keep the IPs fresh and can handle very high volume. Cons Not many cons I can think of, sometimes I wish there was rollover credits for months that have lower use. Review Source NF Nickolas F. Associate Professor Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "ScrapingBee: Great Product with Knowledgeable Support Team" July 15, 2025 5.0 Pros I had several years of experience in web data collection and had worked on many challenging use cases before discovering ScrapingBee. When I finally encountered an application I couldn't figure out, I gave it a try—and I should have switched sooner. The product is phenomenal, easy to use, and customizable. You can build and test requests using the online request builders in your account, and the team is incredibly knowledgeable and responsive. They've helped me troubleshoot several complex cases since becoming a customer. Highly recommend! Cons Based on my experiences with the product and the support team, I have nothing negative to say about the product. Review Source IR Ivan R. CTO E-Learning Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Simple product with tons of features" July 22, 2025 5.0 Great team and product, reliable, and simple to implement. They are also pretty competitive with pricing. Pros It's super easy to implement and it just works out of the box. They also have a ton of features that will make your life a lot easier. Cons Honestly the credits system is a little bit hard to understand and there's no one concrete place (table) with all credits and/or calculations, I believe that would be very helpful to have. Review Source NR Nathan R. Founder Real Estate Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Great tool, even better support" October 24, 2024 5.0 Pros Great tool, incredible customer service. Their documentation seems great and their support staff is responsive, competent, and helpful. Cons Just wish there was a cheaper paid tier. Their documentation seems great and their support staff is responsive, competent, and helpful. Review Source CS Craig S. Founder Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "An effective, easy to use web scraping proxy service" February 21, 2022 5.0 I had a scraping project that used many of the features in ScrapingBee. I wanted to scrape about 600k .json documents from a public API. I also wanted screenshots of those pages, and to extract various data from the corresponding HTML pages. ScrapingBee offered good options for all the cases. Finally, I wanted to get the Instagram follower counts for about 200k Instagram accounts. Instagram is super aggressive about blocking, but by using premium proxies, and resetting the session on each call, I was successful here too. That site I was scraping does block you after several thousand pages from a single IP, so I needed to use a proxy service. I never got blocked once I was using Scraping bee. Pros It has a well-documented, fairly easy-to-use API that covers a whole range of scraping situations. (I talk more about that below). You can choose Javascript rendering or not, residential or data-center proxies, screenshots, etc. I was never blocked once during my scraping. They are a small, responsive startup. I did run into a reproducible bug with their data extraction API, but they clearly made it a priority and had a new release fixing the problem the very next day. (Since they're in France, time zones worked out well and that was really first thing the next morning for me.) Cons It would have been nice to be able to get a screenshot and the data on the page at the same time. At present, you can only get one or the other, so I had to run it twice. Reason for choosing ScrapingBee I also wanted to be able to do screen captures, which Webscraping.ai didn't seem to be able to do. Review Source HK Heiko K. CEO and CTO Human Resources Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great tool and great support" February 3, 2024 4.0 Pros Fast, good documentation and if a problem occures a great support at your fingertips Cons The PDF generation would have been a great helper if it was available Review Source SM Sarah M. CEO Retail Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "ScrapingBee is a game changer" January 23, 2024 5.0 excellent. Scrapingbee is reliable, easy to use, solid. Only pluses. Pros So easy to use. Can tackle any website's limitation or blocking. Dashboard is so user friendly. Cons The pricing is a little high, but for us only, since we are still a small startup. But I must recognize that the price/quality ratio is excellent. Review Source DL Daniel L. Lead dev Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Excellent service, glad we made the switch!" June 30, 2021 5.0 As professionals in the data acquisition / web scraping field, there's always the question of how do we retrieve specific data hidden behind bot protection or captcha. We could always dedicate resources and build our own systems for everything... or we could simply call the scrapingBee API and focus on the data. It's makes our work so much easier. Pros If I could give 6 stars for customer support, I would. \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] are always just minutes away, promptly resolving any questions or problems encountered. The API documentation is extensive and well-made, making deployment easy. Beautiful request success rate > 95%. Cons Can't think of anything. It could only be better if the service was completely free, haha! Reason for choosing ScrapingBee Service feel/personality and good price. No idea who is behind the other products. Here I got a chance to talk with the \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\]/devs the very next day after I found the service. Review Source MK Michael K. Founder Computer & Network Security Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Reliable API for scraping" January 25, 2024 5.0 Pros Unlike trying to manually scrape websites yourself, ScrapingBee already comes set up to handle all of the issues you're likely to encounter - robot detection etc. Their simple to use API make integrating really easy. Cons At this stage there's nothing I don't like about ScrapingBee. Review Source Xavi A. CEO Computer Games Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Great and reliable" October 21, 2022 5.0 Scrapingbee has filled the void and allowed me to use an API to scrape instead of learning other libraries. It has helped speed up our route towards complete competitive intelligence. Pros Scrapingbee has a lot of useful guides and documentation on how to use their software. It was easy for a developer like me to get started. Cons I just wish that there were extra credits in the trial without fully committing to a plan. Alternatives considered [ScraperAPI](https://www.capterra.com/p/238595/Scraper-API/) Reason for choosing ScrapingBee I like the \[SENSITIVE CONTENT\] Review Source Charles C. Chief Executive Officer Consumer Services Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Great Scraping Service" May 8, 2024 5.0 Pros It was extremely quick to get up and running. We launched our MVP with scraping bee in just 2 weeks Cons They had features that increased cost that we could not take advantage of Review Source Vlad R. Owner Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Amazing software, exceeded all my expectations" April 25, 2024 5.0 Pros \- easy to use - easy to implement - really good at bypassing captcha - has a ton of data extraction options - saved us a couple of weeks in development - at least Cons \- sometimes it fails to parse reddit pages Review Source NV Nicolas V. Head of Development Entertainment Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "So far so good!" January 23, 2024 4.0 I used another API provider for a few years but wasn't satisfied with it. Then, I discovered ScrapingBee, and (almost) everything is better: it's well-documented, their request-builder is easy to use and very convenient, and many websites that I couldn't access with the previous API are easily scraped with ScrapingBee. I also noticed some features (such as JS scenarios) that I haven't used yet but could prove to be really useful. Pros They had better results than my previous API and their website is really useful (documentation, request builder, etc.). Cons Response time seems slightly longer than my previous API. Review Source JV Jeroen V. Founder Real Estate Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The best scraping software out there" December 16, 2022 5.0 Pros The product just works, and is easy to set up. One of their most apparent pro's is their customer support. Not only are they very responsive; they'll go out of their way to develop features for you if anything does not work as expected. Cons Nothing to complain. Just great software. Review Source WC William C. Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Excellent tool for small startups!" February 4, 2023 5.0 Love this product. Highly recommend it as a great scraping service. Pros The documentation is exceptional. It's easy to get up and running with ScrapingBee. I also love the reliability of the service. It can retrieve data from almost any site and the API has very high availability. Cons Nothing. I used to be bummed about the limit on concurrent requests for the lowest pricing tier (1) but now it has increased to a level that works great at my scale (5). Review Source OK Oliver K. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Support Services" May 18, 2023 5.0 Support is great and has solved the issues I've come up with. The service is very reliable. Pros Ease of you and request builder for easy testing. Cons Some errors like 500 are obscure and need to be more descriptive. Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.