Scraping API benchmark · September 29, 2026

100% delivery across 11 sites

Ten of them are behind bot protection. We sent the same 110 fresh pages to six scraping APIs at the same time, and Crawio returned every page with the site's real content.

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100%

of pages delivered across 11 sites, 10 of them protected

The benchmark compares six APIs on the same 11 sites. In the last 30 days, Crawio delivered pages from more than 2,700 different websites.

What this means for you

Every page, even the hard ones

On the three hardest sites in the test, Crawio delivered 30 of 30 pages. Three of the other five APIs delivered none there.

Cheaper on every kind of page

The only other API that delivered all 110 pages cost $0.13 per 1,000 standard pages and $1.26 per 1,000 heavily protected pages in this test. Crawio cost $0.10 and $0.58.

Nothing to tune

With Crawio there is no proxy or rendering setting to pick: send a URL, get the page. Four of the other five APIs needed a premium proxy or browser setting on some sites.

Pages delivered, out of 110

Same pages, same time, same rules for every API.

API	Delivered	First try	Cost per 1,000 pages		Median time
API	Delivered	First try	Standard	Heavily protected	Median time
Crawio^eOur API	110 / 110 · 100%	109	$0.10	$0.58	5.1 s
Scrape.do	110 / 110 · 100%	109	$0.13	$1.26	4.4 s
ScrapingBee^c	96 / 110 · 87.3%	88	$0.20	$6.41	11.2 s
ScraperAPI^a	80 / 110 · 72.7%	80	$2.08	$3.80	4.4 s
Zyte API	80 / 110 · 72.7%	78	$0.26	$1.01	15.2 s
ZenRows^b	50 / 110 · 45.5%	46	$1.29	$6.27	9.6 s

CrawioOur API^e110 / 110

First try 109 · Median 5.1 s

Per 1,000 pages: $0.10 standard, $0.58 heavily protected

Scrape.do110 / 110

First try 109 · Median 4.4 s

Per 1,000 pages: $0.13 standard, $1.26 heavily protected

ScrapingBee^c96 / 110

First try 88 · Median 11.2 s

Per 1,000 pages: $0.20 standard, $6.41 heavily protected

ScraperAPI^a80 / 110

First try 80 · Median 4.4 s

Per 1,000 pages: $2.08 standard, $3.80 heavily protected

Zyte API80 / 110

First try 78 · Median 15.2 s

Per 1,000 pages: $0.26 standard, $1.01 heavily protected

ZenRows^b50 / 110

First try 46 · Median 9.6 s

Per 1,000 pages: $1.29 standard, $6.27 heavily protected

First try After one retry

Sorted by pages delivered, then first-try pages. The best value in each column is in bold, whoever holds it. Cost is what each account was charged on September 29, 2026, per 1,000 delivered pages, on its entry plan. Standard pages are Amazon, Booking.com, Wikipedia and Zillow. Heavily protected pages are the other 7 sites. Each price covers only the pages that API delivered. Letters link to the limits below.

Results by site

Pages delivered out of 10. The hardest sites are at the top.

10 of 10 1 to 9 0

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Site	Crawio	Scrape.do	ScrapingBee	ScraperAPI	Zyte API	ZenRows
Idealista	10	10	6	0^a	0	0
G2	10	10	8	0^a	0	0
Realtor.com	10	10	10	0^a	0	0^b
Glassdoor	10	10	10	10	10	0
Home Depot	10	10	10	10	10	0
Zillow	10	10	10	10	10	0^b
Indeed	10	10	2^c	10	10	10
Amazon	10	10	10	10	10	10
Booking.com	10	10	10	10	10	10
eBay	10	10	10	10	10	10
Wikipedia	10	10	10	10	10	10

Limits of this test

Trial accounts. We tested competitors on free-trial or pay-as-you-go accounts. ScraperAPI's trial blocks its strongest setting ("ultra premium"), which paid plans include. Its 0 of 10 on G2, Idealista and Realtor.com may differ on a paid plan.

ZenRows connections. ZenRows' API closed the connection without an answer on some sites. A ZenRows-only rerun 10 minutes later got 10 of 10 on Zillow and 9 of 10 on Realtor.com. The tables show the main run.

ScrapingBee on Indeed. Its cheapest setting worked on the first page, then failed. Its premium setting got 10 of 10 in our earlier run.

Small sample. 10 pages per site is a small sample.

Speed. Crawio's times are from a second run on October 2, 2026, after an engine update, with the same script and the same pages. The other APIs' times are from September 29, 2026, when Crawio's median was 8.1 s.

How we tested

1.
11 well-known sites, 10 fresh pages each: 110 pages. No one had requested these pages before the test.
2.
Six APIs got the same pages at the same time, 5 requests at once per API.
3.
A page counts only if it is the full page, contains the site's real content and is not a block or captcha page.
4.
Each competitor used its cheapest setting that worked on each site. Crawio has no settings to pick.
5.
A failed page got one retry, as a normal script would do.
6.
Cost is what each account was actually charged. We checked it against every account's balance and billing dashboard.
7.
We show cost per 1,000 delivered pages on each API's entry plan, separately for standard and heavily protected pages.
API Entry plan
Crawio $29 for 300,000 credits
Scrape.do $29 for 250,000
ScrapingBee $49 for 250,000
ScraperAPI $49 for 100,000
ZenRows $57 for 250,000
Zyte API Pay as you go
8.
Run on September 29, 2026, from 06:32 to 06:59 UTC.

API	Entry plan
Crawio	$29 for 300,000 credits
Scrape.do	$29 for 250,000
ScrapingBee	$49 for 250,000
ScraperAPI	$49 for 100,000
ZenRows	$57 for 250,000
Zyte API	Pay as you go

Check it yourself

Every account's charge matched what its API reported. Crawio made 111 requests and used 460 credits, with 0 mismatches.

Raw request log

Every attempt: URL, API, status and credits.

Download CSV

Crawio's second run, October 2, 2026: download CSV

Test script

The Python script we ran. Add your own keys and rerun it.

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