Scraping API benchmark · September 29, 2026
110 pages. 110 delivered.
We sent the same 110 fresh pages from 11 well-known sites to six scraping APIs at the same time. Crawio returned every page with the site's real content.
Method, limits and the test script are on this page.
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.
The same result for about half the price
The other API that delivered all 110 pages cost $0.85 per 1,000. Crawio cost $0.40.
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 delivered | Median time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrawioeOur API | 110 / 110 · 100% | 109 | $0.40 | 8.1 s |
| Scrape.do | 110 / 110 · 100% | 109 | $0.85 | 4.4 s |
| ScrapingBeec | 96 / 110 · 87.3% | 88 | $3.82 | 11.2 s |
| ScraperAPIa | 80 / 110 · 72.7% | 80 | $2.94 | 4.4 s |
| Zyte API | 80 / 110 · 72.7% | 78 | $0.64 | 15.2 s |
| ZenRowsb | 50 / 110 · 45.5% | 46 | $3.28 | 9.6 s |
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, priced on its entry plan. Letters link to the limits below.
Results by site
Pages delivered out of 10. The hardest sites are at the top.
Swipe to see all six APIs.
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 is slower than Scrape.do: a median of 8.1 s against 4.4 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.
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.
Check it yourself
Every account's charge matched what its API reported. Crawio made 111 requests and used 460 credits, with 0 mismatches.
An earlier run the same day, on different pages, agrees: Crawio 106 of 106 at $0.41 per 1,000, Scrape.do 106 of 106 at $0.80.
Test it on your own pages.
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