Scrape.do

Scrape.do sits squarely in the scraping API category rather than the raw proxy reseller category — meaning you send a URL to their endpoint and they return the rendered HTML, handling proxy rotation, headers, CAPTCHAs, and JavaScript execution behind the scenes. Founded in 2020 by Batuhan Ozyon and headquartered in Ankara, Turkey, the company has carved out a reputation as the "second-cheapest scraping API that actually works," consistently scoring around 98.19% success rate in independent benchmarks — roughly half a percentage point behind BrightData while charging materially less per successful call.

Under the hood, Scrape.do routes traffic through a mixed network of datacenter, residential, and mobile IPs spanning 150–160+ countries. The pool size is advertised at 95M+ IPs across all proxy types, with city-level geotargeting available on premium tiers. The residential and mobile inventory is gated behind higher plans, while datacenter proxies are the default fallback. Sticky sessions, HTTPS, and full JS rendering via a managed headless browser are all available, and the platform exposes pre-built endpoints for common targets like Google, Amazon, Zillow, and LinkedIn that return parsed JSON instead of raw HTML.

Pricing is credit-based with a free tier of 1,000 requests per month (no expiration), then Hobby at $29/mo for 250K credits, Pro at $99/mo for 1.25M credits, Business at $249/mo for 3.5M credits, and Advanced at $699/mo for 10M credits with 200 concurrent threads and dedicated Slack support. The catch every buyer needs to understand: credits are multiplied per request. A standard datacenter call costs 1 credit, JS rendering costs 5x, residential/mobile proxies cost 10x, and the combination costs 25x. That 250K Hobby plan becomes 10,000 requests if you turn on both premium proxies and JS rendering — a fact that has surprised more than a few buyers. The upside is that you are only charged for successful responses, so failed calls don't burn credits.

Where Scrape.do genuinely earns its reputation is the developer experience and support velocity. The API is one of the simpler ones in the category — a single GET with the target URL and your token gets you started. It plays well with Playwright, Scrapy, Puppeteer, and n8n out of the box, and integrates as a drop-in proxy URL for existing scrapers. Trustpilot, G2, and Software Advice all sit at 4.7–5.0 stars, and the recurring theme in reviews is that the team fixes blocked-target issues within hours rather than days — a meaningful gap versus larger providers where ticket SLAs run longer.

This is the right choice for solo developers, small data teams, and growth-stage SaaS companies that need to scrape at meaningful scale but don't want to negotiate enterprise contracts or pay BrightData's $500-minimum commitments. It is also a smart pick for projects where most pages are static HTML and you don't need residential routing on every call — the price-per-success math at the Hobby and Pro tiers is genuinely hard to beat. It is less of a fit if your workflow is residential-heavy and JS-rendered on every single request, because the 25x multiplier erodes the headline pricing advantage, or if you need raw proxy access (SOCKS5 endpoints, dedicated IPs, fingerprint-level control) rather than a managed API.

Limitations worth knowing up front: JavaScript rendering and geotargeting are not unlocked until the Pro plan, and residential plus mobile proxies require Business or higher — so the Hobby plan is effectively a datacenter-only product. The 4.7-second average response time is fine for batch scraping but slower than premium tiers at Oxylabs or BrightData for latency-sensitive use cases. And because it is an API rather than a proxy network, you cannot use Scrape.do for browser automation outside its own infrastructure, sneaker copping, or use cases that need persistent SOCKS5 connections.