ScrapingRobot

ScrapingRobot is a managed web scraping API rather than a raw proxy seller, and that distinction matters before you compare it to anyone else on this directory. Instead of handing you a gateway endpoint and a username/password, ScrapingRobot abstracts proxy rotation, headless browser rendering, retries, and anti-bot handling behind a single REST endpoint that returns structured JSON. It is built for developers who want scraped data out the other end without owning the proxy stack — small teams, freelance scrapers, indie SaaS founders, and anyone tired of babysitting Selenium fleets.

Under the hood, ScrapingRobot is wired into Rayobyte (formerly Blazing SEO), the US-based proxy network it spun out of in 2018. The official pitch is that ScrapingRobot uses Rayobyte's spare proxy capacity to keep per-scrape pricing low, which means you are effectively riding on a residential and datacenter pool of millions of IPs without paying residential per-GB rates. The company does not publish exact pool numbers for ScrapingRobot specifically, and you do not get to pick country, city, or session length the way you would on Decodo or Oxylabs — geo-targeting and proxy type are decided by the module you hit.

Pricing is the headline feature. ScrapingRobot gives every account 5,000 free scrapes per month, after which scrapes cost $0.0018 each on the standard tier, falling to as low as $0.00004 per scrape on the high-volume Business plan. There is no monthly subscription, credits never expire, and you pay only for successful scrapes. The default rate limit is a soft 100 requests per minute per customer, lifted on request. There is no published free trial beyond the recurring free quota, and refund terms are not advertised — you essentially "trial" the product on the free tier before topping up credits.

What ScrapingRobot is actually known for is its module library and its API simplicity. You hit one endpoint with a target URL plus a module name (Google SERP, Amazon product, Instagram profile, generic HTML, JavaScript-rendered HTML, and roughly a dozen more) and receive parsed JSON back. Postman collections are provided, the auth model is a single API key, and integration into Python, Node, n8n, or any HTTP-aware framework takes minutes. Support is 24/7 via email and ticket, and custom modules are built free of charge if the use case is generally useful — a small-vendor touch you do not get from BrightData or ScraperAPI.

ScrapingRobot is the right pick if you are a solo developer, growth hacker, or small team that wants cheap, predictable, no-thinking scrapes for SERPs, e-commerce listings, or social profiles — and you do not need to control the proxy yourself. It is not the right pick for sneaker bots, multi-accounting, ad verification, or any workflow that requires sticky residential sessions, SOCKS5, browser fingerprint control, or specific geo-targeting; for those, look at Decodo, Oxylabs, IPRoyal, or the parent Rayobyte network directly. On the price/quality curve, ScrapingRobot sits firmly in the budget, developer-friendly, hands-off corner.

Worth knowing before you commit: ScrapingRobot is a thin product team riding on Rayobyte's infrastructure, so success rates on hard targets (Cloudflare-protected sites, sites with aggressive JA3 fingerprinting, sites that demand mobile IPs) are decent but not best-in-class. Module coverage is finite — if your target site is not a pre-built module, you fall back to generic HTML scraping with no parsing. And because everything is a managed API, you cannot bring your own browser, cannot inspect proxy IPs, and cannot tune session behavior beyond what the module exposes.