Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026

Apify is a cloud platform on which scraping and automation programs, called Actors, are built, run and scheduled. Its public store lists ready-made Actors for common sites alongside custom code, and the company also publishes Crawlee, an open-source web scraping and crawling library. Apify was launched in 2015 by Jan Čurn and Jakub Balada out of the Y Combinator Fellowship, and later moved its team to the Czech Republic; the company states 80,000 customers worldwide and more than 118,000 Actors in its store. Pricing is a monthly subscription that includes a dollar amount of platform usage: a Free plan with US$5 of usage, Starter at US$19, Scale at US$199 and Business at US$999 per month, with annual billing reducing each price by 10%.

Bright Data supplies proxy networks, scraping APIs and prepared datasets. The company was founded in 2014 and renamed from Luminati Networks to Bright Data; it reports serving more than 50,000 customers and employing over 600 people. Its Web Scraper API is priced per 1,000 records: pay-as-you-go at US$1.50 per 1,000 records charged only for successful results, a Scale plan at US$499 per month that includes 384,000 records with additional records at US$1.30 per 1,000, and custom Enterprise terms. A free tier covers 5,000 records per month without a credit card. In January 2024 a US federal court granted Bright Data summary judgment on Meta's breach-of-contract claim over logged-off scraping of public Facebook and Instagram data, a case frequently cited in discussions of scraping law.

Zyte sells the Zyte API, which fetches pages with automatic ban handling and optional browser rendering, and maintains the open-source Scrapy framework. Billing is per 1,000 successful responses, with the rate set by the difficulty tier of the target site and by whether a browser-rendered response is requested. On pay-as-you-go, plain HTTP responses range from US$0.13 to US$1.27 per 1,000 and browser-rendered responses from US$1.01 to US$16.08 per 1,000; committing to a monthly minimum of US$100, US$200 or US$500 lowers those rates, and Enterprise volume pricing is quote-based. New accounts receive US$5 of free credit valid for 30 days.

Oxylabs is a proxy and web data provider founded in 2015 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania; it states more than 15,000 clients and over 500 staff. Its Web Scraper API is sold as monthly subscriptions that load credits onto a balance shared across Oxylabs products: Starter at US$15 per month (US$0.50 per 1,000 results), Basic at US$100, Flexible at US$500 and Enterprise from US$2,500 per month, where the rate falls to US$0.25 per 1,000 results. A US$5 welcome credit is available, and self-service purchases are non-refundable. In 2025 the Oxylabs group acquired ScrapingBee, which continues to operate as a separate product and entity.

Decodo is the current name of the company formerly known as Smartproxy; its site footer reads “decodo.com (formerly smartproxy.com)”. Its Web Scraping API is sold as monthly subscriptions defined by request rate and included volume rather than named plans. Published tiers run from a US$0 tier at 10 requests per second (up to 10,000 pages) through US$19, US$49, US$99, US$249, US$499 and US$999 to US$1,499 per month at 200 requests per second (up to 9.9 million pages). Subscriptions renew monthly, and the company offers a 14-day money-back guarantee.

ScrapingBee offers a single HTTP API that returns page content after handling proxies and headless browser rendering, with requests metered in API credits. Plans are billed monthly and range from Hobby at US$19 (75,000 credits) and Freelance at US$49 (250,000 credits) through Startup at US$99 (1,000,000 credits) and Business at US$249 (3,000,000 credits) to Enterprise tiers up to US$5,799 per month; unused credits expire after a month, and a trial provides 1,000 free credits. The company was co-founded by Pierre and Kevin Sahin and became part of the Oxylabs group, while continuing to operate as a separate product and entity.

ScraperAPI routes requests through rotating proxies and returns the target page, charging in API credits. Published plans are Hobby at US$49 per month (100,000 credits), Startup at US$149 (1,000,000), Business at US$299 (3,000,000), Scaling at US$475 (5,000,000), Professional at US$975 (10,500,000) and Advanced at US$1,975 (21,500,000), with Enterprise pricing above 22 million credits on request. Annual billing lowers each monthly price by 10%, for example Hobby to US$44.10. The pricing page and its FAQ describe the free allowance differently, so the trial terms should be checked at sign-up.

Firecrawl is a crawling and scraping API aimed at AI and large language model applications, returning pages as Markdown, HTML, screenshots or structured JSON. Its core repository is published under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0, with SDKs under the MIT licence, and the hosted cloud version includes features not present in the self-hosted edition. The hosted service has a Free plan with 1,000 credits per month, Hobby at US$19 (5,000 credits), Standard at US$99 (100,000), Growth at US$399 (500,000) and Scale at US$749 (1,000,000) per month, with discounts of 16.7% to 20% for annual billing and custom Enterprise pricing.

Octoparse is a visual scraping tool in which extraction tasks are built by clicking on page elements in a desktop application, with optional cloud execution, templates and an AI assistant. A Free plan allows 2,000 rows per month from templates, the AI assistant and the API, while tasks run locally on the desktop app do not count against that limit. Paid plans are Basic at US$19 per month (monthly billing only), Standard from US$83 per month or US$69 per month billed annually, Professional at US$299 per month or US$249 billed annually, and quote-based Enterprise; annual billing saves 16%. Free users can trial Standard or Professional for 14 days once per account.

Browse AI is a no-code service in which users train “robots” on a web page; the system proposes columns to extract, robots can paginate and fill forms, and scheduled monitors report changes. Results can be sent to Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier, CSV or JSON files, or webhooks. A Free plan includes 50 credits per month. The Personal plan is listed at US$48 billed monthly or US$19 per month billed annually, Professional at US$87 monthly or US$69 per month annually, and Premium from US$500 per month on annual terms. The company states more than 770,000 users.

Diffbot provides APIs that classify web pages and return structured data without per-site rules, together with a crawling service. All plans are monthly subscriptions without a long-term contract. The Free plan includes 10,000 credits per month and one thread across four APIs; Startup costs US$299 per month for 250,000 credits and 25 threads; Plus costs US$899 per month for 1,000,000 credits, 100 threads and up to 25 active crawls; Enterprise is quote-based. Paid plans bill overage pro rata at US$0.001 or US$0.0009 per credit, while the Free plan returns a quota-exceeded error once its limit is reached.

Web Scraper builds scraping “sitemaps” through a Chrome extension, distributed through the Chrome Web Store, and offers a paid cloud service for scheduled and parallel runs. Cloud plans are Project at US$50 per month (5,000 URL credits, two concurrent scrapers) and Professional at US$100 per month (20,000 URL credits, three concurrent scrapers), both billed annually; Scale starts at US$200 per month with unlimited URL credits and is priced per concurrent scraper; Enterprise is quote-based. The per-scraper price on Scale decreases as more concurrent scrapers are added; the vendor's own calculator example of ten scrapers comes to US$900 per month on monthly billing. Unlike the free-standing desktop tools in this list, the visual builder runs inside the user's browser.

Scrapy is an open-source web scraping and crawling framework for Python, released under the BSD licence and maintained by Zyte together with more than 500 other contributors. The project describes itself as having run in production for over fifteen years and calls itself the most-used open-source data extraction framework, a claim the project makes about itself and that was not independently measured here. Scrapy is a library rather than a service: it supplies request scheduling, parsing and export pipelines, while proxies, browser rendering and hosting must be provided separately, for example through a managed API such as Zyte API.