ParseHub
- Free allowance
- Free plan, no credit card: 200 pages per run, 5 public projects, data retention for 14 days, 200 pages of data in 40 minutes, limited support; no run count is stated, runs past the speed limit queue, and Free holds up to 100 queued runs.
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rateFree has 1 worker at approx. 5 pages a minute: 200 pages in 40 minutes; each worker scrapes up to 5 pages a minute and runs past the speed limit queue; API: 5 requests a second, queued up to 25 a second, then HTTP 429 (API reference)...
- Evidence
- documented46 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-03checked 2026-11-02 (live); stale on 2026-12-03
| Free tier | Free plan, no credit card: 200 pages per run, 5 public projects, data retention for 14 days, 200 pages of data in 40 minutes, limited support; no run count is stated, runs past the speed limit queue, and Free holds up to 100 queued runs. Data downloads as CSV (Excel) or JSON and through the REST API unit requests; metered on request-count; a page is every content load: a new URL, a scroll that loads more content, or a click that goes to the next page of results; the allowance is per run, not per month |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
No limit on the length of one run is stated: a ParseHub blog post lists the limits of its plans as projects, pages per run and speed. The 40 minutes on the pricing page is the Free speed, one worker at approx. 5 pages a minute collecting 200 pages in that time, and the Standard and Professional columns give the same row as 10 minutes and under 2 minutes beside 10,000 and unlimited pages per run, so the row reads as a speed and not a run-length cap. Third-party reviews report a 40-minute limit on one Free run. Whether a Free run is stopped at a wall-clock time is unverified: behind a sign-up. |
| Binding | request-rate 5 pages a minute bounds a Free account at 7,200 pages a day however many runs are queued; the 200-page run cap only forces a large crawl into many runs |
| Identity | email no credit card is required to sign up; the sign-up form posts a name, an email address and a password, and the sign-up code carries an email-verification screen |
| Egress | not applicable: run data downloads as CSV or JSON |
| Per-object cap | 200 pages per run on Free (10,000 on Standard, unlimited on Professional); a results file over 10 MB is not saved as CSV, only as JSON |
| Retention | run data is kept for 14 days on Free and Standard, 30 days on Professional (14 days) |
| Interface | rest REST API v2 under https://www.parsehub.com/api/v2/ with an api_key parameter from the account page: start a run of a project on the ParseHub cloud, poll the run, and fetch its data as csv or json (always gzip-encoded); the desktop application for Mac, Windows and Linux builds projects by point and click; the Account Settings tab of the account page shows the key, and the page code renders that field with no condition on the plan; whether a signed-in Free account is issued a non-empty key is unverified: behind a sign-up |
| Tooling | the ParseHub desktop application (Mac .dmg, Windows installer, Linux AppImage) builds projects; runs execute on ParseHub servers; the REST API starts runs and fetches data |
| Composes with | Build a project once in the desktop application, then start runs and pull JSON over the REST API from any scheduler, since scheduling is a paid feature; Free projects are public, so their designs and run data may be shared with other users |
| Reliability | a results file over 10 MB is not saved as CSV: the CSV download comes back empty with a notice and only the JSON holds the data |
| Notes | Confirmed as a no-code scraper with a free plan. Free runs: no run count is stated; a project can be run many times, runs past the speed limit queue, and Free holds up to 100 queued runs. Pages per run: 200 on Free (10,000 on Standard at USD 189 a month, unlimited on Professional). Export formats: CSV (opened as Excel) and JSON from the desktop application, the website or the API. The desktop application only builds projects; runs execute on ParseHub servers, so no machine has to stay on. The caveats are that Free projects are public and run data is kept 14 days. |
| Evidence note | documented every value is read from ParseHub's own pricing page, API reference, help center, blog, sign-up code and account page code, except that the limits note adds an inference and third-party reviews; the 7,200-pages-a-day ceiling is derived from the stated 200 pages in 40 minutes; a Free account's API key and a wall-clock stop of a Free run sit behind a sign-up and are unverified |
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Evidence 46
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | the Free plan column, with no credit card required |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | Free scrapes 200 pages per run |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | Free collects 200 pages in 40 minutes; derived: 200 pages / 40 minutes = 5 pages a minute, and 5 x 60 x 24 = 7,200 pages a day |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | Free has 5 public projects |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | Free keeps run data for 14 days |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | sign-up needs no credit card |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | Free projects and their run data are shareable with other users |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | runs are not counted per project |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | the plan's speed limit, not a run count, decides throughput; extra runs queue |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | the cheapest paid plan, Standard, is USD 189 a month |
| 2026-10-30 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009172513-API-Limits | API-started runs work on Free, with up to 100 queued runs |
| 2026-10-30 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009172513-API-Limits | the API allows six concurrent connections per IP and 60 requests per 30 seconds |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/docs/ref/api/v2/ | the API reference states 5 requests a second, queued up to 25 |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/docs/ref/api/v2/ | an API run executes on the ParseHub cloud |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/docs/ref/api/v2/ | the data endpoint returns CSV or JSON |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/docs/ref/api/v2/ | the API key comes from the account page |
| 2026-10-30 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002545274-Lesson-6-Ge | runs execute on ParseHub servers, not on the user's device |
| 2026-10-30 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002545274-Lesson-6-Ge | every run yields CSV and JSON |
| 2026-10-30 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006152168-Convert-JSO | a result over 10 MB is kept as JSON only |
| 2026-10-30 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006322493-Pricing-of- | how a page is counted against the per-run cap |
| 2026-10-30 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006322493-Pricing-of- | one worker scrapes up to 5 pages a minute |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/static/js/build/auth.bundle.js | the sign-up form posts a name, an email address and a password, and nothing else |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/static/js/build/auth.bundle.js | the sign-up code carries an email-verification screen |
| 2026-10-30 | www.parsehub.com/quickstart | the desktop application ships for Mac, Windows and Linux |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002839873-Project-spe | the Free plan has 1 worker at approx. 5 pages a minute, Standard 4 workers at approx. 20 and Professional 24 at approx. 120 |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/blog/parsehub-vs-import-io-which-alternativ | a ParseHub blog post dated 9 August 2019 lists the limits of its plans as the number of projects, the pages per run and the speed; none is a run duration |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/static/js/build/account.bundle.js | the Account Settings tab renders the account's API key in its own form group, with no plan condition around it |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/blog/parsehub-vs-import-io-which-alternativ | the same blog post says a project has no limit on how many times it can be run, so a Free account has no run count |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | the Standard column gives 200 pages in 10 minutes beside a cap of 10,000 pages per run |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | the Professional column gives 200 pages in under 2 minutes beside unlimited pages per run |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360006322493-Pricing-of- | the help center names pages per run as the per-run limit on Free and Standard |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002839873-Project-spe | the worker speeds are account-wide, so the queued runs of a Free account share its one worker |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/static/js/build/account.bundle.js | the account page loads the tier, API key, project cap, pages-per-run cap and retention days of each account; none of these fields is a run duration |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/226237008-View-Account-I | the Account Settings tab shows the account's API key, which the API requires |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/217751808-API-Tutorial-H | scheduling inside a user is for paid accounts; the tutorial offers a cron job as the other way to schedule runs |
| 2026-11-01 | groups.google.com/g/webscraping/c/1msAbZmBghk | a forum member speaks of a Free-plan user's API key and of using it with the API; a user post, not a vendor statement |
| 2026-11-01 | syncgtm.com/blog/parsehub-review | a third-party review states a 40-minute run limit and no API on the Free plan |
| 2026-11-01 | webscraping.cc/tool/parsehub/ | a second third-party review states roughly a 40-minute run limit and no API on the Free plan |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | the Free column still caps a run at 200 pages |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009079333-My-run-resu | Free and Standard keep run results 14 days and the other plans 30 days |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360009172513-API-Limits | the Free plan still holds up to 100 queued runs and the paid plans 100,000 |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/docs/ref/api/v2/ | the API reference still describes a REST API that manages and runs projects and returns extracted data |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | sign-up still needs no credit card |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/static/js/build/auth.bundle.js | the sign-up form still posts a name, an email address and a password |
| 2026-11-01 | help.parsehub.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006152168-Convert-JSO | a results file over 10 MB is still kept as JSON only |
| 2026-11-01 | www.parsehub.com/pricing | the Free column still gives 200 pages in 40 minutes |