ScraperAPI
- Free allowance
- 1,000 API credits on signup, 5 concurrent connections
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capa standard page is 1 credit; Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30; an automated-traffic filter adds 10
- Evidence
- documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-22checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-22
| Free tier | 1,000 API credits on signup, 5 concurrent connections unit requests; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the credit multiplier is the binding constraint: a defended page costs 11 credits and a Google SERP 25, so the plan's page count is a fifth to a twenty-fifth of its credit count |
| Identity | email signup; no card stated for the free credits |
| Egress | not applicable: HTML or JSON answers |
| Retention | one-time on the free plan |
| Interface | rest REST with a domain-level cost estimator and a per-request max_cost cap |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | The clearest published multiplier table in the class, which makes it the reference for what a defended page really costs |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | A Google SERP costs 25 credits here, so the free grant is 40 searches on the engine that matters most. max_cost per scrape is the one feature worth copying. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | www.scraperapi.com/pricing/ | 1,000 free API credits with a maximum of 5 concurrent connections; a standard page costs 1 credit, Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30; sites behind an automated-traffic filter add 10 credits a request |
Unknown values 3
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field