Scrapfly Cloud
scrapfly.io · 2 records in Compute, Crawling · JSON
Records 2
- caveatScrapfly Cloud Browser
Computefree tieridentity emailno cardlimit request-rateevidence documentedstale on 2026-12-05
- caveatScrapfly
Crawlingfree tieridentity emailno cardlimit per-object-capevidence documentedstale on 2026-11-22
Scrapfly Cloud Browser
Compute- Free allowance
- 1,000 API credits on a $0 plan with 5 concurrent requests, hard-capped at the quota with no overflow, and 1 week of log retention
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate1,000 API credits on the free tier, hard-capped with no pay-as-you-go overflow; 5 concurrent requests on Free, 20 on Pro and up to 100 on Enterprise
- Evidence
- documented4 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-05checked 2026-11-04 (live); stale on 2026-12-05
| Free tier | 1,000 API credits on a $0 plan with 5 concurrent requests, hard-capped at the quota with no overflow, and 1 week of log retention unit mixed; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
not stated |
| Identity | email 'free credits, no card' at scrapfly.io/register, quoted from the pricing page read 2026-10-22 |
| Egress | not published: https://scrapfly.io/pricing states credits per request and no egress allowance or overage price |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest HTTP API (cURL, OpenAPI spec) on every product; SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy; the Cloud Browser API gives CDP access (CDP is not a term of the interface vocabulary) |
| Tooling | Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust and Scrapy SDKs; OpenAPI spec; MCP server; Playwright, Puppeteer or CDP clients drive the Cloud Browser |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Evidence note | documented the pricing page was read on 2026-10-22 and publishes the free row: 1,000 credits, 5 concurrency, quota cap and 1 week of retention. The hard cap with no overflow is the constraint a reader needs |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | scrapfly.io/pricing | not published |
| 2026-10-22 | scrapfly.io/pricing | '| Free | $0 | 1,000 | not allowed | 5 | quota cap |' with 'Discovery and Free hard-cap at quota for predictable bills' and 'Self-serve signup: https://scrapfly.io/register (free credits, no card)', quoted |
| 2026-11-03 | scrapfly.io/docs | the docs list a direct HTTP API with an OpenAPI spec, plus SDKs |
| 2026-11-03 | scrapfly.io/pricing | pricing is in API credits per request; no egress allowance or overage price is stated |
More fields 6
| keep rate basis | no field in the source |
|---|---|
| billing model | unclassified |
| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "a scrape is a request; the free tier caps the credit count rather than a session"} |
| free tier kind | allowance |
| burst x | 1.0 |
| net | {"out": true,"in": false,"ports": null,"static_ip": false,"ipv6": null,"allowance": "proxy traffic is 'not allowed' on the free tier"} |
Unknown values 7
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
Scrapfly
Crawling- Free allowance
- 1,000 API credits on signup, no credit card, 5 concurrent
- Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- per-object-capcredit cost per request depends on the features enabled: JavaScript rendering, fetch relay, consumer-connection proxies
- 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, no credit card, 5 concurrent unit requests; metered on request-count |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
the per-feature multiplier is unpublished, so the page cap cannot be computed from the credit count and the binding constraint is unknown above the floor |
| Identity | email no credit card required, stated on the free tier |
| Egress | not applicable: JSON, Markdown or HTML answers |
| Retention | one-time on Free; extra credits not allowed, so the plan hard-caps |
| Interface | rest REST with JavaScript rendering, a fetch relay and consumer-connection proxies on one credit balance |
| Tooling | not stated |
| Composes with | A feature-multiplied credit, so a rendered or proxied page costs more than its headline |
| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
| Notes | One thousand credits is a test, not a lane. The unlimited-concurrency claim does not appear; 5 is the number. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | scrapfly.io/pricing | Free tier 1,000 API credits on signup, no credit card, 5 concurrency, overflow is a quota cap; Pro USD 100 a month for 1,000,000 credits |
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