Scrapingdog
- Free allowance
- 100 free credits on the FREE plan (USD 0, forever), no credit card; a Google search costs 5 credits, so the 100 credits are 20 Google searches
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- emailno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- request-rate100 credits: 20 Google SERP or Brave Search requests at 5 credits, 10 advanced Google requests at 10 credits; the LITE plan is USD 40 a month for 200K credits; 1 concurrent request on the FREE plan; exceeding the concurrency limit...
- Evidence
- documented22 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 | 100 free credits on the FREE plan (USD 0, forever), no credit card; a Google search costs 5 credits, so the 100 credits are 20 Google searches unit credits; metered on request-count; The pricing table lists the 100 in its Monthly credits row, while the documentation states the free plan includes 200 requests a month; the two first-party pages disagree. |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
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| Binding | request-rate 20 Google searches is spent before the 1-request concurrency limit matters |
| Identity | email the signup form asks for an email address, marked 'Please use your work email address', a password and a referral source; no credit card required |
| Egress | not applicable |
| Retention | unverified: whether a free account's credits renew each month is behind a sign-up; the pricing FAQ says credits reset on the next billing date, and the home page lists the 100 free credits as a 7-day free trial |
| Interface | rest GET https://api.scrapingdog.com/google with api_key and query parameters; one credit pool also serves Bing, Brave Search, Google News, Scholar and a general scraping endpoint endpoint: https://api.scrapingdog.com/google |
| Tooling | plain HTTP GET with an api_key query parameter |
| Composes with | Too small to carry search; the same 100 credits buy 100 rotating-proxy page fetches at 1 credit each, which is the better use of the account |
| Reliability | the pricing page and the documentation disagree on the free allowance, 100 credits against 200 requests a month; failed, blocked and timed-out requests are credited back |
| Notes | A general scraping API with SERP endpoints rather than a search engine of its own. Every plan reaches every API, so the free credits test Google, Bing and Brave Search parsing as well as page fetches. |
| Evidence note | documented the 100 credits, the 1-request concurrency, the per-search credit cost and the no-card statement are quoted from first-party pages; the documentation states a different free allowance, and whether the credits renew monthly is behind a sign-up |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 22
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | 100 free credits on signup, no credit card |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | the FREE plan column lists 100 monthly credits; LITE lists 200K |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | the FREE plan allows 1 concurrent request |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | the 100 free credits are 20 Google SERP requests |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | the 100 free credits are 100 rotating-proxy fetches |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | credits reset on the billing date; an exhausted balance answers over-limit |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/ | the documentation states 200 requests a month on the free plan, which disagrees with the pricing page |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/ | concurrency is limited per plan and answers 429 over the limit |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/google-search-api-document | the Google search endpoint |
| 2026-10-30 | www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/google-search-api-document | a Google search costs 5 credits, 10 advanced |
| 2026-10-30 | api.scrapingdog.com/register | the signup form asks for a work email address |
| 2026-10-30 | probe: api.scrapingdog.com/google | a keyless call to the Google endpoint answered 401 |
| 2026-11-01 | www.scrapingdog.com/ | the home page lists the 100 free credits as a 7-day free trial with no credit card required |
| 2026-11-01 | www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/ | the documentation overview states the free plan includes 200 requests a month, the same line as its 2026-07-14 archive copy |
| 2026-11-01 | web.archive.org/web/20260714213606/https://www.scrapingdog.c | the 2026-07-14 archive copy of the documentation overview already states the free plan includes 200 requests a month |
| 2026-11-01 | web.archive.org/web/20260905172744/https://www.scrapingdog.c | the 2026-09-05 archive copy of the pricing page states 200 free credits per account, the figure the documentation gives as 200 requests a month; the live page states 100 |
| 2026-11-01 | web.archive.org/web/20261008063559/https://www.scrapingdog.c | the 2026-10-08 archive copy of the home page lists the 100 free credits as a 30-day free trial, where the live page says 7-day |
| 2026-11-01 | www.scrapingdog.com/agent-onboarding/SKILL.md | the vendor's agent onboarding guide says a new account starts on a free trial with no card required |
| 2026-11-01 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | the pricing page lists the FREE plan as USD 0 forever |
| 2026-11-01 | www.scrapingdog.com/ | the home page offers a Sign Up With Google route beside the email signup |
| 2026-11-01 | www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/ | the pricing page still states 100 free credits per account and no credit card |
| 2026-11-01 | api.scrapingdog.com/register | the signup form still asks for an email address, marked work email |
Unknown values 2
- egress terms: the field does not apply to this kind of offer
- per object cap stated: the field does not apply to this kind of offer