10 Best Web Scraping Tools of 2026

Apify suits teams whose targets are popular sites, because someone has usually built the scraper already. Its store lists more than 112,000 Actors, including a Google Maps scraper that returns business contact details, an ecommerce tool for price tracking and a Website Content Crawler that cleans pages into Markdown for LangChain, LlamaIndex and vector databases. Each Actor runs in Apify's cloud, can be scheduled or called by API, and connects to Make, n8n, Zapier or an AI agent through the MCP server. The Free plan includes $5 of usage a month, and Starter costs $19 a month plus pay as you go, with compute units at $0.2. The catch is cost planning: some Actors charge per result, such as $2.30 per 1,000 results for an Instagram scraper on Starter, others bill compute, proxies and storage, and residential proxies add $8 per GB. Teams that want to own the code can build Actors with Crawlee and publish them.

Firecrawl is built for AI workloads first. You send a URL or a search query and get back clean Markdown, structured JSON or a screenshot, with navigation, footers and ads stripped out; Firecrawl says this cuts input tokens by 93% on its own example. Beyond single pages, the Map and Crawl endpoints cover whole sites, Actions let you click, type and scroll first, and the parser handles PDFs and DOCX files. It connects to agents through an MCP server, a CLI and installable skills, and the code is open source. Pricing is simple: 1,000 free credits a month, then Hobby at $19 a month or $16 billed annually for 5,000 credits, and Standard at $83 a month billed annually for 100,000 credits. The limits show on the low tiers, where Hobby allows 5 concurrent requests, and teams that want prebuilt scrapers for specific sites or a no-code editor should look at Apify or Browse AI instead.

Bright Data covers more of the data stack than any other vendor here. Its Web Scraper API library lists prebuilt scrapers with their output fields, delivery volume and live success rate, and you can call one with up to 5,000 target URLs and get JSON, NDJSON or CSV back. Around it sit Unlocker, SERP, Crawl and Browser APIs, ready datasets and a residential network of 400M+ IPs, plus an MCP server for agents. The free tier gives 5K records a month with no card, pay as you go costs $1.5 per 1,000 records with spend limits and unlimited concurrency, and the Scale plan is $499 a month with 384,000 records included. For lead and price data from big platforms, this is the most complete option. The downside is complexity: each product has its own unit, from records to requests to gigabytes, and the console has more settings than a small team will use.

ScrapingBee keeps scraping to one API call. It runs headless browsers, rotates proxies and handles CAPTCHAs for you, and the pricing table shows JavaScript rendering, rotating and premium proxies and geotargeting included on every plan, even the $19 Hobby tier with 75,000 credits and 25 concurrent requests. For AI work there is AI data extraction, a Markdown scraper and a zero data retention option, and JavaScript scenarios let you click, scroll and type before the page is captured. Integrations cover n8n, Make, an MCP server and coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex and Cursor. Plans step up to Freelance at $49 for 250,000 credits and Startup at $99 for 1,000,000. New accounts get 1,000 free credits with no card. It lacks a prebuilt library of site scrapers, so lead and price jobs still need your own parsing, and team management with per-user quotas starts on the Business plan.

Zyte API is a strong choice for developers who already know Scrapy, which Zyte maintains. You send a request and Zyte picks proxies, rotates residential, datacenter or mobile IPs, renders JavaScript when needed and can return AI-extracted data for products, articles, job listings or a custom schema. Pricing is set per website in five tiers from Simple to Advanced, and the pricing page has a calculator that shows the tier for any URL. Pay as you go HTTP requests cost $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000, browser-rendered requests $1.01 to $16.08, and monthly commitments from $100 lower those rates, down to $0.06 per 1,000 at $500. New accounts get $5 of free credit and 30 days to try it. Zyte also publishes an independent Proxyway test it says shows higher success rates than rivals. The trade-off is predictability, since a hard site can cost many times a simple one.

Oxylabs sells one subscription that covers its Search and Scrape APIs and its proxies, and the entry Starter plan costs $15 a month, the lowest monthly fee here. The /Scrape endpoint starts at $0.50 per 1,000 results and falls to $0.25 at 10M+ results, while Google with JavaScript costs more. Dedicated targets for Amazon, Google and Walmart take target-specific parameters and return cleaner output, and a newer set of LLM scrapers collects answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode at $1.50 per 1,000 results. Oxylabs cites 177M+ proxies across 195 countries, 99.9% API uptime and more than 11 years in the business, and it connects to agents through MCP and Agent Skills. New accounts get $5 in welcome credits. The pricing page lists dozens of per-target rates, so cost estimates take work, AI parsing is a separate $3.00 per 1,000 pages, and enterprise deals start at $2,500 a month.

Browse AI is the friendliest option for people who do not write code. You install the browser extension, record the clicks on a page, and the robot learns what to extract, then runs on a schedule and watches for changes. Results can sync live into Google Sheets or Airtable or flow to 9,000+ apps, and any trained robot can also act as an API. There are 200+ prebuilt robots for popular sites, which shortens setup for lead lists and listings. A free plan includes 50 credits a month, Personal costs $19 a month for 2,000 credits, 2 websites and 3 users, and Professional costs $69 a month billed annually with 10 domains and 10 users. Premium adds managed setup and data management from $500 a month. The website caps and credit sizes mean it fits monitoring dozens of pages better than crawling whole sites, and developers will find API-first tools cheaper per page.

ScraperAPI is a good fit when your targets are marketplaces and search results. Its structured endpoints return JSON for Amazon search, product and offer pages, Walmart products and Google results, which covers much of the price tracking and SEO work teams do. The Async Scraper accepts large batches, DataPipeline schedules jobs without code, and an AI Parser can be trained to return JSON from other sources. Plans start with Hobby at $49 a month for 100,000 credits and 20 concurrent threads, then Startup at $149 for 1,000,000 credits and Business at $299 for 3,000,000 with global geotargeting; annual billing saves 10%. A 7-day trial includes 5,000 credits with no card. The entry price is the highest of the API tools here, the two smaller plans only geotarget the US and EU, and there is no permanent free plan, so light users pay more than on ScrapingBee or Oxylabs.

Crawlbase lets you start without a plan. Every account begins on pay as you go with no monthly fee and no card, and the first 5,000 requests are free. After that a graduated rate card applies per 1,000 successful requests, from $3.00 for the first 1,000 down to $0.02 beyond a billion, and Crawlbase's own worked example puts 1M standard requests at about $527.50. A failed or blocked request is never billed. Optional subscriptions lower the effective rate: Starter is $99 a month for 200K credits and Growth $599 for 2M. The product set includes a crawling API that returns structured JSON or Markdown, a Smart AI Proxy that rotates across 140M IPs, cloud storage and a Web MCP Server, with SDKs for Python, Node, Ruby, PHP and Go. JavaScript rendering costs twice the credits and defended sites carry multipliers, so real costs depend on your targets.

Octoparse is a visual scraper aimed at business users. You can start from a ready template, let the AI assistant set up a task or click through a page yourself, then run the job on your own machine or in Octoparse Cloud, which splits big jobs into parallel subtasks on real browsers and rotates IPs. The free plan includes 10 tasks and 50,000 rows of monthly export, which is enough to learn the tool. Standard costs $69 a month billed annually for 100 tasks, 3 concurrent cloud processes and 500+ templates, while Professional at $249 raises that to 250 tasks and 20 cloud processes and adds direct saves to Google Sheets, Google Drive, Dropbox and S3. Residential proxies cost $3 per GB and CAPTCHA solving $1 to $1.5 per thousand. Paid plans carry a 5-day money-back guarantee. For the price, Browse AI is simpler for monitoring and API tools are cheaper at scale.