Crawlbase review

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.

Who it is for

Developers with uneven monthly volume who want to pay only for successful requests with no monthly fee.

Price

Pay as you go with no monthly fee and up to 5,000 free requests; Starter subscription $99 per month.

Starter 200K credits / mo $99 / mo
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 7, 2026.

Key features

• Graduated pay-as-you-go rate card with no monthly fee
• Failed or blocked requests are never billed
• Smart AI Proxy with rotating residential IPs behind one endpoint
• Web MCP Server for AI agents
• Cloud storage for crawl results

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: No subscription needed to start
• Strength: Per-request rates fall to $0.02 at very high volume
• Strength: Official SDKs in five languages
• Weakness: JavaScript rendering doubles the credit cost
• Weakness: Hard sites carry extra multipliers
• Weakness: Smaller ecosystem of prebuilt scrapers

Key facts

• First 1,000 requests: $3.00 per 1,000 on pay as you go
• Example cost: 1M standard requests about $527.50
• Subscriptions: Starter $99, Scale 500K $199, Growth $599 per month
• IP pool: 140M IPs

Where it ranks

Crawlbase is No. 9 in our Best Web Scraping Tools verdict.