--- title: ScrapingBee slug: scrapingbee url: "https://toolweight.com/tools/scrapingbee" homepage: "https://www.scrapingbee.com" categories: browser-automation-apis last_verified: 2026-11-07 dataset_version: 0738be72 license: CC-BY-4.0 --- # ScrapingBee > One-call HTML API with JavaScript rendering and premium proxy tiers - A single GET request that returns rendered HTML, a screenshot or extracted data - Proxy quality selected by how many credits you spend - No CDP endpoint and no session, so multi-step flows are awkward by design; predictable per-request cost ## Identity | | | | --- | --- | | Name | ScrapingBee | | Company | ScrapingBee | | One-liner | One-call HTML API with JavaScript rendering and premium proxy tiers | | Site | https://www.scrapingbee.com | | Docs | https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/ | | Founded | 2018 | | Open source | No | | Compared in | 1 | ## Where it is compared ### [Browser APIs](https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis) Ranked **#14 of 14** on default weights. | Field | Value | Confidence | Verified | Source | Note | Permalink | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Anti-bot pass rate | 99% | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://www.scrapingbee.com/ | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--antibot_success | | Stealth mode | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/ | Delivered by paying more credits for premium/stealth proxy tiers. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--stealth_mode | | CAPTCHA solving | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | Some challenges handled transparently; no general solver. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--captcha_solving | | Residential proxy | metered-extra | Inferred | 2026-07-01 | - | Premium proxies cost a multiple of the base credit price per request. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--residential_proxy | | Cold start | - | Unknown | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--cold_start | | CDP endpoint | ○ | Inferred | - | - | There is no session to connect to, it is a request/response API. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--cdp_endpoint | | Playwright | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--playwright_support | | Puppeteer | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--puppeteer_support | | Session persistence | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--session_persistence | | Live view | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--live_view | | Session replay | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--session_replay | | Max concurrency | 100 sessions | Inferred | - | - | Approximate ceiling on the top self-serve plan; entry plans are much lower. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--concurrency_ceiling | | File downloads | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--file_downloads | | Chrome extensions | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--extension_support | | Browser regions | global | Inferred | - | - | Country targeting including Australia; you do not choose where the browser runs. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--regions | | Agent API | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--computer_use_api | | MCP server | ● | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/remote-mcp/ | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--mcp_server | | Human handoff | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--human_handoff | | Pricing model | per-credit | Vendor-claimed | 2026-07-01 | https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/ | Credits per request, multiplied by proxy tier and JS rendering. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--pricing_model | | Per browser-hour | N/A | Vendor-claimed | 2026-11-07 | https://www.scrapingbee.com/pricing/ | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--price_per_hour | | Free tier | ◐ | Inferred | - | - | One-off trial credits. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--free_tier | | GitHub stars | - | Unknown | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--github_stars | | Funding stage | bootstrapped | Community-reported | - | - | Long-running independent product with no reported raise. | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--funding_stage | | Open-source core | ○ | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--open_source_core | | Positioning | Scraping API that handles proxies and headless browsers for you | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--positioning | | Launched | 2018 | Inferred | - | - | - | https://toolweight.com/compare/browser-automation-apis#scrapingbee--launch_year | **Verdict.** Honest, boring and predictable, until your workflow needs three steps and a cookie jar. ## Alternatives - [Airtop](https://toolweight.com/tools/airtop), Natural-language browser API, describe the page, skip the selectors - [Anchor Browser](https://toolweight.com/tools/anchor-browser), Cloud browsers built around authenticated sessions and human takeover - [Apify](https://toolweight.com/tools/apify), Actor platform for scraping and agents, with Crawlee as the open-source core - [Bright Data Browser API](https://toolweight.com/tools/bright-data-browser-api), CDP browsers on a 70M+ residential IP network with challenge handling built in - [Browser Use](https://toolweight.com/tools/browser-use), The open-source browser agent library, with stealth cloud browsers and a hosted agent API - [Browserbase](https://toolweight.com/tools/browserbase), Managed headless browsers for AI agents, with Stagehand as the SDK - [Browserless](https://toolweight.com/tools/browserless), Self-hostable headless Chrome service; BrowserQL for bot-heavy sites - [Cloudflare Browser Rendering](https://toolweight.com/tools/cloudflare-browser-rendering), Puppeteer and Playwright bindings for Workers, plus REST render endpoints - [Hyperbrowser](https://toolweight.com/tools/hyperbrowser), Agent-first browsers with hosted scrape, crawl and CUA endpoints - [Kernel](https://toolweight.com/tools/kernel), Fast-starting browsers plus a runtime for deploying browser agents - [Self-hosted Playwright](https://toolweight.com/tools/playwright-self-hosted), The baseline: run Chromium in your own container and own everything - [Steel.dev](https://toolweight.com/tools/steel-dev), Open-source browser API for AI agents, hosted or self-run ## Logo & brand colours SVG files: https://toolweight.com/teams/scrapingbee/logo.svg and https://toolweight.com/teams/scrapingbee/mono.svg. JSON: https://toolweight.com/api/v1/brands/scrapingbee. | Hex | oklch | | --- | --- | | #000000 | oklch(0.0% 0.000 0.0) | ## Licence and attribution Data from Toolweight (https://toolweight.com), licensed CC-BY-4.0. - Licence: [CC-BY-4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) - Canonical HTML: https://toolweight.com/tools/scrapingbee - Machine-readable: https://toolweight.com/tools/scrapingbee.md · https://toolweight.com/api/v1 · https://toolweight.com/mcp - Toolweight takes no affiliate revenue and sells no placements.