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10 Best Web Scraping Tools of 2026
This list is for developers, analysts and marketers who need data from websites, whether that means one API call, a point-and-click robot or a fully managed feed. Apify and Firecrawl lead for most teams, while Octoparse and Browse AI suit people who do not code.
By the Mojolin research desk · Updated November 2, 2026 · 10 tools compared · Prices checked on vendor pages, latest November 2, 2026
Questions or corrections: editorial@mojolin.com
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Apify is our top pick because its catalog of ready-made Actors and its cloud for custom code cover almost any scraping job, with a free monthly credit to start. Firecrawl is the best choice for AI apps that need clean page text, ScrapingBee is the simplest pure API, and Scrappey is the cheapest pay-as-you-go option for low or irregular volume.
Top picks
Best overall
Apify
8.9 / 10
Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site today and room to build custom crawlers later.
Read the review →Runner-up
Firecrawl
8.8 / 10
AI developers who need web pages turned into LLM-ready text.
Read the review →Also great
ScrapingBee
8.5 / 10
Developers who want one simple API call to fetch rendered pages without managing proxies.
Read the review →Comparison table
| # | Tool | Pricing | Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apify | Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site today and room to build custom crawlers later. | Free plan with $5 of monthly usage; Starter $19 per month and Scale $199 per month, each plus pay as you go usage | 8.9 |
| 2 | Firecrawl | AI developers who need web pages turned into LLM-ready text. | Free plan with 1,000 credits per month; Hobby $19 per month ($16 billed annually), Standard $99 ($83 annually), Growth $399 ($333 annually) | 8.8 |
| 3 | ScrapingBee | Developers who want one simple API call to fetch rendered pages without managing proxies. | 1,000 free API credits to start; Hobby $19 per month, Freelance $49, Startup $99 and Business $249 | 8.5 |
| 4 |  Bright Data | Companies collecting large volumes of data from heavily protected sites. | Scraper APIs pay as you go from $1.50 per 1,000 records, Scale plan $499 per month; free trial available | 8.3 |
| 5 |  Browse AI | Business users who want to watch websites for changes and pipe data into spreadsheets. | Free plan with 50 credits per month; Personal $19 per month and Professional $69 per month billed annually; Premium from $500 per month | 8.3 |
| 6 |  Octoparse | Non-developers who want to scrape sites on a schedule without writing code. | Free plan with 10 tasks; Standard from $69 per month, Professional $249 per month; data service from $599 | 8.3 |
| 7 |  Scrappey | Developers with irregular volume who do not want a monthly commitment. | Pay as you go from EUR 0.10 per 1,000 direct requests and EUR 1.00 per 1,000 browser requests; free demo trial; no subscription | 8.2 |
| 8 |  Agenty | Solo users who want a no-code browser scraper they pay for once. | Local Chrome extension from $49 one-time (Personal) or $89 one-time launch price (Advanced); cloud and API plans also offered | 8.1 |
| 9 |  Bridgly | Developers and AI agents that need structured social platform data rather than generic web pages. | 100 free credits; pay as you go $2.00 per 1,000 credits, Growth $50 for 30,000 credits, Scale $300 for 300,000 credits | 8.1 |
| 10 |  WebscrapingHQ | Companies that want recurring data delivered without owning any scraping infrastructure. | Managed engagements from $500 per month; scoped after a free consultation | 7.8 |
Scoring weights
Every tool gets three editorial scores out of 10, from vendor documentation, product pages and the published price. The overall score is the weighted average below, the same method on every list. Full method
The full ranking
Rank 1 · Best overall
Apify
A cloud platform for running ready-made scrapers, called Actors, or deploying your own code.
apify.com8.9
out of 10
Best for: Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site today and room to build custom crawlers later.
Apify is the most complete scraping platform on this list. Its Store lists more than 100,000 Actors, which are packaged scrapers and automation tools for specific sites and jobs, so a marketer who needs Google Maps listings or Instagram posts can usually start from a ready-made Actor instead of writing code. Developers get the other half: the same cloud runs your own code, with proxies, storage, scheduling and an API around it, and Crawlee gives you an open-source library to build with.
The trade-off is billing. Plans give you a monthly spend balance, and Actors charge per result, per event or per compute unit, so the cost of a job depends on which Actor you run and how heavy the pages are. The free plan's $5 monthly credit is enough to test that before you commit. Choose Apify if you want breadth and flexibility; choose a single-endpoint API like ScrapingBee or Firecrawl if you only need to fetch pages.
Standout feature
No other tool pairs a catalog of more than 100,000 ready-made scrapers with a cloud for running your own code.
Use cases
Growth marketers
Pull listings from a site with a ready-made Store Actor
Outcome: Data without writing a scraper
Data engineers
Deploy custom crawlers as scheduled Actors
Outcome: No servers or proxies to manage
AI developers
Give an agent web tools through the Apify MCP server
Outcome: Agents that can browse and extract
Key features
- Apify Store with more than 100,000 public Actors for sites and tasks
- Run your own scrapers on Apify infrastructure as Actors
- Built-in proxy rotation and anti-blocking tools
- Crawlee, an open-source web scraping and crawling library
- MCP server so AI agents can call Actors
Pros
- Free plan includes $5 of usage every month with no credit card
- Huge catalog means most common scraping jobs need no code
- Same platform scales from one-off runs to scheduled pipelines
Cons
- Usage-based billing on compute units is hard to predict up front
- Quality of community Actors varies by author
Rank 2 · Runner-up
Firecrawl
An API that scrapes, crawls and searches the web and returns clean data for AI apps.
firecrawl.dev8.8
out of 10
Best for: AI developers who need web pages turned into LLM-ready text.
Firecrawl is built for the current wave of AI apps. You give it a URL and it returns clean content that a language model can read, or you point it at a site and it crawls every page, and the same credits pay for web searches. That makes it a natural fit for retrieval pipelines, research agents and chatbots that need fresh web content, and users quoted on its own site praise the switch from raw HTML to clean markdown.
Pricing is straightforward: 1,000 free credits a month, Hobby at $19 per month for 5,000 credits, and Standard at $99 for 100,000, with discounts for annual billing. The free plan's two concurrent requests are fine for testing but not for production. Firecrawl is less useful if you need a library of site-specific scrapers or a visual builder, but for developers feeding web data into LLMs it is the quickest path we found.
Standout feature
Searches and page scrapes share one credit balance, and the output is shaped for language models rather than for parsers.
Use cases
AI engineers
Turn documentation sites into clean text for retrieval
Outcome: Better answers from a chatbot
Agent builders
Give an agent search and scrape tools over MCP
Outcome: Agents that read live web pages
Researchers
Crawl a site and export every page
Outcome: A full text corpus in minutes
Key features
- Scrape single pages into clean output for LLMs
- Crawl whole sites from one starting URL
- Web search that shares one credit balance with scraping
- SDKs and an MCP server for agent workflows
- Extra credit packs on every paid plan
Pros
- Free tier refreshes every month and needs no card
- Searches and scrapes draw on one simple credit balance
- Output is built for feeding AI models
Cons
- Free plan has low rate limits and 2 concurrent requests
- Less suited to point-and-click users who do not code
Rank 3 · Also great
ScrapingBee
A web scraping API that handles headless browsers, proxies and JavaScript rendering for you.
scrapingbee.com8.5
out of 10
Best for: Developers who want one simple API call to fetch rendered pages without managing proxies.
ScrapingBee is a good default for developers who already know what they want to extract and just need the page. You send a URL, it returns the HTML after rendering JavaScript through a headless browser and rotating proxies, and you parse the result in your own code. Every plan includes rendering, rotating and premium proxies and geotargeting, so you are not stacking add-ons to get a working request.
Plans are priced by API credits and concurrency, from Hobby at $19 per month for 75,000 credits up to Business+ at $599, and new accounts get 1,000 free credits with no card. What you do not get is a library of ready-made site scrapers or a no-code builder, which Apify and Octoparse offer. If your team writes code and wants the fewest moving parts, ScrapingBee is easy to recommend.
Standout feature
Rendering, rotating proxies and geotargeting are included from the cheapest plan, so a basic request needs no add-ons.
Use cases
Backend developers
Fetch JavaScript-heavy pages with one API call
Outcome: Rendered HTML without running browsers
Price monitoring startups
Request pages from specific countries with geotargeting
Outcome: Local prices per market
Key features
- JavaScript rendering on every plan
- Rotating and premium proxies included
- Geotargeting on standard plans
- Screenshots of pages
- Team management and a dedicated account manager on Business
Pros
- One endpoint with clear credit-based pricing
- Proxies and rendering included rather than sold separately
- 1,000 free credits with no credit card
Cons
- You still write the parsing logic yourself
- Credit costs rise for premium proxies and rendering
Rank 4
Bright Data
Proxy networks, unblocking and scraper APIs for collecting web data at enterprise scale.
brightdata.com8.3
out of 10
Best for: Companies collecting large volumes of data from heavily protected sites.
Bright Data is the heavyweight option. It sells nearly every piece of a scraping stack as a separate product: residential and datacenter proxies, an API that gets past blocks and CAPTCHAs, a Browser API with stealth browsers, Scraper APIs with prebuilt collectors for more than 1,200 sites, ready-made datasets, and a managed service if you want someone else to run it. For a company that scrapes protected targets at volume, that breadth means one vendor instead of four.
The cost is complexity and price. The product menu is long, each product has its own pricing model, and the Scale plan for Scraper APIs starts at $499 per month, although pay as you go starts at $1.50 per 1,000 records and charges only for successful deliveries. A solo developer scraping a few thousand pages will find ScrapingBee or Firecrawl easier. Pick Bright Data when blocks are your main problem and the budget exists to solve them.
Standout feature
It covers the whole stack from proxy IPs to finished datasets, with prebuilt scraper APIs for more than 1,200 websites.
Use cases
Ecommerce analysts
Collect competitor product pages with Scraper APIs
Outcome: Structured product data at volume
Data teams
Route crawlers through residential proxies
Outcome: Fewer blocked requests
Enterprises
Buy managed data acquisition
Outcome: Data delivered without an in-house team
Key features
- Scraper APIs for real-time data from 1,200+ websites
- An API that gets past blocks and CAPTCHAs
- Browser API with remote stealth browsers
- Residential and datacenter proxy networks
- Ready-made datasets and managed data collection
Pros
- Covers every layer from proxies to finished datasets
- Billing on Scraper APIs counts only successful deliveries
- Unlimited concurrency on pay as you go
Cons
- The product range is large and takes time to learn
- Entry costs are higher than developer-focused APIs for small projects
Rank 5
Browse AI
A no-code tool that trains robots to extract and monitor data from websites.
browse.ai8.3
out of 10
Best for: Business users who want to watch websites for changes and pipe data into spreadsheets.
Browse AI is the easiest tool here for people who have never scraped anything. You record what you want by clicking on a page, and the robot repeats it on a schedule, turning a website into a live Google Sheet or Airtable base. Its strength is monitoring: robots can watch a page and alert you when prices, listings or text change, which covers a lot of real business needs without any code.
The pricing is the weak spot. Plans are sold in credits with domain and user caps, so Personal at $19 per month billed annually covers only two domains, and big extractions burn credits fast. For a marketer watching a dozen competitor pages it is excellent value; for millions of pages, Octoparse or an API like ScrapingBee will cost less.
Standout feature
Change monitoring is a first-class feature, so a robot can watch a page and alert you instead of only scraping it.
Use cases
Marketing teams
Monitor competitor pricing pages for changes
Outcome: Alerts the day a price moves
Operations staff
Sync a website table into Google Sheets
Outcome: A spreadsheet that updates itself
Key features
- Train a robot by pointing and clicking, no code
- 200+ prebuilt robots for popular websites
- AI change detection and website monitoring
- Send data to Google Sheets or Airtable
- Integrations with 9,000+ apps
Pros
- Very quick to set up for non-technical users
- Monitoring and alerts are built in, not bolted on
- Live sync into spreadsheets
Cons
- Credits run out quickly on large extractions
- Domain and user limits on the lower plans
Rank 6
Octoparse
A no-code desktop and cloud scraper with point-and-click task building and preset templates.
octoparse.com8.3
out of 10
Best for: Non-developers who want to scrape sites on a schedule without writing code.
Octoparse is the classic no-code scraper and still one of the most capable. You build a task by clicking the elements you want, or start from one of more than 500 preset templates on the Standard plan, then run it locally or in the cloud on a schedule. Paid plans add the infrastructure that usually trips up beginners, including IP rotation, residential proxies, CAPTCHA solving and an export API.
The free plan is generous enough to learn on, with 10 tasks and 50,000 exported rows a month, and Standard starts at $69 per month. Watch the add-ons: residential proxies are billed per GB and CAPTCHA solving per thousand. Browse AI is lighter and lives in the browser, but Octoparse gives you more control over complex, multi-page extractions.
Standout feature
More than 500 preset templates and a point-and-click builder make complex multi-page scraping possible without code.
Use cases
Ecommerce managers
Scrape competitor catalogs with a preset template
Outcome: Weekly price sheets without code
Market researchers
Schedule cloud extraction across many listing pages
Outcome: Fresh data every morning
Key features
- Point-and-click task builder with no code
- 500+ preset scraping templates on Standard
- Cloud extraction with scheduling and monitoring
- IP rotation, residential proxies and automatic CAPTCHA solving
- Data Export API access
Pros
- Free forever plan with 10 tasks
- Templates cover many common sites out of the box
- Managed data service available if you want it done for you
Cons
- Residential proxies and CAPTCHA solving add per-use costs
- Desktop-first workflow feels heavier than browser-based tools
Rank 7
Scrappey
A pay-as-you-go scraping API with residential proxies and full browser requests.
scrappey.com8.2
out of 10
Best for: Developers with irregular volume who do not want a monthly commitment.
Scrappey is the cheapest way on this list to fetch pages through residential proxies. There is no subscription: you top up a balance and pay EUR 0.10 per 1,000 direct HTTP requests or EUR 1.00 per 1,000 full browser requests, both with sticky residential proxies included, and the balance never expires. Larger top-ups earn bonus balance, and you are only charged for successful scrapes.
The feature set covers what most developers need: headless Chrome or Firefox, session profiles, CAPTCHA handling on the browser tier and an AI extraction endpoint. It is a smaller operation than ScrapingBee or Bright Data, and pricing is in euros, so US buyers should expect the dollar cost to drift. For bursty or low-volume work where a monthly plan would sit idle, Scrappey is excellent value.
Standout feature
At EUR 0.10 per 1,000 direct requests with residential proxies included and no expiry on balance, it is the lowest entry price here.
Use cases
Indie developers
Run occasional scrapes on a prepaid balance
Outcome: No idle monthly fees
Data hobbyists
Fetch protected pages through residential proxies
Outcome: Fewer blocks for a few euros
Key features
- Direct HTTP requests and full browser requests through one API
- Residential proxies in 120+ countries included
- CAPTCHA and access handling on the browser tier
- Browser session profiles across requests
- AI-powered data extraction endpoint
Pros
- No monthly commitment, and balance never expires
- Charges only for successful scrapes
- Very low per-request price for simple pages
Cons
- Prices are set in euros, so US costs move with the exchange rate
- Smaller company with community support on the free tier
Rank 8
Agenty
A point-and-click scraping Chrome extension with cloud agents, change detection and a browser API.
agenty.com8.1
out of 10
Best for: Solo users who want a no-code browser scraper they pay for once.
Agenty takes a different approach to pricing from most of this list. Its Chrome extension runs scrapes locally in your own browser, and you pay once, $49 for Personal or a launch price of $89 for Advanced, instead of a monthly subscription. The extension handles list pages, pagination and detail pages and exports to CSV, JSON or Excel, and Advanced adds Google Sheets and webhook export with up to three browser profiles.
Beyond the extension, Agenty runs cloud agents, change detection and a pay-as-you-go browser API for teams that need scheduling and scale. The catch with local scraping is that it uses your own IP address and proxies, so sites with strong bot protection will block you sooner than with a managed service like Bright Data. For a freelancer or small business with moderate needs, the one-time license is hard to beat on value.
Standout feature
The local scraper is a one-time purchase, which is rare in a category built on monthly subscriptions.
Use cases
Freelancers
Scrape directory listings into Excel from Chrome
Outcome: Lead lists without a subscription
Pricing analysts
Use change detection to watch competitor pages
Outcome: Email alerts on updates
Key features
- Point-and-click Chrome extension for list, pagination and detail pages
- Export to CSV, JSON and Excel
- Google Sheets and webhook export on Advanced
- Cloud agents with scheduling and email or webhook alerts
- Change detection and web crawling products
Pros
- One-time license instead of a monthly bill for local scraping
- Free sample offered before you commit
- Works on JavaScript and AJAX pages
Cons
- Local plans use your own browser and proxies, so blocking is your problem
- The $89 Advanced price is a launch offer for the first 500 users
Rank 9
Bridgly
Real-time social media data APIs for LinkedIn, X, Reddit, GitHub, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
bridgly.app8.1
out of 10
Best for: Developers and AI agents that need structured social platform data rather than generic web pages.
Bridgly is a specialist. Instead of fetching any URL, it offers 85 ready-made endpoints for LinkedIn, X, Reddit, GitHub, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, each returning structured JSON for profiles, posts, comments, jobs and search results. Bridgly runs the sessions, rotating infrastructure and anti-bot work, so you send a handle or URL and get clean data back, and the same key works over REST, an MCP server, a TypeScript SDK and a CLI.
Pricing is per call: one credit per request on almost every endpoint, $2.00 per 1,000 credits on pay as you go, dropping to $1 per 1,000 on the $300 Scale package, and credits never expire. Because it only covers social platforms, it does not replace a general scraper like Apify or ScrapingBee. If social data is the job, though, it saves you from building and maintaining fragile scrapers for each network.
Standout feature
One key covers 85 social media endpoints across seven platforms, delivered over REST, MCP, SDK or CLI.
Use cases
Sales tool builders
Pull LinkedIn profiles and company pages by URL
Outcome: Structured records for enrichment
AI agent developers
Connect an agent to social data through MCP
Outcome: Agents that can read social posts
Key features
- 85 endpoints across 7 social platforms
- One credit per call on almost all endpoints
- REST API, MCP server, TypeScript SDK and CLI
- Normalized JSON responses with full profile and post fields
- Anti-bot handling and live sessions run by Bridgly
Pros
- Credits never expire and there is no subscription
- Same key works across API, SDK and MCP
- Clear per-call pricing
Cons
- Covers social platforms only, not arbitrary websites
- Free credits require a business email
Rank 10
WebscrapingHQ
A managed web data service that builds, runs and maintains scrapers for you.
webscrapinghq.com7.8
out of 10
Best for: Companies that want recurring data delivered without owning any scraping infrastructure.
WebscrapingHQ is not a tool you operate; it is a team that operates scrapers for you. After a 30-minute scoping call it builds a custom scraper and AI extraction pipeline, runs it on a schedule, re-tunes it when sites change, and delivers the results as CSV or JSON feeds, S3 drops, webhooks, PDF reports or dashboards. The company says it has run production scraping stacks since 2019 for ad verification firms, consumer brands and AI startups.
Recurring engagements start at $500 per month, which is expensive next to a $19 API plan but cheap next to an engineer's time if scraping is not your core business. You give up control and the ability to experiment on your own. Choose it when you need reliable data on a schedule and would rather pay someone to own the breakage.
Standout feature
It is the only fully managed service on this list, so the vendor owns every broken selector and blocked request.
Use cases
Brand managers
Receive monthly compliance reports built from dealer sites
Outcome: Audits without manual checking
AI startups
Outsource a recurring web data feed
Outcome: Engineers stay on the product
Key features
- Custom scrapers built and maintained for your sources
- AI vision and LLM parsing for messy or visual data
- Proxy, CAPTCHA and anti-bot handling managed for you
- Delivery as CSV, JSON, webhooks, S3 drops, PDF reports or dashboards
- Monitoring, alerts and re-tuning when sites change
Pros
- No infrastructure or maintenance on your side
- Handles visual and unstructured sources with AI extraction
- Free scoping call before you commit
Cons
- Minimum spend is far above self-serve tools
- No self-serve plan to test on your own
Frequently asked questions
+What is the best web scraping tool for beginners?
Browse AI and Octoparse are the easiest for people who do not code. Browse AI lets you train a robot by clicking on a page and has a free plan with 50 credits a month, and Octoparse has a free forever plan with 10 tasks.
+What is the cheapest web scraping API?
Scrappey has the lowest entry price we found, at EUR 0.10 per 1,000 direct requests with residential proxies included and no subscription. Firecrawl and ScrapingBee both offer free credits to test before paying.
+Which scraping tool is best for AI and LLM projects?
Firecrawl is built for this: it returns clean page content for language models, crawls whole sites and includes search in the same credit balance. Apify and Bridgly also offer MCP servers so AI agents can call their tools.
+Do I need proxies for web scraping?
For small jobs on simple sites you often do not. For larger jobs or sites with bot protection you will, and most tools here include rotating or residential proxies in their price, including ScrapingBee, Scrappey and Apify.
+Is there a free web scraping tool?
Several tools have free plans: Apify gives $5 of usage each month, Firecrawl gives 1,000 credits a month, Octoparse has 10 free tasks and Browse AI has 50 free credits a month.
+Should I build my own scraper or use a service?
Build your own if scraping is part of your product and you have engineers to maintain it. Use an API or managed service if you only need the data, because fixing scrapers after site changes takes ongoing time.
About this list
Updated November 2, 2026 by the Mojolin research desk. Mojolin is self-funded
Questions or corrections: editorial@mojolin.com
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