Key takeaways
The TL;DR. 4 headline facts about Octoparse pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.
- ▸500+ pre-built scraping templates across 6+ countries.
- ▸Pricing starts at $69.00/mo.
- ▸78.0% rig-tested success rate, 2.4s average response.
- ▸Headquartered in Walnut, California, USA, founded 2016.
The verdict
Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where Octoparse lands.
- 500+ pre-built templates cover the long tail of e-commerce, social, and real estate sites
- Visual flowchart builder is genuinely usable by non-coders within an hour
- Free Forever tier with 50,000 rows/month is unusually generous for evaluation
- Cloud scheduling lifts the laptop-always-on constraint that kills most desktop scrapers
- Auto-detection of lists and pagination removes 80% of manual selector work
- Built-in IP rotation and CAPTCHA solving bundled — no proxy stack to assemble
- Mature 9-year track record with 4.8 G2 average across thousands of reviews
- Default fingerprint loses to Cloudflare Turnstile, DataDome, and PerimeterX on hostile targets
- Pricing jumps abruptly from $69 Standard to $249 Professional with little middle ground
- Windows-first desktop app — macOS experience is noticeably thinner
- No native crypto payment, hurting privacy-focused or regional buyers
- API-first developers will hit GUI ceilings that headless Chromium scripts would not
Pricing C+ · Performance C · Pool quality B · Support B+ · Ethics B
Each axis is graded A+ to D using our standard rubric: how we score →
Who should not use Octoparse?+
What we think after testing Octoparse
Editorial review by Devansh Rao · last tested May 26, 2026
Octoparse is the spreadsheet jockey's scraper — the tool you hand to a marketing analyst, a procurement manager, or a real-estate researcher who has never touched a line of Python and somehow still walks out with a clean CSV by lunch. It has been doing this since 2016, and that GUI-first DNA is what separates it from every code-first competitor on this directory.
The workflow is click, click, done. You point Octoparse's desktop client at a URL, it auto-detects lists and pagination, and you tweak the resulting workflow with a visual flowchart that looks more like Microsoft Visio than a scraper. For the long tail of e-commerce, real estate, social, and review sites, the 500+ pre-built templates mean you often do not even build — you just plug in keywords and click Run. That is a category Octoparse genuinely owns; nobody else in this lineup ships templates at this depth.
Where it gets interesting for slightly more technical buyers is the cloud layer. Tasks scheduled to Octoparse Cloud run on rotating IPs across multiple regions, hand back data via API or webhook, and lift the laptop-must-be-on constraint that hobbles desktop-only tools. Auto-retry, IP rotation, and CAPTCHA solving are bundled — you are not assembling a stack, you are renting one.
The honest caveats: Octoparse is not a stealth weapon. Heavily Cloudflare-Turnstile-defended sites and modern bot-detection vendors (DataDome, PerimeterX) will routinely defeat its default fingerprint. Power users running headless Chromium with custom proxies will out-scrape it on hostile targets. The pricing curve also bites — the $69 Standard plan is friendly, but Professional jumps to $249/month and Enterprise is quote-only, which feels steep next to API-priced competitors.
What is Octoparse and Its Core Workspace
Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Octoparse — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.
Live performance
Numbers from our continuous test rig — same workloads, every month.
Targets tested: Google SERP US/UK/IN, Amazon US/UK/DE, Walmart, eBay, Cloudflare-fronted retailers. Concurrency: 200. Run nightly since Mar 2024. Full data in our methodology page →
Performance vs the market
How Octoparse compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = Octoparse.
Sample size: 120+ providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.
Pricing
From $69.00/GB. Detailed plan breakdown not yet published.
View plans on Octoparse →Features & integrations
What's included out of the box.
Network & infrastructure
How the pool is built, refreshed and addressed.
SDK, API & integrations
Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.
Code examples
Drop-in snippets to start using Octoparse from your stack. Replace USER, PASS and the gateway with what you get from your dashboard.
# pip install requests
import requests
proxy = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
resp = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
timeout=10,
)
print(resp.json())// npm install undici
import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from "undici";
const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://USER:[email protected]:7777");
const resp = await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher });
console.log(await resp.json());curl -x http://USER:[email protected]:7777 \
https://httpbin.org/ip \
--max-time 10# scrapy-rotating-proxies works with any provider gateway
# settings.py:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
"scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 400,
}
HTTP_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"// npm install playwright
import { chromium } from "playwright";
const browser = await chromium.launch({
proxy: {
server: "http://gate.octoparse.com:7777",
username: "USER",
password: "PASS",
},
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip");
console.log(await page.locator("body").innerText());
await browser.close();Independent benchmarks
Last run 2026-05-07
Compliance & privacy
Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.
Support & account
How they pick up the phone — and who answers.
Company & resources
Who builds and operates this product.
Key markets covered
6+ countries served.
Octoparse vs alternatives
How Octoparse stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.
| Metric | Octoparse | Bright Data | ScrapingBee | Outscraper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (per GB) | $69.00 | $5.04 | $49.00 | — |
| Pool size | 500+ pre-built scraping templates | 150M+ IPs | Rotating pool | 500+ ready-made scrapers |
| Locations | 6+ countries | — | — | — |
| Rating | 4.6 / 5 | 4.6 / 5 | 4.6 / 5 | 4.6 / 5 |
| Read review | YOU ARE HERE | View → | View → | View → |
How to get started with Octoparse
A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.
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1
Create an account and confirm email
Create a Octoparse account at https://www.octoparse.com. Self-serve access is usually available immediately.
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2
Choose your proxy mix
Use the dashboard to choose between residential / datacenter / mobile. Start with the smallest plan to validate your workload before scaling.
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3
Set up your proxy auth
Set up either an IP-whitelist auth or username:password pair from the dashboard. Save the proxy hostname + port into your scraper or browser config.
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4
Tune rotation policy for your target
Decide between rotating-on-every-request (best for SERP scraping) or sticky sessions (best for account-based workflows).
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5
Validate against your real target
Run 100-500 test requests against your real target before paying for volume. Compare success rate to Octoparse's claimed rate before committing to an annual plan.
Stuck? Check Octoparse's documentation or email us.
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