Key takeaways
The TL;DR. 3 headline facts about Outscraper pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.
- ▸500+ ready-made scrapers pool.
- ▸96.4% rig-tested success rate, 0.8s average response.
- ▸Headquartered in Bee Cave, Texas, USA, founded 2018.
The verdict
Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where Outscraper lands.
- True pay-as-you-go — no monthly minimum, no subscription, no seat fees
- Best-in-class Google Maps Places + Reviews extraction at $1/1,000 records on Business tier
- 500+ pre-built scrapers covering Bing Maps, Yelp, business directories, YouTube, Amazon
- Free tier resets every 30 days (500 Maps records, 500 reviews) — genuinely usable, not a teaser
- Prepaid credits never expire — rare in the scraping space
- API-first with async webhooks, Python/Node SDKs, Sheets add-on, Zapier and Make integrations
- 3-day money-back guarantee on failed data retrievals
- Not a proxy provider — no residential or mobile IP pool to rent for your own scrapers
- Weak on hard targets — Cloudflare-protected sites, gated social platforms, anti-bot ecommerce
- Amazon scraping exists but is not the team strength versus Bright Data or Oxylabs
- Dashboard UX is functional but dated compared to Octoparse or Browse.ai
- Founder and team transparency is thin — limited public profiles, no funding disclosures
Pricing A · Performance B+ · 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 Outscraper?+
What we think after testing Outscraper
Editorial review by Devansh Rao · last tested May 26, 2026
Outscraper is the rare scraping company that picked a lane and stayed in it. While Octoparse chases visual workflows, Browse.ai sells AI-driven monitoring, and PhantomBuster targets social automation, Outscraper has spent the better part of seven years quietly becoming the Google-Maps-and-local-business specialist that agencies, lead-gen shops, and SMB sales teams keep on speed dial. Founded in 2018 out of Bee Cave, Texas, the company runs a cloud-side fleet of 500+ ready-made scrapers — but the gravitational center of the catalog is Google Maps Places, Google Reviews, Bing Maps, Yelp, business directories, and the contact-enrichment layer that turns a scraped listing into a usable lead.
The economics are the differentiator and the reason this provider keeps showing up in shortlist comparisons. There is no monthly subscription, no seat fee, and no platform tax. You pay $1 per 1,000 records once you cross into the Business tier, $3/1,000 at Medium, and the free tier (500 records/month) renews every 30 days — meaning a small operator can pull modest volumes indefinitely without ever entering a card. Prepaid credits never expire, which is unusually generous and removes the use-it-or-lose-it anxiety baked into competitors' tier resets.
The product surface is API-first. You can fire jobs from a no-code dashboard, but the real users are running async REST calls with webhook callbacks, piping results straight into Postgres, BigQuery, or a Sheets tab via the official add-on. Output formats include CSV, XLSX, JSON, and Parquet — Parquet is a quiet tell that the team thinks about data engineers, not just marketers.
Where Outscraper visibly weakens: anything outside its specialty. There is no residential or mobile proxy marketplace, no Cloudflare-bypass headless browser, no ecommerce-grade Amazon ASIN harvester, and no real social-graph scraping. If your job is "pull every Starbucks in Florida with phone, website, and the last 50 reviews," nobody is faster or cheaper. If your job is scrape gated Twitter/X profiles behind login walls, look elsewhere.
Support is responsive (Discord and email), the docs are clean, and the 3-day money-back guarantee on failed retrievals is a confidence signal most competitors will not match.
How to Scrape Data From Google Maps?
Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Outscraper — 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 Outscraper compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = Outscraper.
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 $0.00/GB. Detailed plan breakdown not yet published.
View plans on Outscraper →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 Outscraper 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.outscraper.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
Global coverage.
Outscraper vs alternatives
How Outscraper stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.
| Metric | Outscraper | Bright Data | ScrapingBee | Octoparse |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (per GB) | — | $5.04 | $49.00 | $69.00 |
| Pool size | 500+ ready-made scrapers | 150M+ IPs | Rotating pool | 500+ pre-built scraping templates |
| Locations | — | — | — | — |
| 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 Outscraper
A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.
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1
Open an account & verify your inbox
Create a Outscraper account at https://outscraper.com. Self-serve access is usually available immediately.
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2
Pick a starter package
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
Grab your endpoint + credentials
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
Set up session stickiness
Decide between rotating-on-every-request (best for SERP scraping) or sticky sessions (best for account-based workflows).
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5
Benchmark before committing
Run 100-500 test requests against your real target before paying for volume. Compare success rate to Outscraper's claimed rate before committing to an annual plan.
Stuck? Check Outscraper's documentation or email us.
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