TL;DROur verdict on Scrapfly, in 4 facts
- Real residential + datacenter + mobile pool, ASP engine with stealth Chromium across 195+ countries.
- Pricing starts at $30.00/mo.
- 96.5% rig-tested success rate, 2.1s average response.
- Headquartered in Paris, France, founded 2020.
The verdict
Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where Scrapfly lands.
- Per-request cost breakdown in every API response — true spend attribution
- Pay-on-success model: failed anti-bot bypasses cost zero credits
- ASP engine chains 20+ bypass vendors with target-specific success metrics
- One API key unlocks Scraping, Cloud Browser, Screenshot, Extraction, Crawler
- SOC 2 Type II + ISO 27001 certified — rare at this team size
- Native Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium drivers over Cloud Browser CDP
- Forever-free 1,000 credits, no card, every product included
- Credit-based pricing makes JS-heavy scrapes burn allowance unpredictably
- No raw proxy resale — you cannot plug their IPs into a third-party scraper
- Five-person team means slower feature roadmap than Bright Data or Oxylabs
- Entry plan jumps from free (1k) straight to $30/200k — no $5-$15 hobby tier
- LLM Extraction API costs extra credits per call on top of the base scrape
Pricing C+ · 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 Scrapfly?+
What we think after testing Scrapfly
Editorial review by Devansh Rao · last tested Jul 7, 2026
Most scraping APIs hand you a black box. You fire a request, you get HTML back, and when something breaks at 3am you are left guessing whether it was the target site, the proxy, the headless browser, or the anti-bot layer silently retrying behind your back. Scrapfly took the opposite stance and turned the inside of that black box into a product feature.
Built out of Paris in 2020 by Blake Daniels, Scrapfly is a tight five-person operation that punches well above its weight against ScrapingBee, ZenRows, and ScraperAPI. The pitch is straightforward: one API key gets you the Web Scraping API with their ASP (Anti Scraping Protection) engine, a Cloud Browser running stealth Chromium over CDP with Playwright/Puppeteer/Selenium drivers, a Screenshot API, an Extraction API powered by LLM prompts plus JSON schemas, and a site-wide Crawler. No upselling, no separate dashboards.
What sets Scrapfly apart is the observability. Every single API response carries a structured cost breakdown — proxy type used, ASP fingerprint cost, JS render charge, geographic surcharge — so engineering teams can actually attribute spend to the targets that hurt. The dashboard exposes per-domain success rates, retry traces, and a debug playback that replays the exact rendered DOM you got back. For production teams running thousands of scrapers, this is the difference between debugging in minutes versus days.
Anti-bot performance is the other selling point and it is legitimate. The ASP layer chains 20+ bypass vendors with intelligent fallback, and the pay-on-success model means failed bypasses cost zero. Cloudflare Turnstile, DataDome, PerimeterX, Akamai — Scrapfly publishes target-by-target success rates rather than vague "99% success" marketing, and the numbers hold up under load.
Pricing starts at $30/month for 200k credits with a genuine forever-free 1,000 credit tier (no card required, all products included). Credits scale predictably from prototype to 15B+ requests per month on the same key. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant — rare credentials for a five-person shop and a sign of where they are aimed.
The trade-offs: it is credit-based, not per-request flat, so JS-heavy scrapes can chew through allowance faster than you would expect. There is no traditional raw proxy product. And the boutique team means feature velocity is steady but not Bright-Data fast.
Intro to Web Scraping using ScrapFly SDK and Python
Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Scrapfly — 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 Scrapfly compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = Scrapfly.
Compared against all directory providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.
Pricing
From $30.00/GB. Detailed plan breakdown not yet published.
View plans on Scrapfly →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 Scrapfly 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.scrapfly.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
195+ countries served.
Scrapfly vs alternatives
How Scrapfly stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.
| Metric | Scrapfly | Oxylabs | Firecrawl | SerpApi |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (entry plan) | $30.00 | $4.00 | — | $25.00 |
| Pool size | Real residential + datacenter + mobile pool, ASP engine with stealth Chromium | 177M+ IPs | 500 free pages | Google + 100+ search engines/sites, managed global proxy infrastructure |
| Locations | 195+ countries | — | — | — |
| Rating | 4.8 / 5 | 4.7 / 5 | 4.7 / 5 | 4.7 / 5 |
| Read review | YOU ARE HERE | View → | View → | View → |
How to get started with Scrapfly
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 Scrapfly account at https://scrapfly.io. 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 Scrapfly's claimed rate before committing to an annual plan.
Stuck? Check Scrapfly's documentation or email us.
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