TL;DROur verdict on WebScraping.AI, in 3 facts
- 1Datacenter/residential/stealth across 195 countries across 195+ countries.
- 2Pricing starts at $29.00/mo.
- 3Proxy types: Scraping API, Datacenter proxies, Residential proxies, Stealth proxies.
The verdict
Benchmark data and published specifications — here's where WebScraping.AI lands.
- Generous free tier with no card required
- Built-in AI structured-data extraction
- 195-country geotargeting
- Multiple proxy tiers (datacenter/residential/stealth)
- Automatic rotation and retry logic
- Transparent per-credit cost model
- Simple REST API
- Headquarters and ownership not disclosed
- No stated 24/7 human support
- Stealth proxies cost up to 50 credits per request
- Proxy pool size undisclosed
- Crypto payment availability unclear
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 →
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What we think after testing WebScraping.AI
Editorial review by Devansh Rao · last updated Oct 8, 2026
What WebScraping.AI is
WebScraping.AI is a managed scraping API, not a proxy list. Operating since 2019, it puts a single REST surface in front of headless Chrome rendering, proxy selection, retry logic and CAPTCHA handling, returning raw HTML, cleaned text, CSS selections or structured JSON generated by a language model. The trade is explicit: control for convenience. There is no proxy pool to rotate and no browser fleet to maintain, but no way to tune the network beyond the parameters the API exposes.
Who it is for
The fit is developers and small data teams who want a scraping dependency rather than scraping infrastructure. Seven official SDKs cover Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java and .NET, and the service ships an MCP server, a CLI and connectors for Zapier, n8n, Make and Pipedream. It is a poor fit for anyone needing to own IP selection or run long stateful sessions.
Endpoints and request controls
- Scraping: /html for page source, /text for visible text, /selected for one CSS selection and /selected-multiple for several in a call.
- AI: /ai/question answers a natural-language question about a page, /ai/fields returns named fields as structured JSON.
- Other: /serp/google and /account for remaining credits.
- Parameters worth knowing: js and js_timeout control rendering, js_script injects custom JavaScript, wait_for blocks on a selector, proxy chooses datacenter, residential or stealth, country sets the exit location, custom_proxy routes through a customer server, device switches between desktop, mobile and tablet, and error_on_404 and error_on_redirect turn soft failures into hard errors.
Pricing
Everything is billed in credits, and the credit table is refreshingly concrete. A datacenter request without JavaScript costs 1 credit, with rendering 5. Residential costs 10 credits, or 25 with rendering. Stealth costs 50 credits either way. AI extraction adds 5.
- Free: 2,000 credits per month, 2 concurrent connections, no credit card required.
- Personal, $29/mo: 250,000 credits, 10 concurrent requests.
- Plus, $99/mo: 1,000,000 credits, 25 concurrent requests.
- Startup, $249/mo: 3,000,000 credits, 50 concurrent requests.
- Custom: enterprise plans beyond the published tiers.
The arithmetic matters more than the headline. On the $29 Personal plan, 250,000 credits buys roughly 250,000 plain fetches, 50,000 rendered ones, 10,000 rendered residential requests, or just 5,000 stealth requests. Refunds are conditional: full within 7 days if under 30% of quota is used, partial after that.
Honest limitations
- Hard targets get expensive fast. Stealth mode at 50 credits is a 50x multiplier over a plain fetch, which reframes the cheap-looking entry plan the moment a target fights back.
- Concurrency is the real ceiling. Ten concurrent requests on the entry plan and 50 on the $249 tier cap throughput regardless of credits remaining.
- Minimal corporate disclosure. No headquarters, legal entity, ownership or team information is published, and the only advertised support channel is an email address.
- Vendor figures are unverified. Coverage across 195 countries, 99.9% uptime and a sub-3.5-second average response are company claims published without methodology, and the proxy pool behind them is never sized.
- Narrow surface. No managed dataset product, no standalone proxy plan, no published SLA.
Verdict
WebScraping.AI does one job well and prices it legibly. For a developer scraping thousands rather than millions of pages a day, a useful free tier, a clear credit table and built-in AI extraction remove real engineering work. The reservations are structural rather than technical: concurrency caps, punishing stealth pricing on defended targets, and a company that discloses almost nothing about itself. A sound pick for small to mid-size scraping, a weak one where procurement asks who the counterparty is.
Editorial score breakdown
How WebScraping.AI scores across the five dimensions our reviewers weigh — pricing, performance, pool quality, support and ethics.
Pricing
From $29.00/GB. Detailed plan breakdown not yet published.
View plans on WebScraping.AI →Proxy types offered
2 types available. Pricing varies by type and volume.
Residential $29.00/GB
Datacenter/residential/stealth across 195 countries real-home IPs across 195 countries.
Datacenter —
High-throughput shared & dedicated DC IPs. Sub-second response on US/EU PoPs.
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 WebScraping.AI 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.webscrapingai.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();Compliance & privacy
Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.
Company & resources
Who builds and operates this product.
Key markets covered
195+ countries served.
WebScraping.AI vs alternatives
How WebScraping.AI stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.
How to get started with WebScraping.AI
A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.
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1
Register and start a free tier
Create your WebScraping.AI account at https://webscraping.ai. You may need to add a payment method.
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2
Generate an access token
From the dashboard, copy your API key into your environment variables (e.g. WEBSCRAPING.AI_KEY) so it never lands in source control.
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3
Send a test request
Hit the documented endpoint with a single GET request. Most teams finish their hello-world call in under 5 minutes.
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4
Hook responses into your APM
Configure retries on the client side and route WebScraping.AI responses into your APM (Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry) so you catch ban-rate spikes early.
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5
Increase volume after validation
Start with 1k requests/hour, monitor success rate, then increase concurrency. At ~$29.00/GB, most teams hit volume targets within a sprint.
Stuck? Check WebScraping.AI's documentation or email us.
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