Founded

2018

Starting Price

$49

About ScrapingBee

ScrapingBee is a lean scraping API built for developers who want a single endpoint for headless Chrome, proxies, and CAPTCHA bypass. Its Google Search API returns parsed SERP JSON for a fixed credit cost per call, and its residential proxy mode unlocks country-level SERPs with almost no setup. ScrapingBee is favored by indie hackers and small SEO teams who value simple documentation, predictable pricing, and no per-GB bandwidth math.

Pros & Cons

Pros

Flat 25-credit cost per Google SERP call — predictable budgeting for rank trackers
Excellent documentation and code examples in every major language
Country geo-targeting included on every plan (not upsold)
Responsive support from a small, technical team

Cons

No city-level SERP targeting — rules out local-pack and map-pack tracking at scale

Key Features

Google Search API

Dedicated endpoint that returns parsed Google SERP JSON — organic, ads, featured snippets — at 25 credits per call

Headless Chrome Rendering

Full JavaScript execution for SPA and dynamic SERP features

Residential & Datacenter Proxies

Country-level geo-targeting with automatic rotation

Auto Retries & Anti-Bot Bypass

Handles Cloudflare, DataDome, and Google's reCAPTCHA automatically

Webhook & Async API

Fire-and-forget large SERP batches with webhook delivery

Pricing

Freelance

$49/month

100,000 API credits
10 concurrent requests
Country-level geo-targeting

Startup

$99/month

Best For

Indie rank trackers

Power solo or small-team SERP tracking with minimal scraping code

SEO content research tools

Pull SERP features, snippets, and PAA boxes for content briefs

Tags:proxy scraper-api serp-api developer-tools seo

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