Web scraping & extraction — compare pricing, reliability & setup
Generated 2026-11-03 03:53 UTC · JSON
For clean content for agents, the current pick is ScrapingBee (score 70.74). See cost by profile below.
Ranking — Clean content for agents
| Vendor | Score | 10k pages/mo | Free | Agent-friction | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ScrapingBee | 70.74 | $19 | no | 80 | 2026-11-02 |
| Apify | 63.24 | $19 | no | 100 | 2026-11-02 |
| Browserbase | 62.05 | $20 | no | 90 | 2026-11-02 |
| Firecrawl | 58 | $44 | no | 90 | 2026-11-02 |
| Bright Data | 56.25 | $15 | yes | 55 | 2026-11-02 |
Agent-friction — can a service be set up without a human?
Each check and its weight is published; the column total is the 0–100 agent-friction score.
| Check | ScrapingBee | Apify | Browserbase | Firecrawl | Bright Data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test credentials without a credit card (20) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
| Sandbox or test mode (15) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Setup with no human-only steps (15) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
| Official CLI (10) | × | ✓ | × | × | × |
| Official MCP server (10) | × | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Markdown docs, current with the SDK (10) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Typed SDK for main languages (10) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Error messages that name the fix (10) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Score | 80 | 100 | 90 | 90 | 55 |
How this category is scored
Per use case, weights published in the data: fit 25% · cost 20% · integration 20% · agent_friction 15% · health 10% · lock_in 10%. Affiliate status is never an input.