---
title: Scrapfly review
description: A high-success scraping service for competitive intelligence and RevOps when defended sites matter more than the lowest page cost
canonical: "https://10xgtm.ai/tool/scrapfly"
type: review
category: "Web data & extraction infrastructure"
last-verified: 2026-09-02
pricing-verified: 2026-09-02
availability: active
sources: 13
---

# Scrapfly review

A high-success scraping service for **competitive intelligence and RevOps** when defended sites matter more than the lowest page cost.

## The take

- **Great for:** RevOps and **market-intelligence teams** that need daily price, listing, or company-page data from defended sites.
- **The catch:** **Credit multipliers inflate the bill.** Residential proxies and rendering can turn one page into many credits.
- **Bottom line:** Reach for it when **successful collection matters more than the cheapest page**. Use a cheaper API for easy HTTP pages.

## Specs

- **Starting price:** $30/mo (Discovery, 200K credits)
- **Free tier:** Yes (1,000 credits, no card required)
- **Pricing model:** API credits, success-based billing
- **Best for:** RevOps and market-intelligence teams collecting recurring data from defended sites, with an ops person or agency to wire this up.
- **Key integrations:** Python/Scrapy/TypeScript SDKs, MCP server, LangChain, REST API
- **Watch out for:** Credit multipliers on residential proxies and JS rendering

## What you're actually getting

Scrapfly collects a page and can return **HTML, Markdown, JSON, or screenshots** while handling proxies, anti-bot bypass, and JavaScript rendering. Your ops person or agency wires this up for recurring monitoring.
Its ASP engine chains 20+ bypass vendors, and the service publishes target success rates. Failed requests are not charged, while enabled features multiply credit use.

## Where it earns its keep

It earns its place when **competitor or marketplace monitoring hits defended sites**. The Extraction API can turn a page into structured fields, and the crawler supports wider site checks under budget controls.
An August 2026 Scrapeway benchmark ranked it first of eight scraping APIs at 98% success, against a 55% industry average.

## Where it'll bite you

**Credit multipliers are the trap.** A plain request costs 1 credit, JavaScript rendering 5, residential proxies 25, and a screenshot 60. The $30 plan can cover closer to 7,700 defended pages than 200,000.
Credits expire monthly with no rollover. A May 2026 Capterra review describes an overcharge dispute where support offered credits instead of a refund. Pilot real targets first.

## What it costs, really

Free gives **1,000 credits**. Discovery is $30/mo for 200,000 credits, Pro $100/mo for 1M, Startup $250/mo for 2.5M, and Enterprise $500/mo for 5.5M.
Measure **cost per successful page** on the team’s actual targets. Annual billing gives 2 months free.

## Reach for it / skip it

- **Reach for it if:** RevOps and market-intelligence teams collecting recurring data from defended sites, with an ops person or agency to wire this up.
- **Skip it if:** Skip it if the team only needs easy, unprotected pages. ScraperAPI or ScrapingBee may cost less for that job.

## What real users said

- "Scrapfly has been a solid tool for our data collection needs. We use it for monitoring product availability across thousands of store locations. The API is straightforward, support is responsive, and it handles JavaScript-rendered pages that other scrapers choke on." -- Nick T., Capterra
- "Customer support is useless. I was overcharged and support initially denied there was an overcharge, then claimed I would not be charged for it, then when I was overcharged offered credits instead, then claimed the overcharge was my fault, then claimed the overcharge was as expected." -- Richard P., Capterra

---
Full review: https://10xgtm.ai/tool/scrapfly - 13 cited sources.