Best Web Scraping API · FREE
Best free Web Scraping API (2026)
5 web scraping api that offer a genuine free plan, ranked by entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.
Key takeaways
- Cheapest: Apify at $0/mo.
- Qualifying: Apify, Bright Data, Oxylabs, Scrapfly, SerpApi.
- Data current through: 2026-10-12. STALE marks a row whose price we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days; a vendor with no published price is marked when any of its plans is. 1 of 5 rows below is marked.
Comparison
| # | Web Scraping API | Entry price | Free | HIPAA | SOC 2 | Best for | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Apify | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | Developers wanting a marketplace of pre-built scrapers | apify.com |
| 2 | Bright Data | $0/mo | Yes | — | — | Enterprise-scale data collection across 195+ countries | brightdata.com |
| 3 | Oxylabs STALE · 2026-09-03 | $0/mo | No | — | — | Enterprise teams needing ISO 27001-certified infrastructure | oxylabs.io |
| 4 | Scrapfly | $0/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Compliance-sensitive teams needing HIPAA/SOC2/ISO27001 | scrapfly.io |
| 5 | SerpApi | $0/mo | Yes | — | Yes | SEO teams needing structured SERP data across multiple search engines | serpapi.com |