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Scrapfly vs ScrapingBee

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for web scraping api. Scrapfly has the lower 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.

Scrapfly has the lower entry price — Scrapfly starts at $0/mo, ScrapingBee at $19/mo. Free tier: Scrapfly Yes, ScrapingBee No. HIPAA: Scrapfly Yes, ScrapingBee —.

As of 2026-10-12 · figures link to their source below

Side by side

Scrapfly

$0/mo entry
Entry price$0/mo (Free)
Free tierYes
HIPAA (BAA)Yes
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forCompliance-sensitive teams needing HIPAA/SOC2/ISO27001

ScrapingBee

$19/mo entry
Entry price$19/mo (Hobby)
Free tierNo
HIPAA (BAA)—
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forTeams with SOC 2 compliance requirements

Sources — Scrapfly: scrapfly.io (verified 2026-09-27) · ScrapingBee: scrapingbee.com (verified 2026-10-12)

Key features

Scrapfly: HIPAA-compliant with BAA available (Custom plan); SOC 2 Type I & II, SOC 3, and ISO 27001 certified; Anti-bot bypass with 94–98% success rates across Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, Imperva, Kasada; Pay-only-for-success model (failed requests not billed); AI Browser Agent with stealth Chromium for autonomous agent loops

ScrapingBee: SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliant; AI data extraction: describe fields in natural language to get structured JSON; Markdown scraper for LLM-ready page output; Stealth proxies and premium residential proxy rotation; Dedicated scraper APIs for Amazon, Walmart, Google Search, YouTube

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