Best Web Scraping API · head-to-head
Scrapfly vs SerpApi
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, SerpApi at $0/mo. Free tier: Scrapfly Yes, SerpApi Yes. HIPAA: Scrapfly Yes, SerpApi —.
As of 2026-10-12 · figures link to their source below
Side by side
Scrapfly
$0/mo entrySerpApi
$0/mo entrySources — Scrapfly: scrapfly.io (verified 2026-09-27) · SerpApi: serpapi.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
SerpApi: SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified; U.S. Legal Shield: up to $2M liability coverage for lawful SERP scraping; Real-time structured SERP JSON across 20+ search engines (Google, Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, Amazon, YouTube, Yelp); ZeroTrace Mode for privacy-sensitive searches; 99.95% SLA guarantee with credits up to 100% of monthly plan for downtime