Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: 10 Options Compared

Octoparse is the tool we would hand to a marketer or analyst who has never written code. You load a page in its app, click the data you want, and it builds the scraper. The free plan allows 10 tasks, local extraction on one device and up to 50,000 rows of export a month.

The Standard plan starts at $69 per month billed annually and adds cloud extraction, IP rotation, residential proxies, automatic CAPTCHA solving and scheduling. Professional is $249 per month. All paid plans have a 5-day money-back guarantee. The catch is that heavily protected sites may need its paid add-ons, which are billed separately.

Browse AI is a no-code tool that shines at watching pages over time. You show a robot what to extract, then schedule it to check for changes and alert you or send data to a spreadsheet. It also offers more than 250 prebuilt robots for popular websites.

The free plan gives 50 credits a month, 2 websites and 3 users. When we checked, the Personal plan was $19 per month billed annually (with a much higher monthly price), and Professional started at $69 per month billed annually. It is ideal for tracking a competitor's prices. For one-off bulk scrapes of thousands of pages, credits run out quickly.

Web Scraper started as a Chrome extension, and that extension remains a favorite for students and small business owners. You build a "sitemap" that tells it which links to follow and which elements to grab, and it exports the results.

For larger jobs, Web Scraper Cloud runs scrapers on its servers with datacenter proxies included and pricing from $0.03 per 1,000 URLs. The Scale plan is priced per concurrent scraper, from $200 per month, with a 7-day free trial. That is a big jump from free, so most individuals stay on the extension.

Apify is a cloud platform where you run "Actors", which are scrapers and automation tools that others have already built for sites such as maps, social networks and online stores. You can run one with a few settings and download the data, or write your own.

The free plan includes $5 of usage a month with no credit card. Starter is $19 per month and Scale $199 per month, each including that amount in usage, with compute billed at $0.20 per compute unit on the lower plans. Store Actors use either pay-per-event or pay-per-usage pricing, so check each Actor's cost before a large run.

Firecrawl is the newer name on this list and is popular with developers building AI tools. You send it a URL or a whole site, and it returns clean Markdown or structured data that a language model can use, without the clutter of menus and ads.

Its pricing page lists Free with 1,000 credits a month, Hobby at $19 per month for 5,000 credits, Standard at $99 per month for 100,000 credits, and higher Growth and Scale tiers, with discounts on annual billing. It is excellent for AI and research projects. If you want a spreadsheet of product prices with no code, a no-code tool is easier.

Bright Data is one of the biggest names in web data. It sells proxy networks, scraping APIs, a scraping browser, a SERP API and ready-made datasets, so larger companies can buy data instead of collecting it themselves.

For most readers, the Web Scraper API is the place to start. Its pricing page lists a free tier of 5,000 records a month with no credit card, pay as you go at $1.50 per 1,000 records, and a Scale plan at $499 per month including 384,000 records. You pay only for successful deliveries. Smaller teams may find the product menu overwhelming, so start with one product.

Oxylabs is a strong pick for businesses that need reliable scraping at volume, with security paperwork that procurement teams ask for. Its Web Scraper API handles JavaScript rendering and CAPTCHAs, and returns structured data for big targets such as Google, Amazon and Walmart.

Plans start at $30 per month (Starter), then $100 and $500, with per-result pricing from $0.50 per 1,000 results down to $0.25 at high volume. New users get $5 in welcome credit. It is more than a hobbyist needs, but well suited to a growing ecommerce or SEO team.

Zyte maintains Scrapy, the open-source framework, and sells Zyte API for the hard parts: bans, proxies and browser rendering. Pricing is per 1,000 responses and depends on how difficult a site is. Pay as you go, a plain HTTP response costs $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000, and a browser-rendered response costs $1.01 to $16.08 per 1,000.

Committing to a monthly minimum lowers those rates. The free trial gives $5 of credit for 30 days. Zyte fits teams that already use Scrapy and want to plug in an unblocking service without changing their code. Because there is no single starting price, we list it as "See website".

ScraperAPI keeps things simple. You send a URL to its endpoint, and it returns the page after rotating proxies and handling blocks. That lets a developer write a basic scraper in any language without managing proxy lists.

The Hobby plan is $49 per month for 100,000 API credits and 20 concurrent threads, and Startup is $149 for 1 million credits, with about 10% off for annual billing. The trial includes 5,000 credits for 7 days, and the FAQ also describes a small free plan with 1,000 credits. Watch how many credits each request uses on tougher sites.

Scrapy calls itself the world's most-used open-source data extraction framework, and it is the backbone of many professional scrapers. You write "spiders" in Python that follow links, extract data with CSS or XPath selectors, and export to JSON, CSV or cloud storage.

It costs nothing, and you own your code. The trade-off is that you handle hosting, scheduling and anti-bot measures yourself, or pair it with a service such as Zyte API or ScraperAPI. If you can write basic Python, learning Scrapy is one of the best investments in this field.