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Merit-only ranking · 10 providers · one corpus

Best Anti-Bot Scraping API

Ranked by measured anti-bot bypass rate on the hardest targets — Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai and friends — not by marketing claims.

Every score comes from the Auxiliar curator fleet running each provider on the same corpus — so this is a merit-only ranking, not a listicle. Firecrawl takes the top spot (anti-bot bypass 100%, $0.0021 / success). Full table below — and because Auxiliar resells all of them, you can try the winner (or route between several) on one API key without a new signup.

The ranking

Ranked by measured anti-bot bypass. Each row links to the provider's full scorecard.

1 FirecrawlTop pick You want the highest-quality scrape/markdown and a single surface for scrape, crawl, extract and screenshot. 9.81/10 Anti-bot bypass 100% $0.0021 / success 2 Scrapfly You want benchmark-leading anti-bot bypass plus the highest AI-extraction accuracy. 9.48/10 Anti-bot bypass 100% $0.0025 / success 3 Zyte You want automatic ban-management plus typed AI extraction for product/article/job pages. 8.63/10 Anti-bot bypass 100% $0.00069 / success 4 ScrapingBee You want one endpoint for rendering, stealth, extraction and declarative actions. 7.45/10 Anti-bot bypass 88% $0.0057 / success 5 Bright Data You face the hardest anti-bot targets and want the strongest unblocker + compliance posture. 7.82/10 Anti-bot bypass 75% $0.0019 / success 6 Oxylabs You want enterprise-grade scraping, dedicated Amazon/Google parsers, or the leading NL-agent mode. 7.1/10 Anti-bot bypass 75% $0.0013 / success 7 Crawlbase You want a managed crawl queue and pay-for-success by domain complexity. 7.08/10 Anti-bot bypass 75% $0.006 / success 8 ZenRows You want one key spanning a scraper API and a full scraping browser, with pay-for-success. 7.31/10 Anti-bot bypass 62% $0.0047 / success 9 ScraperAPI You want the simplest possible unblocking call and don't need MCP-native discovery. 6.53/10 Anti-bot bypass 62% $0.01 / success 10 Spider You want fast crawling, clean markdown and transparent per-page pricing (anti-multiplier). 6.73/10 Anti-bot bypass 50% $0.00013 / success

One key. Every provider on this page.

Stop juggling signups and invoices. One Auxiliar API key calls all of them — upstream keys injected server-side, usage billed to a single balance. Swap the base URL and go.

curl https://api.auxiliar.ai/serper/search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $AUXILIAR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"q": "latest ai agent news"}'

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