ScrapingBee vs ScraperAPI
Choosing between ScrapingBee and ScraperAPI? Both are scraping & crawling providers you can call through a single Auxiliar key, so the honest answer is usually “use whichever wins the job in front of you” — and with one key and one bill, you don’t have to commit to either.
We ran both on the identical curator-fleet corpus. ScrapingBee leads on full-page screenshots (8.57 vs 7.78). On the headline test (full-page screenshots), ScrapingBee scored 8.57/10 (valid image 0.88) versus 7.78/10 for ScraperAPI. The full measured breakdown is below.
Measured, side by side
Composite score /10 on each shared capability, from the Auxiliar curator fleet — same corpus for both.
| Capability | ScrapingBee | ScraperAPI | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| ScreenshotValid image | 8.570.88 · #3/8 | 7.780.88 · #5/8 | ScrapingBee |
| Scrape-domainAccuracy | 8.190.90 · #3/6 | 7.260.73 · #4/6 | ScrapingBee |
| ScrapeAnti-bot bypass | 7.4588% · #5/10 | 6.5362% · #10/10 | ScrapingBee |
Beyond the overlap
Capabilities each provider scored on that the other doesn't cover.
ScrapingBee also does
- Extract · CSS rules
- Act · declarative
- Extract · AI/schema
ScraperAPI also does
Nothing extra in the tested set.
ScrapingBee — choose if
You want one endpoint for rendering, stealth, extraction and declarative actions.
ScraperAPI — choose if
You want the simplest possible unblocking call and don't need MCP-native discovery.
ScrapingBee — avoid if
You're cost-sensitive — JS-on-by-default (5 cr) and stealth (75 cr) escalate fast.
ScraperAPI — avoid if
You need cost transparency (credit multipliers bite) or a first-party MCP.
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"}'