Apify alternative

The Apify alternative for Amazon scraping

A flat-priced, success-billed alternative to Apify for Amazon data, with 1,000 free requests and no platform subscription.

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Amazon Scraper API vs Apify, in short

Amazon Scraper API is a focused alternative to Apify for Amazon data, with one flat success-only price instead of a platform subscription plus per-result actor fees. Apify is a marketplace of actors - its official Amazon scraper is pay-per-event at about $3 per 1,000 results - while we are a single maintained Amazon API at $0.90 per 1,000, billed only on success.

How the Amazon scraping options compare

Provider	Free tier	Price / 1,000	Success-only billing	Structured Amazon JSON	Marketplaces
Amazon Scraper API (us)	1,000 requests / month	$0.90 ($0.50 on plans)	Yes	Yes	20
ScraperAPI	1,000 credits / month	$2.45 to $0.48	Partial (bills 404s)	Yes	21
Oxylabs	2,000 results / 1 week	$0.50 to $0.30	Partial (bills 4xx)	Yes (parse flag)	Not stated
Bright Data	5,000 records / month	$1.50 ($0.75 promo)	Partial (carve-outs)	Yes	Not stated
Apify	$5 credit / month	$3.00	Partial (pay-per-event)	Yes	Not stated
ScrapingBee	1,000 credits / one-time	$0.98 to $0.37	Partial (bills 404/410)	Yes (add-on)	Not stated

Pricing and tiers as published by each vendor on 2026-06-26, with credit-based providers shown as an approximate per-1,000 figure (plan price divided by credits, times credits per Amazon request). Vendors change pricing often, so check the source pages: ScraperAPI, Oxylabs, Bright Data, Apify, ScrapingBee.

Why teams pick Amazon Scraper API over Apify

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One flat rate, not two layers

Apify charges a platform subscription plus per-result actor fees. We charge one success-only rate.

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Only 2xx is billed

Apify's official Amazon actor is pay-per-event and bills the start event regardless of success. We bill only 2xx.

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Credits that do not expire

Apify platform credits reset monthly. Our balance carries over.

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Cheaper per result

Apify's official actor is about $3 per 1,000. We are $0.90, down to $0.50 on plans.

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A maintained API, not a store of actors

Apify is a marketplace of third-party actors of varying upkeep. We maintain one Amazon API.

What you get with Amazon Scraper API

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Success-only billing Only 2xx responses are billed. A 404, a block, or a timeout costs zero, so dead ASINs in a list never cost you.

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1,000 free requests a month Every account starts free with no card and no daily cap. The free balance renews monthly; PAYG balance never expires.

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Flat, predictable price $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests, down to $0.50 per 1,000 on monthly plans. No credit multipliers to reverse-engineer.

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20 Amazon marketplaces, locale-aware com, co.uk, de, fr, jp and 15 more. A German "1.234,56 EUR" price returns 1234.56, parsed per marketplace.

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Structured JSON by default About 55 product fields parsed on every successful call. No parse flag, no HTML to handle.

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Batch for catalogs Send up to 1,000 ASINs in one async call. Python, Node.js, Go, CLI, and MCP SDKs handle batching and retries.

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Frequently asked questions

Is Amazon Scraper API cheaper than Apify?

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Apify's official Amazon Product Scraper actor is priced from about $3.00 per 1,000 results and sits on top of a platform subscription (a free $5 monthly credit, then Starter at $29 per month) with credits that reset monthly. Amazon Scraper API is a flat $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests (down to $0.50 on monthly plans) with no platform fee, so for Amazon-only workloads it is usually cheaper and simpler.

What is the best Amazon Scraper API alternative?

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The best alternative depends on what you scrape. For Amazon specifically, the differentiators that matter are success-only billing (you do not pay for blocks or not-found pages), structured JSON parsed by default, the number of Amazon marketplaces covered, and a free tier you can actually test on. Amazon Scraper API covers all 20 Amazon marketplaces, bills only 2xx responses, returns about 55 structured product fields, and starts with 1,000 free requests per month.

How many free Amazon requests do you get?

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Every Amazon Scraper API account starts with 1,000 free requests per month, with no card required and no daily cap. The free balance renews monthly, and any pay-as-you-go balance you add never expires.

Does Amazon Scraper API charge for failed requests?

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No. Billing is success-only: a request that returns a 2xx response with data costs credits, and any non-2xx response (a 404 not-found, a block, or a timeout) costs zero. This is the main billing difference from several competitors that count 4xx responses as billable.