ScraperAPI alternative

The ScraperAPI alternative for Amazon scraping

A flat-priced, success-billed alternative to ScraperAPI for Amazon data, with 1,000 free requests every month.

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Amazon Scraper API vs ScraperAPI, in short

Amazon Scraper API is a focused alternative to ScraperAPI for Amazon data: one Amazon request is one billable success at a flat per-1,000 rate, instead of a credit system where an Amazon call costs 5 credits and render or premium options can push it to 15 or more. Both return structured JSON, but the billing is simpler and the free tier renews every month.

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 ScraperAPI

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Flat price, no credits

One success is one flat charge. No 5-credits-per-request math or render multipliers to reverse-engineer.

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Balance never expires

Your credits carry over. ScraperAPI resets unused credits each renewal.

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Only 2xx is billed

ScraperAPI bills 404s and cancellations. We charge nothing for failures.

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No concurrency cap to plan around

ScraperAPI limits threads by tier (5 on Free). Ours scales with your plan.

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 ScraperAPI for Amazon scraping?

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For Amazon specifically, the comparison is a flat $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests (down to $0.50 on monthly plans) against ScraperAPI's 5-credits-per-Amazon-request model, where the effective rate runs from roughly $2.45 per 1,000 on the entry plan down to about $0.48 per 1,000 at high volume, before render or premium multipliers. At low and mid volume the flat success-only rate is usually lower, and it is more predictable because there are no credit multipliers.

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.