Both are web scraping APIs that handle browser rendering and proxies for you. The real difference is pricing: ScrapingBee charges more credits per request as you add rendering and premium proxies, UnblockingAPI charges the same 1 credit no matter what a request needed.
500 free credits · No credit card · Figures checked against provider docs on 2026-09-23
Same job - fetch a JavaScript-rendered page through a premium proxy - on the closest-priced monthly plan from each.
ScrapingBee - Freelance, $49/mo
250,000 credits included. A rendered request through a premium proxy costs 25 credits, per ScrapingBee's own documentation.
UnblockingAPI - Scout, €49/mo
55,000 credits included. Rendering, premium proxies and country routing are all included in the same 1 credit.
~5.5x more fully-rendered, proxied requests for close to the same monthly price - if that's the kind of page you're fetching. Pages that don't need rendering or a premium proxy cost less on both sides, and the gap narrows.
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Sources: ScrapingBee pricing page and API documentation, UnblockingAPI pricing page. Both change over time - verify current numbers before deciding.
It depends on what you're fetching. If you need JavaScript rendering and a premium proxy - the combination most bot-protected pages require - ScrapingBee's own documentation lists that at 25 credits per request, while UnblockingAPI charges 1 credit regardless of rendering, proxy tier or country routing. At the same ~$49/€49 monthly plan, that works out to roughly 10,000 fully-rendered requests on ScrapingBee versus 55,000 on UnblockingAPI. For requests that don't need rendering or a premium proxy, the gap is much smaller.
Yes. ScrapingBee has been around longer and ships pre-built dedicated APIs for specific targets (Amazon, Google Search, YouTube, ChatGPT, Gemini), AI-based field extraction, screenshots, and no-code integrations with Zapier, n8n and Make. If you need one of those specifically, it's a real advantage.
A visual, no-code editor for building reusable extraction templates without writing selectors, and a first-party MCP server so AI coding assistants (Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Zed) can fetch pages directly. Pricing is also flat - one request is always one credit, whatever features it used.
If you're building on top of JavaScript-rendered or bot-protected pages at any real volume, flat per-request pricing tends to win on cost. If you specifically need one of ScrapingBee's dedicated pre-built APIs or its no-code automation integrations, that's a real reason to pick it instead. Both offer free credits with no card required, so the fastest way to decide is to test your actual target URL on each.
Both charge in credits that multiply with rendering and premium proxies, in the same rough range. See the UnblockingAPI vs ScraperAPI comparison for that provider's specific numbers.
unblock_fetch hands back the full rendered page. For clean fields instead - a price, a title, a whole list - build a template visually in the editor: load the page, tap what you want, done. No CSS selectors to write by hand.
Save it and it's a reusable API endpoint - same account, same key, same as the built-in templates. Build the structure once, then call it from your app - or your AI agent - forever.
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