Comparison

Scrapfly vs PricesAPI

Scrapfly is a general-purpose scraping platform — proxies, headless browsers, LLM-driven extraction. PricesAPI is one endpoint, parsed shopping data, no extraction templates to write.

TL;DR

Scrapfly is a strong general-purpose scraping platform: managed proxies, headless browsers, LLM-driven extraction templates, country targeting. You define what to extract and Scrapfly runs it. PricesAPI is the layer above for shopping specifically: we already extract the products, the prices, the merchants, the offers — you call /search and get parsed JSON with offers inline. If your data needs span many sites and you want a flexible foundation, Scrapfly fits. If shopping is your job, you don't need extraction templates — you need an API.

Side by side

PricesAPI pricing from /pricing. Scrapfly pricing from scrapfly.io/pricing. Verified 2026-05-02.

Feature	PricesAPI	Scrapfly
Free tier	1,000 calls/mo, no card	1,000 credits, no card
Cheapest paid plan	$49/mo · 25,000 calls	$30/mo · 200,000 credits (Discovery)
Pricing model	Per-call, predictable	Per-credit (1 credit per request, 5x for JS render, etc.)
What you get back	Structured JSON: products[], offers[], price, image, rating	Raw HTML or LLM-extracted JSON via your template
Shopping coverage	Yes — primary product, parsed	Build your own extraction template; not a dedicated endpoint
Merchant offers per product	Yes — every seller inline on each /search candidate	Build it yourself — load each product page, extract
Concurrency (cheapest paid)	60 req/min	5 concurrent requests (Discovery), 20 (Pro)
Headless browser / JS render	Built in — invisible to you	Yes — opt-in, costs 5x credits
Use case fit	Shopping data buyers	Builders rolling their own scrapers across many verticals

Choose PricesAPI when

✓You want shopping data, not extraction templates to write and maintain.
✓You want predictable per-call pricing, not credit math (1x request, 5x JS render, etc.).
✓You want merchant-offer data per product without building per-merchant extractors.
✓You'd rather call /search once than design and maintain LLM extraction schemas.

Choose Scrapfly when

•You scrape many different sites and want one general-purpose platform for all of them.
•Your data needs are too custom for a structured product API to ever cover.
•You want LLM-driven extraction with custom JSON schemas across diverse sources.
•You already have parsing infrastructure and just need a reliable proxy/render layer.

Response shape

PricesAPI · GET /v1/products/search

{
  "success": true,
  "data": {
    "query": "Sony WH-1000XM5",
    "country": "us",
    "products": [
      {
        "pid": 100569554,
        "title": "Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Headphones",
        "price": 348.00,
        "currency": "USD",
        "image": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic...",
        "source": "Amazon.com",
        "rating": 4.7,
        "offerCount": 2,
        "offers": [
          { "seller": "Amazon.com", "price": 348.00,
            "currency": "USD", "url": "https://..." },
          { "seller": "Best Buy", "price": 349.99,
            "currency": "USD", "url": "https://..." }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Scrapfly · GET /scrape?url=...

{
  "result": {
    "content": "<!DOCTYPE html>...",
    "status_code": 200,
    "format": "html",
    "url": "https://www.google.com/search?...",
    ...
  },
  "context": { /* request metadata */ }
}
// or with extraction template:
// pass extraction_template= or extraction_prompt=
// to get LLM-shaped JSON — you write the schema

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