Comparison

ScrapingBee vs PricesAPI

ScrapingBee is a general-purpose HTML scraping API — you bring the parsing. PricesAPI returns parsed product + offer JSON for shopping data, no scraping logic on your end.

TL;DR

ScrapingBee is a great proxy + headless-browser API. You send a target URL, you get back the rendered HTML, and you parse what you need. PricesAPI is the layer above: we already scrape the shopping data, parse it into structured product + merchant-offer JSON, and serve it via two REST endpoints. If you want to build many scrapers, ScrapingBee gives you a flexible foundation. If you want shopping data without writing parsers, just call us.

Side by side

PricesAPI pricing from /pricing. ScrapingBee pricing from scrapingbee.com/pricing. Verified 2026-05-02.

Feature	PricesAPI	ScrapingBee
Free tier	1,000 calls/mo, no card	1,000 credits, no card
Cheapest paid plan	$49/mo · 25,000 calls	$49/mo · 250,000 credits
What you get back	Structured JSON: products[], offers[], price, image, rating	Raw HTML (parse it yourself) or Google Search SERP JSON
Shopping coverage	Yes — primary product, parsed	Build your own via /scrape; not a dedicated endpoint
Merchant offers per product	Yes — /offers endpoint	Build it yourself — load each product page, parse
JS rendering / headless browser	Built in — you never see it	Yes — opt-in via render_js=true (uses 5x credits)
Concurrency (cheapest paid)	60 req/min	10 concurrent requests
Use case fit	Shopping data buyers	Builders rolling their own scrapers across many sites

Choose PricesAPI when

✓You want shopping data, not raw HTML — we already wrote the parsers, the proxy logic, and the retry handling.
✓You don't want to maintain a shopping scraper as the source HTML changes.
✓You want merchant-offer data per product without building per-merchant scrapers.
✓You'd rather ship features than debug CSS selectors.

Choose ScrapingBee when

•You scrape many different sites and want one general-purpose API for all of them.
•Your data needs are too custom for a structured product API to ever cover (e.g., novel data points, niche retailers, internal tools).
•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": [
      {
        "product_id": "100569554",
        "title": "Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Headphones",
        "price": 348.00,
        "currency": "USD",
        "image": "https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic...",
        "source": "Amazon.com",
        "rating": 4.7
      }
    ]
  }
}

ScrapingBee · GET /api/v1?url=...

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <title>Sony WH-1000XM5 - Shopping results</title>
  ...
</head>
<body>
  <div class="sh-pr__product-results">
    <!-- ~2MB of rendered HTML -->
    <!-- you parse the prices, titles,
         images, ratings yourself -->
    <!-- and re-write the parser when
         Google ships a redesign -->
  </div>
</body>
</html>

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