ScrapingBee vs PricesAPI
Product Search API. Flexible raw and target-specific scraping surfaces versus one normalized cross-retailer product search.
PricesAPI provides normalized product and offer data today, with snapshots, history, monitoring, and delivery rolling out in stages. Your application owns its workflows and decisions.
Choose ScrapingBee when you need a general HTML/browser API or its structured Walmart surface. Choose PricesAPI when you need a single cross-retailer product-and-offer response rather than designing and maintaining extraction logic.
Official-source facts
Reviewed 2026-09-02. Competitor facts below come from these official sources; PricesAPI facts come from our pricing page.
| Feature | PricesAPI | ScrapingBee |
|---|---|---|
| Free access | 1,000 one-time product-bearing Search credits; 6 rpm | One-time 1,000 API credits; no card |
| Entry paid plan | $49/month: 25,000 product-bearing Searches; 20 rpm | Hobby $19/month: 75,000 credits; 25 concurrency |
| Pricing unit | Product-bearing Searches | Credits; consumption depends on request features |
| Output | Normalized matched products with available merchant offers inline | General HTML/browser responses plus a structured Walmart API |
| Target scope | Cross-retailer product search with global coverage | Flexible page targets and a target-specific retailer surface |
- Feature
- Free access
- PricesAPI
- 1,000 one-time product-bearing Search credits; 6 rpm
- ScrapingBee
- One-time 1,000 API credits; no card
- Feature
- Entry paid plan
- PricesAPI
- $49/month: 25,000 product-bearing Searches; 20 rpm
- ScrapingBee
- Hobby $19/month: 75,000 credits; 25 concurrency
- Feature
- Pricing unit
- PricesAPI
- Product-bearing Searches
- ScrapingBee
- Credits; consumption depends on request features
- Feature
- Output
- PricesAPI
- Normalized matched products with available merchant offers inline
- ScrapingBee
- General HTML/browser responses plus a structured Walmart API
- Feature
- Target scope
- PricesAPI
- Cross-retailer product search with global coverage
- ScrapingBee
- Flexible page targets and a target-specific retailer surface
This table reports source-backed facts without a visual winner. The recommendations below are our assessment.
Choose PricesAPI when
- You want one normalized product-and-offer contract across retailers.
- You do not want to own parsers or retailer-specific integrations.
Choose ScrapingBee when
- You need general browser or HTML extraction.
- You specifically need ScrapingBee's structured Walmart API or custom page control.
Response shape
Product Search API uses one Search endpoint and returns matched products with available merchant offers inline. Both examples are illustrative and based on the linked contracts; values are not live measurements or current commercial data.
GET /api/v1/products/search?q=Sony%20WH-1000XM5&country=us
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"query": "Sony WH-1000XM5",
"country": "us",
"products": [{
"position": 1,
"pid": 100569554,
"gpcid": "123456789",
"gid": "987654321",
"title": "Sony WH-1000XM5 Wireless Headphones",
"image": "https://example.com/headphones.jpg",
"price": 348,
"currency": "USD",
"condition": "new",
"source": "Amazon.com",
"multi_store": true,
"rating": 4.7,
"reviews": 8523,
"delivery": "Free delivery",
"tags": [],
"nearby_distance_km": null,
"offers": [{
"seller": "Amazon.com",
"seller_url": "https://amazon.com",
"price": 348,
"currency": "USD",
"product_title": "Sony WH-1000XM5",
"stock_status": "In stock",
"delivery_info": "Free delivery",
"condition": "new",
"url": "https://example.com/product"
}],
"offerCount": 1
}]
},
"meta": { "latency_ms": 842, "raw_count": 3, "gid_bearing_count": 2 }
}GET https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1/ ?url=https://retailer.example/product &render_js=true <!doctype html> <html>...rendered target page...</html>
Try the Product Search API
1,000 one-time product-bearing Search credits and 6 rpm free. Developer is $49/month for 25,000 product-bearing Searches and 20 rpm.