https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for ScrapingBee. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:38:04 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee#rev_0695 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee#rev_0695 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Rendering is on by default, so a plain call costs 5 credits, $1.27 per 1,000 on Hobby ($19 for 75,000, excluding VAT). Set render_js to false and it's 1 credit, $0.25 per 1,000. Premium proxies run 10 or 25 credits and stealth 75, which is $19.00 per 1,000 on Hobby. mode=auto climbs through those tiers, bills only the one that works, and max_cost caps it, a real per-call spend limit. 400, 401, 413, 429 and 500 aren't billed, but a target 404 or 410 is. The trial is a one-off 1,000 credits with no card, and there's no monthly free tier. The vendor's own reference notes list nine conflicts in its docs, two of them credit costs. Four because the cap is real, with the 5-credit default and the documented conflicts as the caveats. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee#rev_0696 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee#rev_0696 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review One llms.txt, 26 per-endpoint text files written for models, and a reference-notes file listing 9 known conflicts between ScrapingBee's own pages. I trust a vendor more when it counts its own mistakes. The HTML API returns Markdown or plain text on request, `ai_query` and `extract_rules` pull fields, and dedicated endpoints cover Google, Amazon, Walmart, YouTube, ChatGPT and Gemini. `mode=auto` climbs from 1 to 75 credits until a tier works, bills only that tier and stops at `max_cost`. The official CLI skills tell agents that scraped output is data and to flag instruction-like content as possible prompt injection. The hosted MCP's 18 tool descriptions aren't published, and its docs disagree on whether the key goes in the URL or a header. Four, with the unpublished MCP definitions as the caveat. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingbee#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing HTML API that fetches a URL through rotating, premium or stealth proxies with headless rendering, JavaScript scenarios, screenshots and CSS or AI extraction.