Compare Crawlora's documented, platform-specific APIs that return normalized JSON with Scrape.do's pay-per-success scraping API, credit-multiplier pricing, and 150M+ proxy network across 150 countries.
Benchmark
Before comparing Crawlora to Scrape.do on the table below, here’s how Crawlora performs on its own: we ran Crawlora’s /web/scrape endpoint once against a stratified sample of 30 public URLs (docs, e-commerce, and anti-bot-protected sites), with the cache bypassed. 21/30 requests returned usable content.
This is Crawlora's own measured reliability on a single disclosed run — not a head-to-head benchmark against Firecrawl, Scrapfly, or any other named competitor. We don't hold API keys for competitor products and won't publish a number for a tool we haven't actually run.
Internally conducted benchmark, run . Last verified . Full methodology and per-URL results.
Short verdict
Crawlora is stronger when your sources are named platforms and you want one predictable credit weight per call. Scrape.do is stronger as a full-featured, pay-per-success API for arbitrary sites, with every capability unlocked from the free plan up.
Quick comparison
Use this table as a starting point for evaluating Crawlora against Scrape.do, then verify current details on both providers' official pages before making a production decision.
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| Category | Crawlora | Scrape.do |
|---|---|---|
| Primary product type | Structured public web data APIs | Pay-per-success scraping API for arbitrary URLs |
| Best for | Structured data from named platforms | Fetching and parsing pages Crawlora doesn't cover |
| Output format | Normalized JSON by endpoint | Raw HTML or a markdown conversion, chosen via an output flag |
| Feature gating | n/a — proxy routing and rendering are bundled into each endpoint | None — residential/mobile proxies, JS rendering, and 150+ country geo-targeting are unlocked on every plan including Free |
| Credit cost per request | One fixed, documented weight per endpoint | 1 credit for a plain datacenter request, up to 25 for a residential-proxy request with JS rendering (Scrape.do's own example) |
| Billing trigger | Successful documented responses | Only status codes 2xx, 400, 404, and 410 consume credits; other failures are free |
| Async processing | Not applicable — synchronous endpoint responses | Async API with webhooks, plus a concurrency pool worth 30% of the plan's main limit |
| Entry paid plan | Free tier, pay only for what you use above it | Hobby $29/mo for 250,000 credits, 10 concurrent requests (~$0.11/1k) |
| Highest published tier | n/a — usage scales with credit spend, no fixed plan ceiling | Advanced $699/mo for 10,000,000 credits, 200 concurrent requests (~$0.06/1k) |
| Annual discount | Not applicable — pay-as-you-go credit pricing | Up to 20% off (pay for 10 months, get 12) on every plan except Enterprise |
| Buyer profile | Developers wanting ready-made platform data | Teams scraping many arbitrary or unknown sites at volume |
Details
Choosing between Crawlora and Scrape.do depends on output format, target coverage, developer workflow, and how much infrastructure your team wants to operate.
Crawlora's endpoints are scoped per platform, so the request shape and the JSON response are both documented in advance. Scrape.do works the opposite way: one endpoint accepts any url, and parameters like super, render, and geoCode change how that single request gets fetched, not what comes back — the response is still the page, which you parse.
A Crawlora endpoint call returns typed fields for the platform it targets. Scrape.do's output parameter switches between raw HTML and a markdown conversion of the page, plus optional screenshots and full network-request capture via returnJSON, but none of those modes produce a schema — you still decide what counts as a price, a title, or a date.
Scrape.do documents its own example: a plain datacenter request costs 1 credit, and a residential-proxy request with JavaScript rendering costs 25 — the same URL can cost 25x more depending on which flags you set. Credits are charged on 2xx, 400, 404, and 410 responses; only genuine failures and timeouts are free. Crawlora charges one fixed, documented weight per endpoint regardless of which proxy tier or rendering step that endpoint needs internally.
100,000 plain requests fit inside Scrape.do's $29/mo Hobby plan (250,000 credits) with room to spare. The same 100,000 requests routed through residential proxies with JS rendering cost 2,500,000 credits — past Hobby and Pro, and into the $249/mo Business plan's 3,500,000-credit allotment. Model your actual request mix, not the advertised per-credit rate, before comparing cost to Crawlora's flat per-endpoint pricing.
Crawlora is designed for responsible public web data workflows. It should not be used for private or protected data, and no comparison page should be read as a guarantee that every target will succeed. Review provider terms, target-site rules, and your own compliance requirements before production use.
Evaluation checklist
Compare Crawlora and Scrape.do against your real workflow and maintenance burden, not just top-line feature labels.
FAQ
These Scrape.do comparison answers use conservative language and should be verified against both providers' official pages for current product and pricing details.
For buyers comparing scraping APIs, yes. Crawlora returns normalized JSON per platform endpoint; Scrape.do is a pay-per-success API for arbitrary URLs that hands back the page for you to parse.
Scrape.do is a scraping API that routes requests through 150M+ datacenter, residential, and mobile proxies in 150 countries, with optional JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and WAF bypass, billed per successful request.
No. For supported endpoints Crawlora returns documented, normalized JSON, so there are no selectors to maintain as target markup changes.
By its own documented example, a plain datacenter request costs 1 credit and a residential-proxy request with JavaScript rendering costs 25 — credits scale with which bypass features a request needs, not a flat per-call rate.
2xx, 400, 404, and 410 responses are billed; other failures and timeouts are free, per Scrape.do's own documentation.
Scrape.do's paid tiers are Hobby $29/mo (250,000 credits), Pro $99/mo (1,250,000 credits), Business $249/mo (3,500,000 credits, its most popular plan), and Advanced $699/mo (10,000,000 credits), plus a free plan with 1,000 credits/month and no card, and custom Enterprise pricing above Advanced.
Yes — Scrape.do lists up to 20% off (pay for 10 months, get 12) on every plan except Enterprise, arranged manually through their support team rather than a self-serve toggle.
Yes. Use Crawlora for supported structured platforms and Scrape.do for arbitrary URLs that need custom parsing, proxy tiering, or rendering control.
Last reviewed: . Competitor pricing and features can change. Check each official provider page for the latest details.
Browse endpoint docs, run a Playground request against a platform Scrape.do doesn't cover, and compare credit-based pricing before deciding whether Crawlora fits your workflow.