Scrapfly alternatives in 2026

Your Scrapfly code keeps running

SpecStream answers GET /scrape at its own address, with Scrapfly's result.content, its error codes and its JSON. In Scrapfly's Python SDK, scrapfly-sdk 0.12.0, the change is the host argument: ScrapflyClient(key=SPECSTREAM_KEY, host="https://api.specstream.ai/scrapfly"). With requests:

import requests

reply = requests.get(
    "https://api.specstream.ai/scrapfly/scrape",  # was https://api.scrapfly.io/scrape
    params={"key": SPECSTREAM_KEY, "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping", "format": "markdown"},
    timeout=60,
)
result = reply.json()["result"]
print(result["status_code"], result["content"][:500])

One price a page, whatever the page needs

On Scrapfly the cost of a call depends on the features it turns on: 1 credit for a basic scrape, 5 more with browser rendering, 25 with a residential proxy. On SpecStream every page that gives text costs $0.0008. A page that refuses a plain read is tried again in a real browser, then from the site's own feed, then from its newest public archive capture, at the same price.

A failed page is never charged

Scrapfly stops covering failed scrapes once 30% or more of recent scrapes are blocked. On SpecStream a page with no text is not charged at any rate of failure, and a busy call gets 429 with Retry-After and charges nothing.

A balance with no plan

Scrapfly sells credits by the month, from $30 for Discovery. On SpecStream $30 reads 37,500 pages, there is no plan to renew, and credit you buy never expires. Set spend_cap_cents on a key and that key never spends past it.

Scored on the official benchmarks

Every page goes through the SpecStream Extract API, which returns the main text of up to 20 pages or documents (PDF, Word, Excel) a call. The Search API scores a 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions, with 978 correct, and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. The Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. The scores and the method are at specstream.ai/benchmarks.

Search, crawls and site maps on the same key

A Scrapfly call starts from a URL you already have. On SpecStream the same key finds the URLs: the Search API returns up to 100 results a call at $5 per 1,000 searches of up to 10, POST /v1/map returns a site's links for one page read, and POST /v1/crawl reads a whole site at $0.0008 a page with text.

Whole datasets as rows, kept up to date

When the job is a dataset in place of pages, the same key does that too. Deep Search takes a request in plain words, such as "the pricing page of every European project management software company, with each plan's name and monthly price", and returns every match on the live web as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with a source URL on every value. The most a run can cost is approved before it starts. Save the request and it reruns hourly to yearly: a changed or new row costs half its rate and an unchanged row 1¢. Rows go to Sheets, a CRM, Slack, a signed webhook or your agent through the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.

Zero retention on any key

Set zero_retention when you create a key, or later. A call made with that key keeps no request text and no answer after the reply, and spend_cap_cents is the most the key can spend.

curl -X POST https://api.specstream.ai/v1/account/keys \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "production", "scopes": ["account:read", "finds:spend"], "spend_cap_cents": 500000, "zero_retention": true}'

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. The Extract API reads pages at $0.80 per 1,000 and scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB, the Search API costs $5 per 1,000 searches and scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions, and Deep Search returns every match as structured rows at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. One key, one balance that never expires.

ScrapingBee

A scraping API on monthly plans from $19 for 75,000 API credits, where a default call with JavaScript rendering costs 5 credits and credits don't roll over. SpecStream answers ScrapingBee's call at https://api.specstream.ai/scrapingbee/api/v1 at $0.0008 a page.

ScraperAPI

A scraping API on monthly plans: Hobby is $49 a month for 100,000 API credits, and the balance resets when the subscription renews. SpecStream answers ScraperAPI's call at https://api.specstream.ai/scraperapi, from a balance that never expires.

ZenRows

A scraping API on monthly plans from $19 for 45,000 credits, where a JavaScript rendered request always costs 5 credits. SpecStream charges one price a page and answers ZenRows' call at https://api.specstream.ai/zenrows/v1.

Firecrawl

Scrape, search and crawl billed in credits: Hobby is $19 a month for 5,000. SpecStream answers Firecrawl's v2 calls at https://api.specstream.ai/firecrawl, and $19 reads 23,750 pages.