Web Scraping Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↑ Prices rising

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Pricing Change Timeline

increased Apify discovered 2026-09-01 medium
The free tier now provides $5/month of platform credit instead of $5 platform credits, and the concurrent Actor runs are unlimited instead of 25. A $500 credit for 6 months is also offered for new users.
increased Firecrawl discovered 2026-09-01 low
The free tier now offers 1,000 credits/month instead of 500.
removed ScraperAPI discovered 2026-08-28 high
The free tier now offers a 7-day trial with 5,000 API credits instead of a permanent free tier with 1,000 API credits.
reduced microlink.io discovered 2026-08-28 medium
The free tier now offers 25 requests per day, down from 50.
reduced microlink.io 2026-04-13 low
Free tier dropped to 50 requests/billing period
reduced Firecrawl 2026-04-13 low
Free credits now one-time 500 (not recurring monthly)
new Bright Data MCP 2025-08-14 medium
Launched free tier for MCP Web Server — 5,000 requests/month for agent developers

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