Pricing trends for Web Scraping: 4 tracked pricing changes across 22 vendors. Direction: stable.

Web Scraping Pricing Trends

Pricing direction: ↔ Stable

22
Vendors
1%
of All Tracked Changes
1
At-Risk Vendors
reduced 2 increased 1 new 1

Pricing Change Timeline

Every record we hold is listed here, newest first. A record is never removed from this list, so a vendor named here stays named here whatever its verdict does afterwards.

reduced microlink.io effective between 2026-07-02 and 2026-07-23 medium
The free tier now offers 25 requests per day, down from 50. Source ↗
increased Firecrawl effective between 2026-04-28 and 2026-05-07 low
The free tier now offers 1,000 credits/month instead of a one-time 500. Source ↗
new Bright Data MCP effective 2025-08-14 medium
Launched free tier for MCP Web Server — 5,000 requests/month for agent developers Source ↗
reduced Firecrawl effective 2024-09-05 low
Free credits now one-time 500 (not recurring monthly). firecrawl.dev/pricing showed "Free Plan 500 credits $0 /month" in the Internet Archive's copy of 2024-08-11 and "500 credits $0 one-time" in its copy of 2024-09-05. Source ↗

We hold 4 more records filed under this category that are not counted above: entries the vendor has since reversed, our own index housekeeping, and corrections to earlier entries of our own. Read the full change log.

At-Risk Vendors

All 1 of the 22 vendors we list in this category that carry one. A vendor is named here for as long as a demotion is in force against it: a one-off pricing event, recorded against a source we cite, whose date falls in the last 180 days — or a standing condition, also cited, such as a product retired or a free tier withdrawn and not restored, which does not expire with time. A demotion can lift with nothing about the vendor having changed, and that happens on the day the vendor's newest qualifying event passes 180 days.

Stable Picks

All 14 of the 22 vendors we list in this category that qualify, not a selection of them. A vendor is named here for as long as no demotion is in force against it and we hold no change record for it dated in the last 90 days — any record, including ones the timeline above does not count. A vendor can join this section on a day we recorded nothing about it, when the later of those two clocks runs out: 90 days after its newest record, or the day the demotion against it lapses. It leaves on the day we file a new record, or the day we can no longer vouch for the terms we list.

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