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ScraperAPI vs seibs.co (build vs buy)ScraperAPI gives you proxies and HTML. seibs.co gives you the finished record. Pick the layer that matches the job.

ScraperAPI
Free tier with 1,000 credits per month, then Hobby ~$49/mo for 100K credits, Startup ~$149/mo, Business ~$299/mo, plus Enterprise
from $49/mo
seibs.co
$0.004 - $0.05 per record
no contract, no seats
Browse our 35 actorsSee if seibs.co fits
what is ScraperAPI?

Web-scraping infrastructure: residential proxies, JS rendering, CAPTCHA handling, and a unified endpoint for raw HTML at scale.

ScraperAPI is infrastructure. You hit one endpoint, they handle proxies, JS rendering, retries, and CAPTCHAs, and you get raw HTML back. For engineering teams who want a reliable transport layer underneath their own parsers, it's a great pick. The docs are good, the SDKs are mature, and the pricing is predictable once you understand the per-target credit math.

what is seibs.co?

A portfolio of 35 vertical scrapers, billed per record.

seibs.co is the layer on top: 35 pre-built actors that already include the scraping, the parsing, the vertical intelligence, and the output schema. We use a different platform (Apify) underneath; we use ScraperAPI-class infrastructure for proxies and rendering where it makes sense. The product is the structured record at the end, not the transport.

when to pick which

This isn't actually a scraper-vs-scraper comparison. It's build-vs-buy. Pick ScraperAPI if you have engineers, you have a source nobody else has solved, and the parser maintenance is part of the job. Pick seibs.co if the actor you need already exists in our catalog and your goal is records, not HTML. For the 35 verticals we cover, building it on ScraperAPI is real engineering work; ours is already shipped.

Where ScraperAPI is genuinely strong
  • Unbeatable for raw infrastructure: residential proxies, JS rendering, retries, CAPTCHA solving in one API
  • Reliable rotation pool with good country targeting
  • Predictable credit billing once you understand the per-target cost
  • Mature SDKs and clear docs; you can be scraping in an hour
  • Best fit for engineering teams who want infrastructure, not data
Where ScraperAPI can frustrate you
  • Returns raw HTML; you still write the parsers, schema, and dedup
  • Anti-bot arms race is your problem; when a target changes you fix the parser
  • Credits get expensive when you scale JS-rendered or premium-target requests
  • No vertical-specific intelligence: you have to detect Toast vs Square vs Clover yourself
  • Maintenance burden grows linearly with the number of sources you scrape
feature by feature

ScraperAPI vs seibs.co, line by line.

Amber highlight marks the side that genuinely wins the row. Ties are real ties, not throwaways.

What you get back
ScraperAPI
Raw HTML (or rendered DOM)
seibs.co
Structured JSON records
Pricing model
ScraperAPI
Credit packs by plan
seibs.co
Pay per emitted record
Starting price
ScraperAPI
Free 1K credits, then $49/mo
seibs.cowin
$0 (pay per run)
Parser maintenance
ScraperAPI
You own and fix it
seibs.cowin
We own and fix it
Anti-bot handling
ScraperAPI
Built into the proxy layer
seibs.co
Handled inside each actor
Pre-built verticals
ScraperAPI
None, build your own
seibs.cowin
35 actors covering local SMB, real estate, intel
Tech-stack detection
ScraperAPI
You write it
seibs.cowin
Per-vertical detector built in
Schema stability
ScraperAPI
Depends on your parser
seibs.cowin
Stable per-actor output schema
Flexibility on novel sources
ScraperAPIwin
Unlimited (any URL)
seibs.co
Limited to the 35 actors
Engineering effort to launch
ScraperAPI
Days to weeks per source
seibs.cowin
Minutes per actor run
Best fit role
ScraperAPI
Engineer / data eng
seibs.co
RevOps / sales / analyst
Geo / IP rotation depth
ScraperAPIwin
Specialty (residential, datacenter, mobile)
seibs.co
Handled inside Apify proxy, less granular
Best for ScraperAPI
  • Engineering teams that want a proxy + render layer and will write everything else
  • Custom scraping projects where no pre-built actor exists
  • Teams that have already written parsers and just need a reliable transport
  • Researchers and security teams pulling diverse sources where flexibility wins
Best for seibs.co
  • If you are sales / marketing / RevOps teams who don't want to write parsers
  • If you are solo founders who can't afford to maintain 12 scrapers themselves
  • If you are use cases where a pre-built vertical scraper already exists (lead-gen, real estate, reviews)
  • If you are anyone whose actual ask is 'give me records', not 'give me HTML'
  • Teams that want pay-per-record economics with no annual commitment
our coverage

Where our actors overlap with ScraperAPI.

These are the actors in our catalog that cover ground ScraperAPI customers usually buy ScraperAPI for. Click through to the actor card for full inputs and pricing.

actor / home-servicesview ->

Pre-built end-to-end: Google Maps + tech-stack detector + email scrape + license lookup. You'd build this yourself for weeks on ScraperAPI.

actor / shopify-store-discoveryview ->

30+ Shopify app detector + revenue estimator + theme + social. Same logic, you'd write it on ScraperAPI.

actor / google-maps-reviews-proview ->

Reviews + sentiment + topic clustering + competitor delta. Built; ScraperAPI gets you the HTML and that's it.

actor / yelp-reviews-proview ->

Same shape for Yelp with elite-reviewer filtering and responder tracking.

actor / sec-edgar-intelview ->

8-K classifier, Form 4 patterns, 13F changes. The parsing logic is the product.

actor / house-flipper-leadsview ->

Zillow + flip score + ARV + regional rehab cost + 70%-rule MAO. ScraperAPI hands you Zillow HTML; the math is yours.

actor / email-verifier-batchview ->

Not a scrape at all: live MX + SMTP verification on a list. Out of scope for ScraperAPI entirely.

how the math actually works

Walked through with a real example.

Say you want every independent dentist in Texas with their EHR detected. On ScraperAPI: $49/mo Hobby plan, plus engineering time. Estimate two weeks for one engineer to write the Google Maps scraper, the website crawler, the EHR fingerprint detector, and the dedup logic. At a $100/hr blended rate, that's roughly $8,000 plus ongoing maintenance every time a target site changes. On seibs.co you run the Dental Office Lead Finder, pay roughly $0.012 per enriched record, and 3,000 records lands at $36. The cost cut is in the engineering hours you don't spend, not the infrastructure bill.

ScraperAPI per successful request
$0.001
seibs.co base record
$0.004
seibs.co with email + premium signal
$0.015
faq

The questions I get on this comparison.

Honest answers, including the cases where ScraperAPI is the right pick.

Does seibs.co replace ScraperAPI?

Only for the specific verticals we already cover. If you need raw HTML from arbitrary URLs (a target nobody has built a scraper for), ScraperAPI is the right tool. If you need a record set from one of our 35 verticals, you're paying us to skip the parser-writing.

Why isn't this a pure price comparison?

Because the products do different jobs. ScraperAPI gives you the transport; you write the rest. seibs.co gives you the finished record. Comparing their $49/mo to our $0.008/record is comparing a bag of flour to a baked loaf.

Can I run my own scrapers on top of ScraperAPI cheaper than buying yours?

Yes, for one or two simple sources. No, once you factor in the engineering time across 10+ verticals, the maintenance when sites change, and the vertical-specific intelligence (POS detection, EHR fingerprints, flip-score math). The break-even on build-vs-buy lands quickly.

What if my use case isn't in your 35 actors?

Then ScraperAPI is probably the right pick today. We add actors when we see repeat demand. If your use case overlaps with what we already do, we can quote a custom actor; otherwise stay on ScraperAPI.

Do you handle anti-bot the way ScraperAPI does?

Each actor handles it for the targets it scrapes. We use the Apify proxy network plus per-actor rate-limiting and retry logic. We don't expose a general-purpose proxy endpoint.

What about legal and ToS risk?

Same as any scraping product, including ScraperAPI's. Public data, robots-respectful, rate-limited. We don't bypass logins or paywalls. If you're scraping under a specific compliance regime, talk to your lawyer before committing to either of us.

Can I get raw HTML out of seibs.co?

No, by design. The product is structured records. If you want HTML, ScraperAPI (or Apify directly) is the right layer.

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