KeyAPI
70One REST key for profile, post, comment and product data across 20+ social and commerce platforms.
Best for: Teams pulling data from several social networks at once
ai-for / web-scraping
As of , EffectHub tracks 20 AI tools for web scraping; 16 (80%) have a free tier, and paid plans run from $5 to $189 a month.
KeyAPI, Olostep and Hyperbrowser lead the list on click-through. 16 of the 20 ship a public API.
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One REST key for profile, post, comment and product data across 20+ social and commerce platforms.
Best for: Teams pulling data from several social networks at once
Scrape, crawl, map and search the web through one API returning markdown, JSON, PDF or screenshots
Best for: Developers feeding web content into RAG or agent pipelines
Cloud browsers and sandboxes for AI agents and scraping, metered in credits worth $0.001 each.
Best for: Running browser agents at scale without managing a browser fleet
API and browser extension that solves CAPTCHAs automatically for scraping and automation jobs.
Best for: Scraping and QA teams already using Selenium, Playwright or Puppeteer
Describe a scrape in plain language and get a reusable cloud bot with proxies included
Best for: Recurring competitor, price or listing extraction without maintaining browsers
No-code scraper that extracts fields from URLs you describe
Best for: One-off competitor, listing or price pulls a non-developer needs in a spreadsheet
Marketplace and cloud platform of ready-made scrapers ('Actors') plus infrastructure to run your own
Best for: Teams that would rather rent a maintained scraper than babysit their own
No-code Chrome bot builder for clicking, scraping and filling web forms on a schedule
Best for: Ops and marketing staff automating repetitive site work without code
No-code robots that scrape and monitor any website
Best for: Marketers tracking competitor prices or listings without a developer
Agent-built web scrapers that self-heal and feed finance data warehouses
Best for: Hedge funds and quant teams tracking alternative data from many changing sources
Open-source desktop NotebookLM alternative that runs offline on your own machine with your own model keys or a local model.
Best for: Researchers who want cited answers over their documents without a cloud account
Cloud browsers for AI agents that stay logged in, with proxies, a password vault and parallel sessions
Best for: Teams whose automations must operate behind a login or a paywall
Chrome extension that automates browser tasks (scraping, form filling, email) from plain-English instructions.
Best for: Non-developers wanting to automate repetitive browser tasks without scripting
Web data API for scraping, crawling, search, answers and brand data, billed from one credit balance; formerly Brand.dev.
Best for: Developers building RAG systems that need fresh web pages as Markdown
Web data API that searches, scrapes, crawls and interacts with sites, returning clean Markdown or JSON for LLM pipelines.
Best for: Developers feeding site content into RAG or agent pipelines
Web scraping API and open-source Python library that pulls structured data from pages using plain-language prompts.
Best for: Developers feeding web data into agents or RAG pipelines
Chrome extension agent that scrapes web pages, monitors them for changes, and automates multi-step browser tasks.
Best for: Individuals automating repetitive web tasks or monitoring pages for changes
Structured search-results API for Google, Bing, Yandex and DuckDuckGo, built for AI agents and SEO tools.
Best for: developers giving AI agents or RAG pipelines live search results without running scrapers
Browser extension pairing chat models with web page automation
Best for: Sales and research work that repeats the same extract-then-summarise loop across many pages
Unified scraping API that returns structured data from social, search, and shopping sites.
Best for: Developers building agents that need live web data
| Tool | Price | Free plan | API | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KeyAPI | from $189/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Olostep | from $9/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Hyperbrowser | from $30/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| CapSolver | from $0.4/credit | No | Yes | Active |
| BrowserAct | from $16/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Webscrape AI | from $27/mo | No | Yes | Unstable |
| Apify | from $19/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Axiom | from $15/mo | No | Yes | Active |
| Browse AI | from $19/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Kadoa | On request | Not confirmed | Yes | Active |
| SurfSense | from $60/yr | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| Airtop | from $29/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Do Browser | from $25/mo | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| Context.dev | from $19/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Firecrawl | from $16/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| ScrapeGraphAI | from $20/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| Starizon AI | from $5/mo | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| TalorData SERP API | from $5/mo | Yes | Yes | Active |
| HARPA AI | Not confirmed | Yes | Not confirmed | Active |
| Scavio AI | from $0.01/credit | Yes | Yes | Active |
16 of the 20 AI tools for web scraping on EffectHub's list have a free tier — KeyAPI, Olostep, Hyperbrowser and BrowserAct; the rest are paid, from $5 a month.
As of October 28, 2026, paid plans for the 20 AI tools for web scraping on EffectHub's list run from $5 to $189 a month. Each card shows the pricing model and the cheapest paid plan as EffectHub last verified it; 16 of the 20 can be started for free.
16 of the 20 AI tools for web scraping on EffectHub's list ship a public API, including KeyAPI, Olostep, Hyperbrowser and CapSolver. The API badge on each card is re-checked against the vendor's documentation.
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As of October 28, 2026, EffectHub tracks 20 AI tools for web scraping; 16 (80%) have a free tier, and paid plans run from $5 to $189 a month. (EffectHub, “AI Tools for Web Scraping”, Oct 2026, https://effecthub.net/ai-for/web-scraping)
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