ScrapeGraphAI alternatives: 9 tools compared (October 2026)

Firecrawl is a web data API for developers who feed websites into AI applications. It scrapes, crawls, searches and maps sites and returns Markdown, HTML, screenshots or structured JSON.

Key functions

• Extracts structured data that matches a JSON schema you pass to the scrape endpoint
• Interact endpoint operates pages through natural-language instructions
• Returns clean Markdown prepared as input for language models

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Publishes a price (from $16 per month); ScrapeGraphAI quotes on request.
• Strong in the same markets as ScrapeGraphAI: United States.

Check before buying: Check whether scraping the target sites is allowed by their terms and applicable law; Firecrawl respects robots.txt by default, but that does not settle the legal question. The hosted service stores data in the United States; zero data retention and SSO are limited to Enterprise. Estimate credit use per page type before choosing a plan, and note that AGPL-3.0 has obligations if you modify and offer the code as a service.

Scrapfly is a web scraping platform from a US based, bootstrapped vendor. Developers and data teams use one API key for a scraping API, cloud browser, screenshot API, crawler and an extraction API that uses LLM prompts and AI models to return structured data.

Key functions

• Extraction API pulls data from HTML by LLM prompt
• Pre-trained AI models for products, articles and reviews
• MCP server connects AI assistants to scraping and extraction

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Publishes a price (from $30 per month); ScrapeGraphAI quotes on request.
• Names 3 security certificates, ScrapeGraphAI 0.
• Strong in the same markets as ScrapeGraphAI: United States.

Check before buying: Scraping legality depends on the target site's terms, copyright, database rights and any personal data on the pages, so get legal advice before large jobs. The vendor's Unblocker is built to bypass anti-bot systems, and its terms forbid uses such as card testing and credential cracking. The privacy policy states processing occurs in the United States, and no EU region is listed.

Diffbot offers APIs that turn web pages into structured JSON without site-specific rules, together with a Knowledge Graph, web search and a natural language API for data and research teams.

Key functions

• Classifies pages by type and extracts standard fields such as price or author with pretrained models
• Natural Language API processes documents for entities and relations
• Knowledge Graph built from Diffbot's own web crawl with entity linking

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Publishes a price (from $299 per month); ScrapeGraphAI quotes on request.
• Strong in the same markets as ScrapeGraphAI: United States.

Check before buying: Diffbot processes data in its own California data center; a public DPA, subprocessor list or certification was not found on the pages checked in September 2026, so request them. Knowledge Graph exports cost 25 credits per entity, which adds up quickly. If the Knowledge Graph holds data on people, check your legal basis before using it for sales outreach.

Octoparse is point-and-click scraping software for teams without developers. It detects data on pages, offers templates for common sites and runs extraction locally or in the cloud.

Key functions

• Auto-detect recognizes data on a page and drafts the extraction workflow
• Through the Octoparse MCP server, AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT search templates, create tasks and export data from natural-language instructions
• The Field Fixer AI assistant checks a task's data fields and pagination and fixes them on request

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Publishes a price (from $69 per month); ScrapeGraphAI quotes on request.
• Strong in the same markets as ScrapeGraphAI: United States.

Check before buying: The privacy policy does not state where data is stored, and a DPA or certification was not found in September 2026; ask before running cloud extraction on sensitive data. The tool offers features for bypassing CAPTCHAs and bot protection: automatic CAPTCHA solving, which Octoparse itself calls CAPTCHA bypass, IP rotation and residential proxies. Using them can breach the target sites' terms of use and is legally risky in Germany, for example under Section 202a of the German Criminal Code (StGB) or database rights. Have their use legally reviewed before deployment. Extra services are billed separately from the plan.

HARPA AI is a browser extension that brings AI chat and web automation into Chrome and other browsers. It summarizes pages and videos, extracts data, monitors websites and runs reusable commands, which suits research, marketing and sales work in small teams.

Key functions

• Summarizes web pages, YouTube videos and PDFs
• Extracts data from websites and monitors pages for changes
• Reusable AI commands and scheduled automations

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Publishes a price (from €14.30 per user/month); ScrapeGraphAI quotes on request.
• Can store data in the EU; ScrapeGraphAI states no EU option.
• Headquartered in Finland, ScrapeGraphAI in United States.

Check before buying: Automated scraping and page actions must respect the terms of the target websites. Data is processed on servers in the US and Germany; clarify which applies to your account. The privacy policy does not mention a data processing agreement, so request one, and ask for the ISO 27001 certificate if you require it. Token allowances run out faster with long outputs, since output tokens count three times.

ScrapingBee is a web scraping API from a French company. Developers send a URL and receive page content, rendered in headless Chrome with rotating proxies, or structured data extracted by CSS selectors or AI, without running their own scraping infrastructure.

Key functions

• AI extraction: describe the data in plain English (ai_query) or define fields with ai_extract_rules and receive structured JSON
• MCP server and CLI that let AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor call the scraper
• Dedicated ChatGPT and Gemini APIs that return AI answers with citations as JSON, Markdown or plain text

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Publishes a price (from $19 per month); ScrapeGraphAI quotes on request.
• Can store data in the EU; ScrapeGraphAI states no EU option.
• Headquartered in France, ScrapeGraphAI in United States.

Check before buying: Check scraping rules yourself: respect each site's terms and avoid personal data unless GDPR, supervised in France by the CNIL, or US state privacy laws give you a legal basis. ScrapingBee acts as processor, its DPA applies once an account is activated, and Standard Contractual Clauses cover US sub-processors. Request logs are kept for 14 days without response content. Estimate credit use early, because rendering, premium proxies and AI extraction raise the cost per request.

Zyte API is a web scraping API that handles blocking, browser rendering and data extraction in one call. Its AI Extraction returns structured records for common page types and custom fields.

Key functions

• AI Extraction returns product, article, job posting and search result data without selectors
• Custom attributes let an LLM extract fields described in natural language
• Generate mode summarizes, transforms or translates captured data before delivery

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Publishes a price (from $0.13 usage-based); ScrapeGraphAI quotes on request.
• Headquartered in Ireland, ScrapeGraphAI in United States.
• Strongest elsewhere: Ireland.

Check before buying: Prices depend on the difficulty tier Zyte assigns to each website, so run the trial on your real target sites before estimating a budget. Per the privacy policy, data may be processed in the United States and Ireland; the DPA includes standard contractual clauses. Check that collecting data from your sources is legally permitted, especially for personal data. The tool offers features for bypassing CAPTCHAs such as reCAPTCHA and hCaptcha as well as website bans. Using them can breach the target sites' terms of use and is legally risky in Germany, for example under Section 202a of the German Criminal Code (StGB) or database rights. Have their use legally reviewed before deployment.

Jina Reader turns any URL into text that language models can use: prefix a link with r.jina.ai and get clean Markdown, or query s.jina.ai to get search results as Markdown.

Key functions

• ReaderLM-v2 converts HTML into Markdown or JSON
• Vision-language model captions images on pages
• s.jina.ai returns the top five search results as Markdown

Compared with ScrapeGraphAI

• Headquartered in Germany, ScrapeGraphAI in United States.
• Strongest elsewhere: Germany.

Check before buying: Since the Elastic acquisition, the Elastic Customer DPA governs data processing; the Jina legal page links it. The Reader page does not state where data is hosted, so ask for hosting details. The ReaderLM-v2 model is licensed for non-commercial use only; commercial self-hosting needs a license from Elastic. Paid tiers bill by tokens, and each search costs at least 10,000 tokens.