Comparisons
Against the alternatives
Each page says plainly where the other option is the better choice, and links to it. Every price on them is dated and re-checked every quarter.
Other scraping APIs
The same job, bought from someone else.
- ScrapeField vs OutscraperOutscraper is the Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, and a dozen other Google products and review sites, priced per record. We do Google Maps and four social platforms, priced per call. For a list of places, that makes us much cheaper.
- ScrapeField vs ScrapeCreatorsScrapeCreators covers more social platforms than anyone, at about a credit a call, in each platform’s own JSON. We cover five, Google Maps among them, each in one documented schema. Here is where each is the better choice.
- ScrapeField vs ApifyApify is a platform with more than 80,000 scrapers. We are 45 endpoints over five surfaces, each with a documented schema and a price you can multiply. Here is the honest comparison, including where they win.
- ScrapeField vs FirecrawlFirecrawl turns any web page into Markdown or JSON for AI agents, and since September 2026 it also sells map listings and reviews, and Instagram and TikTok data, from a catalogue of providers. We do five platforms, each with a documented schema and a price per call. Here is what each costs, and where Firecrawl wins.
- Leaving ProxycurlProxycurl shut down on 4 July 2025 after LinkedIn sued it in January. If you are still looking for a replacement, here is how we compare.
The platforms’ own APIs
Official, and each built for a narrower job than ours.
- ScrapeField vs the LinkedIn APILinkedIn’s own API is the right answer when what you build fits one of its partner programs. For reading profiles, company pages and jobs without one, it isn’t an option. Here is where each fits.
- ScrapeField vs the Google Places APIGoogle’s Places API is the official way to use Google Maps data, and the right one inside an app your users see. Its place search costs $32.00 per 1,000 calls; ours costs $2.34 → $1.32. Here is where each fits.
- ScrapeField vs the Instagram APIInstagram’s own API is built for businesses running their own accounts. It can read other business and creator accounts’ basic metrics, but not personal accounts, and it isn’t a data feed.
- ScrapeField vs the TikTok Research APITikTok’s Research API is official, and it is for non-commercial research only. If that is you, apply. If you are building a product, it isn’t an option.
- ScrapeField vs the X APIX’s own API bills every read: half a cent a post and a cent an account, up to 3 million post reads a month. It is the one to use for posting and for acting as an account. For reading public posts, accounts and followers, a page of them costs less here.
Tools you run by hand
Good at their jobs, and different jobs from ours.
- ScrapeField vs PhantomBusterPhantomBuster automates what you would otherwise do by hand on LinkedIn and other sites, working through your own accounts. We are an API that returns data. Here is which you want.
- ScrapeField vs EvabootEvaboot turns your own Sales Navigator searches into a clean spreadsheet, with emails. We are an API. Different tools; here is when each is right.
- ScrapeField vs Apollo.ioApollo is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer, deal management. We are an API for five platforms’ data. If you want a sales tool, buy Apollo.
Doing it yourself
Free to start. Here is what it costs to keep.
Head to head
Two other services against each other: what each covers and costs, when to choose which, and where we fit.
- Firecrawl vs Apify (and is ScrapeField better?)Firecrawl is an API that turns any web page into Markdown or JSON for AI agents, with search, crawling and a browser. Apify is a platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties.
- Firecrawl vs Apollo.io (and is ScrapeField better?)Firecrawl is an API that turns any web page into Markdown or JSON for AI agents, with search, crawling and a browser. Apollo.io is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM.
- Firecrawl vs PhantomBuster (and is ScrapeField better?)Firecrawl is an API that turns any web page into Markdown or JSON for AI agents, with search, crawling and a browser. PhantomBuster is no-code automations that run in the cloud through your own accounts.
- Firecrawl vs Outscraper (and is ScrapeField better?)Firecrawl is an API that turns any web page into Markdown or JSON for AI agents, with search, crawling and a browser. Outscraper is a Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, plus other Google products and review sites.
- Firecrawl vs ScrapeCreators (and is ScrapeField better?)Firecrawl is an API that turns any web page into Markdown or JSON for AI agents, with search, crawling and a browser. ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms.
- Firecrawl vs Evaboot (and is ScrapeField better?)Firecrawl is an API that turns any web page into Markdown or JSON for AI agents, with search, crawling and a browser. Evaboot is a tool that exports your Sales Navigator searches to a clean spreadsheet, with verified emails.
- Apify vs Apollo.io (and is ScrapeField better?)Apify is a platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties. Apollo.io is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM.
- Apify vs PhantomBuster (and is ScrapeField better?)Apify is a platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties. PhantomBuster is no-code automations that run in the cloud through your own accounts.
- Apify vs Outscraper (and is ScrapeField better?)Apify is a platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties. Outscraper is a Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, plus other Google products and review sites.
- Apify vs ScrapeCreators (and is ScrapeField better?)Apify is a platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties. ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms.
- Apify vs Evaboot (and is ScrapeField better?)Apify is a platform of more than 80,000 scrapers, called Actors, most written by third parties. Evaboot is a tool that exports your Sales Navigator searches to a clean spreadsheet, with verified emails.
- Apollo.io vs PhantomBuster (and is ScrapeField better?)Apollo.io is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM. PhantomBuster is no-code automations that run in the cloud through your own accounts.
- Apollo.io vs Outscraper (and is ScrapeField better?)Apollo.io is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM. Outscraper is a Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, plus other Google products and review sites.
- Apollo.io vs ScrapeCreators (and is ScrapeField better?)Apollo.io is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM. ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms.
- Apollo.io vs Evaboot (and is ScrapeField better?)Apollo.io is a sales platform: a contact database, sequences, a dialer and a CRM. Evaboot is a tool that exports your Sales Navigator searches to a clean spreadsheet, with verified emails.
- PhantomBuster vs Outscraper (and is ScrapeField better?)PhantomBuster is no-code automations that run in the cloud through your own accounts. Outscraper is a Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, plus other Google products and review sites.
- PhantomBuster vs ScrapeCreators (and is ScrapeField better?)PhantomBuster is no-code automations that run in the cloud through your own accounts. ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms.
- PhantomBuster vs Evaboot (and is ScrapeField better?)PhantomBuster is no-code automations that run in the cloud through your own accounts. Evaboot is a tool that exports your Sales Navigator searches to a clean spreadsheet, with verified emails.
- Outscraper vs ScrapeCreators (and is ScrapeField better?)Outscraper is a Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, plus other Google products and review sites. ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms.
- Outscraper vs Evaboot (and is ScrapeField better?)Outscraper is a Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, plus other Google products and review sites. Evaboot is a tool that exports your Sales Navigator searches to a clean spreadsheet, with verified emails.
- ScrapeCreators vs Evaboot (and is ScrapeField better?)ScrapeCreators is a social-media API for about 38 platforms. Evaboot is a tool that exports your Sales Navigator searches to a clean spreadsheet, with verified emails.