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. Here is how they differ, when to choose which, and where ScrapeField fits.
| PhantomBuster | Outscraper | ScrapeField | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | No-code automations that run in the cloud through your own accounts | A Google Maps specialist: places, reviews and photos, plus other Google products and review sites | An API for five platforms, Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X |
| What it covers | LinkedIn, Sales Navigator and other sites, as automations | Google Maps, Google Search, Shopping and Play, about 25 review sites, and contacts from businesses’ own websites | Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok and X: 45 endpoints |
| How you use it | A no-code builder, schedules and CRM sync | An API with tasks you poll or a webhook, a no-code app, and file exports | From code, an agent or the MCP server: one GET returns the answer |
| How it bills | $56, $128 or $352 a month billed annually, by execution hours, automation slots and credits | Per record, in tiers that reset every 30 days: $3.00 per 1,000 places, $1.00 past 100,000 | Credits per call, in packs from $39; they never expire |
| Free to try | A trial, with exports of 10 rows | The first 500 places, reviews and photos every 30 days; a card before any use | 2,000 credits once, and a demo with no account at all |
| Needs your login | Yes: it works through your own accounts | No | Never: no login, cookie or session of yours, for any reason |
| What you get back | Spreadsheets and CRM records | Outscraper’s own field names; Excel, CSV or Parquet | One documented schema per platform, named after its official API |
Checked 3 October 2026 against each vendor’s own pricing page. Rechecked quarterly — tell us if something here is out of date and we will fix it.
Which to choose
Choose PhantomBuster if you want outreach: connection requests, sequences and lead lists that refresh themselves, synced to a CRM.
Choose Outscraper if you want emails and contacts from businesses’ own websites, other Google products or review sites beside Maps, or a spreadsheet without code.
Is ScrapeField better?
Only for one job. Choose ScrapeField if you need Google Maps, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok or X data in your code, at a price per call you can multiply, without lending us an account. For anything else, choose PhantomBuster or Outscraper as above.
Each has a full comparison with us, including where it wins: ScrapeField vs PhantomBuster and ScrapeField vs Outscraper.
Try it before you decide
Every endpoint has a playground that runs against the live API with no key and no account. If the response shape does not fit your code, you will know in about a minute.