Scraping API limits: when you hit one
18 provider limits with the provider's own sentence and check date. The link in each section gives the verdicts at twice a typical monthly workload.
Bright Data: Credits run out
No extra usage: when the included credits are used up, calls stop until the next period or a new plan.
- Free Tier: no extra usage
A free tier account has a hard stop when credits are exhausted, never a surprise bill.
Source: docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier.md
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Bright Data Scale (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Hobby (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Standard (extra usage allowed).
Bright Data: Requests are rejected with 429
A request rate above the limit is refused.
- Free Tier: 1000 requests per minute
Accounts operating on the free tier (unfunded) are restricted to a default rate limit of 1,000 requests per minute across the SERP API, Web Unlocker API and Proxy products.
Source: docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier.md
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Firecrawl Growth (5000 requests per minute); Firecrawl Scale (10000 requests per minute).
Firecrawl: Credits run out
No extra usage: when the included credits are used up, calls stop until the next period or a new plan.
- Free: no extra usage
| Free | 500 searches or 1,000 pages scraped | Not available |
Source: firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Bright Data Scale (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Hobby (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Standard (extra usage allowed).
Firecrawl: Requests are rejected with 429
A request rate above the limit is refused.
- Hobby: 100 requests per minute
- Standard: 500 requests per minute
- Growth: 5000 requests per minute
- Scale: 10000 requests per minute
- Free: 10 requests per minute
| Rate limit, /scrape, /map and /search | 10 / min | 100 / min | 500 / min | 5,000 / min | 10,000 / min | Custom |
Source: firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
Rate limits of 10 requests per minute
Source: docs.firecrawl.dev/billing
Checked 2026-11-11
Firecrawl: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- **Concurrency**: 5 concurrent requests
Source: firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
- **Concurrency**: 25 concurrent requests
Source: firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
- **Concurrency**: 50 concurrent requests
Source: firecrawl.dev/pricing.md
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Scrapingdog Premium (150 at once); Scrape.do Advanced (200 at once); Scrapingdog Business Plus (250 at once).
Jina AI: Requests are rejected with 429
A request rate above the limit is refused.
- Free without API key: 20 requests per minute
Reader API https://r.jina.ai Converts a URL to LLM-friendly text 20 RPM 500 RPM 500 RPM
Source: jina.ai/reader
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Firecrawl Hobby (100 requests per minute); Firecrawl Standard (500 requests per minute); Bright Data Free Tier (1000 requests per minute).
Scrape.do: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
1,000 Successful API Credits 5 Concurrent Requests
Source: scrape.do/pricing/
250,000 Successful API Credits 10 Concurrent Requests
Source: scrape.do/pricing/
1,250,000 Successful API Credits 50 Concurrent Requests
Source: scrape.do/pricing/
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Scrapingdog Business Plus (250 at once); ScraperAPI Professional (300 at once); Scrapingdog Corporate (350 at once).
ScraperAPI: Credits run out
No extra usage: when the included credits are used up, calls stop until the next period or a new plan.
By default, scraping pauses until your credits renew.
Source: scraperapi.com/pricing/
On Scaling, Professional, Advanced, and Enterprise, you can use pay-as-you-go to keep scraping at a fixed per-credit rate, up to a monthly cap you set.
Source: scraperapi.com/pricing/
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Bright Data Scale (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Hobby (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Standard (extra usage allowed).
ScraperAPI: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- Hobby: 20 at once
- Startup: 50 at once
- Business: 100 at once
- Scaling: 200 at once
- Professional: 300 at once
- Advanced: 500 at once
20 Concurrent Threads
Source: scraperapi.com/pricing/
50 Concurrent Threads
Source: scraperapi.com/pricing/
100 Concurrent Threads
Source: scraperapi.com/pricing/
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: ScrapingBee Enterprise 24 (600 at once); ScrapingBee Enterprise 41 (700 at once); ScrapingBee Enterprise 69 (800 at once).
Scrapfly: Credits run out
No extra usage: when the included credits are used up, calls stop until the next period or a new plan.
- Discovery: no extra usage
5 concurrent requests 1 week log retention No pay-as-you-go
Source: scrapfly.io/pricing
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Bright Data Scale (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Hobby (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Standard (extra usage allowed).
Scrapfly: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- Discovery: 5 at once
- Pro: 20 at once
- Startup: 50 at once
- Enterprise: 100 at once
DISCOVERY $30 /mo $0.15 per 1k credits, prepaid 200,000 API credits / month 5 concurrent requests
Source: scrapfly.io/pricing
PRO $100 /mo $0.10 per 1k credits, prepaid 1,000,000 API credits / month 20 concurrent requests
Source: scrapfly.io/pricing
STARTUP $250 /mo $0.10 per 1k credits, prepaid 2,500,000 API credits / month 50 concurrent requests
Source: scrapfly.io/pricing
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Scrapingdog Premium (150 at once); Scrape.do Advanced (200 at once); Scrapingdog Business Plus (250 at once).
ScrapingAnt: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- Free: 1 at once
The free plan allows one active request
Source: docs.scrapingant.com/errors
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Firecrawl Free (2 at once); Firecrawl Hobby (5 at once); Scrape.do Hobby (10 at once).
ScrapingBee: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- Hobby: 25 at once
- Freelance: 50 at once
- Startup: 100 at once
- Business: 200 at once
- Business +: 400 at once
- Enterprise 14: 500 at once
- Enterprise 24: 600 at once
- Enterprise 41: 700 at once
- Enterprise 69: 800 at once
Hobby $19 /mo 75,000 25
Source: scrapingbee.com/pricing/
Freelance $49 /mo 250,000 50
Source: scrapingbee.com/pricing/
Startup $99 /mo 1,000,000 100
Source: scrapingbee.com/pricing/
Checked 2026-11-11
Scrapingdog: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- Free: 1 at once
- Lite: 5 at once
- Standard: 50 at once
- Pro: 100 at once
- Premium: 150 at once
- Business: 200 at once
- Business Plus: 250 at once
- Business Pro: 300 at once
- Corporate: 350 at once
FREE $0 forever 100 Requests Credits 1 Concurrency Access To All APIs No Credit Card Required
Source: scrapingdog.com/pricing/
LITE $40 /month 200,000 Requests Credits 5 Concurrency Access To All APIs Geotargeting
Source: scrapingdog.com/pricing/
STANDARD $90 /month 1,000,000 Requests Credits 50 Concurrency Access To All APIs Geotargeting
Source: scrapingdog.com/pricing/
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: ScrapingBee Business + (400 at once); ScraperAPI Advanced (500 at once); ScrapingBee Enterprise 24 (600 at once).
Spider: Credits run out
No extra usage: when the included credits are used up, calls stop until the next period or a new plan.
- Unlimited (2 concurrent): no extra usage
- Unlimited (10 concurrent): no extra usage
- Unlimited (25 concurrent): no extra usage
- Unlimited (50 concurrent): no extra usage
Requests beyond your concurrency limit get an immediate 429 with a Retry-After header. Spider queues nothing server-side and bills nothing extra.
Source: spider.cloud/pricing
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Bright Data Scale (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Hobby (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Standard (extra usage allowed).
Spider: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- Unlimited (2 concurrent): 2 at once
- Unlimited (10 concurrent): 10 at once
- Unlimited (25 concurrent): 25 at once
- Unlimited (50 concurrent): 50 at once
2 concurrency, $40 per month
Source: spider.cloud/pricing
10 concurrency, $170 per month
Source: spider.cloud/pricing
25 concurrency, $350 per month
Source: spider.cloud/pricing
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Firecrawl Scale (100 at once); Scrapingdog Premium (150 at once); Scrape.do Advanced (200 at once).
ZenRows: Credits run out
No extra usage: when the included credits are used up, calls stop until the next period or a new plan.
- Free: no extra usage
Free doesn’t include top-ups.
Source: docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: Bright Data Scale (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Hobby (extra usage allowed); Firecrawl Standard (extra usage allowed).
ZenRows: Too many requests at once
Calls above the concurrency cap wait or are refused.
- Build B1: 20 at once
- Build B2: 20 at once
- Build B3: 20 at once
- Launch L1: 50 at once
- Launch L2: 50 at once
- Launch L3: 50 at once
- Growth G1: 100 at once
- Growth G2: 100 at once
- Growth G3: 100 at once
- Scale S1: 200 at once
- Scale S2: 200 at once
- Scale S3: 200 at once
- Scale S4: 300 at once
- Scale S5: 400 at once
- Free: 5 at once
Build 20 Email support 1 period
Source: docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing
Launch 50 Chat support 1 period
Source: docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing
Growth 100 Priority support 1 period
Source: docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing
Checked 2026-11-11
Plans that clear it: ScraperAPI Advanced (500 at once); ScrapingBee Enterprise 24 (600 at once); ScrapingBee Enterprise 41 (700 at once).