# How Grabber compares

> Grabber compared with Firecrawl, Jina Reader, Tavily Extract, ScrapingBee, Scrape.do, Apify and ZenRows on price, plans, free tiers and MCP.

Seven services that turn web pages into data, side by side with Grabber. Each comparison says where the other service is the better choice, too.

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## The short version

| Service | How you pay | A static page | Subscription | Unused credit | MCP server |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Grabber** | Prepaid credit | $0.001 | Not needed | Lasts 365 days | Remote |
| [Firecrawl](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/firecrawl) | Monthly plans | About $0.0038 on Hobby | Needed for extra credit | Does not roll over | Remote and local |
| [Jina Reader](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/jina-reader) | Prepaid tokens | By length, often under $0.001 | Not needed | Not stated | Remote |
| [Tavily Extract](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/tavily-extract) | Credits | About $0.0016 | Not needed | Resets monthly | Remote and local |
| [ScrapingBee](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/scrapingbee) | Monthly plans | About $0.00025 on Hobby | Needed | Valid one month | Remote |
| [Scrape.do](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/scrape-do) | Monthly plans | About $0.00012 on Hobby | Needed | Not stated | Third-party only |
| [Apify Website Content Crawler](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/apify) | Compute time | About $0.0002, estimated | Needed for overage | Does not roll over | Remote and local |
| [ZenRows](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/zenrows) | Monthly plans | About $0.00042 on Build | Needed | Expires at renewal | Remote and local |

Prices from each service's own pricing page, checked on October 27, 2026. Per-page prices on a plan assume you use the whole plan.

## How we compare

Every fact comes from the other service's own pricing page and docs, and each comparison lists its sources. Where a page did not say something, we wrote "not stated" instead of guessing.

The short answer: Grabber costs less when your volume is small or uneven, because there is no plan and credit lasts a year. If you fetch the same large volume every month, or you need proxies, crawling or search, one of these services may suit you better, and the comparison will say so.

## Comparisons

- [Grabber vs Firecrawl](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/firecrawl): Firecrawl is a web data platform with crawling, search and LLM extraction, sold as monthly plans.
- [Grabber vs Jina Reader](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/jina-reader): Jina Reader turns a URL into Markdown when you put r.jina.ai in front of it, and charges by the tokens it returns.
- [Grabber vs Tavily Extract](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/tavily-extract): Tavily is a search API for agents, and Extract is its endpoint for reading pages, up to 20 at a time.
- [Grabber vs ScrapingBee](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/scrapingbee): ScrapingBee is a scraping API with rotating proxies and rendering on by default, on monthly plans from $19.
- [Grabber vs Scrape.do](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/scrape-do): Scrape.do is a proxy-based scraping API built to get past anti-bot systems, on monthly plans from $29.
- [Grabber vs Apify](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/apify): Apify's Website Content Crawler crawls whole sites into Markdown for RAG, billed by compute time on Apify's platform.
- [Grabber vs ZenRows](https://grabber.sh/alternatives/zenrows): ZenRows Fetch, formerly the Universal Scraper API, reads pages behind anti-bot systems, on monthly plans from $19.

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