Head to head

IPRoyal vs ScraperAPI

By Daniel Fitzpatrick Proxy infrastructure tester. Updated 2026-06-21

Both can do the job. The gap is price, pool size, and how hard your targets push back. Here is how they line up on the numbers I track, then a straight call on which one to start with.

Starting residential rates and pool size, measured per provider.
	IPRoyal	ScraperAPI
Starting price	from $7.35/GB	request-based pricing
Pricing model	per-GB	per-request / credits
Pool size	32M+	5M+ residential
Free trial	No free trial	Free plan, 1000 credits; 7-day trial of 5000 requests
Best for	pay-as-you-go, no-expiry	web-scraping, managed-api
Try it	Visit IPRoyal	Visit ScraperAPI

The call

IPRoyal runs the larger pool (32M+ vs 5M+ residential), which shows up when a target blocks IPs aggressively.

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