Octoparse Review
No-code visual scraper with a point-and-click workflow builder and cloud extraction
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Octoparse is a desktop and cloud scraping tool built around a visual, point-and-click workflow builder. You open a website in its built-in browser, click the fields you want, and it infers a scraping template without you writing selectors or code. Jobs can run locally on your machine or on Octoparse's cloud servers on a schedule.
It leans on non-developers as much as developers: ops and research teams who want structured data out of websites without hiring an engineer. Paid plans add cloud concurrency, proxy rotation, automatic CAPTCHA solving, and API access to pull results into your own systems.
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Who it's for
- ✓ Ops, research, or marketing teams that want scraped data without writing code
- ✓ Teams scraping a moderate number of recurring, well-defined pages (product listings, directories, real estate) on a schedule
- ✓ Anyone who wants a visual builder over a coding framework and can tolerate a desktop app
Who should look elsewhere
- ✗ Engineering teams that want a scraping API they control entirely in code with no GUI dependency
- ✗ High-volume scraping against sites with heavy anti-bot protection, where Cloudflare-bypass add-ons and proxy costs stack fast
- ✗ Anyone who needs transparent, single-number pricing without checking a proxy and CAPTCHA add-on bill
Pros
- + Visual template builder gets a working scraper running in minutes without writing selectors
- + Free plan is a real free tier, not a time-limited trial, with 50,000 rows a month
- + 500+ prebuilt templates for common sites cut setup time for popular targets
- + Cloud scheduling and concurrent cloud processes mean jobs keep running after you close your laptop
Cons
- – Standard price jumps from free to $83/month (or $69/month billed annually) with no mid-tier option, and Professional jumps again to $299/month ($249/month billed annually)
- – Residential proxies ($3/GB), CAPTCHA solving ($1-1.5 per 1,000), and premium pay-per-result templates ($0.001-3 per 1,000 results) are billed as separate add-ons on top of the plan price
- – Refund window on paid plans is a short 5 days from purchase
- – Task and concurrency caps (100 tasks on Standard, 3 concurrent cloud runs) mean bigger scraping jobs need Professional or Enterprise
Octoparse pricing
At about $69/month to start, it sits at the higher end of Web Scraping & Data Extraction pricing.
| Plan | Price | Highlights |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10 tasks · 1 device, local extraction only · Up to 10,000 rows per export, 50,000 rows of data export per month · Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML, XML export |
| Standard | $69/mo | 100 tasks · Cloud extraction, up to 3 concurrent cloud processes · 500+ preset templates · IP rotation, residential proxies · Automatic CAPTCHA solving · Unlimited data export · Task scheduling · Data Export API |
| Professional | $249/mo | Everything in Standard · 250 tasks · Up to 20 concurrent cloud processes · Cloud task monitoring · Google Sheets/Drive/Dropbox/S3 export · Auto cloud backup · Advanced API · Priority support · 1-on-1 onboarding and training |
| Enterprise | Custom | 750+ tasks · 40+ concurrent cloud processes · High-performance cloud servers · Team collaboration · Dedicated success manager |
The $69 (Standard) and $249 (Professional) figures are Octoparse's own headline rate, which requires annual billing ($829/year and $2,999/year total, respectively). Billed monthly with no annual commitment, Standard is $83/month and Professional is $299/month; billed quarterly, Standard is $239/quarter (about $80/mo) and Professional is $779/quarter (about $260/mo). All of these figures are shown directly on octoparse.com/pricing's plan cards and comparison table. Plans are flat, single-user tiers, not per-seat pricing (each paid plan lists exactly 1 user; Enterprise is quoted with 1 admin plus 2+ agents). Residential proxies ($3/GB), CAPTCHA-solving credits ($1-1.5 per 1,000), and premium pay-per-result templates ($0.001-3 per 1,000 results) are billed separately from the plan price, per Octoparse's own add-ons pricing table.
Pricing verified July 17, 2026 · source
How Octoparse's pricing compares
Octoparse next to its closest alternatives on entry price, billing, and whether pricing is public.
| Tool | Starting price | Billing | Free option | Pricing disclosed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Octoparse | $69/mo | tiered | Yes | Partly public |
| Apify | $29/mo | tiered | Yes | Partly public |
| Bright Data | Usage-based | usage-based | Yes | Partly public |
| Zyte | Usage-based | usage-based | Yes | Partly public |
| ScrapingBee | $49/mo | usage-based | Trial (1,000 API credits, no credit card required) | Partly public |
| Firecrawl | $19/mo | tiered | Yes | Partly public |
| Browse AI | $19/mo | tiered | Yes | Public |
Is Octoparse still actively developed?
Last significant update: July 2026. Version 10.1.0 added local-browser scraping (so you can pull data from sites you're already logged into), improved auto-detect for shadow DOM and nested iframes, and reworked the templates page UI.
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Octoparse FAQ
Is Octoparse free?+
Yes. The free plan gives you 10 tasks, local-only extraction, and up to 50,000 rows of data export a month, forever, with no time limit.
How much does Octoparse cost?+
Standard is $83/month billed monthly, or $69/month if you commit to annual billing ($829/year). Professional is $299/month billed monthly, or $249/month billed annually ($2,999/year). Enterprise pricing is custom.
Do proxies and CAPTCHA solving cost extra?+
Yes. Octoparse's own pricing page lists residential proxies at $3/GB and CAPTCHA-solving credits at $1-1.5 per 1,000, both billed separately from your plan.
Can I get a refund if I don't like it?+
Yes. All paid plans carry a 5-day money-back guarantee: contact support within 5 days of subscribing to request a full refund.