Every program we measured in Web scraping
| Apify board | 20% then 30%, capped $2,500 | $806 | 50 | 52 | B · Worth a post |
| ScraperAPI board | 50% recurring, capped $3,000 | $1,006 | 30 | 41 | C · Only in a roundup |
| ZenRows board | 35% / 12 months | $467 | 10 | 16 | D · Skip |
| WebScrapingAPI board | Up to 30%, capped $3,000 | $401 | 0 | 3 | N · No demand |
| Octoparse | 20% / 12 months claimed | - | 40 | 38 | C · Only in a roundup |
| Browse AI | 5% lifetime claimed | - | 10 | 24 | D · Skip |
| Crawlbase | 25% / 6 months claimed | - | 0 | 14 | N · No demand |
| Nimble | not found | - | 0 | 2 | N · No demand |
What does the search landscape look like?
The head term "web scraping api" gets 1,900 searches a month in the US (KD 59). Its top 10: 3 independents, 1 forum / video and 4 rival vendors. Google shows an AI Overview on it.
See the top 10 for "web scraping api"
- independentscrapingbee.com
ScrapingBee - The Best Web Scraping API - independentfirecrawl.dev
Firecrawl - The web data API to search, scrape, and interact ... - forum / videoreddit.com
Best web scraping api's at the moment? : r/webscraping - rival vendorscraperapi.com
ScraperAPI: Scale Data Collection with a Simple Web ... - rival vendordocs.apify.com
API scraping | Academy - rival vendordecodo.com
Web Scraping API - Free Plan, 100+ Templates - rival vendorwebscrapingapi.com
Web Scraping API: 5,000 Free Requests, Plans from $19 - independentscrapfly.io
Scrapfly - Web Scraping API, Cloud Browser, Screenshot API
What do ChatGPT and Gemini recommend?
We asked both engines, with web search on, the same two questions. Here is who they named and what they cited.
"What are the best web scraping api affiliate programs with recurring commissions?"
Named: Bright Data, Apify, ScraperAPI and Oxylabs.
Cited: brightdata.com, scraperapi.com, zyte.com, apify.com, docs.apify.com and scrapingbee.com.
"What are the best web scraping api affiliate programs with recurring commissions?"
Named: Apify.
Cited: scrapeops.io, webscraping.ai, scrape.do and docs.apify.com.
"best web scraping tool"
Cited: firecrawl.dev, apify.com and zyte.com.
"best web scraping tool"
Named: Bright Data, ScraperAPI, ZenRows, Octoparse and Oxylabs.
Cited: tinyfish.ai, firecrawl.dev, gumloop.com and browse.ai.
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Web scraping affiliate program?
On our data it's Apify, which pays 20% for the first 3 months, then 30%, capped at $2,500 per customer and scores 52/100 on winnability. We rank on what a referral is worth and on whether you can win the search traffic, not on rate alone.
How many Web scraping affiliate programs pay recurring commissions?
We measured 8 programs in this category. 4 have terms we verified as recurring.