Octoparse pricing starts at $0 with a free forever plan. Paid plans start from $83/month for Standard (from $69/mo billed annually) and $299/month for Professional ($249/mo billed annually). Enterprise pricing is custom. Every paid plan comes with a 5-day money-back guarantee.
That is the short answer. The longer answer is the one that actually matters: which plan fits your project, what the free plan can and cannot do, and where add-on costs come in. This guide breaks it all down, with every number matching our official pricing page.
Octoparse pricing at a glance
| Plan | Price (monthly billing) | Tasks | Cloud extraction | Best for |
| Free | $0 forever | 10 | No (local only) | Learning, personal projects, evaluation |
| Standard | From $83/mo (from $69/mo billed annually) | 100 | Yes, 3 concurrent runs | Small teams running recurring jobs |
| Professional | $299/mo ($249/mo billed annually) | 250 | Yes, 20 concurrent runs | Businesses scaling scraping operations |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Custom | Large orgs needing SLAs and team features |
Two things we want to be upfront about. First, the prices above are month-to-month rates. Switching to annual billing saves 16%, which is why our pricing page advertises “from $69/mo.” Second, some advanced usage carries add-on costs (residential proxy bandwidth, pay-per-result templates). Both are covered in detail below, because a pricing guide that hides the variable costs is not a pricing guide.
What does the Octoparse free plan include?
The Octoparse free plan is the free-forever tier of Octoparse, our no-code web scraping platform used by over 3 million people worldwide. It requires no credit card and never expires. It is not a trial.
Here is exactly what you get:
- The full Octoparse Desktop App on 1 device with 1 user seat
- 10 scraping tasks with unlimited pages per run
- 2 concurrent local runs, with history kept for your last 5 runs
- 50,000 rows of data export per month, up to 10,000 rows per export
- Export formats: Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML, and XML
- Database export: MySQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and Oracle
- Google Sheets export via service account
Translate that into outcomes: 50,000 monthly rows is enough to pull a 10,000-record product list five times, or monitor roughly 1,600 listings every day for a month. For a student project, a market research sprint, or evaluating whether web scraping fits your workflow, the free plan genuinely covers it.
Templates work differently on the free plan, and we want to make this clear before it trips you up. Free users can run our preset scraping templates (excluding pay-per-result templates) and view the extracted data inside Octoparse. Exporting that template data is the gated part. You have two routes: upgrade to a paid plan, or use the Octoparse MCP Server, which lets Free and Basic accounts run templates and export up to 2,000 records per week directly inside AI clients like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor, at no extra cost. That MCP allowance is a free data pipeline many people never discover.
Octoparse free plan limitations
The free plan runs everything locally, and that is the root of its limitations. We would rather you know them now than discover them mid-project:
- No cloud extraction. Tasks run on your own computer, so your machine must stay on for the duration of a run.
- No task scheduling. You cannot set a scraper to run every morning at 6 a.m. automatically.
- No anti-blocking toolkit. IP rotation, residential proxies, and automatic CAPTCHA solving are paid features. Heavily protected sites will block free-plan scrapers faster.
- Template results cannot be exported in-app. You can run preset templates and preview the data inside Octoparse, but getting it out requires a paid plan or the MCP route described above.
- No API access, Zapier integration, or automatic export. Moving data into other systems is a manual job.
- Export caps. The 50,000 rows/month and 10,000 rows/export limits are hard ceilings.
If your project is a one-off extraction from a cooperative website, none of this will bother you. If you need recurring, hands-off data delivery from sites that fight back, you have outgrown the free plan. That is the honest dividing line.
Free plan vs. free trial: which one do you want?
These are different things, and the distinction confuses people. The free plan is permanent and limited. The free trial gives you temporary access to a paid tier so you can test cloud extraction, scheduling, and anti-blocking before paying. You request it through the “Apply for Free Trial” link under the Standard or Professional plan on our pricing page, and you can cancel anytime from account settings. If you only need to validate that Octoparse can extract your target site, start with the free plan. If you need to validate a production workflow, apply for the trial.
Which Octoparse paid plan do you need?
The real question behind “octoparse pricing” is not what the plans cost. It is which scraping problems each tier solves. Match your scenario below.
Running scheduled scrapes without keeping your laptop on
This is the Standard plan’s job, and it is the most common upgrade trigger. Starting from $83/month ($69/mo billed annually), Standard moves your tasks to the Octoparse cloud with up to 3 concurrent cloud processes, adds task scheduling and automatic export, and removes the export cap entirely. It also unlocks the full anti-blocking stack: IP rotation, residential proxies, and automatic CAPTCHA solving. Smaller but handy extras come along too, like local boost mode and image and file downloads.
Standard is also where API access begins. The free plan has none. Per the Octoparse OpenAPI reference, Standard accounts can programmatically retrieve extracted data (get data by offset, export non-exported data, mark data as exported, remove data) and manage tasks (search, duplicate, move). One boundary to know: starting and stopping cloud runs through the API requires Professional or above. On Standard, runs are triggered in-app or on a schedule, and the API is your data pipe out.
Standard also unlocks full use of the 600+ preset scraping templates covering sites like Amazon, TikTok, and Google Maps, including direct export of template results, with no weekly cap. Templates skip the build step: you enter a URL or keyword, and the pre-configured scraper handles the rest. Browse the full template library to check whether your target site is already covered.
A worked example: a price-monitoring task scheduled daily across 3 competitor sites, exporting via the Data Export API into your own dashboard, fits entirely inside Standard’s entry price of $83/month ($69/mo on annual billing). On the free plan, that same workflow would require manually launching runs every day and copying files by hand.
Scaling to business-critical data pipelines
The Professional plan at $299/month ($249/mo billed annually) is built for volume and reliability rather than new capabilities. You get 250 tasks, 20 concurrent cloud runs, cloud task monitoring, automatic backup, and direct delivery to Google Sheets, Google Drive, Dropbox, and S3. It also adds priority support, a discount on pay-per-result templates, and 1-on-1 training with task review.
Professional is also the full-API tier. Where Standard’s API covers pulling data out, Professional unlocks the cloud extraction and task configuration endpoints: your own application can start and stop tasks, check task and subtask status, and update task parameters, loop items, and target URLs programmatically. If you are building a fully automated pipeline in n8n, Make, or your own backend, where software (not a person) decides when scrapers run and what they scrape, this is the plan that supports it.
The practical test: if you are queuing jobs because 3 concurrent cloud runs is a bottleneck, or a missed scrape costs you money, Professional pays for itself. If neither is true yet, stay on Standard. We mean that: the right plan is the one that matches your workload, not the biggest one.
When scraping is a team sport
The Enterprise plan is custom-priced and includes everything in Professional plus 750+ tasks, 40+ concurrent cloud processes, high-performance cloud servers, team collaboration, and a dedicated success manager. It is built for organizations where multiple people share scrapers and data, and where procurement wants SLAs. Contact our sales team for a quote tailored to your data volume and use case.
If you would rather not run scrapers at all, we also offer done-for-you options: Crawler Setup from $399 (we build the crawler, you run it) and a fully managed Data Service from $599, where our data team delivers the data to you.
Octoparse add-on costs: budget for these upfront
Base subscription is not always the whole bill, and we would rather you budget accurately from day one. Three usage-based add-ons apply when your targets are heavily protected sites:
- Residential proxies: $3 per GB of bandwidth. Protected sites often require them for reliable cloud runs.
- Pay-per-result templates: $0.001 to $3 per 1,000 results, depending on the template. You pay only for successful rows. A template priced at $1 per 1,000 results costs $10 for a 10,000-record run.
- CAPTCHA solving: $1 to $1.50 per 1,000 solves for AI-powered CAPTCHA bypass.
For most users scraping ordinary websites, these add-ons never appear on the invoice. For users scraping aggressive anti-bot targets at scale, they can add a meaningful percentage to monthly costs. Our advice: run a small test batch first and check actual proxy consumption before committing to a large job.
5 ways to pay less for Octoparse
- Bill annually. Annual billing saves 16% on every paid plan. That is the gap between $83 and $69 per month on Standard, and between $299 and $249 on Professional.
- Startup discount. Eligible startups get 30% off for one year through the Octoparse for Startups program.
- Student and educator pricing. Universities, students, educators, and non-profits can apply for special discounts.
- Use the 5-day money-back guarantee. Every paid plan is refundable within 5 days. Details are in our refund policy. It removes the risk from testing a paid tier on a real project.
- Exhaust the free allowances first. Between the free plan’s 50,000 monthly export rows for your own tasks and the MCP Server’s 2,000 template records per week, many small projects never need a paid plan at all.
What real users say about Octoparse pricing and value
Don’t just take our word for it. Here is how Octoparse scores on independent review platforms:
- G2: Octoparse holds a 4.8/5 rating across 52 reviews, with 78% of reviewers coming from small businesses. Reviewers score it 9.6/10 on meeting requirements and quality of support.
- Capterra: Reviewers consistently praise the no-code interface, templates, and cloud scheduling. The recurring critiques are fair, and we hear them: occasional struggles with highly dynamic websites and a learning curve on complex custom tasks.
That feedback maps directly to the pricing structure. The friction users report (dynamic sites, blocking) is exactly what the paid anti-blocking features and pay-per-result templates exist to solve. Factor that in when deciding between Free and Standard.
How does Octoparse pricing compare to alternatives?
Octoparse’s $0 entry point is unusual in this category. Most scraping APIs start paid: ScraperAPI’s cheapest plan begins at $49/month with no free tier beyond a trial. Developer platforms like Apify use consumption-based pricing that can be cheaper for tiny jobs but harder to predict at scale, since costs grow with compute and per-result fees rather than a flat subscription.
The structural difference: we charge a flat subscription for the platform and keep variable costs (proxies, premium templates) as transparent add-ons. If you value a predictable monthly bill and a no-code interface, that model works in your favor. If you are a developer who wants to pay strictly per request, an API-first tool may price out lower for small volumes. The honest answer is that it depends on your volume and technical comfort, which is why the free plan plus the 5-day guarantee is the cheapest way to find out.
Frequently asked questions
Is Octoparse free?
Yes. Octoparse offers a free-forever plan with no credit card required. It includes 10 scraping tasks, local extraction on 1 device, and up to 50,000 rows of data export per month in Excel, CSV, JSON, HTML, or XML format.
What are the Octoparse free plan limitations?
The free plan runs tasks locally only and excludes cloud extraction, scheduling, anti-blocking features, and API access. Exports are capped at 50,000 rows per month and 10,000 rows per export. Preset template results can be viewed in-app but exported only via MCP (2,000 records/week) or a paid plan.
How much does Octoparse cost per month?
The Standard plan starts from $83/month (from $69/mo billed annually). The Professional plan costs $299/month ($249/mo billed annually). Annual billing saves 16% on all paid plans, and Enterprise pricing is custom through sales.
Does Octoparse offer a free trial of paid features?
Yes. In addition to the free-forever plan, Octoparse offers a free trial that unlocks paid features like cloud extraction and scheduling. Apply through the “Apply for Free Trial” link on the pricing page. You can cancel the trial or any subscription anytime from your account settings.
Which Octoparse plan includes API access?
API access starts with the Standard plan; the free plan has none. Standard covers data retrieval and task management endpoints (search, duplicate, move). Starting and stopping cloud extraction or updating task parameters through the API requires the Professional or Enterprise plan.
Can I get a refund on an Octoparse plan?
Yes. All paid Octoparse plans include a 5-day money-back guarantee. If you are not satisfied within the first 5 days of a subscription, contact support@octoparse.com for a full refund under our official refund policy.
Does Octoparse offer discounts?
Yes. Annual billing saves 16% versus monthly. Startups can apply for a 30% discount for one year, and students, educators, and non-profit organizations qualify for special pricing through the Octoparse for Universities program.
The bottom line on Octoparse pricing
Start free, upgrade when a specific wall appears. The free plan handles learning and one-off projects with a genuinely useful 50,000-row monthly allowance. The moment you need scheduled, cloud-based, anti-blocking scraping, Standard from $83/month ($69/mo billed annually) is the workhorse tier. Professional at $299/month ($249/mo billed annually) is for scale, and Enterprise is for teams.
The 5-day money-back guarantee means trying a paid tier on your real workload costs you nothing but an email if it does not fit. Create a free Octoparse account and test it against your target site today.
