Gumloop vs ScrapingBee
An independent, review-free comparison compiled by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Both products are profiled in full, and neither can pay for placement here.
The short answer
Editorial assessmentGumloop compared with ScrapingBee
Not competitors so much as different layers, and worth comparing because people evaluate them for the same job. ScrapingBee is an API you call to fetch a page reliably, handling proxies, JavaScript rendering, and blocks. Gumloop is the orchestration around that fetch: what to do with the page, how to extract from it, where to write the result. Heavy scraping is cheaper and more reliable through a dedicated API, and the two are commonly used together, with ScrapingBee as a step inside a Gumloop flow.
Choose Gumloop if
Operations, revenue operations, and growth people who understand a process well enough to encode it but do not want to write and host code: Gumloop gives them agents with real tool access, a shared knowledge base, and per-run cost visibility, with no seat charge as the rest of the team starts using what they built.
Choose ScrapingBee if
Developers and go-to-market engineers who need reliable page fetching as a component inside their own pipeline: a growth team enriching accounts, a pricing analyst monitoring competitors, an agency building a lead-sourcing script, or an AI product that needs fresh web content on demand.
Side by side
13 attributes| Attribute | Gumloop | ScrapingBee |
|---|---|---|
| Category | GTM Engineering | GTM Engineering |
| Starting price | $37 per month (Pro, 20,000 credits included) (14 days trial) | $19.99 per month (Hobby, 75,000 credits, 25 concurrent requests) (free trial) |
| Pricing model | Usage-based. Seats are unlimited on every plan and the meter is credits, where one credit is $0.005. Credits are consumed by model chat and reasoning tokens, tool calls (minimum one credit per successful call), compute time at roughly five credits per session-minute, and an 8 percent orchestration fee on top of those. Workflow runs bill the same way. Bring-your-own-key removes token charges but raises the orchestration fee on agent chats. | Credit-based subscription. Every plan is a monthly credit allowance plus a concurrency limit, and each request deducts credits according to the options enabled: one credit for a plain fetch, five with JavaScript rendering, ten for a premium proxy alone, twenty-five for premium proxy plus rendering, and seventy-five for stealth proxy. All features are available on every paid tier; higher tiers buy volume, concurrency, and support, not capability. |
| Free plan | No | No |
| Free trial | 14 days on Pro | 1,000 free API credits, no credit card required |
| Best for | Operations, revenue operations, and growth people who understand a process well enough to encode it but do not want to write and host code: Gumloop gives them agents with real tool access, a shared knowledge base, and per-run cost visibility, with no seat charge as the rest of the team starts using what they built. | Developers and go-to-market engineers who need reliable page fetching as a component inside their own pipeline: a growth team enriching accounts, a pricing analyst monitoring competitors, an agency building a lead-sourcing script, or an AI product that needs fresh web content on demand. |
| Setup time | A first useful agent in an afternoon: connect two or three apps, write instructions, test in the canvas, then invite it into a Slack channel. A production process with triggers, error handling, and evaluations is more like a week of part-time work, most of which is spent discovering the edge cases in your own data. | Minutes. Sign up, copy the API key, and change the URL in an existing HTTP call. Getting a difficult target working reliably takes longer, usually an hour or two of tuning render options, wait conditions, and proxy level against real responses. |
| Learning curve | Low to start and moderate to do well. The canvas and the agent editor are approachable, but the skills that separate a demo from something dependable are prompt discipline, knowing when to force a step into a deterministic workflow instead of trusting the model, and reading the run log to find which node is consuming the credits. | Low for a developer and impassable for anyone else. The parameter set is small and well documented; the real skill is cost discipline, knowing when a page genuinely needs rendering or a residential IP rather than defaulting to the expensive configuration everywhere. |
| Platforms | Web application, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Email (per-agent inbox), Hosted agent pages with custom domains, Chrome extension, CLI | REST API over HTTPS, Official SDKs: Python, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, Go, Java, Command-line client, MCP server for AI agents, Make, n8n, and Zapier connectors |
| Compliance | SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, Zero data retention options with model providers | GDPR |
| Founded | 2023 | 2019 |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California (founded in Vancouver, Canada) | France |
| Ownership | Independent, venture-backed (legal entity AgentHub Inc.) | Acquired by Oxylabs (June 2025) |
Strengths and limitations
Gumloop
Strengths
- Unlimited seats on every plan, so adoption across a team costs nothing extra and the builder is not rationing access.
- Genuinely non-technical building surface that still reaches real systems, with roughly 300 connectors and first-class MCP support.
- Per-node credit and runtime reporting in the run log, which is better cost instrumentation than most automation platforms offer.
- Company Brain with permission-preserving indexing, which is what makes a shared Slack agent safe rather than a data leak waiting to happen.
Limitations
- The free plan was discontinued; evaluation is now a 14-day trial on a paid plan, which is a real barrier for a cautious small buyer.
- Credit consumption is hard to predict before you build. Users report a workflow going from one or two credits per run to dozens after a small change, and credits do not roll over on Pro.
- The 8 percent orchestration fee sits on top of model and tool costs, and rises on bring-your-own-key agent chats, so BYOK is less of a savings lever than it first appears.
- Pro concurrency is a wall, not a queue: 5 simultaneous workflow runs, then HTTP 429. Queuing is an Enterprise feature, which pushes any genuinely high-volume webhook use case upmarket.
ScrapingBee
Strengths
- One endpoint replaces the three hardest pieces of a scraping stack: proxy rotation, headless browsers, and anti-bot handling.
- Billing only on successful responses, which removes the worst cost surprise in the category.
- Documentation and error messages are unusually clear, and the API is small enough to learn in an afternoon.
- Every feature is available on the cheapest paid plan; higher tiers buy volume and support rather than unlocking capability.
Limitations
- The credit multipliers make effective cost hard to forecast. A workload that quietly shifts from rendered to stealth requests multiplies its bill by fifteen with no change to the code except one boolean.
- Credits expire monthly with no rollover, which penalizes bursty and seasonal scraping directly.
- It is a fetch API only: no scheduler, no hosted storage, no dataset browser, no visual builder, so a non-developer cannot use it at all.
- Concurrency limits are tied to plan tier, so a large backfill on a low plan is throughput-bound even when credits are available.
Pricing compared
Gumloop
Usage-based. Seats are unlimited on every plan and the meter is credits, where one credit is $0.005. Credits are consumed by model chat and reasoning tokens, tool calls (minimum one credit per successful call), compute time at roughly five credits per session-minute, and an 8 percent orchestration fee on top of those. Workflow runs bill the same way. Bring-your-own-key removes token charges but raises the orchestration fee on agent chats.
- ProFrom $37
- EnterpriseCustom
The unlimited-seat model is the genuinely unusual part. A ten-person team pays the same $37 base as one person, which inverts the economics of nearly every competing tool and makes Gumloop cheap for the pattern it is designed around: one builder, many users. The offsetting risk is that the credit meter is opaque until you have run real work through it, and the removal of the free plan means you now discover your actual cost during a 14-day paid trial rather than over a leisurely month on a free tier. For a small business, the honest budgeting approach is to assume the $37 covers exploration and light production only, and to instrument the run log early so you know which agent is eating the month.
ScrapingBee
Credit-based subscription. Every plan is a monthly credit allowance plus a concurrency limit, and each request deducts credits according to the options enabled: one credit for a plain fetch, five with JavaScript rendering, ten for a premium proxy alone, twenty-five for premium proxy plus rendering, and seventy-five for stealth proxy. All features are available on every paid tier; higher tiers buy volume, concurrency, and support, not capability.
- Free trial$0
- Hobby$19.99
- Freelance$49.99
- Startup$99.99
- Business$249.99
- EnterpriseFrom $999.99
Judged against the alternative of running your own proxy contract plus a Playwright fleet, ScrapingBee is cheap: the Freelance plan costs less per month than a couple of hours of the engineer who would otherwise be maintaining browser infrastructure. Judged against raw bandwidth-priced proxy networks, it is expensive, because you are paying per request for rendering you may not need. The honest rule is that ScrapingBee wins when a meaningful share of your targets need a real browser or residential IPs, and loses when they do not. The successful-requests-only billing and the published enterprise pricing both improve the deal relative to competitors who bill every attempt and hide the top of the range.
Editorial verdict on each
Gumloop
Gumloop is the most credible no-code agent platform for a go-to-market team that has processes worth encoding and nobody free to write code. The unlimited-seat model is the standout commercial decision: one person builds, the whole company uses it, and the base subscription does not move. Company Brain with permission-aware indexing, skills that give the prompt layer a home, and evaluations that grade output are the parts competitors have not matched. The reasons for caution are commercial rather than technical. The free plan is gone, so evaluation now happens inside a 14-day paid trial; credits are hard to forecast, do not roll over, and carry an orchestration fee on top; and the governance features a compliance review will ask about live entirely on Enterprise. Buy it if the work you want automated genuinely needs judgment, budget for usage rather than a flat subscription, and instrument the run log from day one so you find out which agent is expensive before the invoice does.
Read the full Gumloop profileScrapingBee
ScrapingBee is the sensible default for a developer who needs web pages to come back reliably and does not want to run proxy contracts and a browser farm to get them. Its virtues are unglamorous and durable: a small API, honest documentation, billing only on successful responses, and published prices from $19.99 all the way to the top of the enterprise range, which almost nobody else in web data does. The costs it will impose on you are equally predictable. Credit multipliers mean the same code can cost fifteen times more depending on one boolean, credits expire monthly, and the product deliberately stops at fetching, so scheduling, storage, and orchestration remain yours. The Oxylabs acquisition in 2025 has so far been benign, but it does mean the roadmap now belongs to a proxy company rather than to two founders. Buy it as a component, size the plan against your real mix of rendered and stealth requests rather than the headline credit count, and keep a visual tool in mind if anyone non-technical ever needs to run a job.
Read the full ScrapingBee profileGumloop profile last reviewed 2026-08-23; ScrapingBee last reviewed 2026-08-23. Pricing is compiled from public sources and can change without notice. See our methodology.