Octoparse
Point-and-click web scraping with ready-made templates for common sites, and scheduled cloud runs so it keeps pulling data without you.
What it costs
| Tier | Price | For | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | A one-off local scrape. | 10 tasks, 1 device, 2 concurrent runs, 50,000 monthly rows exported, export to Excel/CSV/JSON/HTML/XML and databases. |
| Standard | $69/month billed annually (16% off monthly) | Ongoing scraping that needs to run in the cloud, not just on your laptop. | 100 tasks, 3 concurrent cloud processes, 500+ preset templates, IP rotation, automatic CAPTCHA solving, task scheduling, API access. |
| Professional | $249/month billed annually (16% off monthly) | A team running many scheduled scrapes at once. | 250 tasks, 20 concurrent cloud processes, direct export to Google Sheets/Drive/Dropbox/S3, cloud task monitoring, priority support. |
| Enterprise | Custom pricing, contact sales | Large-scale, high-volume data operations. | Custom limits and support arrangements beyond the Professional tier. |
Read from Octoparse's own pricing page on 25 Sep 2026. Vendors change prices without notice.
Where it breaks
Windows and macOS desktop app for building scrapers; cloud execution on paid tiers runs without the app open.
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Octoparse has been around long enough that “point and click” is a fair description rather than marketing — you click the fields you want on a live page, and it builds the scraper’s logic from that, rather than asking you to write a selector by hand. That’s what’s kept it a standard recommendation for marketplace or directory scraping long before AI scraping tools existed at all.
The free tier runs locally on your device: useful for a one-time pull, useless for anything you need on a schedule, because the task stops the moment you close the laptop. Paid tiers move execution to Octoparse’s own cloud servers, which is the actual thing you’re buying past Free — a scraper that keeps running on schedule whether or not your machine is on.
What separates Standard from Professional
Both include cloud execution and templates; the real gap is concurrency and where the data lands. Standard runs 3 scrapes at once and exports to files or databases; Professional runs 20 at once and pushes straight into Google Sheets, Drive, Dropbox or S3, plus cloud monitoring so you can check a scrape’s status without opening the desktop app.
The honest limitation
Sites actively defending against scraping change their layout and defences over time, and a template built today can break without warning. IP rotation and CAPTCHA solving on the paid tiers reduce how often that happens, but no scraper, Octoparse included, is immune to a site redesign.
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