ScrapingAnt · Rate Limits

ScrapingAnt Rate Limits

ScrapingAnt's published throttling and quota surface. This file REPLACES a 2026-05-04 scaffold that asserted per-minute request ceilings (10/100/1000 rpm) and X-RateLimit-* response headers that ScrapingAnt does not publish and does not return. The real model is different in kind: ScrapingAnt does not meter requests per unit time at all. It meters a MONTHLY CREDIT POOL, markets "unlimited parallel requests / no concurrency cap on any plan", and signals cost per request with a proprietary Ant-credits-cost response header. The only throttle-shaped control documented is HTTP 409 for concurrent-request limits on the free plan.

ScrapingAnt Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for ScrapingAnt on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 7 rate-limit definitions, across the free, enthusiast, startup, business, and business-pro tiers, measuring concurrent_requests, api_credits, and seconds.

Limit state is signalled in the cost, limit, remaining, and reset response headers.

The profile also includes 4 backoff/retry policies defined and response codes documented for concurrencyExceeded, quotaExceeded, antibotDetected, missingOrInvalidToken, serviceError, and note.

Tagged areas include Data Extraction, Proxies, Scraping, Rate Limiting, and Quotas.

7 Limits Quota: 403 costlimitremainingreset
Transcribed from the provider's documentation on 2026-08-29 — scrapingant.com/#pricing, docs.scrapingant.com/credits-co....
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Limits

Concurrent requests (free plan) api-key
concurrent_requests · per instantaneous
HTTP 409 is documented as "Concurrent requests limit exceeded. Please, try again or upgrade to the paid plan". The NUMERIC ceiling is never published - `limit: null` is an honest gap, not an omission. Paid plans are marketed as having no concurrency cap.
Free plan monthly credits account
api_credits · month
10000
Enthusiast monthly credits account
api_credits · month
100000
Startup monthly credits account
api_credits · month
500000
Business monthly credits account
api_credits · month
3000000
Business Pro monthly credits account
api_credits · month
8000000
Request execution timeout request
seconds
60
Caller-set per-request duration ceiling, 5-60 seconds. This is the only bound a client can impose on ScrapingAnt from the request side. It is documented on the REST surface but is absent from both the published OpenAPI and the MCP tool inputSchemas.

Policies

Failed requests are free
Failed requests cost 0 credits (stated on scrapingant.com/#pricing and the MCP landing page). Only successful scrapes draw down the pool.
No credit rollover
Unused credits do not carry into the next subscription period (docs.scrapingant.com/credits-cost).
Mid-cycle restart
A plan can be restarted immediately once its credits are exhausted rather than waiting for the billing cycle to roll; credits refresh on payment.
Variable request cost
A single request costs between 1 and 125 credits depending on browser rendering and proxy type, so a per-request quota cannot be inferred from a credit total without knowing the option mix. See plans/scrapingant-plans-pricing.yml credit_costs.

Work with this as data

Every rate limit here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

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Tools for rate limits

4 MCP tools reach this
  • find_rate_limitsBrowse and filter every rate limit in the catalog.
  • apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
  • resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
  • find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
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Call it yourself

curl for this page
This rate limit 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits/scrapingant-rate-limits"
All rate limits 
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/rate-limits?limit=25"

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