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, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

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

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
Data ExtractionProxiesScrapingRate LimitingQuotas

Limits

Concurrent requests (free plan) api-key
concurrent_requests
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

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.

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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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