Pay-as-you-go data scraping service
Primary sources checkedOutscraper
Extracts business listings, reviews, search results and contact details from public sources, billed per thousand records with no subscription and a free allowance on every service.
The short answer
- Best for
- Building a list of employers in a region, with their sites and contact details
- Not ideal for
- Finding candidates: nothing in the catalogue holds people, skills or availability
- Price
- Free allowance per service, then USD 1 to 9 per thousand records, pay as you go
- Closest alternative
- OctoparseWhen you need to extract from a site this catalogue does not cover and want to build the recipe yourself
At a glance
- Recruitment fitWeak
- Ease of useUnknown
- ImplementationUnknown
- Price transparencyStrong
- Value for moneyStrong
- ScalabilityStrong
Why these assessments
- Recruitment fitWeak
- The catalogue is Google Maps listings, reviews, search results, shopping and app reviews, and a B2B lead database. None of it is organised around people, skills or availability.
- Ease of useUnknown
- We have not run a job through it, and the difference between the interface and the API in daily use is exactly what we cannot judge from a price list.
- ImplementationUnknown
- Nothing to sign is a procurement fact, not an adoption one. Whether a first job takes ten minutes in the interface or an afternoon of API work depends on which service you need, and we have not run one.
- Price transparencyStrong
- Every service has a published per-thousand rate with its volume break, the free tier is stated per service, and there is no plan to misread.
- Value for moneyStrong
- USD 3 per thousand business records with no monthly minimum is cheap for the job it does, and an occasional user pays nothing between jobs.
- ScalabilityStrong
- The rate halves or better above the volume breaks, prepaid credits do not expire, and there are no seats to add.
Our reading of the evidence on this page. No score, no formula.
Where it sits
- Market data
- Contact
- Outreach
The SourcrLab bottom line
A metered data service with an unusually honest price list: no monthly fee, no recurring billing, a published rate per thousand records for each of about fifteen services, and a free allowance on all of them. For recruitment its usefulness is one step to the left of sourcing. It answers who the employers are, where they are and how to reach the company, which is business development and market mapping. It does not answer who to hire. Read the category as company research and it is good value; read it as a sourcing tool and it will disappoint.
Best fit
Mapping a market rather than sourcing in it. Pull every employer of a given type in a region out of Google Maps with their site, phone and review count, then run those domains through the email finder. For an agency deciding where the vacancies are, that is a business-development list built in an afternoon for the price of a lunch.
Think twice if
Anything to do with candidates. There is no people database here, no skills, no availability and no pipeline, and the parts of the catalogue that touch individuals are phone lookup and email validation on lists you already hold.
SourcrLab assessment
Everything on this page comes from the vendor's own pages, checked on the dates below. SourcrLab has not used this product in real recruitment work, so you will not find a first-hand opinion here.
Why choose Outscraper?
No subscription at all
The vendor's own wording is that there are no monthly fees and no recurring billing: you pay for the individual services as much as you use them, prepaid with credits that do not expire or postpaid on a card. A tool you use twice a year costs nothing in between.
A free allowance on every service
500 businesses, 500 reviews, 500 domains for emails, 25 phone lookups, 25 email validations, resetting every 30 days. Enough to test coverage on your own region before spending anything, which for a data source is the only test that counts.
The rate is published, per thousand, per service
USD 3 per thousand for business listings, reviews and email discovery; USD 5 per thousand for phone lookups and Google Search; USD 9 for news and shopping. Above the volume break most of them drop to USD 1 to 3. You can price a job before you run it.
Interface and API for the same price
The same services run from the web app or from the API on the same per-record rate, so a one-off list and a scheduled pipeline cost the same per record. Nothing here charges for automation as a feature.
Main trade-offs
There are no candidates in it
Every source in the catalogue describes a business, a listing or a review. The two services that touch people, phone lookup and email validation, work on a list you already have. If your problem is finding the person, this is the wrong shelf entirely.
Scraping public sources is your legal exposure, not theirs
The service runs the extraction; what you then do with personal data sits with you. Phone numbers and email addresses pulled this way still need a lawful basis and a privacy notice before you contact anyone, and the platforms being scraped have terms of their own.
Per-record pricing hides the total until you commit
USD 3 per thousand sounds like nothing until a market map turns into 80,000 listings and a second pass for emails. The rate is transparent; the size of your own job is the part nobody publishes.
Data quality is not something we can vouch for
Scraped listings go stale, and a business record that was right last quarter may not be now. We have not tested accuracy on any market, and the free allowance exists precisely so you can test it on yours.
Pricing and buying reality
Pay as you go: a free allowance per service, then USD 1 to 9 per thousand records
- No monthly fee and no recurring billing. Prepaid credits that do not expire, or postpaid billing on a card
- Google Maps scraper and Google Maps reviews: 500 free, then USD 3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, USD 1 per 1,000 above
- Emails and contacts: 500 domains free, then USD 3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, USD 1 per 1,000 above
- Phone number lookup: 25 free, then USD 5 per 1,000 up to 50,000, USD 3 per 1,000 above
- Email validator: 25 free, then USD 3 per 1,000 up to 100,000, USD 1 per 1,000 above
- Google Search: 10 free, then USD 5 per 1,000; Google News and Google Shopping: 50 free, then USD 9 per 1,000
- B2B lead database: USD 7 per 1,000 from 5,000 to 50,000 records, USD 3 per 1,000 from 50,000 to a million
- Free allowances reset every 30 days. Prices in USD
What we do not know
- Accuracy and freshness of listings in the Benelux
- Where data is processed and which transfer safeguards apply
- What the service does when a source blocks or rate-limits it
- Whether any enterprise or support tier exists above pay as you go
Checked on the vendor's pricing page, August 2026. Outscraper pricing page, per-service rates in USD
How it fits your stack
Works with
- A spreadsheet or CRM, as the destination for the export
- An API, for a scheduled pipeline at the same per-record price
Likely replaces
- Copying employer details out of Google Maps by hand
- A separate email-verification pass before a campaign
May overlap with
- Octoparse and Data Miner, which extract from pages this catalogue does not cover
- Hunter, for finding addresses once you hold the domains
Check before buying
- Whether your question is about employers or about candidates
- The size of the job, since the bill is a straight multiple of it
- Coverage on your own region, tested inside the free allowance
- Your lawful basis for anything personal that comes out of it
Outscraper vs alternatives
Products a buyer would genuinely put next to this one, with the reason you would pick each instead.
Choose Octoparse when the page you need is not in this catalogue and you would rather build and schedule the extraction yourself.
Choose Data Miner for repeated extraction from the same page in the browser, where a saved recipe beats a metered service.
Choose Instant Data Scraper when it is a one-off table you need in the next five minutes and free matters more than scale.
Used Outscraper?
Tell other recruiters what worked, what did not, and who it suits. Positive, mixed or critical — all useful.
Evidence
- Pay-as-you-go model with no subscription — checked against a primary source: Outscraper pricing page, per-service rates in USD
- Per-thousand rates and volume breaks per service — checked against a primary source: Outscraper pricing page, per-service rates in USD
- Free allowances per service, resetting every 30 days — checked against a primary source: Outscraper pricing page, per-service rates in USD
- Prepaid credits do not expire; postpaid billing available — checked against a primary source: Outscraper pricing page, per-service rates in USD
- Catalogue covers Google Maps, reviews, search, shopping and a B2B lead database — checked against a primary source: Outscraper pricing page, per-service rates in USD
- Accuracy and freshness of listings — not enough evidence
- Processing location and transfer safeguards — not enough evidence
- Behaviour when a source blocks or rate-limits — not enough evidence
- SourcrLab hands-on use — not enough evidence
Last reviewed: August 2026. How SourcrLab verifies information
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