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Introduction: Reasons Why Your Free Scrapes are Failing
Outscraper offers a free tier for all our users as an introduction and to test our web scraping platform, but there are some reasons why you should consider upgrading your account.
You did it. You took the Outscraper Free Trial, ran your initial tests, and proved that this tool is the answer to your lead generation problem. You saw the potential.
You got the high-quality data. Everything was great… Until you hit the dreaded 500-record wall.
Suddenly, that free tier isn’t a helpful starting point anymore, but a frustrating drag on your business efficiency. Your workflows stall, your reports are incomplete, and you’re stuck waiting for the monthly reset.
You’re trying to scale a business on a quota built for testing, and it’s costing you valuable time and money.
The Outscraper Free Iier exists for proof-of-concept. The moment you push past that 500-unit limit (whether it’s Google Maps data, specific reviews, or business listings), your usage becomes expensive, slow, and un-targetable. You need precise, high-volume data to win, and the free tier is locking you out.
But what if upgrading into a paid tier wasn’t a cost but a smart, strategic investment?
This guide proves that upgrading your Outscraper account is not just an expense, but it’s a definitive move toward a scale-driven cost reduction.
Upgrading your Outscraper account isn’t an expense, but it’s how you can have massive savings. We’re not just telling you to pay more; we’re going to show you exact tipping points where your cost record plummets, your extraction speed becomes instant, and your data quality will improve greatly.
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Why Paying Saves You Money
If you’re still thinking of the free tier as “free money,” you need to change your mindset right now.
Why?
Because once you’re done with testing and move to actual production, the free tier is actually the most expensive option you have. Your growth will stop and introduce you to unnecessary risk with your operation.
Free is NOT Cheaper for High-Volume Users
The Free Tier is a vicious cycle because you keep on waiting for every single month, you get that welcome gift of 500 records, but once you’re out of free credits, you’re forced to make a hard stop and wait for the reset.
This will lead to two major issues: unpredictable, skyrocketing costs and mid-job cutoffs that destroy workflow consistency.
You can’t build a sustainable business on a plan that forces you to constantly stop.
This isn’t about paying more; it’s about adjusting your unit cost. Look at how quickly your per-record price drops when you commit to scale.
The Quantifiable Upgrade: Your Cost-Per-Thousand Breakdown
| Records (Google Maps/Reviews) | Pricing Model | Your Cost per 1,000 Records | The Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 - 500 | The Free Tier | $0.00 | The Testing Phase (Your Proof of Concept) |
| 501 - 100,000 | The Medium Tier | $3.00 | The Launch Phase (Your Efficiency Sweet Spot) |
| 100,000+ | The Business Tier Discount! | $1.00 | The Scaling Phase (Your Competitive Edge) |
As a business owner, you move from a risky, unmanaged cost model (where every overage records costs you a premium) to a stable, scalable model instantly.
Notice the $1.00 per 1,000 price point? That’s where the power of scale truly kicks in. Once you hit the six-figure mark, your marginal cost automatically drops by a massive 66%.
You’re essentially being rewarded with a drastically affordable per-unit cost just for using the platform more efficiently.
Staying on the free plan after your proof-of-concept phase is no longer saving you money, but rather actively blocking your revenue potential.
Guaranteed Performance: No More Delays Mid-Scrape
Beyond the cost, there’s the issue of reliability.
The Free Tier Risk is simple: free usage, by its very nature, is susceptible to priority delays, especially when you attempt to run large, complex jobs. Your data might be sitting behind a hundred paid jobs in the queue.
Can you afford to wait?
The Upgrade Solution gives you immediate access to smoother infrastructure, priority in the job queues, and the rock-solid reliability that serious users rely on. The paid tier is running on dedicated, premium servers, ensuring your job starts when you click “Get Data.”
For critical, time-sensitive data tasks like daily SERP monitoring, stock trend analysis, or pulling competitive pricing, this paid usage is necessary that guarantees completion without the system cutting you off during scraping.
Eliminating Bad Data and Wasted Cost
Here’s the thing most users miss about the free tier: it doesn’t just limit your volume; it actively forces you to waste money on irrelevant data.
If you’re scraping thousands of records, and 30% of them are dead leads, or businesses and places that no longer exist, it’s like collecting trash as leads.
The upgrade solves that.
The Quick Filter Advantage: Scrape Leads, Not Junks
Suppose you’re still relying on a free tier and were able to run at least 1,000 records for two months and then realize that 300 of those businesses are irrelevant to your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). That’s not a data scrape but a data junks.
The Free Tier Pain: It lacks the Advanced Filters option, which includes powerful, quick filters such as “Only With Websites, Operational Only, With Phone, with Email, or Good Rating. This means using free tier is running a blind scrape, resulting to collecting irrelevant data.
How to fix and eliminate junks?
Upgrade Solutions lets you filter for your ICP before the scrape ever runs.
Look at these Use Cases:
- Web Development Outreach: You can target only businesses without websites to create a 100% focused list.
- Reputation Management: Need high-intent customer service leads? Filter by Bad Rating. Need social proof? Filter by Good Rating. You focus your offer instantly.
Free Tier vs. Paid Tier Options
Revenue Data: The Need for Enrichment
So far, we’ve covered why upgrading saves you money and eliminates junk data. But let’s talk about the real turning point, which is converting raw data into immediate revenue opportunities.
A list of 10,000 businesses is just information but a list of 10,000 contactable leads is a sales pipeline.
Which one do you need?
The Enrichment Gap: Converting Raw Records into Contactable Leads
When you pull thousands of records from the free tier, but all you have is a name and an address. What do you do next? You manually search for an email, or you export the whole list to a costly third-party enrichment tool.
The Free Tier Pain: Your data is fundamentally incomplete. A business name and address are information, but a verified email and direct phone number are revenue. Because you cannot add Enrichment features, you’re creating two jobs for yourself instead of just one.
Stop paying twice for the same data.
The Upgrade Solution is simple: You immediately uncover the powerful Email & Contacts Scraper integration. Your data enrichment happens simultaneously with the initial scrape.
This upgrade means your Cost Per Contactable Lead drops drastically. Why? Because you no longer need to pay a third party, upload spreadsheets, and wait for external enrichment. It’s done automatically, instantly, and reliably within Outscraper.
Your lead list is sales-ready the moment the scrape job finishes.
See Also: Complete Guide to All Outscraper’s Enrichment Features
Lead Gen Packs Enrichment
All Enrichments
Emails & Contacts Scraper
Find emails, contacts, and socials of companies that matter to you.
Agency & Enterprise Use Cases: Data Beyond the Spreadsheet
When you combine high volume, speed, and integration enrichment, you move past the “spreadsheet jockey” phase and into true automation.
Use Case 1: Automated CRM Integration & Automation Tools:
This is where agencies and enterprise clients win. By applying the massive volume capabilities and built-in enrichment, you can set up a sophisticated system that automatically:
- Finds new leads based on hyper-targeted criteria.
- Qualifies them instantly.
- Enriches the record with verified contacts.
- Pushes that revenue-ready data directory into HubSpot, Zapier, GoHighLevel, Pipedrive, Pabbly, Make.com, DataBar, n8n, and Zoho CRM.
Use Case 2: Comprehensive Review Monitoring:
Stop guessing what the market thinks. You can run large-scale, automated daily scrapes of thousands of competitor/client reviews (via Reviews API). By benefiting from the $1/1K Business Tier pricing, you can gain real-time competitive intelligence that allows you to spot product flaws, identify marketing gaps, and move faster than the competition.
Use Case 3: Geo-Fencing & Market Sizing:
Run non-sequential, ultra-deep-dive scrapes across hundreds of ZIP codes and geographic areas (thanks to the Skip function). This allows you to accurately size entirely new markets or perfectly geo-fence your campaigns, providing your clients with data-backed expansion strategies.
Conclusion: Stop Using a Free Tier. Start Running a Data Business
If you’ve read this far, you’ve proven one thing: you’re not a hobbyist. You’re a professional who understands that data is the new oil.
The only thing stopping you from dominating your market is the arbitrary, self-imposed limit of the 500-record limit.
The entire point of the upgrades is this: The Paid Tiers proved the Scale, Quality, and Automation necessary to move you from hobbyist testing to professional, revenue-ready lead generation. You stop managing limitations and start managing growth.
The Calculated Risk.
Let’s look at this purely as a business decision.
The new and better-paid tier version is not expensive because just one new customer found with the improved tools will pay for the upgrade many, many times over.
The real risk isn’t the cost of the subscription. The risk is NOT upgrading. It’s losing time to throttling, wasting money on irrelevant records, and letting your competition scoop up the high-value data you can’t reach.
Ready to stop filtering junk and banking on scale Uncover the full data potential of Outscraper’s Paid Tier today!
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Products and Services Pricing
Free Tier
Usage before 500 businesses- Free for the first 500 businesses (places)
- CSV/Excel/Parquet/JSON
- Enrichments
Medium Tier
Usage after 500 businesses- Price per 1k records for the usage from 501 to 100k businesses (places)
- CSV/Excel/Parquet/JSON
- Advanced filters
- Enrichments
- API access
Business Tier
Usage after 100,000 businesses- Price per 1k records for the usage after 100k businesses (places)
- CSV/Excel/Parquet/JSON
- Advanced filters
- Enrichments
- API access
- Unlimited
Free Tier
Usage before 500 reviews- Free for the first 500 reviews
- CSV/XLSX export
- Sorting options
Medium Tier
Usage after 500 reviews- Price per 1k reviews for the usage from 501 to 100k reviews
- CSV/XLSX export
- Sorting options
- API access
Business Tier
Usage after 100,000 reviews- Price per 1k reviews for the usage after 100k reviews
- CSV/XLSX export
- Sorting options
- API access
- Unlimited
Free Tier
Usage before 500 domains- Free for the first 500 contacts
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Social profiles
Business Tier
Usage after 100,000 domains- Price for contacts from 1k domains after 100k domains
- Email addresses
- Phone numbers
- Social profiles
Free Tier
Usage before 25 emails- Price per one email for the usage from 1 to 25 emails
Business Tier
Usage after 100,000 emails- Price per 1k emails for the usage after 100k emails
Free Tier
Usage before 500 images- CSV/XLSX export
- Advanced filters
- API access
Medium Tier
Usage after 500 images- CSV/XLSX export
- Advanced filters
- API access
Business Tier
Usage after 50,000 images- CSV/XLSX export
- Advanced filters
- API access
Free Tier
Usage before 500 requests- Price per one request for the usage from 1 to 500 requests
- Historical data from 2001
- CSV/XLSX export
- API access
Medium Tier
Usage after 500 requests- Price per 1k requests for the usage from 501 to 5k requests
- Historical data from 2001
- CSV/XLSX export
- API access
Business Tier
Usage after 5,000 requests- Price per 1k requests for the usage after 5k requests
- Historical data from 2001
- CSV/XLSX export
- API access
Free Tier
Usage before 10 searches- Free for the first 10 searches (pages)
- CSV/Excel/Parquet/JSON
- Enrichments
Business Tier
Usage after 100,000 searches- Price per 1k searches for the usage after 100k searches (pages)
- CSV/Excel/Parquet/JSON
- Enrichments
- API access
- Unlimited
Free Tier
Usage before 500 reviews- Price per one review for the usage from 1 to 500 reviews
- CSV/XLSX export
- Sorting
- API access
Medium Tier
Usage after 500 reviews- Price per 1k reviews for the usage from 501 to 50k reviews
- CSV/XLSX export
- Sorting
- API access
Business Tier
Usage after 50,000 reviews- Price per 1k reviews for the usage after 50k reviews
- CSV/XLSX export
- Sorting
- API access
Free Tier
Usage before 500 products- Free for the first 500 products.
- CSV/XLSX export
- Advanced filters
- API access
Business Tier
Usage after 5,000 products- Price per 1k records for the usage after 5k products.
- CSV/XLSX export
- Advanced filters
- API access
Free Tier
Usage before 500 reviews- Free for the first 500 reviews.
- CSV/XLSX export
- Advanced filters
- API access
Business Tier
Usage after 5,000 reviews- Price per 1k records for the usage after 5k reviews.
- CSV/XLSX export
- Advanced filters
- API access
Innitital Tier
- For the first 5k records
- CSV/XLSX/JSON/PARQUET export
- Advanced filters
- Map area search
- Emails addresses
- Phone numbers
- Carrier types
- API access
Business Tier
- From 50k to 1M records
- CSV/XLSX/JSON/PARQUET export
- Advanced filters
- Map area search
- Emails addresses
- Phone numbers
- Carrier types
- API access
FAQ
Most frequent questions and answers
You should upgrade when you consistently need more than 500 records per month.
Paid tiers reduce your cost per record substantially and avoid the inefficiencies and hidden costs of waiting for monthly free credits to reset.
Upgraded accounts get priority access to premium servers, eliminating queue and delays common on free plan.
Yes, advanced filters available for paid plans let you scrape only relevant leads matching your Ideal Customer Profile.
You gain integrated email and contact scraping that enrich raw data into sales-ready leads without extra third-party tools.
Ed Umbao
As Head of Content and SEO Strategist at Outscraper, Ed Umbao specializes in making complex technical topics, including web scraping, clear, discoverable, and genuinely helpful for users. With a decade-plus of experience, from co-founding a news website (2011) to optimizing for a Web3 startup (2023), he is passionate about connecting innovative data solutions with the right audience. Linkedin Twitter/X
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