Comparison
An Ultimate Web Scraper alternative that exports for free.
Ultimate Web Scraper and Magic Scraper both turn a list on a page into rows, follow pagination and keep the work in your browser. The differences are in what is free, how you pay, and what each does beyond the list.
The difference in one minute
Exports are free
Ultimate Web Scraper extracts for free on your own machine, but file exports are part of its Pro. In Magic Scraper, CSV, Excel and JSON exports are free, with no row cap.
Pay once, not every year
Ultimate Web Scraper’s plans are yearly — Pro $60, Pro+ $99, Team $249 — with no monthly option. Magic Scraper Pro is a one-time $19 at the founding price.
Found, not clicked
Ultimate Web Scraper selects a list when you hover and click it. Magic Scraper has already found it when the popup opens; if it chose the wrong one, Wrong list? has the others.
Feature by feature
| Magic Scraper | Ultimate Web Scraper | |
|---|---|---|
| Browsers | Chrome and Edge | Chrome, Edge and Brave |
| Selecting the list | Found automatically, or point at it | Hover and click |
| Pagination and infinite scroll | Yes | Yes |
| CSV, Excel and JSON export | Free | Pro, from $60/year |
| Price model | Free, plus a one-time $19 Pro | Yearly plans, no monthly option |
| Open the page behind each row, add its fields | Yes, drill-down, several levels deep | Not described in these terms |
| Scheduled runs | Pro, in your browser | Cloud Platform, with credits |
| Google Sheets | Free: Open in Sheets. Pro: send rows | Sync, on paid plans |
| Compare with the last run, or with a file | Yes | Not listed |
| Image, email and social-link extractors | No | Yes |
| Connect AI agents (MCP) | No | Yes, paid plans |
When Magic Scraper is the better fit
When you want the file without a subscription: detection, every page and the export are free, and the paid part — schedules, saved setups, a list of pages, Google Sheets and webhooks — is paid for once. Pro is a one-time purchase: $19 at the founding price for the first 100 buyers, $25 after that, with every update included.
When the list is only the start: drill-down opens each row’s own page and brings its details back as columns, through as many levels as the site has.
When to keep Ultimate Web Scraper
When you need its other tools — downloading images, pulling emails or social links, extracting Shopify stores, exploring a sitemap — or want to drive scraping from an AI agent over MCP, or run it on its Cloud. Magic Scraper does none of those.
Try both on the same page
The practice site is built to be scraped by any tool: a paginated catalogue, tables, Load more, infinite scroll and a detail page behind every row.
Reasonable questions
Is there a free alternative to Ultimate Web Scraper?
Magic Scraper finds the list, follows every page and exports CSV, Excel or JSON for free, with no account. Its Pro, for schedules, saved setups, lists of pages and Google Sheets, is a one-time purchase.
Is Ultimate Web Scraper free?
Its extension installs free and extraction on your own machine is unlimited, but its FAQ puts file exports, image downloads and multi-tab extraction in Pro. Its plans are billed yearly from $60, with no monthly option, according to its pricing page.
Does Magic Scraper need an account?
No. It runs in your browser, nothing is uploaded, and Pro is unlocked with a licence key.
Which one opens the page behind each row?
Magic Scraper’s drill-down opens each row’s linked page and adds its fields as columns, including tables on that page with one row per table row.
Can Magic Scraper download images or find emails?
No. It collects image addresses and email addresses that appear in a list as columns, but it has no image downloader or email-finding tool.