What does one country cost on ScraperAPI and FourA?
$299 a month against $99. Those are the first plans on ScraperAPI and on FourA that let you target one specific country (Germany, the UK or Japan, say), read from both pricing pages on 17 September 2026. If your targets change prices, stock or search results by country, that gap is most of the decision.
How FourA prices country targeting
Proxy Finder takes an exitCountries list of two-letter codes, like ["DE"] or ["CZ", "GB"]. Our endpoint reference calls it a strict allowlist: an exit with an unknown country is left out, the request never falls back to a country you didn't ask for, and the response carries the exitCountry that answered, so you can check it.
It's included from the Startup plan, $99 a month or $799 for the year, with 1,800,000 credits, as of 17 September 2026 on foura.ai/prices. A Proxy Finder call costs 2 credits, or 4 with a browser profile, and the country list adds nothing to that. So $99 covers 900,000 country-targeted calls a month, or 450,000 with a browser profile on every one.
How ScraperAPI geotargeting is priced
ScraperAPI's pricing page marks geotargeting "US & EU only" on Hobby ($49 a month, 100,000 credits) and on Startup ($149, 1,000,000 credits). The Standard Geo docs say what that means in practice: those plans get a us code and an eu code for "Europe (general)", and "individual country codes are not supported". All 68 single countries on that page start at Business, which is $299 a month for 3,000,000 credits and 100 concurrent threads.
The code itself is free there. ScraperAPI's credits page files country_code under "No Extra Cost", on top of 1 credit for a plain request.
Why FourA comes out ahead here
Take a price tracker checking 1,500 product pages on German shops once a day. That's about 45,000 calls a month, which fits inside FourA's Startup at $99 even with a browser profile on every call. On ScraperAPI the de code needs Business at $299, because Hobby and Startup stop at Europe in general. You'd pay $200 more every month ($2,400 a year) for the right to name the country. And the gap doesn't close as you grow: FourA's Business plan, $249 a month, covers 4,500,000 country-targeted calls and still costs less than ScraperAPI's Business.
ScraperAPI gets two things right here, and they're worth weighing. A country costs no extra credits, and its docs publish every supported country next to the plan it starts on, so you know before you pay whether your market is covered. Its regional us and eu codes also sit on every plan from Hobby, which is plenty when a target only cares which side of the Atlantic you're on.
Run the same request on FourA
Go through last month's logs and count the calls where the country mattered. Then split that count in two: calls that needed one specific country, and calls that would've done fine with "somewhere in Europe". The first number picks your plan. Under 900,000 a month it's $99 on FourA against $299 on ScraperAPI, and under 4,500,000 it's $249 against $299. If you're wondering why the country a target sees matters beyond price, we covered that in Ad Verification at Scale: The Geo-Authenticity Problem.
Frequently asked
Does picking a country cost extra credits? Not on either side. ScraperAPI lists country_code under "No Extra Cost", and FourA's credit table prices a Proxy Finder call by the browser profile alone, with no line for the country.
What if FourA has no exit in the country I asked for? The call doesn't quietly leave from a neighboring country. It comes back with a no_eligible_proxy error that echoes your codes, and since only a success is billed, that answer isn't billed.
Can I target a city? ScraperAPI's geolocation FAQ says it doesn't support state or city targeting. FourA's API stops at the country as well, while the Proxy port, billed against your plan like the API, lets a residential credential narrow to a region and a city.
So try it on a market you actually sell into: create a free account at auth.foura.ai/signup, send one of your own URLs through Proxy Finder on the free plan's 3,000 credits, and add exitCountries once you're on Startup.