upAPI vs ApyHub
The same one-subscription idea, pointed at the expensive work.
How ApyHub charges
Three tiers — Free, $16 and $42 a month — metered in a pooled currency they call atoms, with 3,000 atoms, one API key and 5 requests a second on the free tier, and no card required to start.
How upAPI charges
Four tiers from $0 to $499, metered in weighted units. Same pooled idea; the difference is what the pool is spent on and how visible the per-operation price is before you spend it.
USD 29 / mo · USD 0.29 per 1,000 units · full pricing
Last checked 2026-09-14. ApyHub figures here were read from their own pages on that date. We do not restate a competitor’s number we have not seen ourselves, and where they publish none we say so; if this date has aged, check theirs before ours.
ApyHub and upAPI agree on the important thing: paying one subscription for a pool of calls across many APIs is better than holding a subscription per API. Their pricing page says it as plainly as ours does, and on a page whose job is to be honest that is worth stating first.
The divergence is what sits in the pool. A pooled allowance is easy to price when every call is cheap and predictable; it gets interesting when the pool also has to cover a headless Chromium tab, a residential proxy and a GPU. That is what the weight table is for — it lets one budget span a 1-unit currency lookup and a 20-unit browser render without either being mispriced, and it is published so you can do the arithmetic before committing.
If your workload is entirely lightweight utility calls, their smaller entry price is a fair reason to prefer them. If any part of it involves rendering, scraping behind residential IPs, Maps or media, the catalog and the published weights are what we would point at.
Where ApyHub wins
- Price at the small end. Their paid entry point is around $16 against our $29, and if your workload is genuinely all lightweight utility calls that is real money.
- Utility and document-conversion breadth — currency, validation, format conversion, PDF and document tooling — is deeper than ours in that specific category.
- A simpler product to hold in your head: fewer categories, fewer moving parts, less to read before the first call.
Where upAPI wins
- The expensive operations exist here. Headless browser rendering, Google Maps, Instagram, TikTok and LinkedIn reads through residential IPs, GPU transcription and OCR are in the same pooled quota as the cheap ones.
- The per-operation price is published. A weighted unit table on every catalog page and on the pricing page means you know a screenshot is 20 and a currency read is 1 before you write the integration, rather than discovering the ratio from a bill.
- Per-key analytics — p50, p95 and p99 latency, error rate and usage — on every plan including free.
- A typed SDK, an OpenAPI document, an in-app copilot that can run the catalog, and a hosted MCP server you authorize in the browser rather than by pasting a key.
What switching actually costs
Both are one key and a JSON POST, so migrating a call is changing a host and a body shape. Map your highest-volume calls onto the catalog first and check the unit weights against your monthly count — that arithmetic is the whole decision.
Other comparisons: Apify, Bright Data, ScraperAPI, Serper, RapidAPI, ScrapingBee, Firecrawl, ScreenshotOne.