BirdSift vs. Outscraper
Outscraper is dramatically cheaper per record — and sells a different thing. Here's the honest comparison, including the price gap most prospects will bring up.
Verified 2026-08-02
If you've looked at Outscraper for finding businesses without a website, the honest answer is: it's a different tool for a related job, and on pure cost per record, it's not close.
Outscraper is a general-purpose Google Maps scraper with an "Only Without website" filter — a power tool for pulling raw Places data at scale. BirdSift is purpose-built for one workflow: find local businesses with no real website (or an outdated one), verify each one, and hand you something ready to act on. Which one is right for you depends on whether you want records or a worked shortlist.
Side by side
| BirdSift | Outscraper | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Credit packs, no subscription | Pay-as-you-go, no subscription |
| Cost | $0.065–$0.090 per credit, depending on pack size. 25 free credits on signup, no card. | $0.003 per record ($3/1,000 up to 100k, $1/1,000 beyond). First 500 records free every 30 days. Credits never expire. |
| Search interface | Natural language — describe what you want | Filter fields, including "Only Without website" |
| Website verification | isRealWebsite() — a Facebook or Instagram page doesn't count as a website. Sites behind a firewall or WAF report as unverified rather than a confident false negative. | Filter is a website-field check — a Facebook or Instagram page counts as "has a website" unless you build your own filtering logic on top |
| Outreach drafting | Included — 1 credit per saved lead, editable, never sent for you | Not offered |
| Bilingual coverage | English and French, including Québec's Bill 96 and France's RGPD opt-in rules | Not advertised |
Where Outscraper wins
- Raw cost at volume. If you're pulling thousands of records and doing your own filtering downstream, nothing here beats $0.003/record.
- General-purpose flexibility. It's not limited to the "no website" angle — full Google Maps (and Apple Maps, Bing Maps) scraping for any use case, not just this one.
- No expiry. Credits don't expire, so there's no pressure to use them on a schedule.
Where BirdSift wins
- Verification, not just a filter.
isRealWebsite()is built specifically to catch the Facebook-page-as-website case, and to say "unverified" honestly instead of guessing when a site is firewall-gated. - Natural-language search. Describe the businesses you want in a sentence instead of configuring filter fields.
- The workflow doesn't stop at the list. Email lookup and an editable outreach draft happen in the same flow — see the full breakdown on the features page.
- Bilingual by design. Full French coverage, including Québec- and France-specific compliance notes, for markets Outscraper doesn't specifically address.
If your job is "get me every record, I'll sort it out," Outscraper's price is hard to argue with. If your job is "get me a shortlist I can actually pitch this week," that's the gap BirdSift is built to close.