Numbeo Cost of Living Scraper

Extract cost of living prices by city from Numbeo, the world's largest crowd-sourced database of prices and quality of life data. No login required — all data is publicly available.

Returns itemized prices for food, rent, transportation, utilities, salaries, and more — organized by category for each city you query.

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What data do you get?

Field	Type	Example
city	string	"New York"
category	string	"Restaurants"
item	string	"Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant"
price	number	20.00
currency	string	"USD"
url	string	"https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/New-York"
checkedAt	string	"2026-04-23T18:00:00.000Z"

Categories covered

• Restaurants — Meals, coffee, beer, fast food
• Markets — Groceries: milk, bread, rice, eggs, produce, meat
• Transportation — Public transit, taxi, fuel, car prices
• Utilities — Electricity, internet, mobile plans
• Sports & Leisure — Gym, cinema, tennis court
• Childcare — Preschool, international school
• Clothing — Jeans, summer dress, shoes
• Rent — 1-bedroom and 3-bedroom apartments (city center and suburbs)
• Buy Apartment — Price per square meter
• Salaries & Financing — Average salary, mortgage rate

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How to use

1. Open the actor and click Try for free
2. Enter one or more city names (as they appear on Numbeo, e.g. New York, Paris, Buenos-Aires)
3. Select your preferred display currency (default: USD)
4. Click Start — results ready in under 30 seconds per city
5. Download as JSON or CSV from the dataset tab

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Use cases

• Relocation research — Compare cost of living across multiple cities before moving
• Remote work analysis — Identify affordable cities for remote workers and digital nomads
• Salary benchmarking — Understand purchasing power differences across markets
• Market entry research — Estimate operational costs (rent, salaries, utilities) before expanding
• Travel budgeting — Plan realistic travel budgets based on real crowd-sourced prices
• Academic research — Analyze price disparities across regions and countries

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Input parameters

{
  "cities": ["New York", "London", "Tokyo", "Buenos-Aires"],
  "currency": "USD"
}

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
cities	array	required	List of city names to scrape
currency	string	"USD"	Display currency: USD, EUR, GBP, JPY, etc.

City name format: Use the city name as it appears in Numbeo URLs (e.g. New-York, Sao-Paulo, Buenos-Aires). Spaces are automatically converted to hyphens.

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Sample output

[
  {
    "city": "New York",
    "category": "Restaurants",
    "item": "Meal, Inexpensive Restaurant",
    "price": 20.00,
    "currency": "USD",
    "url": "https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/New-York?displayCurrency=USD",
    "checkedAt": "2026-04-23T18:00:00.000Z"
  },
  {
    "city": "New York",
    "category": "Markets",
    "item": "Milk (regular), (1 liter)",
    "price": 1.60,
    "currency": "USD",
    "url": "https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/New-York?displayCurrency=USD",
    "checkedAt": "2026-04-23T18:00:00.000Z"
  }
]

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Performance

• Each city: ~3–5 seconds (static HTML, no JavaScript rendering)
• Batch of 10 cities: ~30–50 seconds
• ~50–60 price items per city
• Uses CheerioCrawler for fast, lightweight scraping

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Pricing

This actor charges $0.002 per city scraped.

Cities	Estimated cost
10	~$0.02
100	~$0.20
500	~$1.00

The Apify free plan includes $5 monthly credit — enough for 2,500 city lookups per month.

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Keywords

Numbeo scraper, cost of living data, city price comparison, cost of living by city, living expenses scraper, Numbeo API, grocery prices by city, rent prices worldwide, cost of living index, digital nomad city comparison

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Legal disclaimer

This actor extracts publicly available data from Numbeo (numbeo.com). All price data on Numbeo is publicly accessible without login or registration. Users are responsible for ensuring their use of the extracted data complies with applicable laws and Numbeo's terms of service.