Web Scraping Blog
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Browserbase pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages on every plan
Free, Developer, Startup and Scale priced per 1,000 scraped pages, why proxy gigabytes outweigh browser hours, and the two limits of the Fetch API.
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SerpApi pricing and the real cost per 1,000 searches on every plan
All 13 self serve plans from 25 to 98,325 USD, what Ludicrous Speed and Legal Shield change, and what rank tracking costs now that a top 100 check is ten searches.
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Firecrawl pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages on every plan
Every plan for markdown, JSON extraction and search, why 500,000 pages on Growth means 100,000 structured ones, and where flat pricing becomes cheaper.
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Decodo pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages on every Web Scraping API plan
All eight plans and four request types, why the 707K headline applies to plain pages only, and where flat pricing becomes cheaper.
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ZenRows pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages on every plan rung
All twelve rungs on monthly billing, why the 16 USD headline is an annual rate, and the 2 to 5 credit average at which flat pricing becomes cheaper.
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ScrapingBee pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages on every plan and credit type
All five plans from the new 19 USD Hobby tier up, the 1 to 75 credit multipliers, and the 5 credit average at which flat pricing becomes cheaper.
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Zyte pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages across all five Zyte API tiers
HTTP and browser rates for every tier, the 100 USD pay as you go ceiling, commitment discounts, and who actually decides which rate you pay.
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Oxylabs pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages across plans and per GB rates
Why the included results figure on every plan card assumes you are scraping Amazon, and what ordinary sites with rendering actually cost.
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Bright Data pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages across plans and per GB rates
Web Unlocker, SERP API and residential proxy rates read live and converted into dollars per 1,000 pages, with the page weight that decides your bill.
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Apify pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages across plans and compute units
Every Apify plan and rate turned into dollars per 1,000 pages for browser and HTML crawls, with the page weight at which a flat per request API becomes cheaper.
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ScraperAPI pricing and the real cost per 1,000 pages by target site
Every plan converted into dollars per 1,000 pages, the credit multipliers that quietly decide the bill, and the breakeven point against flat per request pricing.
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Competitor price scraping software as a scraping API or a price monitoring tool
What a price monitoring subscription includes, what a scraping API costs for 1,000 products on five competitor sites, and which one fits your pricing team.
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Web scraping legal limits and what the courts have actually said
Public data, unauthorised access, contract terms and personal data, with the cases that shaped the current position and the questions your lawyer will ask you instead.
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Datacenter proxies versus residential proxies for the crawler you run
Cost, speed, block rate and the honest rule for choosing between them, target by target, rather than buying the expensive pool for everything.
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Rotating proxy sessions, sticky IPs and why requests get banned
What rotation actually does, when a sticky session is the only thing that works, and the six signals a block reads before it ever looks at your address.
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Web scraping Excel and how to get site data into a spreadsheet
Four routes from a page to a sheet, what breaks in each one, and how to keep a weekly refresh running without anybody clicking anything.
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Web scraping software open source versus an API and what each really costs
What the frameworks are excellent at, what they leave you to build, and the volume at which each option is the cheaper one.
Read a page, then run one
Every article here ends where the product starts. The demo on the web scraping api homepage runs a real request against any public URL you type.