The market Crawlbase trades in has a wide honesty range. Some vendors publish every tier, some publish a starting rate that nobody reaches, and a few publish nothing at all. Knowing which kind you are looking at is half the decision.
What we can and cannot tell you about Crawlbase
The domain is crawlbase.com. They are filed here as a proxy provider.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for Crawlbase recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Read their page for the reachable rate rather than the headline, the minimum spend, the expiry clause and the billing treatment of blocked requests. Write down the date, because all four move.
What Crawlbase says about itself today
On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "Crawlbase · Web Data Infrastructure for Developers, Enterprises and LLMs". Their own summary of the product runs: "Web data infrastructure that keeps your data flowing. Crawl and scrape any website with a smart AI proxy, crawling API, enterprise crawler, managed scrapers, cloud storage, and a Web MCP Server for AI agents. No browsers, proxies or anti-bot maintenance. Start free with up to 5,000 requests."
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
The product lines named on that page are residential and a scraping or SERP API. They advertise 30 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: cards and Wise or Payoneer. The page offers some form of free trial. Their pricing page is titled "Pricing: One Rate Card for Every Product, Crawlbase".
Nothing there has been tested. It is a record of what the page said on the day, which is the honest limit of what a page like this can offer without a measurement.
The domain record
The domain was registered on 22 May 2020, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 6 years old. Registry data as of 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from March 2001. It is paid up until 22 May 2029.
Read that as a floor rather than a recommendation. Longevity says somebody has kept paying the registrar, and in a market with this much churn that is worth ten seconds of your attention.
Corporate history we have recorded: Crawlbase was formerly ProxyCrawl.
What they have built around the product
A crawl of 544 pages on 19 June 2026 returned 326 blog pages, 1 pricing page and 1 integration page.
That mix tells you how the company sells. Heavy location pages mean a geography-led pitch, heavy blog means a search-led one, and a single pricing page usually means one simple offer or one sales call.
What the timestamps show
Our crawl of their site found 332 pages carrying a date, 326 of them articles. The oldest is from May 2026 and the newest from August 2026. 332 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
An actively maintained site is table stakes rather than a recommendation. It does rule out the failure that costs buyers the most here, which is prepaying a company that has quietly stopped.
The questions Crawlbase gets asked
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 50 a month: 50 a month for their pricing. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people trying to work out what it costs. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
The top bid on those terms reaches $13.60 a click. That is the market pricing its own customers, and it explains why almost every other result you found is an affiliate page.
What the advertised numbers cannot tell you
What happens when it breaks at two in the morning
Every provider works when nothing is wrong. The difference shows up on the day a subnet gets flagged or a gateway stops answering. Before committing volume, send one real question through the support channel and time the reply.
Why a cheap address is often a used one
Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.
Who pays for the requests that fail
On a hard target, failures are the majority of your traffic. Whether those failures are billed decides the real cost, and the clause covering it is rarely on the pricing page.
What separates them, in a table
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Crawlbase | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | On their own terms page | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Nothing in that table settles the decision on its own. It narrows the field to two or three, and then measurement finishes the job.
How to settle it yourself in ten minutes
Run this before you commit any volume. It replaces every opinion on this page, including ours.
- Open an account on each and add the smallest amount they take. Skip the trial if a paid unit is cheap enough to buy outright.
- Point both at your real target, through your real tool, on the same day, with the same mix of requests.
- Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
- Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
Who else is in this bracket
The same treatment, applied to the providers most often weighed against this one:
- Privateproxyreviews alternatives
- Privatevpn alternatives
- Promptcloud alternatives
- Prosox alternatives
- Prostats alternatives
- ProxFree alternatives
Where HProxy sits in that test
We sell residential proxies from $0.44 per GB with no subscription and a balance that does not expire, plus ISP, mobile and datacenter in the same account. That is the pitch, and the test above is a better judge of it than this paragraph.
