Topic anti-bot
ScraperAPI Pricing: What 100,000 Credits Really Buys
ScraperAPI charges 1 credit for a plain page and 75 for an ultra premium rendered one. We converted every plan into money per thousand requests.
Scrapfly Pricing: What a Credit Buys, Feature by Feature
Scrapfly meters by feature, from 1 credit to 60. We read the plans and the billing documentation on 9 September 2026 and converted every weight into money.
ScrapingBee Pricing: The Default Request Costs Five Credits
ScrapingBee enables JavaScript rendering by default, so a plan's credit count is five times its request count. We converted every tier on 9 September 2026.
ZenRows Pricing: What a Request Costs Once JavaScript Is On
ZenRows bills 1 credit for a plain request and 25 for a rendered one behind premium proxies. We converted every plan into money per thousand real requests.
Zyte Pricing: The Headline Rate Is One Cell in a Grid
Zyte advertises from $0.06 per 1,000 responses and publishes rates up to $16.08. We read the grid on 9 September 2026 and worked out what sets your cell.
FlareSolverr Not Working? Every Error, What It Means, and What a Proxy Fixes
Challenge not detected, timeout after 60000 ms, cookies not valid, IP banned: what each FlareSolverr error means, its fix, and where a proxy is the missing piece.
Headless Browsers Are Not Free: What Puppeteer Costs in Proxy Bandwidth
A headless browser downloads the whole page. Behind a residential proxy that is billed by the gigabyte, and at 6.54 MB per protected page fetch the meter runs faster than most teams budget for.
How the _abck cookie works, measured in a real browser
What the Akamai _abck cookie is, what its value contains, how the sensor rewrites it, and what a proxy changes. Measured in Chrome on 2 September 2026.
How to Configure Proxies for an Anti-Bot Solver API
Solver APIs generate a payload for one specific exit IP, so the proxy stops being a loose choice and becomes a parameter. Session length, geo matching, concurrency, and how to read your own exit address correctly.
What Is an Anti-Bot Solver API, and How Is It Different From a CAPTCHA Solver?
A solver API generates the payload an anti-bot script would have produced, over plain HTTP, so you skip the browser. Where it sits between a CAPTCHA solver, a scraping API, and your own proxy.
How to use curl-impersonate with proxies (HTTP, SOCKS5, curl_cffi)
Run curl-impersonate and curl_cffi through HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies, with passwords, and prove the target still sees a real Chrome fingerprint.
Proxies that don't die mid-job
Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
129M+ proxy checks run · 100+ countries · HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS · re-checked every few minutes · no signup