Topic Pricing
Apify.com Pricing: What a Compute Unit Actually Costs
Apify bills in compute units, not requests. We read the published rates on 9 September 2026 and converted every tier into money per thousand successful calls.
Firecrawl.dev Pricing: What a Credit Buys and What a Top-Up Costs
Firecrawl sells credits, and one credit is one page. We read the plans on 9 September 2026 and found top-up credits costing three times plan credits.
Massive (joinmassive.com) Pricing: The Entry Rate Is Not the Advertised One
Massive advertises from $4.9 per GB and starts at $8.00. We read all four plans on 9 September 2026 and set them against eight rates from five other vendors in the same week.
Nimble (nimbleway.com) Pricing: What Is Public and What Needs a Sales Call
Nimble publishes six API rates and a managed service starting at $30,000 a year. We read both price lists on 9 September 2026 and converted them.
Octoparse.com Pricing: What a Task and a Cloud Process Cost
Octoparse advertises Standard from $69 a month and bills $83 monthly. We re-read the plans on 14 September 2026 and converted them to cost per task and per cloud process.
ScraperAPI.com 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.io 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.com 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.
SerpApi.com Pricing: What One Search Actually Costs
SerpApi sells monthly search bundles, not searches. We read the published plans on 9 September 2026 and converted all ten tiers into cost per thousand searches.
Webshare.io Pricing: Three Products, Three Different Units
Webshare sells two products per proxy and one per gigabyte. We read every tier on 9 September 2026 and converted the only line that converts honestly.
ZenRows.com 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.com 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.
Captcha Solving Services Compared: The Break-Even Nobody Publishes
Six captcha solving services, every published price converted to dollars per 1,000 solves. Half the market does not sell by the solve at all.
CaptchaAI.com Review: Unlimited Solves, Priced by Thread
CaptchaAI sells concurrency, not solves, which inverts the usual cost curve. We worked the break-even from its own numbers: about 25,000 solves a month.
Buy Mobile Proxies: What 4G and 5G IPs Actually Buy You
Buy mobile proxies with the trade stated plainly: why carrier IPs are hardest to block, when residential already covers you, and how pricing works.
Best Place to Buy Residential Proxies: How to Judge Any Provider
Where to buy residential proxies in 2026 and how to judge any provider in ten minutes: pool reality, pricing traps, payment rails, and the test that settles it.
How Much Do Residential Proxies Cost in 2026? Real Market Prices
Residential proxy pricing in 2026, with real numbers: what the market charges per GB, why prices spread from under $0.50 to several dollars, and the traps.
Pay As You Go Residential Proxies: The Math Against Subscriptions
Pay as you go residential proxies against subscriptions, with real math: when each model wins, the expiry trap that flips the answer, and how to start.
How Much Do Proxy Resellers Make? The Honest Arithmetic
Nobody can tell you what proxy resellers earn, and anyone quoting an average is selling something. What we can show is the arithmetic: how margin, volume and fixed costs combine, and which lever actually moves the result.
Proxies for GoodRx: The Same Pill, a Different Price by ZIP
Proxies for GoodRx: it blocked our plain client at the edge, and its whole value is that the same drug varies $10 to $30 between pharmacies in one ZIP. Which proxy type fits per-ZIP, per-pharmacy drug price monitoring, with honest limits.
Pay-As-You-Go Proxies: Why a Balance That Never Expires Beats a Plan
Monthly proxy plans bill for traffic you may never send, and the leftover gigabytes vanish at renewal. The arithmetic on what expiry really costs, and when a plan still wins.
HProxy vs Froxy.com: A Sale That Says When It Ends (2026)
HProxy vs Froxy on residential price, plans and the HEATWAVE sale: the one thing Froxy publishes that almost nobody in this market does, and what changes on 1 September 2026.
Scraping API Costs Run 50x Apart, and the Plan You Buy Is Not Why
Four scraping APIs, converted to one number: dollars per 1,000 requests. The range runs from $0.0749 to $3.75, and on one vendor both ends of a 25x spread sit inside the same $30 plan.
Correcting Our Own Price Data: Four Errors We Found Re-Checking 20 Vendors
We re-verified all 20 residential proxy vendors we track against their own pricing pages on 10 August 2026, one week after the first capture. Four of our records were wrong, and one of them was wrong in the direction that suited us.
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