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The mechanics,from the providers' own documentation
Short explainers on how scraping APIs work and what the numbers on a pricing page actually mean. Every claim carries its source and the date we read it.
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8 sources, updated 2026-09-18What a scraping API credit buys: the rendering and proxy multipliers, vendor by vendor
A plan of 100,000 credits is 100,000 plain pages at most vendors, 20,000 rendered ones, and far fewer on protected sites. The multipliers, from the vendors' own tables.
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8 sources, updated 2026-09-18Per credit, per response, per record or per compute unit: the four ways scraping APIs charge
Fourteen vendors, four units of billing. What each unit means, who uses it, and what the free tier of each is worth, with the read date.
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