Steel alternatives

verdictthe simplest honest pricing in the category and the largest open-source project in it — with a copyleft licence that will stop some teams cold.

switch forfeeding clean, llm-ready pages to a model without thinking about proxies

verdictthe cheapest thousand pages we could actually verify, with itemised per-feature credits — undercut by anti-bot handling that can silently raise the price of a call.

switch forhigh-volume html scraping where you want the lowest verified unit cost

verdictthe most complete bundle in the category with a genuine pay-only-for-success guarantee and no concurrency ceiling — sold through a pricing surface that hides its own plan prices behind a slider.

switch forproduction scraping at volume where unlimited concurrency matters more than the last cent

verdictthe strongest agent-browser product here, with captcha solving and stealth included from the entry tier — and a time-based bill that makes a fixed page count impossible to forecast.

switch foragents that need to log in, click through and act rather than just read a page

verdictthe most legible pricing table of the proxy vendors — a flat $1.35 per thousand rendered results regardless of target — held back by a hard requests-per-second ceiling.

switch forbuyers who want the javascript premium stated as a price rather than a multiplier

verdictthe cheapest entry plan here with multipliers simple enough to do in your head — as long as your targets never push you onto the 75-credit stealth tier.

switch forsmall teams who want a predictable bill and a cheap way in

verdictthe largest library of pre-built scrapers in the category and a first-class mcp server — sold in a compute unit that makes the cost of a page unknowable until after you run it.

switch forgetting a working scraper for a specific site today instead of building one

verdictthe most transparently itemised pricing of the browser-session vendors — attached to a company with no visible open-source presence or agent integration.

switch forteams who want browser sessions with residential proxy bundled and the arithmetic spelled out

verdictgenuinely fair terms — no minimum, no overage penalty, $5 to try it — wrapped around a price that varies sixteenfold on a tier assignment you do not control.

switch forscraping simple targets where you can confirm your sites fall in the cheap bands

verdictthe most granular published cost table in the category, attached to the highest verified price per thousand and a free tier its own two pages describe differently.

switch fortargets on its named-domain list where the documented multipliers are worth the premium