Scrapfly

cheapest verified price per thousand, with a failure guarantee that has a cliff

$30 / month on Discovery#high-volume-html-scrapin

the 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.

at roughly $0.90 per thousand javascript-rendered pages, Scrapfly is the cheapest verified figure in this ranking, and it gets there with a credit table you can read: one credit for a datacenter request, five more for browser rendering, twenty-five if you route through the residential pool. every feature has a number next to it.

it also publishes a failed-scrape guarantee, which most of this category does not. failed scrapes are not billed — with a stated cliff. if more than 30 percent of your traffic fails inside one hour the protection switches off and usage becomes billable again. that is a reasonable defence against someone pointing a broken scraper at a wall, and it is also precisely when a struggling job starts costing money, so it is worth knowing the threshold exists before you find it.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

category: web scraping apis
pricing: $30 / month on Discovery
website: scrapfly.io

our verdict

the 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.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.