Cost Consumption
The purpose of this document is to test pages with different structures and anti-crawling measures. The scenarios covered include e-commerce, social media, travel, tech news, and academic. Each scenario underwent ten sets of tests, with the average data taken for final analysis.
Usage Case
| Websites | Scenarios | Proxy Cost/1k Requests | Crawl Billing/1k Requests | Crawl Billing/1k Requests (30% Off) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | costco.com | $5.43 | $6.10 | $4.27 |
| target.com | $5.93 | $6.61 | $4.62 | |
| Academic | sciencedirect.com | $3.45 | $3.88 | $2.71 |
| pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | $2.19 | $2.87 | $2.00 | |
| Social Media | threads.com | $3.73 | $3.93 | $2.75 |
| warriorforum.com | $9.33 | $9.93 | $6.95 | |
| uadforum.com/community/index.php | $2.27 | $2.52 | $1.76 | |
| Travel | airbnb.com | $6.10 | $6.41 | $4.48 |
| tripadvisor.com | $6.65 | $6.97 | $4.87 | |
| Tech/News | appleinsider.com | $5.42 | $6.44 | $4.50 |
| geekflare.com | $2.08 | $2.45 | $1.71 |
- Market data shows 80-85% of web pages are under 4.5MB (60% under 2.5MB). High-capacity pages mainly appear on e-commerce and streaming media websites. In contrast, news and educational pages using CDN acceleration and code streamlining tend to be smaller.
- Scrapeless will launch a more flexible, separate billing plan for stealth mode to further optimize overall costs.
- For high-traffic pages, Scrapeless’ 30% discount offers significant cost advantages.
Conclusion
Crawl delivers excellent performance for small-scale page processing, but incurs higher costs in high-traffic scenarios due to its hybrid billing model, which combines “proxy traffic + hourly rate” rather than simple per-request pricing, starting at $1.8/GB + $0.09/Hour.
Its key advantages include free CAPTCHA solutions, high-concurrency support, and flexible customization capabilities, enabling efficient handling of complex anti-scraping measures to meet enterprise-level large-scale data acquisition needs.
👉Check Scrapeless SDK for further details.
Product Matrix Support:
▸ JS-intensive pages: recommend Universal Scraping API (from $0.20/1k URLs)
▸ Browser automation needs: recommend Browser service (supports frameworks like Puppeteer/Playwright)