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What scraping platforms and proxy networks meter and charge: compute units, credits or successful requests per plan, price per GB for residential, datacenter and mobile proxies, free credits, concurrency and rate limits, browser-rendering surcharges and the overage rule, copied from Apify, Bright Data, Oxylabs, Zyte, Decodo, Browserless, Browserbase, Crawlbase, Scrapfly and Diffbot on the check date.

10 tools. Last checked October 30, 2026. JSON · AI plan limits · SaaS usage limits

Pricing matrix

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ToolUnitFreeEntry planKey ratesOverageDetailsChecked
ApifyApifyPer compute unitCompute unit (CU) = 1 GB of RAM/hour. Plans include a prepaid USD amount spent on platform usage (compute units, proxies, storage, data transfer) or on Apify Store Actors.Free plan: $5 per month to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors, at $0.2 per compute unit. No credit card required. Apify Proxy on the Free plan can only be used inside the platform.Starter · $19/mo/ month + pay as you go; annual billing shown as -10%
  • $0.2 / CU Compute unit - Free
  • $0.2 / CU Compute unit - Starter
  • $0.16 / CU Compute unit - Scale
Pay-as-you-goPaid plans can keep using the platform after the prepaid usage runs out and are charged for overage, up to the usage limit set in billing. Overage goes on the next invoice, or is invoiced immediately once it reaches $20 on Starter or $200 on higher plans. The Free plan is blocked until the next billing cycle.Oct 30, 2026
Bright DataBright DataPer 1,000 records (Scraper APIs); per GB (residential proxies)Scraper APIs are billed per 1,000 successfully delivered records, with no charge for failed deliveries. Proxy bandwidth is the sum of data sent to and from the target site: request headers, request data (POST), response headers and response data.Scraper APIs free tier: 5,000 records per month, no credit card required. Proxy sign-ups: Bright Data matches your first deposit dollar for dollar, up to $500.Datacenter – 10 IPs · $14/mo10 IPs at $1.40/IP
  • $4.00/GB with coupon RESIGB50; list $8/GB Residential proxy pay-as-you-go per GB
  • $3.50/GB with coupon RESIGB50; list $7/GB Residential proxy per GB, 141 GB plan
  • $3.00/GB with coupon RESIGB50; list $6/GB Residential proxy per GB, 332 GB plan
Hard stopAn email asks you to add funds at 85% of the account balance. At 100%, the account is suspended unless more funds are added. Auto-recharge is optional. On the Scraper APIs Scale plan, extra records cost $1.3 per 1K.Oct 30, 2026
OxylabsOxylabsPer USD credit (shared balance; products priced per 1K results, per GB or per IP)One subscription gives access to every product. All spending draws from a single credit balance, and each product has its own price per 1K results, per GB or per IP.Free welcome credit: $5 toward any productStarter · $30/moVAT may apply
  • $6/GB (Up to 0.8 GB) Residential Proxies, Free
  • $6/GB (Up to 5 GB) Residential Proxies, Starter
  • $5/GB (Up to 20 GB) Residential Proxies, Basic
Not publishedNot stated on the fetched pricing pages. All usage draws from a single credit balance.Oct 30, 2026
Zyte APIZytePer 1,000 successful responses (priced by website tier)Request cost depends on the target website and request type (HTTP or browser), which set one of 5 tiers; only successful responses are charged.$5 free credit for the first billing month on Standard plans ($200 on Enterprise); no commitment, 30 days to tryStandard, $100/month commitment · $100/mo$200 spending limit; 25% volume discount
  • $1.34 per 1M input tokens (pay-as-you-go price) Custom attributes, text requests, input tokens
  • $6.67 per 1M output tokens (pay-as-you-go price) Custom attributes, text requests, output tokens
  • $4.02 per 1M input tokens (pay-as-you-go price) Custom attributes, HTML requests, input tokens
Pay-as-you-goUsage above the monthly commitment is billed on the next bill at the plan's discounted rate, up to the plan spending limit; when the spending limit is reached the account is suspended until the next billing month or until the limit is raised.Oct 30, 2026
Decodo (ex Smartproxy)DecodoPer GBResidential proxy pricing is bandwidth-based (price per GB of traffic).3-day free trial with 100 MB for new users on residential proxies; the chosen plan activates automatically after the trial unless cancelled. Web Data API has a $0/month plan (up to 5K crawls or 10K pages scraped, 10 req/s).Residential Pay As You Go · $4$4 per GB, + VAT; paid from Wallet credits
  • $3.75/GB Residential proxy price per GB, 3 GB plan
  • $2.75/GB Residential proxy price per GB, 100 GB plan
  • $2/GB Residential proxy price per GB, 1000 GB Enterprise plan
Not publishedNo overage rule is stated on the fetched pricing pages. Residential Pay As You Go is offered as a separate Wallet-based option at $4/GB and cannot run at the same time as a monthly subscription.Oct 30, 2026
BrowserlessBrowserlessPer unit (30 seconds of browser time)A Unit is a block of browser time of up to 30 seconds per browser connection. Longer-running automations use an extra Unit for every 30 seconds. Session reconnects count as new browser connections and are charged a fresh Unit.Free plan: $0/month, 1k units/month, 2 max concurrent browsers, 2 min. max session time, no card required.Prototyping · $25/mo annual$25/month billed annually
  • 6 units per MB Residential proxy
  • 2 Max concurrent browsers – Free
  • 2 min. Max session time – Free
Pay-as-you-goPaid plans list per-unit overage prices: $0.0020 (Prototyping), $0.0017 (Starter), $0.0015 (Scale).Oct 30, 2026
BrowserbaseBrowserbasePer browser hourBrowser time is billed by the minute, with a one-minute minimum per session. Proxy bandwidth is billed by the MB, rounded, with a one-MB minimum per session. Search and Fetch API calls are billed per 1,000 calls.Free plan at $0/month with no credit card needed: 3 concurrent browsers, 1 browser hour, 3 Agent runs, 1,000 Search calls, 1,000 Fetch calls, 15-minute sessions, $5 in model tokens. Proxies are not included (0 GB).Developer · $20/mo25 concurrent browsers, 100 browser hours, 15 Agent runs, 1,000 Search calls, 1,000 Fetch calls, 1 GB of proxies, auto captcha solving
  • $12 per GB Residential proxy overage – Developer
  • $10 per GB Residential proxy overage – Startup
  • 3 / 25 / 100 / 250+ Max concurrent browsers (Free / Developer / Startup / Scale)
Pay-as-you-goIncluded browser hours and proxy bandwidth are allocations, not limits. Usage beyond them is billed at the plan's pay-as-you-go overage rates with no caps or cut-offs. Sessions keep running when proxy bandwidth is exceeded.Oct 30, 2026
CrawlbaseCrawlbasePer creditOne credit is one standard successful request. JavaScript rendering doubles the credits, and site difficulty multipliers scale the cost. Only successful requests are billed.New accounts get 1,000 free credits with no card required. Completing setup steps raises this to up to 5,000. Free credits work across every product.Starter · $99/mo$1,089/yr on yearly billing (1 month free · 8% off). About $0.50 per 1k credits.
  • $3.00 Pay as you go, first 1K requests (per 1,000 successful standard requests)
  • $2.00 Pay as you go, next 10K requests
  • $0.60 Pay as you go, next 100K requests
Pay-as-you-goUsage past a subscription's included credits continues as pay as you go on the same rate card, at the bracket your volume already reached. Turning pay as you go off makes requests pause at the block instead. An optional hard spend cap stops usage before the bill passes it.Oct 30, 2026
ScrapflyScrapflyPer creditAPI credits. Each request uses a number of credits that depends on the features turned on. A simple HTTP request on a datacenter IP costs 1 credit. Browser rendering, residential IPs or screenshot capture raise the cost. Binary downloads are billed by bandwidth in 100KB slices. One credit pool covers all Scrapfly APIs.1,000 free API credits on signup. No credit card needed, no time limit, works with every product.Discovery · $30/mo$0.15 per 1k credits, prepaid
  • $0.15 per 1k credits Prepaid price per 1k credits, Discovery
  • $0.10 per 1k credits Prepaid price per 1k credits, Pro
  • $0.10 per 1k credits Prepaid price per 1k credits, Startup
Pay-as-you-goDiscovery stops at its quota. Pro, Startup and Enterprise switch to pay-as-you-go at the plan's per-10k rate, billed in batches of 10,000 credits. Pay-as-you-go is capped at 50% of the monthly quota; when the cap is reached the account is suspended until renewal. Pay-as-you-go can be disabled per project.Oct 30, 2026
DiffbotDiffbotPer creditA credit is Diffbot's unit of processing. Consumption varies per API: extracting 1 page is 1 credit (2 via datacenter proxy), exporting 1 Knowledge Graph entity is 25 credits, 1 web search is 1 credit.Free plan: 10,000 credits per month, all four APIs, no credit card required, 5 requests per minute.Startup · $299/mo250,000 credits / month; overage at $0.001 / credit; all four APIs; 5 requests / sec
  • $0.001 / credit Overage per credit (Startup)
  • $0.0009 / credit Overage per credit (Plus)
  • 5 calls per minute Rate limit (Free)
Pay-as-you-goOn paid plans, usage beyond monthly credits is billed pro rata at the plan's per-credit rate, with no additional overage fees. On the Free plan, requests return 429 Quota Exceeded once 10,000 credits or the rate limit is hit; quotas reset each billing period.Oct 30, 2026

Questions this page answers

How much does Apify cost?
Starter: $19 per month. $19 to spend in Apify Store or on your own Actors; $0.2 per compute unit; Chat support; Bronze Apify Store discount; 64 GB Actor RAM; 32 max concurrent runs; 30 datacenter proxy IPs included Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Apify compute unit - free?
$0.2 / CU (USD/CU). Vendor wording: "Compute units (CU)<br>1 GB of RAM/hour | $0.2 / CU". Checked 2026-10-30.
How much does Bright Data cost?
Datacenter – 10 IPs: $14 per month. 10 IPs at $1.40/IP Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Bright Data residential proxy pay-as-you-go per gb?
$4.00/GB with coupon RESIGB50; list $8/GB (USD/GB). Vendor wording: "PAY AS YOU GO $8 $4.00 / GB No commitment". Checked 2026-10-30.
How much does Oxylabs cost?
Starter: $30 per month. $30 of usage across all products, e.g. up to 5 GB Residential Proxies at $6/GB, up to 30K searches at $1/1K, /Scrape up to 60K results from $0.50/1K Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Oxylabs residential proxies, free?
$6/GB (Up to 0.8 GB) (USD/GB). Vendor wording: "$6/GB Up to 0.8 GB". Checked 2026-10-30.
How much does Zyte API cost?
Standard, $100/month commitment: $100 per month. $100 of usage at discounted rates: $0.10-$0.95 (HTTP) or $0.75-$12.00 (browser rendered) per 1,000 responses Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Zyte API custom attributes, text requests, input tokens?
$1.34 per 1M input tokens (pay-as-you-go price) (USD/1M tokens). Vendor wording: "inputTokens ($1.34 per 1M) / outputTokens ($6.67 per 1M) [2] for text requests (default)". Checked 2026-10-30.
How much does Decodo (ex Smartproxy) cost?
Residential Pay As You Go: $4 per usage. 1 GB residential traffic per purchase Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Decodo (ex Smartproxy) residential proxy price per gb, 3 gb plan?
$3.75/GB (USD/GB). Vendor wording: "3 GB $3.75 /GB Total:$11.25+ VAT billed monthly". Checked 2026-10-30.
How much does Browserless cost?
Prototyping: $25 per month billed annually. 20k units per month; 10 max concurrent browsers (+5 shown); 15 min. max session time; $0.0020 per unit overages; 7 day persisted sessions and replays storage; 24 hours log search window Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Browserless residential proxy?
6 units per MB (units/MB). Vendor wording: "6 Unitsper MB for Residential Proxy". Checked 2026-10-30.
How much does Browserbase cost?
Developer: $20 per month. 25 concurrent browsers, 100 browser hours, 15 Agent runs, 1,000 Search calls, 1,000 Fetch calls, 1 GB of proxies, auto captcha solving Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Browserbase residential proxy overage – developer?
$12 per GB (USD/GB). Vendor wording: "1GB of proxies Then $12/GB". Checked 2026-10-30.
How much does Crawlbase cost?
Starter: $99 per month. 200K credits / mo Checked 2026-10-30.
What is the Crawlbase pay as you go, first 1k requests (per 1,000 successful standard requests)?
$3.00 (USD/1,000 requests). Vendor wording: "First 1K$3.00". Checked 2026-10-30.

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