1M URL fetches for ~$900: third-party scraping APIs beat custom pipelines
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-29
The author argues companies building SEO datasets or scraping competitors should use third-party web-fetching APIs instead of hiring devs for custom pipelines: $900–1000 buys 1 million URL fetches. A comparison chart shows Exa and Parallel AI at $1,000 per million fetches, Firecrawl Standard $990, Context.dev Pro $900 (vs. Firecrawl Hobby at $3,800) — with custom scraper maintenance costs far exceeding these figures.
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