Skip the custom scraper: third-party fetching APIs cost ~$900 per million URLs
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-10-29
The author argues that companies building custom scraping pipelines for SEO data (hiring devs, maintaining infra) should just use third-party web fetching APIs: roughly $900–1,000 gets you 1 million URL fetches on lower-end plans.
The attached comparison chart shows per-URL pricing: Context.dev Pro $900/M ($0.0009), Firecrawl Standard $990, Exa and Parallel AI $1,000, Context.dev Developer $2,000, Firecrawl Hobby $3,800. Figures are extrapolated from included-credit rates and cover basic text/Markdown fetching only.
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