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Scrape cost calculator

Put in how many pages you need, what one weighs and how often an attempt fails. The calculator turns that into gigabytes on our meter and prices them at the rates on our pricing page.

Your job

Every response the job needs, list pages and detail pages included.

Bytes on the wire for one response, compressed, with headers. How to measure it

The share of attempts that do not bring back the page you wanted. Take it from a previous run, or guess cautiously and correct it after the first batch.

Block pages, captchas, and rate-limit or error pages from the site arrive with a body and are billed like any response. Timeouts and resets bring nothing back.

What one block page or captcha weighs on the wire.

The starting values are an example. Replace them with your own.

Your estimate

Estimated traffic
12.47 GB
Attempts per page kept
1.18
Cost at the entry rate, $5.50/GB
$68.60
Order that covers it
13 GB
Volume step reached
10 GB and up, $3.95/GB
Order total
$51.35
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An estimate from your numbers. Checkout in the dashboard shows the final figure before you pay.

ISP and datacenter proxies

ISP and Datacenter are priced by the IP and the term, so this calculator leaves them out. Their pricing pages have a calculator for IPs and terms.

ISP pricingDatacenter pricing

On our meter

What the estimate bills

The calculator follows the metering rules on our honesty page. These two decide most of the arithmetic.

  • We bill response body plus response headers, measured at our proxy. Request bytes are free.
  • Connection failures (timeouts, resets, and errors from our own gateway such as a 407 or a 502) are billed at zero and still shown, marked free. Anything the site sends back is traffic, 403s, 429s, 5xx pages and captchas included: inside an HTTPS tunnel our proxy cannot see the site’s status code, so the meter counts the bytes that crossed it.
Read the metering rules

The arithmetic

How the estimate is worked out

The formula from our post on estimating a scrape, with failed attempts split the way our meter bills them.

attempts per page = 1 ÷ (1 − failure share)
billed blocks = (attempts per page − 1) × share with a body
GB = pages × (page weight + billed blocks × block weight) ÷ 1,000,000,000
cost = GB × rate per GB

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