Blog
Notes from building a crawl API with receipts.
Pricing, routing, and provenance — written by the people who run the pipeline.
- Pricing · 5 min
Published unit prices vs credit multipliers
Many scrape APIs sell credits that multiply when you turn on JavaScript or premium proxies. Here is why we publish dollar prices per unit instead.
- Engineering · 5 min
How tiered routing between Web Unlocker and Scraping Browser cuts cost without cutting reliability
Not every request needs a full hosted browser. Routing the easy 80% through a cheaper unlocked HTTP fetch — and reserving browser automation for the hard 20% — is most of the cost-control story.
- Thought leadership · 4 min
What is GAIO, and why your API docs are already competing for it
Generative AI Optimization isn't SEO with a new acronym — it's about being the source an LLM quotes when someone asks it a question your content already answers.