What the same request costs at four providers
Not a ranking. The base rate is whatever your plan says it is, and only you know that. What nobody publishes is the part that actually moves your bill: what each provider charges on top when you ask for rendering, a residential IP, or a specific country.
- scraperapi1x
- scrapingbee1x
- scrapfly1x
- brightdata1x
A plain request costs everyone their base rate. Turn on rendering or ask for a residential IP and the four stop agreeing.
- scraperapibase 1 credit · read 2026-08-21https://docs.scraperapi.com/control-and-optimization/supported-parameters
- scrapingbeebase 1 credit · read 2026-08-21https://www.scrapingbee.com/documentation/
- scrapflybase 1 credit · read 2026-08-21https://scrapfly.io/docs/scrape-api/billing
- brightdatabase 0.15 US cents · read 2026-08-21https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker
Why this is a multiplier and not a price
Three of these bill in credits. What a credit costs you depends on the plan you are on, so the same 5 credits is a different amount of money for two people reading this page. The fourth bills in cents per request and issues no credits at all.
Putting those on one axis would produce a confident chart of nothing. So the comparison is the multiplier, which is dimensionless and therefore actually comparable, and each provider's base rate is printed beside its own unit without being ranked against anybody.
The gateway makes the same distinction for the same reason. Every response carries x-cost-estimate alongside x-cost-unit, rather than converting to a currency it would have to guess at.
What we do with it
Proxlane puts one endpoint in front of all of them. It filters the chain to providers that can actually serve your request, tries them in order, and moves on when one blocks, errors or times out.
Affiliate rate is never an input to that order, and never an input to anything on this page. It is a house rule in the repository, which is public, so you can check that rather than take our word for it.
How failover works covers the ordering, and bring your own provider covers adding one that is not on this list.