QuanticData as an alternative

What every page has in common

• Per-success billing on every API: failed requests, retries and unfetched crawl pages are never charged.
• Public prices on the pricing page, from $0.0002 per scraped page and $0.80/GB residential.
• $2 of free credit a month with no card, plus a 100 MB residential trial.
• One key for proxies, scraping, SERP, crawl, batch, SEO audit, 100+ collectors and the MCP server.

The honest way to choose is 100 of your own URLs through both services; the pages explain how.

How to read these pages

Each vendor page has the same four parts. First, what the vendor is, in one sentence taken from its own site, so the description is theirs and not ours. Second, what QuanticData does differently, stated only with our own numbers: the per-unit prices from the pricing page, the billing rule, the free credit, the proxy networks and the MCP server. Third, for proxy providers, a price table: their lowest published rate next to ours, with the page it was read from and the date. Fourth, a way to test the claim on your own targets in an afternoon.

Why per-success billing is the comparison that matters

Most scraping and SERP APIs bill per request or per credit, and a blocked page, a timeout or a retry consumes the same credit as a page that returned data. On a target that blocks a third of attempts, the effective price per usable page is fifty percent higher than the list price. QuanticData charges only when the response contains the data you asked for: a failed scrape, an empty SERP, an unfetched crawl page or a collector that returned no rows costs nothing, and the usage block on every response shows what was charged. So the number to compare across vendors is not the list price but the cost per delivered page after failures, and the fastest way to get it is to send the same 100 URLs through both services and divide the invoice by the rows you kept.

Moving over in an afternoon

1. Pick the 100 URLs or queries that fail most often today. A migration test on easy pages proves nothing.
2. Get a key at app.quanticdata.io: no card, $2 of credit a month, enough for about 10,000 scraped pages.
3. Run the batch with the Python, Node, cURL or PHP quickstart, or through the MCP server if an agent does the work.
4. Count delivered rows and cost from payload.usage, then compare with what the same batch cost where you are now.
5. Keep the proxies if you still need raw HTTP: the residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile networks are on the same account and the same key.