# Scraping API and Proxy Alternatives > How QuanticData compares with the vendors people search alternatives for: what each is, what we do differently, per-success billing, public prices. [Home](https://quanticdata.io/)/Alternatives # QuanticData as an alternative One page per vendor people compare us with. Each says what the vendor is, in its own words, what we do differently with our own numbers, and when they are the better fit. No rankings and no other vendors’ prices. By [Aldo Morese](https://quanticdata.io/about/), founder of QuanticData · Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Sep 3, 2026 The comparison that survives contact with a real target: cost per delivered result, not the list price. [ScraperAPI alternative a web scraping API that fetches pages for you and handles proxies](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/scraperapi/) [ScrapingBee alternative a web scraping API that returns page HTML](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/scrapingbee/) [Firecrawl alternative an open-source web data API to search](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/firecrawl/) [SerpApi alternative a real-time API for Google and other search engine results that handles proxies and CAPTCHAs and parses rich results into JSON](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/serpapi/) [Bright Data alternative a proxy network and web data platform with residential](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/bright-data/) [Oxylabs alternative a proxy network and web scraper API provider with residential](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/oxylabs/) [ZenRows alternative a universal scraper API with anti-bot bypass](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/zenrows/) [Apify alternative a platform of ready-made scrapers called actors](https://quanticdata.io/alternatives/apify/) ## 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](https://quanticdata.io/pricing/), 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](https://quanticdata.io/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 and linked to it, 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](https://quanticdata.io/pricing/), the billing rule, the free credit, the proxy networks and the [MCP server](https://quanticdata.io/mcp-server/). Third, a plain section on when the vendor is the better fit, because for some workloads it is. Fourth, a way to test the claim on your own targets in an afternoon. What the pages do not have is a feature matrix with ticks, a ranking, or any other vendor's price: those change without notice and we would rather not be wrong about somebody else's product. ## 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](https://quanticdata.io/web-scraping-api/), an empty [SERP](https://quanticdata.io/serp-api/), 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](https://quanticdata.io/docs/python/), [Node](https://quanticdata.io/docs/node/), [cURL](https://quanticdata.io/docs/curl/) or [PHP](https://quanticdata.io/docs/php/) quickstart, or through the [MCP server](https://quanticdata.io/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](https://quanticdata.io/residential-proxies/), [datacenter](https://quanticdata.io/datacenter-proxies/), [ISP](https://quanticdata.io/isp-proxies/) and [mobile](https://quanticdata.io/mobile-proxies/) networks are on the same account and the same key. If the vendor you use today wins the test on your targets, stay. The pages say so where we already know it is likely. Four steps and one afternoon: the only comparison that settles anything is your own URLs through both services. ## Sources and standards Primary sources for this comparison: the vendor’s own documentation, and the standards both sides implement. - [OpenAPI Initiative: OpenAPI Specification](https://spec.openapis.org/oas/latest.html) - [IETF: RFC 9309, Robots Exclusion Protocol](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309.html) - [Model Context Protocol: specification](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-06-18) ## Questions about switching ### Do I have to move everything at once? No. The API and the proxies are separate products on one account, so a team can move the SERP calls first, keep its existing scraper on QuanticData residential proxies, and move the rest when the numbers justify it. ### What does a failed request cost? Nothing. A blocked page, a timeout, an empty SERP, an unfetched crawl page or a collector run that returns no rows is not billed. The usage block on every response shows the amount charged, including when it is zero. ### Is there a free tier to run the comparison? Every account gets $2 of credit a month with no card, which covers about 10,000 scraped pages or 4,000 SERP queries at list price, plus a 100 MB residential proxy trial. That is enough for a 100-URL test several times over. ### Why is there no feature table or ranking? Because a ticks-and-crosses table is always written by the vendor that wins it, and other vendors change prices and features without telling us. Each page links to the vendor so you can read the current offer from the source. ## Test it on your targets Free key, $2 a month, and the same URLs you would test anywhere else. 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