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by mateuszbuda 824 days ago
To give you a reference point, at https://scrapingfish.com/ we charge $0.002 per API call but in our case, the API call gives you the value by itself: access to mobile proxies and cluster of browsers. For you, I would recommend to either give the API access for free as I assume users already pay for the product. Another option would be to include API access only to higher plan users who pay more and this could be an incentive for some users to upgrade their plan.
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How is scraping fish different from a million other services?
When there's a million other services, they don't have to be different. It's like VPNs or burgers. It just has to work and not be too expensive.
Two main differentiators. 1. Pricing. We charge for requests and the cost of each successful request is the same as opposed to misleading API credits system used by others. Also, we sell request pack which are valid up to 1 year as opposed to monthly plans with expiring unused API credits. 2. We use our own high quality and ethically sourced mobile proxies as opposed to shared pools from large proxy providers (https://scrapingfish.com/how-ips-for-web-scraping-are-source...).