The cost of scraping pages through a scraping API.
The cheapest scrape is static HTML; JS rendering can cost 5–10× more. Classify pages first and reserve rendering for the ones that truly need it. Compare providers in the search & scraping guides.
Free web scraping API cost calculator — pages per month and per-request price to your scraping bill.
Most scraping APIs bill per request (often per 1,000), with a premium for JavaScript rendering and residential proxies. Blended cost = plain requests + JS-render requests at their higher rate.
Because it spins up a real browser per request — far more compute than fetching static HTML. Detect which pages actually need rendering and only pay the premium for those.