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Crawlbase pricing vs FourA: what 1,000 pages cost, site by site
Crawlbase prices a page by the site, FourA by the engine. On $99 plans: $0.495 to $1.98 per 1,000 vs $0.055 to $0.55, read 8 October 2026.
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Nimble vs FourA: one meter, or one per product?
Nimble meters five APIs separately and its managed plans start at $2,500 a month. FourA is one plan from $29. The billing shapes, as of October 5, 2026.
Tender Monitoring: The Notices Your Scraper Never Saw
Tender monitoring below the EU threshold means scraping a long tail of small portals. The costly failure isn't a refusal, it's a green run that stored nothing.
FourA Digest — Sep 25 to Oct 2, 2026
Standby servers now take over if our main ones stop answering, rate limits refuse only the excess, and Auto gives up sooner on sites that turn every exit away.
ScrapingBee pricing vs FourA: what a protected page costs
A protected, rendered page costs $7.43 per 1,000 on ScrapingBee's $99 plan and $0.55 on FourA's. Both pricing pages read 1 October 2026.
Decodo vs FourA: 1,000 requests on the same $99 plan
On Decodo's $99 plan 1,000 requests cost $0.14 to $1.20; on FourA's $99 Startup plan, $0.055 to $0.55. Both pricing pages read 28 September 2026.
FourA Digest — Sep 18 to Sep 25, 2026
Auto calls now count as one request on your Dashboard, plan-limit refusals no longer add to your traffic, and every top-up on Billing shows what's left of it.
Google SerpApi Lawsuit: The Bot Check Isn't the Question
Two courts, one Google bot check, opposite rulings eleven days apart. The Google SerpApi lawsuit shows what decides it now: whose content sits behind the check.
Proxy Port: Targeting and Sessions in the Username
The FourA proxy port reads network, country and sticky sessions from the username, and a typo gets a 400 naming the valid keys. Here's the whole grammar.
Bright Data Web Unlocker pricing vs FourA, per 1,000 requests
Bright Data's Web Unlocker API lists $1.50 per 1,000 requests; FourA's $99 Startup plan runs them for $0.11 to $0.55. Both pages read 24 September 2026.