Discover the hidden costs of in-house web scraping
PromptCloud doesn't publish fixed tiers because no two data requirements are the same. What you pay depends on what your project actually involves, and we scope that together before anything is agreed.
A solutions engineer will respond within one business day with a scoped proposal.
Every PromptCloud engagement is scoped individually. These are the six variables our solutions engineers assess when building your proposal. Understanding them means you can arrive at that conversation already prepared.
Each website or domain we scrape requires its own extraction logic, anti-bot handling, and maintenance. A project covering 5 sources is meaningfully different from one covering 500.
Higher source count = higher baseline cost
The total number of records you need per day or per month shapes infrastructure requirements. A feed of 10,000 records per day operates at a very different scale than one delivering 10 million.
Higher volume = greater infrastructure overhead
Real-time or hourly crawling demands always-on infrastructure and faster pipelines. Weekly or on-demand extraction is less intensive. Your required refresh rate directly affects cost.
More frequent crawls = more compute required
JavaScript-heavy pages, login-gated content, CAPTCHA-protected sources, and rotating bot-detection layers all require significantly more engineering effort to extract reliably at scale.
More complex sources = deeper engineering investment
Delivering raw HTML is lighter than delivering clean, structured JSON or CSV. Feeding data directly into your API or S3 bucket with a defined schema adds delivery engineering on top of extraction.
More structured delivery = more processing involved
A simple extract of product names and prices is straightforward. Multi-level schemas with dozens of fields, nested objects, or matching records across sources require more custom extraction logic.
More complex schemas = more build and QA effort
Those six cost drivers only matter if PromptCloud is the right model for your situation. We are a specialist, not a general-purpose tool. Being honest about fit saves everyone time, including yours.
You need a single, one-time scrape of a handful of URLs
Your data engineering team has spare capacity and prefers to own the stack
You are still defining your data strategy and not yet ready to scope a pipeline
If you are looking for ready-made data feeds or dashboards, JobsPikr (job market data) and 42Signals (ecommerce intelligence) may be a better starting point.
If you are still deciding whether managed scraping makes sense for your situation, these two resources are the fastest way to build a clear picture.
Most teams significantly underestimate what in-house scraping actually costs when engineering time, proxy infrastructure, monitoring, and rebuild cycles are all factored in. Enter your setup and see the real annual number before your next budget conversation.
Most production scrapers develop reliability problems within 90 days. This guide covers the 11 failure modes engineering teams hit at scale — from anti-bot evolution and DOM drift to silent schema decay — and what high-reliability data teams do differently.
You've just seen the six variables that shape a data project's cost. Each combination produces a different scope — and a different price. A pricing table built around round numbers would either underprice complex work or overprice simple work, and in both cases you would lose.
We scope every project individually because that is the only way to give you a number that is both accurate and fair to you and to us. The conversation usually takes 30 minutes. The proposal follows within 48 hours.
Pricing reflects the data you receive and its reliability, not the infrastructure we run to produce it.
Scope is agreed upfront. Nothing changes without a formal scope amendment and your explicit sign-off.
Project-based pricing means your cost is defined before the work begins, not metered after the fact.
Every engagement begins with a sample delivery. You validate quality and schema fit before the full pipeline activates.
When you engage PromptCloud, you are not paying for access to scraping tools. You are paying for a managed outcome, with everything required to sustain it included in the price. No hidden support tier. No surprise infrastructure bills.
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Regarding what I like most in PromptCloud, I would say it's the ability to source valuable information on a daily basis. This consistent access to up-to-date data is incredibly important to us. We are able to offer our users value-added features that significantly help them in making well-informed decisions.
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Working with Prompt Cloud we’ve been particularly impressed by how closely they’ve listened to our feedback, going the extra mile to sort out problems and amend processes to achieve 100% client satisfaction. They are always available when we need them and respond very quickly, immediately fixing any data discrepancies flagged to them.
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I truly appreciate the exceptional support from the entire PromptCloud team. Your prompt responses to our requests and proactive approach in identifying and resolving potential issues have been invaluable. I admire the team's go-getter attitude when exploring new opportunities. I look forward to expanding our collaboration in the coming years.
PromptCloud is extremely attentive to Customer’s needs, responding quickly to inquiries & delivering quick turnaround times for new feature & product requests.
1. Crawl reliability 2. Quick turn around time to fix / adjust the crawls when issues arise 3. No-frills reliable service at a very good price.
It's been an amazing journey with PromptCloud over the last 1.5 years. The team's attention to detail and quick turnaround time in terms of addressing any new requirements or issues while still maintaining the quality is highly appreciated.
I have used PromptCloud for my business, and was very happy with the experience. PromptCloud’s customer support was excellent and they worked with me to ensure the data harvested was exactly what I needed.
Promptcloud has provided us with an excellent data quality for many years. They are our first web scraping solution when it comes to getting accessible data from the internet. I highly recommend them, they are indeed the best.
PromptCloud provides an excellent data quality service at highly competitive pricing. Their web scraping service quality allowed our engineers to concentrate on the projects closer to the core of the business.
