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Pricing & credits
One balance of credits powers every API. Here is exactly what each call costs — and what it costs us to run, so you can see why ScrapeFlow is cheaper.
What a credit buys
Credits are the single unit across all endpoints. You are only charged on a successful 2xx response.
| Operation | Cost |
|---|---|
| Scrape (1 format) | 1 credit |
| Scrape (each extra format) | +1 credit |
| Map | 1 credit |
| Search | 2 credits |
| Brand lookup | 2 credits |
| Crawl | 1 credit / page |
| Batch | 1 credit / URL |
| Monitor | 1 credit / check |
| Answers (research) | 5 credits |
The real unit economics
A single scrape flows through API Gateway → a router Lambda → SNS → SQS → a scraping Lambda → DynamoDB. Because it is all serverless and on-demand, we pay per request with zero idle cost. Here is the breakdown for one scrape:
| Component | Per scrape | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| API Gateway (HTTP API) | 1 request | $0.0000010 |
| Router Lambda (128 MB, 80 ms) | 1 invoke | $0.0000004 |
| SNS publish | 1 message | $0.0000005 |
| SQS (send + receive + delete) | 3 requests | $0.0000012 |
| Scraper Lambda (1.5 GB, 3.5 s) | 1 invoke | $0.0000877 |
| DynamoDB write (on-demand) | 1 WCU | $0.0000013 |
| S3 (screenshot PUT + storage) | 1 object | $0.0000050 |
| Data transfer out (~50 KB result) | egress | $0.0000045 |
| Infrastructure subtotal | excl. proxy | ~$0.0000966 |
Cost calculator
Estimate your monthly cost, compare it against Context.dev list pricing, and see the serverless cost underneath.
AWS cost to run
$9.66
$0.00010 / scrape
ScrapeFlow price (Pro)
$39.00
~75% gross margin
Context.dev price (Pro)
$99.00
list pricing
Estimates use public AWS on-demand rates (us-east-1) and list prices. Actual proxy cost depends on page size and provider; direct fetches carry no bandwidth surcharge.
Why ScrapeFlow is cheaper
- • No idle servers. Lambda scales to zero — we never bill you for a warm fleet waiting for traffic.
- • Fan-out, not over-provisioning. SNS → SQS spreads bursts across ephemeral workers instead of a fixed cluster.
- • Smart proxy routing. We only reach for residential proxies when a site demands it, keeping blended bandwidth low.
- • On-demand storage. DynamoDB and S3 are pay-per-use, so cold data costs almost nothing.
Per-credit comparison
| Tier | ScrapeFlow / credit | Context.dev / credit | You save |
|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | $0.00036 | $0.00253 | ~86% |
| Pro | $0.00016 | $0.00079 | ~80% |
| Growth | $0.00013 | $0.00060 | ~78% |
| Overage (Growth) | $0.0003 | $0.0014 | ~79% |