Crawlbase · FinOps Profile

Crawlbase Finops

FinOps view of Crawlbase spend. Crawlbase bills on a per-request / credit usage basis for the Crawling and Scraper APIs, monthly subscription fees for its Smart / AI proxy tiers and Cloud Storage tiers, and custom enterprise agreements. The dominant cost driver is successful crawl requests: only responses with pc_status 200 are charged, and per-request credit cost rises with JavaScript rendering (headless Chrome), premium residential routing, and scroll processing time. The Leads API bills one credit per ten emails per domain. A free trial covers up to 10,000 requests.

Crawlbase Finops is the FinOps profile for Crawlbase on the APIs.io network, aligned with the FinOps Foundation Framework.

It defines 7 billable meters, billed in USD, on a monthly cycle, and pricing category usage-based.

The profile maps 8 FOCUS columns for cost-allocation reporting.

Tagged areas include Web Scraping, Web Crawling, Proxy, Data Extraction, and FinOps.

Category: Web Data and Scraping Pricing: Usage-Based Billing: Monthly FOCUS v1.3
Web ScrapingWeb CrawlingProxyData ExtractionFinOpsCost ManagementFOCUS

Framework Alignment

Framework
FinOps Foundation Framework
Data Spec
FOCUS v1.3

Charge Categories

UsagePurchaseAdjustment

FOCUS Columns

BillingCurrency
USD
ChargeCategory
Usage
InvoiceIssuerName
Crawlbase
PricingCategory
Usage-Based
ProviderName
Crawlbase
PublisherName
Crawlbase
ServiceCategory
Web Data and Scraping
ServiceName
Crawlbase

Meters

successful_requests
Unit: requests
Crawling API requests that return pc_status 200, billed per request (complexity-based). Failed requests are free.
javascript_render_credits
Unit: credits
Extra credits consumed when a request is rendered in headless Chrome (JavaScript token).
premium_proxy_credits
Unit: credits
Extra credits consumed when a request routes through the premium residential proxy network.
scraper_requests
Unit: requests
Scraper API structured-extraction requests, billed per request with credit multipliers for javascript and premium.
leads_credits
Unit: credits
Leads API email discovery, billed at one credit per ten emails returned per domain.
storage_subscription
Unit: subscription
Monthly Cloud Storage subscription fee by tier (Free / Developer / Business / Enterprise).
proxy_subscription
Unit: subscription
Monthly Smart / AI proxy subscription fee by tier (Free / Starter / Advanced / Premium).

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