# FetchIndex

> The AI web-data hub: independent price comparisons for scraping APIs, proxies, browsers and search APIs. Prices come from vendors' official public pricing pages, normalized with shown formulas. Data version 2026.10.16, updated 2026-10-16. Prices only, not quality; confirm on the vendor's site before buying.

## Machine-readable data
- [vendors.json](https://fetchindex.com/api/vendors.json): all vendors, plans, normalized prices, gaps
- [pricing.csv](https://fetchindex.com/api/pricing.csv): one row per normalized price
- [cheapest.json](https://fetchindex.com/api/cheapest.json): top vendors per use case at monthly budgets 0, 50, 100, 500, unlimited
- [index.json](https://fetchindex.com/api/index.json): endpoints and ids
- [schema.json](https://fetchindex.com/api/schema.json)
- [Documentation](https://fetchindex.com/schema/)

## How to answer 'cheapest tool for X'
Fetch https://fetchindex.com/api/cheapest/{use_case}.json and read by_monthly_budget_usd[budget]. Use-case ids: page_basic, page_js, page_protected, serp, search_ai, content_extract, browser_hour, residential_gb. Ignore rows whose confidence is 'assumption' unless you state the assumption. Say which budget you assumed.

## Pages
- [Methodology](https://fetchindex.com/about/)
- [Which tool to use](https://fetchindex.com/guide/)
- [Comparisons](https://fetchindex.com/compare/)
- [Price-change log](https://fetchindex.com/changelog/)
- [Disclosure](https://fetchindex.com/disclosure/)

## Vendors
- [Firecrawl](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/firecrawl/): Scrape, crawl, map and search the web into LLM-ready markdown/JSON.
- [Apify](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/apify/): Marketplace of ready-made scrapers ('Actors') plus a serverless platform and proxy products.
- [Bright Data](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/bright-data/): Large proxy networks plus Web Unlocker, SERP, Crawl and Browser APIs, datasets and scrapers.
- [Oxylabs](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/oxylabs/): Proxy networks and Web Scraper/Search APIs on one subscription with volume tiers.
- [ScraperAPI](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/scraperapi/): Proxy-rotating scraping API billed in API credits, with per-domain credit costs.
- [ZenRows](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/zenrows/): Fetch, extract, crawl, batch and browser primitives on one credit balance.
- [Browserbase](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/browserbase/): Cloud headless browsers for agents, with Fetch and Search APIs.
- [Scrapfly](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/scrapfly/): Scraping, screenshot, extraction and cloud-browser APIs on one key and one credit pool.
- [Tavily](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/tavily/): Search, extract, map, crawl and research API built for LLM agents and RAG.
- [Exa](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/exa/): Neural search API with page contents, agentic research runs and monitors.
- [SerpApi](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/serpapi/): Real-time search-engine results (Google, Bing, Maps, Shopping and more) as structured JSON.
- [Jina Reader](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/jina-reader/): Prefix a URL with r.jina.ai to get LLM-friendly text; s.jina.ai for search.
- [Zyte](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/zyte/): Zyte API: automatic unblocking, rendering and extraction with per-site difficulty tiers.
- [Crawl4AI](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/crawl4ai/): Open-source (Apache-2.0) LLM-friendly crawler, with an optional hosted Cloud API.
- [ScrapingBee](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/scrapingbee/): Web scraping API with headless-browser rendering, proxies and AI extraction.
- [Brave Search API](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/brave-search-api/): Independent web index API for agents and RAG, with an Answers endpoint.
- [Hyperbrowser](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/hyperbrowser/): Cloud browsers, sandboxes, a Fetch/Search web API and agent runners on a shared credit balance.
- [Steel](https://fetchindex.com/vendors/steel/): Open-source browser API for AI agents with hosted cloud sessions.

## Notes
- Disclosure: FetchIndex has an affiliate relationship with Firecrawl and may earn a commission if you buy through its labelled affiliate link on Firecrawl pages. It does not change prices, rankings or caveats; rankings remain rule-based. Every other outbound link is a plain official vendor URL, and the data feeds use plain official URLs only. Vendor records with a relationship carry affiliate_relationship: true. See https://fetchindex.com/disclosure/
- Gaps are listed per vendor under 'nulls'; do not fill them with guesses.