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Published on June 4, 2026 · 2 min read

What does a scraping project cost?

Number of sites, frequency, the defences in place, the shape of the delivery. The four factors that separate one quote from another.

“What does it cost?” always comes first. It is also the question nobody can answer without detail.

The word scraping covers a one-off extraction of three hundred records as readily as a daily feed of several million rows. Nothing comparable between the two. Here is what moves the number, in order of weight.

The number of sources

First factor, by a distance. Collecting one site takes one extractor. Collecting ten takes ten, each with its own structure, traps and maintenance.

Going from a thousand rows to a hundred thousand mostly changes run time. Going from one site to ten multiplies the work by ten.

Once, or every day

A one-off extraction is designed, run, delivered. End of story.

A daily collection lives. It runs, it breaks, it gets repaired. That is a service rather than a deliverable, and it is the line budgets underestimate most often.

The target site's defences

A page served as HTML can be read directly. A site that builds everything in JavaScript, shows a captcha or watches for automated behaviour needs driven browsers, proxies, challenge solving. Same data at the end, nothing alike about the route.

The shape of the delivery

A file dropped once commits you to nothing afterwards. A maintained API, with uptime to hold, commits you daily. We cover the four possible formats in a dedicated article.

The quality expected

It appears on no quote and is always paid. Deduplicating, normalising addresses, recovering missing fields, handling edge cases: that is what separates usable data from a pile to reprocess.

Four answers are enough for us to give you a number. Which sites, which fields, how often, in what form. Our pricing gives the orders of magnitude.

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