---
slug: crawlbase
name: "Crawlbase"
website: https://crawlbase.com
listing_status: active
types: [residential]
checked_at: 2026-09-26
confidence: high
data_version: 2
page: https://workingproxysites.info/t/80-crawlbase-proxies
---

# Crawlbase

**Best for:** Scraping teams that prefer paying per successful request over per-GB billing and only need country targeting

## Products

| Type | Pricing | From (USD) | Entry spend | Pool | Countries | Targeting | Protocols | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| residential | per request | $0.02/1k requests | — | 140M residential IPs (as advertised) | 45 | country | HTTP, HTTPS | New IP per request; Session-Id header keeps one IP for about 30 min |

## Facts

- Starting price: $0.02 per 1k requests (volume past ~1.1B/month)
- Pricing notes: Pay-as-you-go runs from $3.00 down to $0.02 per 1k successful requests, with no monthly fee. JS rendering doubles the cost; hard sites cost up to 20x. Plans cost $99-$599/mo.
- Free trial: yes — 1,000 free requests at sign-up and up to 5,000 after setup steps, no card needed. Refunds only for service failures.
- KYC: unknown — The terms and FAQ describe no identity checks, and sign-up needs no card. The FAQ says accounts used illegally are suspended with no refund.
- Payment: card
- API access: yes
- Other products: scraping_api, serp_api
- IP sourcing (as claimed): Not disclosed. The FAQ says its team sources proxies worldwide and asks proxy providers with IPs to sell to contact it
- Founded: 2017
- Also known as: ProxyCrawl, proxycrawl.com

## Highlights

- One rotating endpoint (smartproxy.crawlbase.com) that assigns a new IP per request by default
- Billed per successful request with no bandwidth cap; failed requests are not charged
- Country targeting in 45+ countries; a session header keeps the same IP for about 30 minutes
- Credits are shared with the Crawling API, Enterprise Crawler and Cloud Storage
- Account API reports usage; default limit of 20 concurrent requests per token

## Good to know

- The page advertises 140M residential IPs, but its own FAQ says requests reach 'more than a million proxies'; datacenter IPs are also in the pool
- Only country targeting and HTTP(S) over IPv4 are documented; SOCKS5, city and ASN options are not mentioned
- JavaScript rendering doubles the cost, and heavily protected sites carry multipliers of up to 20x per request


## Community and live status

- Community score: 0 (0 up, 0 down), 0 replies
- Live status: unknown

## Staff overview

Crawlbase, formerly ProxyCrawl, sells the Smart AI Proxy: one rotating proxy endpoint that sends each request out through its residential and datacenter pool and handles CAPTCHAs and retries. It bills per successful request rather than per GB, on a graduated rate card shared with Crawlbase's Crawling API, Crawler and Cloud Storage.

## Pricing details

- Pay-as-you-go rates per 1,000 successful requests: first 1K $3.00, next 10K $2.00, next 100K $0.60, next 1M $0.50, next 10M $0.10, next 100M $0.05, next 1B $0.04, beyond that $0.02
- Worked examples for standard requests: 100K requests $76.40, 1M $527.50, 10M $1,471.90 per month
- Pay-as-you-go has no monthly fee, is billed monthly in arrears and supports an optional hard spend cap; only successful requests count
- JavaScript requests use 2 credits; site-difficulty multipliers: Moderate x1.5, Complex x2, Complex I x3, Complex II x4.5, Extreme x9, Extreme I x13.5, Extreme II x20
- Subscriptions: Starter 200K credits $99/mo, Scale 500K $199/mo, Scale 1M $349/mo, Growth 2M $599/mo; overage continues at pay-as-you-go rates
- Yearly billing: $1,089, $2,189, $3,839 and $6,589 (one month free, 8% off)
- One credit balance covers the Smart AI Proxy, Crawling API, Enterprise Crawler and Cloud Storage; Enterprise adds custom volume, SLAs and invoicing

## Trial & refunds

New accounts get 1,000 free credits with no card on file, rising to up to 5,000 after setup steps are completed, and the credits work across all Crawlbase products. The terms offer a full refund only when the service failed, such as a long outage.

*Prices as advertised on Crawlbase's website, checked September 26, 2026. They change often — confirm before buying.*

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## Sources

- https://crawlbase.com/smart-proxy
- https://crawlbase.com/pricing
- https://crawlbase.com/docs/smart-proxy
- https://crawlbase.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://crawlbase.com/docs/account-api
- https://crawlbase.com/faq/smart-ai-proxy
- https://crawlbase.com/faq/general
- https://crawlbase.com/terms
- https://crawlbase.com/privacy
- https://www.trustpilot.com/review/crawlbase.com
- https://web.archive.org/web/20221116133734/https://proxycrawl.com/
- https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/disrupting-largest-residential-proxy-network

_Details are as advertised by Crawlbase, checked 2026-09-26. Confirm on the provider's site before buying._