You gotta flip the script and measure cost-per-win, not just cost-per-call. fastCRW's numbers are solid , and sure, Firecrawl looks cheap at ~\(0.00083 per page on base pricing, but then Enhanced/Stealth Mode hits you with a 5x multiplier that bumps you to \)0.00415 per page for the tricky stuff behind paywalls and bot protection. Once you do the math on failed requests and credit burns, you're really looking at like \(0.005-\)0.006 per successful scrape - a massive game-changer when you're budgeting. Anti-bot defenses are a sneaky cost driver. That 5x credit multiplier for enhanced mode absolutely tanks your unit economics when you're dealing with cloudflare or similar gatekeeping, and honestly, most vendor comparisons just gloss over this upfront. One more thing - pagination is low-key expensive if you're not thinking it through. You're paying per page crawled, so if 40% of your URLs need pagination, you're basically burning budget on pages you didn't plan for. Not technically hidden, but it's definitely a planning L if you don't catch it before scaling. So, I'd recommend you go hybrid -- lean on cheap, structured APIs or raw selectors for the bulk of your traffic like 80%, then keep an AI extractor in your back pocket as a fallback for the weird 20% - almost always beats using one tool for everything