The infrastructure behind flat-rate scraping
Most scraping APIs rent infrastructure from brokers and mark it up with credits and multipliers. Geonode owns the network underneath — which is why we can offer flat pricing for AI agents
2.5M owned IPs
online now
195+ countries
USA, Germany, France, ect.
$0.60 / 1,000 requests
flat pricing
Why flat-rate is structurally possible
Credits don't hide pricing. Credits hide multipliers. The same stealth-mode crawl of 50,000 pages on a credit-based platform vs. Geonode.
AI agents broke the model
Same agent. Same 30 days. Same ~1M requests. Credit-based bill volatility comes from retry loops, stealth-mode toggles, and deep-crawl multipliers the agent decides at runtime. Geonode charges per request, flat.
Builders resented the bill
Exit interviews, anonymized. Shared with permission. Pattern consistent across 47 churned accounts.
We had a 3-hour agent run that burned through our entire monthly credit budget. We didn't get an alert until the next morning 😠
I budgeted $400/month for data collection. After we added LLM-based extraction with retries, the bill hit $2,800. I couldn't explain it to my CFO.
We actually rate-limited our own crawler to avoid overages. We were intentionally making our product worse to control costs.
The credit model works fine if you run cron jobs. The moment you add any kind of adaptive agent, it's a liability 🤔
Methodology: Exit interviews conducted Q3–Q4 2024 · n=47 · Accounts that churned citing «pricing» or «billing» as primary reason · Quotes edited for clarity, identifying details removed · Shared with written permission.
Owned, flat, flywheel
Full topology of the Geonode infrastructure. Every layer is owned or exclusively contracted – no spot-market leasing from the 3 supply providers that everyone else resells.
Consumer layer
AI Agents / Applications
API layer: flat rate, no metering
Scrape
Search
Map
Crawl
Routing layer
Intelligent Router
Owned supply layer
Residential
ISP / Broadband
Datacenter
Unlimited Residential
Compliance & Consent stack
SOC 2 Type II
Certified
GDPR compliance
Current
CCPA compliance
CurrentConsent stack
CurrentDMCA safe harbor
CurrentSLA Commitments
Uptime SLA
99.9%P95 latency (residential)
< 3.2sP95 latency (datacenter)
< 280msSession success rate
> 96.4%Geo-targeting accuracy
> 99.1%Support response (P1)
< 2 hourBetter as bigger
Every node added lowers marginal cost. Every routing optimization improves everyone's success rate. The network does not commoditize — it compounds.
Why we're cheaper.
And keep getting cheaper
Most scraping APIs run on rented supply with credit-based pricing. That's why your bill is unpredictable. We chose the opposite path and the math compounds.
The receipts are on the table
No trial credit burning. No overage surprises. One flat rate, owned infrastructure, working code in 5 minutes.
