May 8, 2026·7 min readWeb data pricing in 2026: why a $0.30 page and a $5 query can cost the sameThree April 2026 price changes – Tavily, Firecrawl, Browserless – signal the market is tightening. A framework for comparing true costs when vendor units don't match.
May 2, 2026·7 min readWho owns the index? The question AI builders skip when evaluating search APIsIndex ownership is the single most under-examined dimension when AI teams pick a search API. Independent crawlers, Bing licensees, and SERP scrapers all benchmark similarly – until they don't.
May 2, 2026·6 min readThe SERP API landscape in 2026An independent map of the SERP API category in 2026 – pricing, legal exposure after the Google DMCA suit, and how the surviving providers compare.
May 2, 2026·7 min readThe web scraping API landscape in 2026An independent map of the web scraping API category in 2026 – pricing, positioning, legal posture, and where each major vendor fits in the AI-native stack.
Apr 29, 2026·4 min readWhat changed in web data tools – April 2026April 2026 monthly recap: funding, pricing changes, new launches, and shifts in the web data tools market that AI product builders should know about.
Apr 22, 2026·5 min readThe legal status of web scraping in 2026Where the case law actually stands after Hiq, Meta v. Bright Data, and the 2024–2025 wave of scraping rulings – and what AI builders should and shouldn't worry about.
Apr 15, 2026·5 min readThe agentic extraction wave: how Browserbase, Browser Use, and Stagehand changed web scrapingWhy agentic extraction tools – Browserbase + Stagehand, Browser Use, Agno, Skyvern – are displacing traditional Playwright scrapers for AI product teams in 2026.
Mar 15, 2026·6 min readThe AI search API landscape in 2026A look at how AI-powered search APIs are reshaping the web scraping market, which players are leading, and what it means for teams evaluating infrastructure.
Mar 10, 2026·5 min readWeb scraping tools ranked by total fundingA breakdown of the most-funded web scraping companies, what they raised, and what the funding levels signal about the market.
Mar 5, 2026·6 min readComparing browser infrastructure for web scrapingPlaywright vs Puppeteer vs Selenium vs cloud browser services – an objective comparison of browser automation options for scraping workloads.