Balance & usage

The Scraping API bills per scrape from a dollar balance, not by bandwidth. That is different from every proxy product, which bill by the gigabyte.

Checking your balance

curl "http://api.scraping.rayobyte.com/balance?token=YOUR_TOKEN"

The dashboard shows the same number under Scraping API → Get Started, alongside an estimate of how many scrapes remain at the standard rate.

Usage over time

Scraping API → Statistics breaks down scrape counts and spend. Use it to spot a job that started costing more than it used to. The usual cause is a target that began requiring browser rendering where a plain fetch once worked.

Topping up

Scraping API → Purchase. See Billing for payment methods and invoices.

Watch the balance from your code

A balance that hits zero stops your pipeline mid-run. If you have long jobs, poll /balance between batches and alert well before it empties. Recovering a half-finished run costs more than the credit did.

import requests

def remaining(token):
    r = requests.get(
        "http://api.scraping.rayobyte.com/balance",
        params={"token": token},
        timeout=30,
    )
    r.raise_for_status()
    return r.json()

# Check between batches, not per request. It is a network call too.