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A dated log of price changes, M&A, funding, renames and shutdowns at search, SERP, scraping, proxy and agent-browser APIs, each linked to its source.

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License: CC BY 4.0. Status: Historical announcement log, 57 rows. Targeted corrections on 2026-10-16, one apiserpent.com row added on 2026-11-03, and 13 rows added on 2026-11-12 from sources read that day. Older row verification dates remain explicit; this is not a current tariff table, a live-account migration check or a complete court docket..

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ChangeDateVendorCategoryWhat changedWhat it means for buyersStatusDate typeVerifiedSource
Scrape.do switches off its old proxy-mode host2027-04-30Scrape.doshutdown-deprecationA changelog entry dated 27 October 2026 and marked Breaking says proxy mode now runs at pm.scrape.do:8080, and the old host, proxy.scrape.do:8080, "will be switched off on April 30, 2027." The same update changes the customHeaders default to false.If you use Scrape.do in proxy mode, point it at pm.scrape.do:8080 before 30 April 2027, and check any request that relied on custom headers being passed by default. The changelog lists no credit-price change in October or November 2026.scheduledscheduledScrape.do changelog, entry of 27 October 2026
Google Custom Search JSON API ends for existing customers2027-01-01Googleshutdown-deprecationThe API "is closed to new customers." Existing customers "have until January 1, 2027" to move to another solution. Google suggests Vertex AI Search (now Agent Search) for up to 50 domains.Migrate before 1 January 2027. Google names a configured-domain search alternative and separately invites inquiries about its full-web offering; that inquiry is not proof of general API availability. Compare the actual product scope before moving.scheduledscheduledCustom Search JSON API overview (Google for Developers)
Crawl4AI Cloud free $10 launch pack ends2026-12-31Crawl4AIfree-tier changeAn earlier tracker recorded a free $10 launch pack and a 31 December 2026 cutoff. The current homepage no longer establishes that offer or deadline; those historical amounts are withheld as current purchase guidance.Do not budget on the former launch pack or its stated December expiry. Read the current Community and paid-plan conditions.historical schedule unverifiedscheduledCrawl4AI Cloud home and pricing
Firecrawl removes the /extract endpoint2026-12-10Firecrawlshutdown-deprecationFirecrawl's docs say /extract is deprecated and will be removed on Thursday 10 December 2026 at 15:00 UTC. They tell you to move single-page extracts to /v2/scrape with a JSON format, and wildcard, multi-page or web-search extracts to /v2/agent.If you call /extract, plan the move before 10 December 2026. Check what the replacement endpoints cost for your pages before you switch.scheduledscheduledFirecrawl docs, Extract
Scraping Fish shuts down2026-12-05Scraping Fishshutdown-deprecationScraping Fish's homepage says the service shuts down on 5 December 2026. The API keeps working until 17:00 UTC that day, new packs can no longer be bought, and auto-renew and Unlimited will not renew. Unused requests from packs still valid at shutdown are refunded at the price paid per request, plus VAT if it was paid.If you use Scraping Fish, move to another provider before 5 December 2026 and don't buy more packs. Read the refund terms on its homepage for requests you haven't used.scheduledscheduledScraping Fish homepage notice
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash API requests reroute to newer models2026-12-01Google (Gemini API)shutdown-deprecationGoogle's deprecations page says gemini-2.5-pro and gemini-2.5-flash are deprecated and no longer selectable in Google AI Studio. Effective 1 December 2026, all API requests to gemini-2.5-pro route automatically to gemini-3.8-flash and requests to gemini-2.5-flash route to gemini-3.5-flash-lite, billed at the new model's rates.If you rely on a 2.5 model, move to a named newer model before 1 December 2026 and recheck your token and grounding costs, because the new model's rates apply.scheduledscheduledGemini API deprecations
Apify retires rental-priced Actors2026-10-01Apifyshutdown-deprecationSince 2026-04-01 no new rental Actors can be published or repriced. On 2026-10-01 "Rental Actors are fully retired. All remaining Actors are migrated to pay-per-usage pricing."The documented 1 October deadline has passed. Inspect the specific Store Actor and its current per-usage pricing; no owner account or migration outcome was tested.documented deadline passed; account outcome unverifiedscheduledRental pricing model (Apify docs)
Crawl4AI Cloud cuts per-page credit costs2026-11-13Crawl4AIprice changeThe homepage and the price API now price a plain page at 0.1 credit, a real-browser page at 0.5 and a hard site at 2. On 31 October a plain page was 0.5 credit and a browser page 1. The plans are unchanged: Starter $10 for 10K credits, Builder $99 for 125K, Scale $499 for 750K.A plain page now costs a fifth of what it did. By my model, 100K plain pages a month fall from $50 to $10, and 1M from about $395 to $99; 1M browser pages fall from about $667 to $395. The vendor calls Cloud a soft launch, so prices can change again.in effectobservedCrawl4AI Cloud price API and homepage
Exa Monitors price shows $2 per 1,000 requests2026-11-13Exaprice changeExa's pricing page lists Monitors at $2 per 1,000 requests. The 27 September pricing screenshot on this site showed $15 per 1,000.If you budgeted Monitors at $15 per 1,000 requests, the page now lists a price 7.5 times lower. Check your plan's terms before you rely on it.in effectobservedExa pricing
Valyu replaces its signup credit with monthly free credits2026-11-13Valyufree-tier changeValyu's pricing docs say accounts without a plan get free credits every month: 2,000 with a work email and 1,000 with a personal email. A personal email needs a card saved after the first month (saving it doesn't charge it), and unused free credits don't roll over. My 31 October reading was a one-time $10 signup credit, or $20 with a company email.Free credits now recur, so a small project can keep running on them. They cover the pay-as-you-go sources such as web search, arXiv and PubMed; a plan unlocks the rest.in effectobservedValyu pricing docs
Oxylabs moves to one subscription, with a $15 Starter plan2026-11-12Oxylabsprice changeThe pricing page sells one subscription for all products: a free $5 welcome credit, Starter $15/mo, Basic $100/mo, Flexible $500/mo and Enterprise from $2,500/mo. Web API /Search is $1 per 1K searches on every plan; /Scrape runs from $0.50 per 1K results on the entry plans to $0.25 on Enterprise. A third-party tracker logged the single subscription on 15 October 2026 with Starter at $30, and its last capture on 19 October still showed $30.The entry price fell from $30 to $15 sometime after 19 October. One subscription now pays for every Oxylabs product, so budget per plan rather than per product, and treat third-party price pages that list separate per-product plans as out of date.in effectobservedOxylabs pricing
Scrapingdog expands its plan grid to 28 plans2026-11-12Scrapingdogprice changeThe pricing page shows 28 monthly plans, from Free (100 credits) and Lite ($40, 200K credits) up to Nova Pro ($30,000, 1.1B credits); annual billing adds two months. This site's 31 October 2026 record showed four visible paid plans, Lite $40 to Premium $350.Lite through Premium keep the prices in that October record; the added plans cover much larger volumes. The page's meta text says 27 plans while 28 cards are shown, so count cards, not the summary.in effectobservedScrapingdog pricing
Crawlbase prices every product from one credit balance2026-11-12Crawlbaseprice changeThe pricing page says the Crawling API with screenshots, the Crawler, Smart AI Proxy and Cloud Storage "all draw from one credit balance, on one rate card." Pay as you go is graduated per 1,000 successful requests, from $3.00 for the first 1K down to $0.02 beyond the top band. Optional monthly blocks are $99 (200K credits), $199 (500K), $349 (1M) and $599 (2M). New accounts start with 1,000 free credits, rising to up to 5,000 after setup steps.Third-party pages that list separate Smart AI Proxy or Storage plans describe an earlier model. JavaScript rendering doubles the credits and site-difficulty multipliers raise them further, so price your own mix rather than the standard-request rate.in effectobservedCrawlbase pricing
Bright Data residential cards show RESIGB50 coupon prices2026-11-12Bright Dataprice changeA banner reads "Use code RESIGB50 at checkout to get 50% OFF Residential Proxies for 3 months!" Pay as you go shows $8/GB struck through to $4/GB. The monthly cards show $499 for 141 GB, $999 for 332 GB and $1,999 for 798 GB, with list rates of $7, $6 and $5 per GB struck through.The card prices are coupon prices for the first three months. At the list rates the same money buys about 71, 166 and 400 GB, so compare Bright Data with other vendors at list price and treat the coupon as a short-term discount.in effectobservedBright Data residential proxy pricing
netnut.io still shows an FBI seizure page2026-11-12NetNut (Alarum Technologies)legal actionOn 12 November 2026 netnut.io loaded a page headed "Seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation". The rest of the notice is an image whose text I could not read.NetNut's main domain was not serving its normal site on this date. Confirm availability with NetNut or Alarum directly before any purchase.observed page stateobservednetnut.io as loaded on 12 November 2026
Brave announces encrypted /go/ links for Brave Search results2026-11-11Braveshutdown-deprecationThe Brave Search Team wrote that "In the upcoming days, Brave Search result links will no longer lead directly to their destination." Result links will point to search.brave.com/go/v1#… with the destination encrypted after the #, and copied links may expire. The post says the aim is to make scraping results at scale expensive, and points large-scale users to the Brave Search API.Once this ships, scrapers of Brave Search pages will get redirect links instead of destination URLs. Brave names its Search API as the route for bulk use; if a vendor sells you scraped Brave results, ask how it will resolve /go/ links.announcedannouncedHow Google's anti-scraping move became our problem (Brave Search Team, 11 November 2026)
Court dismisses Google's amended complaint against SerpApi2026-11-09SerpApilegal actionECF 62 granted SerpApi's motion to dismiss both DMCA §1201 claims in Google's amended complaint, with leave to amend only to cure the deficiencies the order identifies. Google may file an amended complaint within 21 days; if it does not, the action will be dismissed with prejudice.The case stays open until the amendment window closes or Google refiles. A pleading-stage dismissal is not a ruling that scraping Google is lawful; if you depend on Google results, keep a fallback provider.pendingeffectiveGoogle v SerpApi ECF 62, order granting motion to dismiss with leave to amend (9 November 2026)
Webshare runs the CYBER26 Cyber Month promotion2026-11-09Webshareprice changeCode CYBER26 gives 25% off monthly self-serve Rotating Residential and Static Residential plans, applied after any quantity discount, from 9 November to 9 December 2026 (09:00 UTC). Combined with the largest quantity discount, Webshare says savings reach up to 70% (rotating) and 44% (static). Yearly plans, Proxy Server (datacenter) plans, renewals and later upgrades are excluded.The discount covers the first monthly billing period only; renewals bill at the standard price unless you cancel. The terms both limit it to users who never had a paid Webshare plan and say existing customers can use it on a new eligible subscription, so confirm eligibility before buying.in effecteffectiveWebshare Cyber Month promotion terms and conditions
apiserpent.com adds Enterprise Plus tier; Enterprise rises to $0.052026-11-03SerpentAPI (apiserpent.com)price changeNew-credit Web calls cost $0.60 per 1K by default, $0.30 after one $100 deposit, $0.10 after $500, $0.05 after a $1,000 single deposit (Enterprise, previously $0.03) or $0.03 after a $1,250 single deposit (new Enterprise Plus tier). The 'Prices to increase 10x after October 31' banner shown on 31 October was no longer on the page.The $0.03 rate now needs a $1,250 deposit instead of $1,000. Credit you already hold keeps the price you bought it at; the best deposit in a calendar month sets the price for that month's deposits.in effectobservedSerpentAPI pricing
The New York Times and three Tribune papers sue Brave2026-11-02Bravelegal actionThe New York Times (1:26-cv-09549) and the Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel (1:26-cv-09554) sued Brave Software in the Southern District of New York. They allege that Brave's search index, Search API, Ask Brave answers and browser paywall blocker infringe their copyrights. Brave is the only defendant; the AI companies the complaints name as API customers are not sued.No court has ruled and no order touches the API. If you build on the Brave Search API, review what your contract lets you do with results and keep a fallback provider ready.pendingreportedNYT v Brave complaint (ECF 1, S.D.N.Y. 1:26-cv-09549)
Bright Data retires Immediate-access Residential and Mobile proxies2026-10-24Bright Datashutdown-deprecationAn October 24, 2026 release note retires Immediate-access Residential and Mobile proxies, says retired proxies would be deleted from accounts on 9 November 2026, and encourages customers to switch to ISP Proxies or Web Unlocker API. Users who are not account administrators cannot make the switch themselves.The deletion date has passed. If you used immediate-access residential or mobile proxies, check that your integration now points at a supported product; non-admin users need their account administrator.deletion date passed; account outcome unverifiedannouncedBright Data release notes, entry of 24 October 2026
apiserpent.com Web pricing tiers re-verified2026-10-13SerpentAPI (apiserpent.com)price changeWeb calls now cost $0.60 per 1K by default, $0.30 after one $100 deposit, $0.10 after one $500 deposit, or $0.03 after one $1,000 deposit.New paid credits use the tier earned by the qualifying deposit. Existing credits retain their original rate schedule; the old $500-to-$0.03 assumption no longer applies to a new purchase.in effectobservedSerpentAPI pricing
Perplexity Sonar support ends2026-09-27Perplexityshutdown-deprecationThe migration documentation now explicitly states that Sonar support ended on 27 Sep 2026. Synchronous and streaming requests are gradually reformulated into Agent API calls; async Sonar requests are unsupported.Migrate integrations to Agent API or Search API as appropriate. Async work needs the background request flow. Re-price web tools plus model tokens.in effectscheduledPerplexity migration from Sonar to Agent API
Firecrawl raises $75M Series B, launches Alexandria2026-09-22Firecrawlfunding$75M Series B led by Smash Capital, with Altos Ventures, Nexus Venture Partners, Y Combinator, Freestyle and Offline Ventures. Launched Alexandria, a knowledge base for AI agents.No pricing change was announced with the round. Re-check Firecrawl's pricing page before a renewal.announcedannouncedIntroducing Alexandria and our $75M Series B (Firecrawl blog)
Cloudflare adds Disallow AI Training and extends Block to mixed-use crawlers2026-09-15Cloudflareproduct launchCloudflare's 15 September post adds Disallow AI Training, which publishes a no-training preference in robots.txt while Applebot, Bingbot and Googlebot ("Accountable mixed-use crawlers") stay allowed for search; training-only crawlers from Amazon, Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI are blocked. Block and Block on pages with ads now apply to mixed-use crawlers too, so Block stops them, search included. Block AI Bots is replaced by separate Search, Training and Agent controls, and Managed robots.txt by Bot Preference Sync.If you run a training-only crawler, expect Cloudflare sites that pick Disallow AI Training to block it, even though they still allow Google, Bing and Apple search crawlers. Site owners: Cloudflare says settings carried over and Training Block selections became Disallow AI Training; choose Block only if you accept losing those search crawlers.in effecteffectiveHave it both ways (Cloudflare blog, 15 September 2026)
Perplexity cuts Fast Search web_search price2026-09Perplexityprice changeThe September changelog says Fast-mode Agent web_search decreased from $2.50 to $1.00 per 1,000 invocations. It also introduces Fast Search for Search API requests at $1/1,000; standard web Search API is a separate $5/1,000 path.Agents that call web_search in fast mode pay 60% less per call. Model token charges are billed separately.in effectannouncedPerplexity API changelog
Google confirms goto redirect links in search results2026-08-26Google Searchshutdown-deprecationSearch Engine Roundtable reported that Google Search is rolling out google.com/goto passthrough URLs, so result links point to a goto URL instead of the destination page; the change had been tested from July 2026. A Google spokesperson confirmed the rollout, saying "We have a long history of deploying technical measures against evolving forms of abuse", without naming goto URLs.SERP APIs and scrapers must now follow redirects to get destination URLs. The report quotes Nozzle's Derek Perkins that the links can't be decoded and each results page has hundreds of them, so ask your provider whether it returns resolved destination URLs and at what cost or delay.in effectreportedSearch Engine Roundtable: Google statement on goto (26 August 2026)
Firecrawl bills Enhanced Mode at 1 credit again2026-08-17Firecrawlprice change"The 5-credit price above no longer applies. Enhanced Mode requests are billed at the same 1 credit per request as basic requests", and an automatic escalated retry is not charged separately.Scrapes of hard-to-reach sites in Enhanced Mode now cost the same as basic ones. Redo any cost-per-page estimate built on 5 credits.in effectannouncedFirecrawl changelog
Google files amended complaint against SerpApi2026-08-10SerpApilegal actionGoogle filed amended DMCA allegations on 10 August (ECF 45), after the court allowed amendment of the copyrighted-component theory. SerpApi filed another dismissal motion on 24 August (ECF 49). Allegations in either pleading are not court findings.The case is unresolved. If you rely on SerpApi or any Google SERP API, keep a fallback provider and check the vendor's legal-cover terms.pendingreportedActual Google v SerpApi amended complaint ECF 45; ECF 49 dismissal motion
Court dismisses Google's DMCA suit against SerpApi2026-07-20SerpApilegal actionThe 20 July ECF 42 order dismissed the no-copyrighted-content theory without leave to amend and the copyrighted-component theory with leave. It did not hold all public-page scraping lawful.This is not a final result: Google was allowed to amend and did so on 2026-08-10. Don't treat Google SERP scraping as settled law.pendingeffectiveActual Google v SerpApi ECF 42 order, 20 July 2026, pp.11, 14, 20
Oxylabs takes $130M investment from Warburg Pincus2026-07-09OxylabsfundingOxylabs announced a $130M investment from Warburg Pincus, valuing the company at $3.6B.No plan or price change was announced, so there's nothing to do.announcedannouncedOxylabs Announces $130 Million Investment from Warburg Pincus (investor press release)
Perplexity Sonar Chat Completions becomes Agent API2026-07PerplexityrenameChangelog: "Sonar Chat Completions is now Agent API", with a migration guide.Build new work on Agent API. The migration page states Sonar support ended on 2026-09-27; synchronous/streaming compatibility is gradually reformulated and async requires migration.in effectannouncedPerplexity API changelog
FBI seizes NetNut proxy domains2026-07-02NetNut (Alarum Technologies)legal actionAn FBI seizure notice naming IRS-CI appeared on netnut.com, then by 2026-07-08 on netnut.io and parent Alarum's alarum.io. Alarum said it would "fully cooperate with law enforcement."Treat the July report as a continuity-risk event. Verify current service availability and source-of-IP documentation before making a new decision; no current availability test was performed.historical reported seizure; current availability unverifiedreportedFBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet (Krebs on Security)
Steel moves to usage-based plans2026-06-26Steelprice changeNew plans on one metering model: Launch $0 + usage (a one-time $30 credit, valid 90 days), Scale $250/mo + usage with $100 monthly credit, Enterprise custom. They replace fixed bundles.Re-price new workloads using the metered plan and one-time Launch credit. Steel explicitly says existing Starter, Developer and Startups accounts were not forced to migrate and could switch voluntarily.in effectannouncedSimpler pricing, built for how agents run (Steel blog)
Bright Data adds 5,000 free credits a month2026-06Bright Datafree-tier changeEvery new account "now gets 5,000 free credits per month", one pool shared across the Web Unlocker, SERP and Web Scraper APIs and Scraper Studio. No card needed; credits renew on the 1st.Small monthly tests of Bright Data's SERP or Unlocker APIs are now free. The pool is shared, so heavy use of one product drains it for the others.in effectannouncedBright Data release notes
Exa launches Agent API2026-06-16Exaproduct launchExa released the Exa Agent API, "a new class of frontier web research agents". Agent Ultra mode followed on 2026-09-24, capped by default at $20 per run.For multi-step research, set per-run budget and duration limits. Runs are metered at Agent usage rates; a run budget is not a fixed price per completed run.in effectannouncedExa changelog
Exa raises $250M Series C2026-05-20Exafunding$250M Series C led by Andreessen Horowitz at a $2.2B valuation.No pricing change was announced with the round.announcedannouncedExa Raises $250M Series C (Exa blog)
ScraperAPI acquires Traject Data (SerpWow, ValueSERP)2026-04-30ScraperAPI / Traject DataacquisitionScraperAPI announced that it had acquired Traject Data a few months earlier; its post names Rainforest API and SerpWow as portfolio examples. The read announcement does not disclose transaction terms or an exact closing date.The announcement said there was no immediate service, pricing or API-key change and described future integration work. It does not certify present-day product/account continuity.in effectannouncedScraperAPI + Traject Data announcement, visible date 30 April 2026
Parallel raises $100M Series B2026-04-29Parallel Web Systemsfunding$100M Series B led by Sequoia Capital at a $2B valuation, bringing total capital raised to $230M.No pricing change was announced with the round.announcedannouncedParallel Raises at $2 Billion Valuation (Parallel press release, PR Newswire)
Google renames Vertex AI Search to Agent Search2026-04-22Google CloudrenameRelease notes: "The Vertex AI Search product has been renamed as Agent Search." It had been renamed from AI Applications to Vertex AI Search on 2025-10-02.The rebrand does not change Discovery Engine API endpoints. Google recommends configured-domain search for eligible CSE migrations; this is not proof of equivalent whole-web coverage.in effectannouncedAgent Search release notes (Google Cloud)
Cloudflare renames Browser Rendering to Browser Run2026-04-15CloudflarerenameBrowser Rendering is now Browser Run. Workers Paid limits rose: concurrent browsers 30 to 120 per account, new instances 30 a minute to 1 a second, REST API 3 to 10 requests a second.It's the same product under a new name. Look for docs and billing under Browser Run. The higher limits apply to Workers Paid accounts.in effectannouncedBrowser Rendering is now Browser Run (Cloudflare changelog)
Exa retires the /research endpoint2026-04-01Exashutdown-deprecationThe /research endpoint was "replaced by /search with type: 'deep-reasoning'". Some legacy parameters were ignored from 2026-04-15, and two response fields were removed on 2026-05-01.Code that calls /research has to switch to /search with type 'deep-reasoning'.in effecteffectiveExa changelog
Exa restructures API pricing2026-03-03Exaprice changeThe 3 March announcement listed $7/1,000 search requests with text/highlights for the first ten results, $1/1,000 additional results, Deep $12/1,000 and Deep Reasoning $15/1,000; Contents was $1/1,000 pages per content type. These are the announcement rates.Contents for the first 10 results are now included. Redo the cost of pipelines that fetched page text in a separate call.in effectannouncedExa changelog
Linkup raises $10M seed, launches /fast2026-03-03Linkupfunding$10M seed round led by Gradient. Linkup also launched /fast, which it calls a sub-second web search API.No pricing change was announced with the round.announcedannouncedLinkup raises $10M to build web search for AIs (Linkup blog)
Brave announces Search plans with $5 monthly credit2026-02-12Bravefree-tier changeSearch costs $5 per 1K requests. Every plan gets "$5 of free credit that renews every month" if you "attribute the Brave Search API" on your site. A card is required even for free use.Free use now needs a card and public attribution. $5 covers about 1,000 Search requests a month; anything above that is billed.in effectannouncedBrave Search API launch post (Brave blog)
Nebius acquires Tavily2026-02-10Tavily / NebiusacquisitionNebius announced the Tavily agreement on 2026-02-10 and reports acquiring 100% on 2026-02-19. Its June 30, 2026 financial statements report $189.4M fair value of consideration transferred after measurement-period adjustments, plus a potential Tavily Earnout of up to $67.3M contingent on performance and continued employment. The earnout is accounted for as post-acquisition compensation, not that consideration-transferred figure.Ownership changed; the acquisition filings do not guarantee unchanged Tavily API contracts, availability or prices. No account migration or current tariff continuity was tested for this event row.in effectannouncedNebius June 30, 2026 financial statements, Note 3, Acquisition of Tavily, pp F-13–F-14
Google limits new Programmable Search engines to chosen sites2026-01-20Googleshutdown-deprecation"All new engines must now be configured to use the 'Sites to search' feature" (up to 50 domains). Existing "Search the entire web" engines keep working until 2027-01-01.You can't create a new whole-web engine. Plan to move off existing ones by 2027-01-01, the same deadline as the JSON API.in effecteffectiveProgrammable Search Engine transition (Google help)
Google sues SerpApi2025-12-19SerpApilegal actionGoogle sued SerpApi in the Northern District of California under DMCA anti-circumvention rules. It alleges SerpApi bypasses Google's SearchGuard protections and resells the results.SERP scraping vendors carry legal risk. Check whether your provider offers legal cover (indemnity), and keep a fallback.pendingannouncedWhy we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping (Google blog)
Firecrawl merges credits and tokens2025-11-14Firecrawlprice changev2.6.0: "Credits and tokens merged into single system. Extract now uses credits (15 tokens = 1 credit)"; existing tokens still work.Extract usage now draws from the same credit balance as scraping. Budget one pool of credits, not two.in effectannouncedFirecrawl changelog
Parallel raises $100M Series A2025-11-12Parallel Web Systemsfunding$100M Series A co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Index Ventures at a $740M valuation.No pricing change was announced with the round.announcedannouncedParallel Raises $100M Series A (Parallel blog)
Reddit sues Perplexity, SerpApi, Oxylabs and AWMProxy2025-10-22SerpApi, Oxylabs, Perplexitylegal actionReddit sued Perplexity, SerpApi, Oxylabs and AWMProxy in federal court in New York. It alleges they scraped Reddit content through Google search results.Two data vendors are named (SerpApi, Oxylabs). The case is unresolved; follow it if you buy Google results that include Reddit content.pendingreportedReddit sues Perplexity over alleged data scraping (Yahoo News, 2025-10-23)
Elastic acquires Jina AI2025-10-09Jina AI / ElasticacquisitionElastic announced completion on 2025-10-09; its July 31, 2026 Form 10-Q says it acquired 100% of Conic AI Technology Limited and subsidiaries (Jina AI) on 2025-10-07 for $43.4M total purchase consideration, including a $6.9M indemnity holdback scheduled for the 24-month acquisition anniversary.The release describes intended model integration into Elastic and continued open-model/research publishing. It is not a guarantee that every historical Jina API contract or tariff remains unchanged.in effectannouncedElastic Form 10-Q for July 31, 2026, Note 5, Conic AI Technology Limited, p16
Kernel raises $22M for agent browsers2025-10KernelfundingKernel raised $22M in seed and Series A funding led by Accel, and launched Kernel Agent Authentication.The funding post does not announce a price change. Check current integration documentation before changing any working endpoint.announcedannouncedWe've raised $22m to scale our browser infrastructure platform for AI agents (Kernel blog)
Perplexity launches standalone Search API2025-09Perplexityproduct launchPerplexity launched a standalone Search API that returns results "without LLM processing". The pricing page lists it at $5.00 per 1K requests.It gives ranked web results from Perplexity's own index. It's an alternative to SERP APIs when you don't need Google's exact results.in effectannouncedPerplexity API changelog
SerpApi launches, then drops, a 100-results Google API2025-09-23SerpApishutdown-deprecationSerpApi launched the Google Light Fast API to return up to 100 results per call. It was later discontinued because "Google now limits the underlying endpoint to only 3 organic results."This records one discontinued SerpApi endpoint. Check the current vendor endpoint, result count and billing unit; do not infer that every provider always requires ten requests for a top-100 task.in effectannouncedScrape 100 Search Results on Google (SerpApi blog)
DataForSEO bills Google organic SERPs per page of 102025-09-19DataForSEOprice changeThe 19 September notice says the base covers the first organic page, with additional pages in a task charged at 0.75 times the base. It describes ten results per page except fifteen for Naver.For a task billed at the same base rate, ten pages cost 1 + 9×0.75 = 7.75 times one page. This is page-cost arithmetic, not a guarantee of 100 distinct returned results.in effecteffectiveOrganic SERP API pricing changes now in effect (DataForSEO)
Google stops honoring num=1002025-09-13Google Search / DataForSEO historical noticeshutdown-deprecationDataForSEO reported on 13 September 2025 that Google was no longer honoring num=100 on its then-used organic SERP path and usually returned ten results. It reduced its default depth to ten and announced a later pricing change. This was a vendor observation, not a Google notice.Check the current endpoint and per-page/per-request billing. The 2025 disruption does not prove that every present-day SERP or rank-tracking endpoint needs ten separately billed requests.in effectreportedGoogle Organic SERP API: Critical Updates to Depth Parameter & Pricing (DataForSEO, 2025-09-13)
Microsoft retires Bing Search APIs2025-08-11Microsoftshutdown-deprecationBing Search APIs were retired: existing instances "decommissioned completely" and no new sign-ups. Microsoft points to Grounding with Bing Search in Azure AI Agents.The retired product is the Microsoft legacy Bing Search APIs. Its suggested Azure grounding product serves a different workflow; this announcement does not mean every third-party Bing-results endpoint ceased to exist.in effecteffectiveBing Search APIs Retiring on August 11, 2025 (Microsoft Lifecycle)
Browserbase raises $40M Series B2025-06-18Browserbasefunding$40M Series B led by Notable Capital, with CRV and Kleiner Perkins. Browserbase launched Director, a no-code browser automation tool, at the same time.No pricing change was announced with the round.announcedannouncedBrowserbase Raises $40M Series B (Browserbase blog)
Firecrawl charges 5 credits for Enhanced Mode2025-05-08Firecrawlprice change"Starting May 8th, 2025, Enhanced Mode proxy requests will cost 5 credits per request (previously included in standard credit pricing)." Announced 2025-05-05.Historical: this applied until Firecrawl returned Enhanced Mode to 1 credit (see the 2026-08-17 row).historical; supersededeffectiveFirecrawl changelog
Jina AI switches to a new pricing model2025-05-06Jina AIprice change"We introduced a new pricing model on May 6th, 2025." Auto-recharge set up before that keeps the old price until you change the settings or buy a new API key.Changing legacy auto-recharge settings or buying a new key moves you to current pricing. Compare the rates first.in effecteffectiveJina AI API pricing
Smartproxy rebrands as Decodo2025-04-22Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)renameSmartproxy became Decodo. "Your current subscription, pricing, and renewal terms remain unchanged" and "Smartproxy endpoints and URLs will continue working indefinitely."There's nothing to migrate and logins stay the same. Look for reviews and docs under both names.in effectannouncedSmartproxy is Now Decodo
Google ends Custom Search Site Restricted JSON API2025-01-08Googleshutdown-deprecationThe Custom Search Site Restricted JSON API stopped serving traffic. Google told its customers to "begin their transition to Google Cloud's Agent Search" (then Vertex AI Search).Calls to it no longer work. Agent Search is Google's named replacement for searching your own sites.in effecteffectiveCustom Search Site Restricted JSON API (Google for Developers)
  • Scrape.do switches off its old proxy-mode host: Announced 27 October 2026; the row date is the scheduled switch-off. I read the changelog on 12 November 2026 and did not test either host.
  • Google Custom Search JSON API ends for existing customers: The linked overview supports the closure and 1 January 2027 transition deadline. The date new sign-ups closed was not established. Targeted 16 October 2026 check removes the unsupported claim that every full-web migration must use a third party. Status check 12 November 2026: the page still says the API "is closed to new customers" and that existing customers "have until January 1, 2027"; the Agent Search suggestion was not re-read.
  • Crawl4AI Cloud free $10 launch pack ends: Targeted 16 October 2026 check: the live homepage presents a different Community/paid pricing structure. No archived primary offer was read to certify the old promotion or its prospective expiry. This row preserves the earlier recorded scheduled date only as an explicitly unverified historical record.
  • Firecrawl removes the /extract endpoint: Read on 13 November 2026. The page shows no announcement date, so the row is dated by the removal date.
  • Scraping Fish shuts down: Read on 13 November 2026. The notice carries no announcement date, so the row is dated by the shutdown date.
  • Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash API requests reroute to newer models: Read on 13 November 2026. The page lists a shutdown date of 1 December 2026 for both models.
  • Apify retires rental-priced Actors: Targeted 16 October 2026 check: Apify still describes the April/October 2026 sunset schedule. The documentation is evidence of the schedule, not proof that every historical rental Actor or account was migrated. Status check 12 November 2026: the linked docs URL returned HTTP 404 to my fetch, and a search listing still showed the same schedule text, so the source link needs re-confirming.
  • Crawl4AI Cloud cuts per-page credit costs: Observed on 13 November 2026; neither page shows a change date. One field in the price API (the base scrape entry, in millicredits) still reads 500 while its per-level table and the homepage say 0.1; I used the published 0.1. The 31 October figures are from my own reading that day.
  • Exa Monitors price shows $2 per 1,000 requests: Observed on 13 November 2026. The pricing page shows no date or 'new' label, so the date of the cut is unknown; it happened after 27 September.
  • Valyu replaces its signup credit with monthly free credits: Observed on 13 November 2026. The docs page shows no change date.
  • Oxylabs moves to one subscription, with a $15 Starter plan: Observed on the pricing page on 12 November 2026, which shows no date or 'new' label. The 15 October date and the $30 Starter come from UsagePricing (https://www.usagepricing.com/blueprint/activity/oxylabs-2026-10-15-single-subscription-all-products), a third-party tracker, not from Oxylabs.
  • Scrapingdog expands its plan grid to 28 plans: Observed 12 November 2026. Scrapingdog gives no effective date, so the change happened between 31 October and 12 November 2026. The earlier state comes from this site's own dated record, not a vendor page.
  • Crawlbase prices every product from one credit balance: Observed 12 November 2026. Crawlbase publishes no effective date for this model, so the row records the page state on that day. The headline says 'Up to 5,000 requests free' while the FAQ counts credits; the units differ.
  • Bright Data residential cards show RESIGB50 coupon prices: Observed 12 November 2026; the page gives no start or end date for the coupon. A promotion, not a change to list rates. The GB-at-list-rate figures are my arithmetic (card price ÷ struck list rate).
  • netnut.io still shows an FBI seizure page: Observed page state from one fetch on 12 November 2026; I did not re-check netnut.com or alarum.io. See the 2026-07-02 row for the original seizure reports. A seizure notice is not a criminal charge or conviction.
  • Brave announces encrypted /go/ links for Brave Search results: Brave gave no rollout date. A Brave Search results page checked on 12 November 2026 (logged in this site's research notes) had 0 of 80 result links using /go/, so I record the change as announced, not in effect.
  • Court dismisses Google's amended complaint against SerpApi: Actual order read 12 November 2026 (pp.1-2 and 17-19). By my count the 21 days run to 30 November 2026. The public docket feed showed no later entry on 12 November.
  • Webshare runs the CYBER26 Cyber Month promotion: Terms read 12 November 2026; the article shows only 'Updated this week'. The pricing page banner reads 'Cyber Month: up to 70% off Residential proxies. Use code: CYBER26.' Webshare may end the promotion early. A promotion, not a list-price change.
  • apiserpent.com adds Enterprise Plus tier; Enterprise rises to $0.05: Observed on 2026-11-03 on the pricing page, docs, FAQ and homepage. The exact effective date was not stated; the 31 October banner announced a 10x increase without rates, and the lower tiers did not change. The terms (last updated 31 Oct 2026) allow pricing changes with 30 days' notice.
  • The New York Times and three Tribune papers sue Brave: Filing date from both public docket feeds and the Daily News complaint's ECF header, read 12 November 2026. Everything about Brave's conduct is an allegation. Brave's answer in the Times case is due 25 November 2026 under the executed summons. Docket detail is in the web scraping lawsuits tracker.
  • Bright Data retires Immediate-access Residential and Mobile proxies: Release notes read 12 November 2026. A separate 19 October note says unused residential proxies on accounts that had not passed KYC were deleted. No account was tested.
  • apiserpent.com Web pricing tiers re-verified: Observed on 2026-10-13; the exact effective date of the tier change was not established. The earlier page warned of increases after 2026-09-30. Deposited paid credits do not expire; bonus credits expire after 30 days. Verify terms and the applicable credit tranche before purchase.
  • Perplexity Sonar support ends: Documentation verified 2026-10-13 and re-read 2026-11-12: the page still says "Sonar Chat Completions support ended on September 27, 2026", that synchronous and streaming requests are reformulated as Agent API requests, and that async Sonar requests are no longer supported. This is not a live-account test or a claim that every legacy synchronous request already fails.
  • Cloudflare adds Disallow AI Training and extends Block to mixed-use crawlers: Post dated 15 September 2026, read 12 November 2026. Cloudflare says Bing does not yet read a robots.txt no-training preference and Microsoft targets early 2027, so Disallow AI Training does not reach Bing for now. Settings are described from the post, not from a dashboard.
  • Perplexity cuts Fast Search web_search price: The changelog gives the month only. This is a historical rate-change record, with model tokens separate for Agent API; it is not a claim that Fast is the only search path. Targeted 16 October 2026 source check.
  • Google confirms goto redirect links in search results: Google's confirmation was given to the press, so the row date is the date of that report, which I read on 12 November 2026. Provider-side fixes and later limits are covered in this site's goto explainer, not in this row.
  • Firecrawl bills Enhanced Mode at 1 credit again: The 2026-08-17 entry updates the 2025-05-05 entry. Medium confidence that 2026-08-17 is when the price changed, not only when the text was edited.
  • Google files amended complaint against SerpApi: Targeted 16 October 2026 actual-PDF review replaces the party commentary as the main source. ECF 60 later vacated the October hearing and ECF 61 is a party notice; neither establishes a merits outcome. No complete PACER certification. Status check 12 November 2026: ECF 62 (9 November) dismissed this amended complaint with leave to amend; see the 2026-11-09 row. The case remains pending.
  • Court dismisses Google's DMCA suit against SerpApi: Targeted 16 October 2026 actual-order reading replaces the vendor victory characterization. Google amended on 10 August. This historical dismissal is not a final judgment or universal scraping permission.
  • Perplexity Sonar Chat Completions becomes Agent API: The changelog gives the rename month only. Support-end wording and compatibility limits were checked in the migration documentation on 2026-10-13; no live API call was made.
  • FBI seizes NetNut proxy domains: Krebs reported the 2 July seizure and 8 July parent-domain update; Google GTIG published its separately attributed disruption report on 3 July. The earlier September 27 domain observation and absence-of-charges statement are not current proof. Targeted 16 October 2026 source review makes no criminal-outcome finding. Status check 12 November 2026: netnut.io still showed an FBI seizure page; see the 2026-11-12 row.
  • Steel moves to usage-based plans: The 26 June launch post says the $30 Launch grant lasts 90 days and Scale includes $100 monthly usage credit. It also preserves legacy accounts; fixed bundles were not universally removed from every existing account. Targeted 16 October 2026 historical-source check.
  • Bright Data adds 5,000 free credits a month: The release notes give the month only.
  • Exa launches Agent API: Actual changelog entries read for 16 June launch and 24 September Ultra. The $20 Ultra default is a spending cap, not an entitlement to a completed result or a flat fee; targeted 16 October 2026 check.
  • ScraperAPI acquires Traject Data (SerpWow, ValueSERP): Targeted 16 October 2026 check: the public article visibly says 30 April. The older tracker recorded a 29 April published_time/30 April modified-time distinction; that metadata was not reverified here, so the visible primary date is used and the closing date remains unknown. Unread current banner/portfolio details are withdrawn.
  • Parallel raises $100M Series B: Parallel's own post (parallel.ai/blog/series-b) shows no date. The press release is dated 2026-04-29, 7:00 AM ET.
  • Google renames Vertex AI Search to Agent Search: The April 22 release-note section records the documentation rename and explicitly says console names/endpoints had not all changed. The October 2 2025 rebrand is separately recorded. Targeted 16 October 2026 source check; product scope is distinct from a rename.
  • Exa restructures API pricing: The adjacent 4 March entry says regular Deep became 20% cheaper. This historical entry is not the complete current pricing menu: Instant, Fast and metered Agent products have separate rules. Targeted 16 October 2026 reading of both changelog entries.
  • Brave announces Search plans with $5 monthly credit: Primary 12 February post supports the new Search price, monthly credit and website/about-page attribution condition. Current FAQ states a card is required for a free plan as an anti-fraud check. The claimed predecessor allowance and exact replacement mechanics were not established in the primary announcement and are withheld; targeted 16 October 2026 check.
  • Nebius acquires Tavily: Primary SEC February 10 announcement and Q1/Q2 financial statements read 2026-10-16. February 10 said transaction value was undisclosed; later Q2 reports dated accounting values. Earnout targets are measured December 2026/March 2027; settlement may be cash or Nebius Class A shares at its election. Older Q1 consideration fair value was $189.7M, adjusted to $189.4M in Q2. Do not add the earnout to that accounting figure as a verified paid purchase price. Original row verification date retained.
  • Google limits new Programmable Search engines to chosen sites: A Programmable Search Engine blog post with the same date explains the change.
  • Google sues SerpApi: IPWatchdog's summary of the complaint names the statutes: 17 U.S.C. §1201(a)(1)(A) and §1201(a)(2). See the 2026-07-20 and 2026-08-10 rows for what happened next.
  • Parallel raises $100M Series A: The current primary Parallel post visibly gives November 12, 2025. Targeted 16 October 2026 check resolves the earlier month-only date; this does not establish a price change.
  • Reddit sues Perplexity, SerpApi, Oxylabs and AWMProxy: The filing date comes from Bloomberg's URL and search listings. The docket (S.D.N.Y. 1:25-cv-08736, CourtListener) and Search Engine Land returned 403. I found no primary Reddit post.
  • Elastic acquires Jina AI: Actual SEC January 31 and July 31, 2026 acquisition notes and October 9 company announcement read 2026-10-16. The older January report stated $43.3M; the later July report states $43.4M. The holdback is included, not additional, and its release was not observed. October 9 is announcement date; October 7 is the acquisition date. No current Jina account/tariff continuity certified; original row verification date retained.
  • Kernel raises $22M for agent browsers: Kernel gives October 2025, not an exact day, and describes combined seed/Series A funding plus Agent Authentication. The earlier domain/API-base migration advice was unverified and is withdrawn; targeted 16 October 2026 source check.
  • Perplexity launches standalone Search API: The changelog gives the month only; press (InfoQ, WinBuzzer) dates the launch 2025-09-25. Perplexity's blog post returned 403.
  • SerpApi launches, then drops, a 100-results Google API: Primary launch post is 23 September 2025 and now marks this specific API discontinued; it does not establish a discontinuation day. Bright Data release notes separately record restoration of its top-100 feature on 11 June 2026. Current SearchApi docs also distinguish Google SERP and Rank Tracking endpoints. Targeted 16 October 2026 check removes the universal ten-call inference.
  • DataForSEO bills Google organic SERPs per page of 10: The official notice states an effective time of 19 September 2025 10:00 UTC and covers Google/Bing/Yahoo/Baidu/Seznam/Naver organic APIs, with a Naver result-count exception. The separate 16 September numeric base-price example was not reread, so its exact dollar figures are withheld; targeted 16 October 2026 check.
  • Google stops honoring num=100: Historical notice only. Current providers have distinct endpoints and result-count rules; Bright Data also records top-100 restoration in June 2026. Ten pages do not guarantee exactly 100 unique results. Targeted 16 October 2026 review withdraws the all-SERP-APIs scope and universal 10× claim.
  • Microsoft retires Bing Search APIs: Official retirement notice dated 15 May 2025 sets 11 August 2025 for decommissioning. Targeted 16 October 2026 check narrows the product scope; no current third-party service outage is inferred.
  • Browserbase raises $40M Series B: The linked first-party blog visibly says 18 June 2025. The earlier tracker cited a separate 17 June press release that was not reread here; this row now uses its actual linked source date. Funding/lead investors and Director launch are supported by the blog; targeted 16 October 2026 check.
  • Firecrawl charges 5 credits for Enhanced Mode: Actual 5 May 2025 changelog entry set an 8 May start for five credits. Its later update records the reversal as 17 August 2026; this row must not be read as current pricing. Targeted 16 October 2026 source check.
  • Jina AI switches to a new pricing model: The page as read didn't show the old or new token rates, so no before-and-after is given.
  • Google ends Custom Search Site Restricted JSON API: Page last updated 2026-09-03.

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How this data was collected

I logged a change only when I could read it on the vendor's own announcement, changelog, docs or pricing page, or on the acquirer's or investor's press release. Where no primary page was readable (the NetNut seizure date, the Reddit lawsuit, Google's num=100 change), the row names its source type and says so in the row note.

Rows retain their individual verification dates. Targeted 2026-10-16 checks and withdrawals are described in row notes; no blanket statement that every present-day field was reverified is made. Amounts describe the cited historical announcement unless explicitly dated as a current observation.

Dates mean announcement, effective date, scheduled deadline or observed change as labeled. A deadline passing does not independently prove a customer account was migrated.

Where sources disagree on a date, the row states the primary page date and any unresolved discrepancy.

This log covers recorded events from 2025 onward and some scheduled changes. It is not exhaustive or a current price guarantee. Use the current pricing datasets and actual account quote for purchase decisions.

"Observed" in the Date type column means the date I read the page showing the change, where the vendor gives no effective date; the change happened on or before that day. Coupon and promotion rows describe a temporary offer, not a list-price change. A row about a seizure notice or a lawsuit records a page state or a filing, not a finding that anyone broke the law.

2026-11-12 refresh: new rows were read from their primary page that day. For a sample of older rows I re-checked the status against the source and logged the result in the row note; only a row whose whole content I re-read carries the new verification date.

How to cite this dataset

Web Data Vendor Changes: Prices, M&A, Shutdowns. Crawlfolio, updated . https://crawlfolio.com/data/vendor-changes/. Licensed CC BY 4.0. Reuse it with credit and a link to this page.

Sources

55 sources, accessed to .

Official pricing, docs, changelogs and status pages 51

  1. Scrape.do changelog, entry of 27 October 2026 scrape.do · accessed
  2. Custom Search JSON API overview (Google for Developers) developers.google.com · accessed
  3. Crawl4AI Cloud home and pricing crawl4ai.com · accessed
  4. Firecrawl docs, Extract docs.firecrawl.dev · accessed
  5. Scraping Fish homepage notice scrapingfish.com · accessed
  6. Gemini API deprecations ai.google.dev · accessed
  7. Rental pricing model (Apify docs) docs.apify.com · accessed
  8. Crawl4AI Cloud price API and homepage api.crawl4ai.com · accessed
  9. Exa pricing exa.ai · accessed
  10. Valyu pricing docs docs.valyu.ai · accessed
  11. Oxylabs pricing oxylabs.io · accessed
  12. Scrapingdog pricing scrapingdog.com · accessed
  13. Crawlbase pricing crawlbase.com · accessed
  14. Bright Data residential proxy pricing brightdata.com · accessed
  15. netnut.io as loaded on 12 November 2026 netnut.io · accessed
  16. How Google's anti-scraping move became our problem (Brave Search Team, 11 November 2026) brave.com · accessed
  17. Google v SerpApi ECF 62, order granting motion to dismiss with leave to amend (9 November 2026) storage.courtlistener.com · accessed
  18. Webshare Cyber Month promotion terms and conditions help.webshare.io · accessed
  19. SerpentAPI pricing apiserpent.com · accessed
  20. NYT v Brave complaint (ECF 1, S.D.N.Y. 1:26-cv-09549) storage.courtlistener.com · accessed
  21. Bright Data release notes, entry of 24 October 2026 docs.brightdata.com · accessed
  22. Perplexity migration from Sonar to Agent API docs.perplexity.ai · accessed
  23. Introducing Alexandria and our $75M Series B (Firecrawl blog) firecrawl.dev · accessed
  24. Have it both ways (Cloudflare blog, 15 September 2026) blog.cloudflare.com · accessed
  25. Perplexity API changelog docs.perplexity.ai · accessed
  26. Firecrawl changelog firecrawl.dev · accessed
  27. Actual Google v SerpApi amended complaint ECF 45; ECF 49 dismissal motion storage.courtlistener.com · accessed
  28. Actual Google v SerpApi ECF 42 order, 20 July 2026, pp.11, 14, 20 storage.courtlistener.com · accessed
  29. Oxylabs Announces $130 Million Investment from Warburg Pincus (investor press release) warburgpincus.com · accessed
  30. Simpler pricing, built for how agents run (Steel blog) steel.dev · accessed
  31. Exa changelog exa.ai · accessed
  32. Exa Raises $250M Series C (Exa blog) exa.ai · accessed
  33. ScraperAPI + Traject Data announcement, visible date 30 April 2026 scraperapi.com · accessed
  34. Parallel Raises at $2 Billion Valuation (Parallel press release, PR Newswire) prnewswire.com · accessed
  35. Agent Search release notes (Google Cloud) docs.cloud.google.com · accessed
  36. Browser Rendering is now Browser Run (Cloudflare changelog) developers.cloudflare.com · accessed
  37. Linkup raises $10M to build web search for AIs (Linkup blog) linkup.so · accessed
  38. Brave Search API launch post (Brave blog) brave.com · accessed
  39. Nebius June 30, 2026 financial statements, Note 3, Acquisition of Tavily, pp F-13–F-14 sec.gov · accessed
  40. Programmable Search Engine transition (Google help) support.google.com · accessed
  41. Why we're taking legal action against SerpApi's unlawful scraping (Google blog) blog.google · accessed
  42. Parallel Raises $100M Series A (Parallel blog) parallel.ai · accessed
  43. Elastic Form 10-Q for July 31, 2026, Note 5, Conic AI Technology Limited, p16 sec.gov · accessed
  44. We've raised $22m to scale our browser infrastructure platform for AI agents (Kernel blog) kernel.sh · accessed
  45. Scrape 100 Search Results on Google (SerpApi blog) serpapi.com · accessed
  46. Organic SERP API pricing changes now in effect (DataForSEO) dataforseo.com · accessed
  47. Bing Search APIs Retiring on August 11, 2025 (Microsoft Lifecycle) learn.microsoft.com · accessed
  48. Browserbase Raises $40M Series B (Browserbase blog) browserbase.com · accessed
  49. Jina AI API pricing jina.ai · accessed
  50. Smartproxy is Now Decodo decodo.com · accessed
  51. Custom Search Site Restricted JSON API (Google for Developers) developers.google.com · accessed

News and press 3

  1. Search Engine Roundtable: Google statement on goto (26 August 2026) seroundtable.com · accessed
  2. FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet (Krebs on Security) krebsonsecurity.com · accessed
  3. Reddit sues Perplexity over alleged data scraping (Yahoo News, 2025-10-23) yahoo.com · accessed

Other sources 1

  1. Google Organic SERP API: Critical Updates to Depth Parameter & Pricing (DataForSEO, 2025-09-13) dataforseo.com · accessed