Vendors
Spider, routed
through gottem.
Spider covers more of the ladder than any other vendor. Plain HTTP at the entry rung, JS-rendered Chrome, residential proxies, an auto-tier smart mode, and a full remote browser. It also reports exact per-request cost back to gottem, so Spider pages bill at true vendor cost rather than an estimate.
Spider routes, what they cost.
Each row is a routable id in the engine. The price is what gottem bills per successful page on that route. That is gottem's price, not Spider's list price. The full Cost Ladder has every vendor side by side.
| Route | Tier | Per page | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spider.http | T4 | $0.0010 | 10 cr | HTTP, no JS render |
| spider.chrome | T5 | $0.0050 | 50 cr | JS render |
| spider.chrome.residential | T6 | $0.0075 | 75 cr | residential proxy |
| spider.smart | T7 | $0.010 | 100 cr | auto-tier ladder |
| spider.browser | T8 | $0.015 | 150 cr |
When the ladder picks Spider.
spider.http is one of the entry rungs of the Cost Ladder: most ordinary pages resolve there for $0.0010 before any pricier vendor is tried. When a site needs JS or fights back, the ladder climbs through Spider's Chrome, residential, and smart rungs, or laterally to another vendor, whichever is cheaper for that domain. Spider's native /crawl engine also powers gottem's single-round-trip site crawls.
Pin Spider when you need it.
By default picks the route; pass force_provider when a workflow needs Spider specifically, for parity testing, compliance, or vendor-native options via provider_options.
curl -sS https://api.gottem.dev/scrape \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $GOTTEM_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"url": "https://example.com",
"force_provider": "spider.http"
}'Already pay Spider directly?
Bring your own key. Add your Spider credential once, AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, and routes through your account instead of the pooled key. You pay Spider directly; gottem charges a flat infrastructure fee per request, zero markup. Your Spider key also unlocks the spider_cloud crawl engine for single round-trip site crawls. See the pricing FAQ for how BYOK billing works.
Questions.
- Is gottem a Spider alternative?
- No. gottem isn't a replacement for Spider. It routes through Spider alongside 13+ other scraping vendors and picks it whenever it's the best fit for the page. If you already use Spider, gottem adds automatic failover, per-domain routing memory, and one response shape on top of it.
- What does Spider cost per page through gottem?
- Spider's routes run from $0.0010 to $0.015 a page depending on the rung. Those are gottem's prices for a successful page. Failed attempts bill at the $0.000001 minimum, effectively free.
- What is spider.smart?
- Spider's own auto-escalating mode: one route id that walks Spider's internal tiers (HTTP → Chrome → residential) inside a single call. gottem exposes it as a T7 rung for pages that need Spider to make the escalation decision vendor-side.
- Can I bring my own Spider key?
- Yes. Add it once, AES-256-GCM encrypted at rest, and gottem routes through your Spider account: you pay Spider directly and gottem charges a flat infrastructure fee per request, zero markup. Your Spider key also unlocks the spider_cloud crawl engine for single round-trip site crawls.