Add-on credits are In-app credits that you can use to purchase extra resources in Octoparse, namely the templates, IP proxies, and CAPTCHA-solving attempts.
Each time you subscribe to a premium Octoparse plan, you will earn free credits to spend on templates, proxies, or CAPTCHA-solving services according to the tier and terms of your subscription.
If your actual usage exceeds the free ones, you can also add these credits by purchasing them inside the Octoparse client or on the Octoparse website.
If you wish to know how many add-on credits you have or your balance, go to your user center by clicking on your account avatar inside Octoparse. Note that add-on credits can only be used on our paid plans as they are intended for paid services, so you will need to subscribe to at least the Standard Plan to use the credits.
Why do I have to pay extra on top of my subscription fees?
When you purchase an Octoparse subscription, you are purchasing access to the various features we offer inside the app and on our cloud.
Proxies and CAPTCHA-solving services, however, are additional services provided by Octoparse that allow users to bypass the blockade and get data from websites that are normally hard to scrape.
As our expenses to cover proxies and CAPTCHA services are consumption-based, it is only natural that we use metered billing so that we can provide scaling options for users who want data in large volumes.
The same goes for the premium templates. You may have noticed that we also charge you extra for some templates that can only be run in the cloud.
This is because these templates are written with scripts and integrate high-quality IP proxies to bypass blocking. As each of them requires significant development, maintenance and support efforts, we market them as premium templates.
This will help us guarantee the quality of the templates and provide timely maintenance in the future.
What are the costs for these add-on services?
Premium Templates
The cost of premium templates can be found in the card view and inside the template detail page. You can check how many data lines you have collected each day. Octoparse will deduct your credits for the data lines you have scraped (excluding duplicates).
Octoparse proxies are metered at $3 per GB. If you run out of proxy credits, your add-on credits will be consumed at the same rate. Octoparse will deduct $3 from your add-on credits first to top up 1GB of proxies to your proxy credits for usage. So make sure you have at least $3 in add-on credits to use it.
The cost per 1000 CAPTCHAs is $1. Kindly note that failed CAPTCHA-solving attempts will also consume your credits.
The cost of bypassing Cloudflare is $1.5 per 1000 attempts. Kindly note that failed bypassing attempts will also consume your credits.