vs Competitors - Detailed Cost & Performance Comparison

Solution	Monthly Cost	Setup Time	Data Quality
Eddie.surf	$120 ⓘ Smart crawling batch pricing: • 500 sites × 6 pages average (smart crawling) • 3,000 pages × $0.04 = $120 (batch pricing) • Eddie stops when it finds what it needs • All infrastructure included • Claude Sonnet 4 included	10 minutes	Excellent & accurate
Scraping + n8n + Claude + Markdown	$404 ⓘ Cost breakdown: • ScrapingBee scraping: $49/month • n8n hosting: $20/month • 500 sites × 16 pages = 8,000 pages • HTML→Markdown conversion (80% token reduction) • Claude Sonnet 4: $0.67 per site (192K tokens) • API costs: $335/month • Total: $404/month	4-6 hours	Mixes up data
Zapier + Scraping + GPT-4o mini	$404 ⓘ Cost breakdown: • Zapier Pro: $30/month • ScrapingBee scraping: $49/month • 500 sites × 16 pages = 8,000 pages • GPT-4o mini: $0.65 per site (960K tokens) • API costs: $325/month • Total: $404/month	2-3 hours	Hallucinates a lot
Scraping + GPT-4o mini	$424 ⓘ Cost breakdown: • ScrapingBee Pro plan: $99/month • 500 sites × 16 pages = 8,000 pages • GPT-4o mini: $0.65 per site (960K tokens) • API costs: $325/month • Total: $424/month	30 minutes	Hallucinates a lot
n8n + Scraping + Claude Sonnet 4	$1,749 ⓘ Cost breakdown: • n8n hosting: $20/month • ScrapingBee scraping: $49/month • 500 sites × 16 pages = 8,000 pages • Claude Sonnet 4: $3.36 per site (960K tokens) • API costs: $1,680/month • Total: $1,749/month	3-5 hours	Excellent
Make.com + Scraping + Claude Sonnet 4	$1,745 ⓘ Cost breakdown: • Make.com Pro: $16/month • ScrapingBee scraping: $49/month • 500 sites × 16 pages = 8,000 pages • Claude Sonnet 4: $3.36 per site (960K tokens) • API costs: $1,680/month • Total: $1,745/month	2-4 hours	Excellent

🏆 Why Eddie.surf wins:

🧠 Smart crawling (6 vs 16 pages) 💰 Fixed pricing 🚫 No token calculations 📊 Better data quality 🎯 Confidence scores

What's Included in Eddie.surf

🏄 Smart Crawling

AI decides which links to follow based on your goals. No manual workflow setup needed.

🧠 Claude Sonnet 4

Latest AI model for data extraction. Understands context and meaning, not just HTML structure.

📊 Confidence Scores

Know how confident the AI is about each extracted value (1-5 scale). No guessing.

🔗 Source Attribution

Every extracted field shows exactly which page it came from. Full traceability.

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Each site averages ~10 pages for comprehensive data extraction