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cost-control

Skill16 starsChanged 27 days agoMITView on GitHub

Pick the cheapest reliable primitive and understand the Zenrows cost multipliers.

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  1. Distinctive:

    Prefer the cheapest reliable configuration.

    line 10
  2. Very specific:

    Default to mode=auto; let Zenrows escalate only when needed.

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≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Cost control

Prefer the cheapest reliable configuration; escalate only with evidence.

Cost multipliers (Fetch)

  • Basic request: 1×
  • JS rendering (js_render): 5×
  • Premium proxies (premium_proxy): 10×
  • Both: 25×

With mode=auto (Adaptive Stealth Mode) you are billed only for the configuration that succeeds — failed internal attempts are not charged.

Tactics

  • Default to mode=auto; let Zenrows escalate only when needed.
  • Reduce response size with --css or --output markdown (avoids 413s too).
  • Validate on one page before scaling across many URLs.
  • Set guardrails in policy: max_credits_per_run, max_pages_per_run, max_concurrency ([[compliance-policy]]).
  • Track per-run cost in .zenrows/runs/<id>/run.json (costUsd, from the X-Request-Cost header).

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