Pay for hours,
or for rows.
Phantombuster prices a run by the time it takes. Kavex prices it by what it found, so a run that comes back half empty costs half as much. Almost everything in the table below follows from that one difference.
There is not a single invented Phantombuster number on this page. We compare structure, which anyone can check. Where we cannot verify something from the outside, the cell says so and sends you to their pricing page.
THIS IS THE LINE KAVEX ENDS EVERY RUN WITH · WHAT IT FOUND, HOW LONG IT TOOK, WHAT IT COST
Structure, not adjectives.
Seven things that decide which of the two fits the way you work. Read the right column with their pricing page open.
Forty-five scrapers open the live page the second you press Run. Nothing is served from an old copy, because there is no stored copy.
Scripts you point at a social platform with your own session. What comes back depends on the phantom you chose. Check their docs for the fields each one returns.
Delivered results. A Google Maps lead is 2 credits, so $2 per thousand, and 1 credit is $0.001. What a run did not find comes straight back to your balance.
Execution time. You buy hours up front and a launch spends them whether or not it finds anything. Check their current plan for what an hour costs.
Forty-five, and they are different in kind: Google Maps places, LinkedIn people, Trustpilot reviews, Booking properties, Indeed jobs, Amazon products, Reddit threads.
Built around social platforms rather than places, listings and job posts. Check their catalogue for the ones you actually need.
They never expire. Top up in March, use the rest in December, nobody resets anything at midnight.
Hours run per month and per plan. Check their current plan for what happens to the hours you did not burn.
CSV with no row cap, every column the run produced. The same rows over the API, on the same credits.
Export per phantom, per launch. Check their docs for the row limits that apply to yours.
One pot of credits, five people, one invoice. Nobody is charged for the month they did not run anything.
Slots and seats are part of the plan. Check their current plan for what five people cost together.
Your first 500 Google Maps leads free, no card, no contract, no call.
A trial rather than a standing free balance. Check their current plan page for the terms of it.
When to take Phantombuster.
Three cases where we are the wrong tool. If one of them is you, buy theirs.
You need engagement, not data.
Auto-like, auto-follow, auto-connect. Kavex reads public pages and stops there, because engagement automation carries a far higher account risk than reading does.
Your work is a daily recurring automation.
If the same script has to run every morning regardless of what it finds, paying for time rather than for rows can genuinely work out cheaper.
You already live in their phantom library.
A workflow assembled out of their phantoms is not something we would ask you to rebuild for its own sake.
No seats. Just a balance.
Top up whatever you want, whenever you want. A bigger top-up buys more credits for the same dollar, and every scraper has one published rate underneath.
CREDITS NEVER EXPIRE · NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO SEATS, NO CONTRACT · SAME PRICES OVER THE API