Novada sells the same problem solved at three different depths, and choosing correctly between them is worth more than any discount.

The Three Layers

At the bottom sit proxies. A residential network across more than 195 countries, plus mobile, ISP and datacenter. You get an address and do everything else yourself.

In the middle sit the APIs. A Scraper API for structured collection from search, e-commerce and social platforms, a SERP API for search results specifically, and unblocking for targets that fight back. You send a request and get usable data.

At the top sit ready made datasets. Somebody already collected it. You buy the result.

How to Choose Between Them

This is the useful part, and almost nobody spells it out.

Buy proxies when your target is unusual, when you already have working extraction code, or when volume is high enough that per request pricing would hurt. You are paying for addresses and doing the work.

Buy an API when the target is common and difficult. Search results, major retailers, social platforms. These change their defences constantly, and maintaining your own scraper against them is a permanent part time job. Paying somebody else to absorb that is usually cheaper than doing it.

Buy a dataset when the data already exists and you have no reason to collect it yourself. Nobody should be scraping something they could simply download.

Most people default to the bottom layer because it is cheapest per unit, then spend months on maintenance that costs far more than the API would have. Our scraping guide covers what that maintenance actually looks like.

Pricing and the Starter Offer

Per gigabyte rates on the proxy tiers run from well under a dollar to around a dollar fifty depending on quality, all published.

There is a new user offer bundling a useful chunk of premium rotating residential traffic for a small fixed amount, which is enough to evaluate properly rather than just poke at.

The Scraper API has a free trial, which matters because the only way to know whether an API handles your target is to point it at your target.

Developer Integration

There are quick integration paths documented for developers, and the site runs in English, Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and German.

Brazilian Portuguese in particular signals a real customer base in Latin America, which is a market plenty of providers ignore entirely.

Who It Fits

Novada suits teams who want to escalate from proxies to managed collection without changing vendor, anyone scraping search results or major retailers, projects that could use existing datasets rather than collecting, and developers who want documented integration.

Who Might Look Elsewhere

If you only ever need raw addresses and have no interest in the layers above, a pure proxy provider will be cheaper.

Enterprise buyers wanting formal SLAs and named account management should look at the larger platforms.

Final Verdict

Novada is a well structured platform that lets you buy the right amount of solved problem.

Proxies across four tiers and 195 plus countries, Scraper and SERP APIs for the hard common targets, unblocking, ready made datasets, published pricing and a starter offer big enough to test with.

Work out which layer your problem actually sits at before you buy. Most people guess low and pay for it in maintenance.