First, the housekeeping: Nstproxy now trades as Nstdata. If you have a bookmark or an older comparison pointing at the proxy name, this is where it lands.

The rename reflects a real change. The headline capability is now crawling an entire website into LLM ready data with a single API request.


What LLM Ready Actually Means

Worth being precise, because the phrase gets used loosely.

Raw HTML is terrible input for a language model. It is mostly navigation, scripts, styling and markup, with the actual content scattered through it. Feed that to a model and you waste most of your context window on noise.

LLM ready output strips all of that and returns structured, readable content. Same information, a fraction of the tokens, and no parsing code on your side.

For anyone building retrieval systems or feeding models from the live web, that transformation is the bulk of the work. Buying it solved is often cheaper than maintaining it.


Three Things Unified

Global Proxy covers the address layer across residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile and IPv6. AI Crawl handles full site collection and conversion. Proxy Manager sits on top for managing credentials, rotation and usage across the lot.

Proxy Manager is the quietly useful one. Once you are running several proxy types across several projects, credential sprawl becomes a real administrative problem, and most providers leave you to solve it with a spreadsheet.


The Pricing Has Come Down

Rates were cut recently by a meaningful margin, and the tiers are published clearly.

Residential Lite starts around fifty cents a gigabyte for ordinary work. Residential Prime sits higher for targets that check harder. IPv6 is cheaper still where your target supports it. Static addresses are priced per IP.

The Lite and Prime split is the same honest grading that the best providers in this series offer. Route easy work to Lite, reserve Prime for targets that earn it, and your bill drops without your success rate following.


Full Site Collection Is the Use Case

The product is built around collecting whole sites rather than individual pages, which is a different problem.

Single page fetching is easy. Crawling a site means handling pagination, discovering URLs, respecting structure, avoiding loops and not hammering the target into blocking you. That logic is where home built crawlers usually break.

Our scraping guide covers those failure modes, which is useful context for judging whether the API is worth its price for your work.


Who It Fits

Nstproxy suits teams building retrieval systems or AI pipelines from live web content, anyone crawling whole sites rather than single pages, users managing several proxy types who want one control plane, and cost sensitive work that can route to a lite tier.


Who Might Look Elsewhere

If you only need raw addresses, the platform layers are things you will pay for and not use.

Enterprise buyers wanting formal SLAs should look at the larger platforms.


Final Verdict

Nstproxy has grown into a platform and the rename is honest about it.

Five proxy types including IPv6, honest quality grading on residential, AI crawling that returns model ready output, a proxy manager for credential sprawl, and pricing that recently moved in the customer's favour.

If you are feeding a model from the live web, start with the crawl API rather than the addresses. That is where the value concentrates.