FourA left beta on September 15 with a proxy port at proxy.foura.ai:34004 that encodes targeting and session options directly in the proxy username, supporting HTTP CONNECT with Basic authentication t…
FourA moved its proxy port out of beta on September 15, 2026, so tunnels and traffic through the proxy port now count against a customer's plan the same way API calls do, with limits on concurrent tun…
FourA shipped an `X-FourA-Limit` response header that names which of seven plan limits refused a request, distinguishing account-level refusals from shared platform limits, as part of its Sep 4 to Sep…
FourA's Developer plan costs $0.10 per 1,000 plain page fetches versus $3.80 per 1,000 on Firecrawl's Hobby plan, according to pricing pages read on 17 September 2026 and 10 September 2026 respectivel…
Cloudflare will begin classifying bot traffic into three purpose-based categories—Search, Agent, and Training—on July 1, 2026, and will block Agent and Training bots by default on ad-supported pages f…
Exabel's January 2026 survey of 100 fundamental portfolio managers and analysts managing $610 billion found that 71% cite combining data from different sources as the most frustrating part of working …
The market for app store data, shared by Sensor Tower, Apptopia, data.ai, 42matters, and AppstoreSpy, was worth $975 million in 2025 and is projected to reach $1.21 billion in 2026, according to Globa…
FourA's API now returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header for quota-exceeded responses, matching OpenAI, GitHub, and Cloudflare. The pricing page shows Unlimited bandwidth on all public plans, and re…
FourA launched Auto, a cost-aware endpoint that selects the optimal product for URL fetching and handles Cloudflare challenges, and expanded language support from 7 to 13 languages across its blog, do…
FourA launched a six-language version of its website on June 26, 2026, adding Bulgarian, German, Polish, Vietnamese, and Chinese alongside English. The localization includes server-side rendering for …
Stack Overflow and Cloudflare launched pay-per-crawl on February 19, 2026, requiring AI crawlers to pay publishers per request via HTTP 402 status codes. The system, verified at Cloudflare's edge, shi…
Vertical AI startups face a recrawl problem as data ages out and retrieval quality degrades, with 60% of reputable sites now blocking AI crawlers. FourA offers a platform that handles rendering, proxy…
Firecrawl charges 5x more for LLM-based extraction than scraping, making it uneconomical for high-volume production pipelines. Experienced teams use LLMs to bootstrap CSS selectors once, then run dete…