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Watsonx.data
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IBM's open, hybrid data lakehouse that connects, governs and optimizes enterprise data to make it AI-ready across clouds and on-premises.
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Astronomer
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Fully-managed Apache Airflow platform for data and AI pipeline orchestration, with observability and an AI agent (Otto).
Pricing
Free Plan: $0 one-time
Hobby: $16/month
Standard: $83/month
Growth: $333/month
Auto Recharge Credits: $11/mo for 1000 credits
Credit Pack: $9/mo for 1000 credits
Enterprise Plan: Contact for Pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
Unlocker API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Crawl API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
SERP API: Starts from $1.05/1k req
Browser API: Starts from $5.88/GB
Scrapers: Starts from $300/mo
Datasets: Starts from $250/mo
Functions: Starts from $2.7/1k req
RetailInsights: Starts from $1,000/mo
Residential Proxies: Starts from $3.53/GB
Datacenter Proxies: Starts from $0.9/IP
ISP Proxies: Starts from $1.3/IP
Mobile Proxies: Starts from $5.88/GB
Custom Scraper: Starts from $300/mo
No public pricing
Developer: from $0.35/hr per deployment (workers from $0.13/hr)
Team: from $0.42/hr per deployment
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Web scraping
- ✦Web crawling
- ✦Data extraction in Markdown, JSON, and screenshot formats
- ✦Dynamic content handling
- ✦Rotating proxies
- ✦Rate limits management
- ✦Open-source availability
- ✦Media Parsing
- ✦Open hybrid data lakehouse
- ✦Connects data across clouds and on-prem
- ✦Governance, lineage and access controls
- ✦Business-context enrichment
- ✦AI-ready data for analytics and models
- ✦Multi-engine support (Google, Duckduckgo, Bing, Yandex, Baidu)
- ✦Real-time structured SERP data
- ✦Pay-per-successful-request pricing
- ✦Full JavaScript support
- ✦Precise geo-location targeting
- ✦Structured data delivery in JSON or HTML
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- ✦Managed Apache Airflow (Astro)
- ✦Otto AI data-engineering agent
- ✦Local and browser-based development
- ✦Deployments as code via Git/CLI/Terraform
- ✦Native data observability and lineage
- ✦Zero-downtime upgrades and rollbacks
Use cases
- →Powering AI assistants with real-time web content
- →Enhancing sales data with web information
- →Adding scraping capabilities to code editors
- →Enabling customers to build AI apps with web data
- →Extracting comprehensive information for in-depth research
- →Unifying fragmented enterprise data
- →Governing data for AI workloads
- →Moving AI pilots to production
- →Powering analytics with trusted data
- →Organic keyword tracking
- →Brand protection
- →Price comparison
- →Market research
- →Detect copyright infringements
- →Ad intelligence
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- →Orchestrate production data pipelines
- →Run Airflow without ops overhead
- →Automate DAG authoring and debugging
- →Monitor pipeline health and lineage
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