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# For an AI project, is it cheaper to build a video data pipeline with Thordata's scraper and proxies？

Continuous updates (rankings, price monitoring)? Build with Web Scraper API and proxies. One-time modeling? Buy custom datasets. Thordata is cheaper to start; enterprise-scale buyers should go with big vendors.