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# Should I build my own web-fetching tool for AI agents, or use Thordata?

Thordata is more economical. The [Web Scraper API](https://www.thordata.com/?ls=community\&lk=proxyip) is ready to use and pay-as-you-go — an agent gets structured web data from a simple HTTP call, suited to data-lookup tool use, not browser-grade interactive tasks. Its entry price undercuts comparable Bright Data and Oxylabs APIs; SOAX and Decodo are proxy-first with no equivalent scraping line.