Pros and cons
What ThorData does especially well — and the limits to anticipate.
Pros
- Large pool of residential and mobile proxies.
- Scraping APIs that bypass protections.
- Pay-as-you-go with no commitment.
- Steep volume discounts.
Cons
- No permanent free tier.
- Requires technical skills to operate.
- Usage needs legal framing depending on target sites.
ThorData: when it makes sense.
Thordata makes sense for regular web collection blocked by anti-bot protections; for a one-off need, a simple scraping library suffices.
Keep if
You collect web data at scale and hit blocking.. You run automated price or competitive monitoring.
Challenge if
You only have a light, one-off scraping need.. You want a turnkey tool with no technical setup.