# Add UpRock as a backup to the crawler you already use

What each tool does best, when a second crawler on real devices helps, their published prices next to ours, and fallback code you can paste.

- [How do I add a backup crawler to Firecrawl?](https://uprock.ai/compare/firecrawl.md): When to send a page from Firecrawl to UpRock, published prices side by side, and a tested fallback in TypeScript and Python.
- [How do I add a backup for Tavily Extract?](https://uprock.ai/compare/tavily.md): Retry the URLs in Tavily Extract's failed results on a real device, and read pages as they appear in a chosen country. Prices side by side and tested code.
- [How do I add a fallback for Exa contents errors?](https://uprock.ai/compare/exa.md): Read the per-URL statuses in Exa's /contents response and retry the right ones live on a real device. Error tags explained, prices side by side, tested code.
- [How do I add a backup to Jina Reader, and when is it cheaper?](https://uprock.ai/compare/jina-reader.md): Spot a failed read in Reader's JSON (it still answers 200), retry it on a real device, and see what six real pages cost in Reader tokens next to a flat per-page price.
- [How do I add a hosted fallback to Crawl4AI?](https://uprock.ai/compare/crawl4ai.md): Plug UpRock into Crawl4AI's fallback_fetch_function so blocked pages are fetched on a real device in the country you choose, then run through Crawl4AI's own markdown pipeline.
- [How do I add a backup to Bright Data's Web Unlocker?](https://uprock.ai/compare/bright-data.md): Which Web Unlocker errors to retry, which to send to a second network and which to respect, with Bright Data's published prices next to ours and tested fallback code.
- [How do I add a fallback to an Apify or Crawlee crawler?](https://uprock.ai/compare/apify.md): Hand the requests Crawlee gives up on to a second network with failedRequestHandler, see what a fetched page costs on Apify's own Actors, and run the tested code.
- [When should a Browserbase agent read a page without opening a browser?](https://uprock.ai/compare/browserbase.md): What 1,000 page reads cost on Browserbase three ways, when to send a read to UpRock instead (including when every browser is busy), and tested fallback code.
- [How do I cap ScrapingBee's credit cost and send the rest to a backup?](https://uprock.ai/compare/scrapingbee.md): ScrapingBee charges 1 to 75 credits a page depending on the options. Cap it with Auto-Mode and max_cost, watch the country fallback, and send the rest to UpRock with tested code.
- [Spider costs less per page than UpRock. When is a backup still worth it?](https://uprock.ai/compare/spider.md): Spider is cheaper per page, so keep it as your primary. How Spider reports a page it couldn't get (from our own tests), and tested code that sends only those pages to UpRock.
- [How do I add a fallback to Parallel's Extract API?](https://uprock.ai/compare/parallel.md): Make Parallel Extract report a failed live fetch instead of quietly serving an old cached copy, then retry those URLs on UpRock. Prices side by side and tested code.
- [How do I add a backup to ZenRows?](https://uprock.ai/compare/zenrows.md): Which ZenRows error codes to send to a second network and which to respect, what a page from one country costs once premium proxies are required, and tested fallback code.
- [How do I retry a ScraperAPI batch's failed jobs on another network?](https://uprock.ai/compare/scraperapi.md): Send the jobs ScraperAPI's async batch gives up on to UpRock, see which countries each ScraperAPI plan can target, and compare credit costs. Tested code for both.
- [How do I add a backup to Oxylabs' new Web API?](https://uprock.ai/compare/oxylabs.md): Which Oxylabs Web API failures to send to a second network and which to respect, what a generic page really costs after its October 2026 pricing change, and tested fallback code.
- [How do I add a backup to Context.dev's scrape API?](https://uprock.ai/compare/context-dev.md): Context.dev reports a failed scrape inside an HTTP 200. Which of its error codes to retry on a second network, what a page costs by plan, and tested fallback code.
- [How do I add a backup to Scrapfly instead of paying for residential?](https://uprock.ai/compare/scrapfly.md): A Scrapfly page costs 1 to 30 credits depending on proxy pool and browser. What that is per 1,000 pages on each plan, which errors to send on, and tested code.
- [How do I keep Crawlbase's site tiers from surprising my bill?](https://uprock.ai/compare/crawlbase.md): Crawlbase bills each site at 1 to 20 times its base rate. What that does to the cost per 1,000 pages, and tested code that moves pricey domains to UpRock.
- [Which unlocker API fits: Bright Data, Oxylabs, Zyte or UpRock?](https://uprock.ai/compare/web-unlocker-apis.md): Bright Data's Web Unlocker, Oxylabs' Web API and Zyte API priced per 1,000 hard pages, with what each bills and when a second network helps.

Setup for every client (MCP, skill, CLI): https://uprock.ai/agents.md