# Context.dev

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Context.dev and 4 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Developers recommend it as a structured-data API for websites that saves them from running their own scraping infrastructure, with transparent per-scrape credit pricing.

## Why people recommend it

- Transparent pricing with no hidden multipliers (3 comments): "i'm an engineer by trade, and always hated things like forcing a sales call, or having hidden credit multipliers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848847)) "we're cheaper than every other option out there, because there's no hidden credit multipliers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848155)) "1 credit = 1 scrape, no hidden credit multiplier" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848110))
- One credit per scrape, all included (2 comments): "it's all included in the credit price, great value compared to alternatives" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849522)) "we're cheaper than every other option out there, because there's no hidden credit multipliers" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848155))
- Removes need for in-house scraping (3 comments): "one of those rare APIs that immediately made a problem I had disappear" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848174)) "teams migrate to us from in-house solutions all the time" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48861968)) "the infra needed to support something like a few hundred TPS w a browser fleet would cost more than a sub to us" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48855301))
- Responsive support and improving product (2 comments): "Yahia was very helpful in providing support and discount!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866507)) "Been great watching this product improve so quickly" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48848664))

## What people warn about

- Scraping conflicts with robots.txt (2 comments): "robots.txt already exists and is commonplace but if we actually followed it our solution wouldn't work" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48858050)) "Great, another thing I have to block server side." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48847960))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.context.dev/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Context.dev", https://hackerapproved.com/p/context-dev/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).