Build it in-house, or don’t.
Should your company hire engineers to build and repair scrapers, or pay a flat monthly fee for clean web data? Writing an initial scraper takes a few days. Keeping it from breaking when websites update their bot defenses is what costs $150,000+ a year in engineering payroll.
JUMP Managed Gateway vs. In-House DIY Build
JUMP Managed Gateway
Turnkey bot clearance, proxy bank & structured data delivery
- Zero engineer hiring — connect in minutes via 1 simple API
- All proxy bandwidth included — zero extra gigabyte bills
- 0 hrs/week maintenance — ADUMU repairs broken targets for you
- 100% predictable invoices — cancel anytime with zero lock-in
In-House DIY Build
1 dedicated scraping engineer + separate proxy contracts
- $130k–$160k salary for a dedicated scraping engineer
- $300–$1,200/mo in separate residential proxy contracts
- 15–20 hrs/week repairing scrapers when site layouts change
- Emergency outages when anti-bot algorithms update
What stays your problem, forever
Writing an initial scraper script takes a week. Keeping it running when anti-bot defenses update is what costs engineering salaries 18 months later.
| Operational Task | In-House (DIY) | Metered API | JUMP Gateway |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bypassing Bot Walls & CAPTCHAs Getting past login walls, Cloudflare, and browser verification automatically. | ✕ Manual Continuous script patches | ⚠ Extra $ Up to 76× credit markup | ✓ Included Built into flat rate |
| Managing Proxies & IP Rotation Rotating residential IP pools so your scrapers never get banned or throttled. | ✕ Manual Monthly proxy bills | ⚠ Extra $ Per-GB bandwidth fees | ✓ Included Over 500 GB/day absorbed |
| Repairing Broken Scrapers When Sites Change Fixing broken extractors when target websites update layouts, buttons, or menus. | ✕ Manual Engineers paged on call | ✕ Manual Your team repairs code | ✓ Included Repairs managed by ADUMU |
| Delivering Clean Data to Your Systems Streaming structured records directly into PostgreSQL, S3, or Webhooks. | ✕ Manual Custom ETL pipelines | ✕ Manual Raw JSON response only | ✓ Included Direct database streams |
When you should build it yourself
Three situations where JUMP is not the right fit. We would rather tell you upfront than sell you capacity you don't need.
Simple static pages that answer basic requests without CAPTCHAs, bot walls, or login blocks do not require a managed platform.
Run a simple, free open-source script.If building a general search engine or proprietary web index is the foundation of your business model, keep it in-house.
Staff a dedicated internal crawling team.Fetching a handful of pages once a month does not justify any commercial platform subscription.
Run a quick manual export on your computer.None of those apply? If you need recurring, reliable web data from modern protected websites, in-house maintenance will consume your engineering payroll every single week — JUMP eliminates that entire burden for a flat monthly rate.
Put real numbers in your evaluation.
Compare our predictable flat rate plans against the $150,000+ annual payroll and server costs of hiring dedicated scraping engineers.