Fetchin vs Proxycurl
Proxycurl was taken offline on 4 July 2025, after litigation brought by the platform it sourced from. There is no way to sign up, top up, or restore an existing key. The endpoints are gone.
If you are reading this, you are almost certainly looking for something that takes a professional profile URL and returns structured JSON. That is exactly what Fetchin does, at $1.00 per 1,000 requests with a 1s median response.
Worth naming the real lesson: what took Proxycurl down was a single shared store of pre-collected records, which a court could order deleted in one go. Fetchin holds no such store, because every response is fetched at request time.
- requests served per month
- 40M+requests served per month
- uptime
- 99.9%uptime
- median response time
- 1smedian response time
- serving production traffic since
- 2023serving production traffic since
Fetchin vs Proxycurl, feature by feature
| Feature | Fetchin | Proxycurl |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price per 1,000 requests | $1.00 | Unavailable |
| Data freshness | Fetched live on every request | n/a |
| Response time | 1s median, 1.5s P95 | n/a |
| Delivery | Synchronous, or asynchronous via the Apify compatibility layer | n/a |
| Rate limit | 5 req/s self-serve, 10 to 100+ on request | n/a |
| Uptime | 99.9% | Offline since 4 July 2025 |
| Endpoints | Profile, company, posts, comments, reactions, engagement | n/a |
| Your own account required | n/a | |
| Billed on failed lookups | n/a | |
| Free trial | 1,000 credits, no credit card | n/a |
| Commitment | None, cancel anytime | n/a |
| Support | Live chat and email, same-day | |
| Public status page | Yes, at status.fetchin.io |
Proxycurl figures are taken from their own public pages and were last verified in August 2026. Pricing and limits change, so check the sources below before making a decision.
Fetchin pricing: Starter plan, $50 for 50,000 credits. Drops to $0.90 per 1,000 at 1M credits.
Proxycurl pricing: Service discontinued on 4 July 2025.
Where Fetchin wins
- It exists. Proxycurl has served no traffic since 4 July 2025.
- No pre-collected store to lose. Data is fetched live per request, so there is nothing a takedown can switch off retroactively.
- $1.00 per 1,000 requests, well under what Proxycurl charged at comparable volume.
- 1,000 free credits with no credit card, so you can validate the response shape before rewriting anything.
Where Proxycurl wins
- Nothing. The service is discontinued. Any page ranking Proxycurl as a live option in 2026 is out of date.
Choose Fetchin if…
- You had a Proxycurl integration and need working endpoints again.
- You want data collected at request time rather than read from a store that may be stale or subject to deletion.
- You need predictable per-request pricing with no annual commitment.
Choose Proxycurl if…
- There is no scenario. The API cannot be purchased or used.
Migrating from Proxycurl
Proxycurl returned a flat JSON object for a profile URL. Fetchin does the same, over a plain GET with an API key header.
Proxycurl (discontinued)
curl -G https://nubela.co/proxycurl/api/v2/linkedin \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $PROXYCURL_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/"Fetchin
curl -G https://api.fetchin.io/api/v1/profile \
-H "X-API-Key: $FETCHIN_KEY" \
--data-urlencode "url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/williamhgates/"Field names differ. Grab 1,000 free credits and diff a real response against your existing parser before you commit to the migration.
Fetchin vs Proxycurl, answered
- Is Proxycurl coming back?
- No. The service was shut down on 4 July 2025 following litigation, and the company has not announced any plan to restore it. Existing API keys stopped working on that date.
- What is the closest drop-in replacement for Proxycurl?
- For the core "profile URL in, JSON out" call, a real-time API is the closest match. Fetchin returns a structured profile in about a second, so the call site stays a single blocking request the way it was with Proxycurl. Asynchronous runs are available too, through our Apify compatibility layer, if you would rather batch. Field names differ, so you will need to remap your parser.
- How much does Fetchin cost compared to what Proxycurl charged?
- Fetchin starts at $1.00 per 1,000 requests on the $50 Starter plan and drops to $0.90 per 1,000 at a million credits. There is no annual commitment and failed lookups are not billed.
- Could the same thing happen to Fetchin?
- The specific failure mode that ended Proxycurl was a large shared store of pre-collected records. Fetchin does not maintain one, since each response is fetched when you ask for it. That removes the single asset which made a blanket deletion order possible, though no provider in this category can claim zero risk.
Sources, verified August 2026
Fetchin figures are our own measured values. Live availability is published here.
Try it against your own data
1,000 credits, no credit card. Run the same sample through Fetchin and Proxycurl and compare field coverage and response times yourself.