# Enhanced Mode pricing and quality updates

Enhanced Mode, the proxy option for hard-to-scrape sites, gets a quality upgrade and a pricing change, with guidance on using it as a retry step.

- Published: May 5, 2025

![Enhanced Mode](/images/changelog/may5.webp)

* **What is Enhanced Mode**: Enhanced Mode is a specialized proxy feature for scraping websites with advanced anti-bot protection, providing better success rates when extracting data from challenging sites.

* **Pricing Change**: Starting May 8th, 2025, Enhanced Mode proxy requests will cost 5 credits per request (previously included in standard credit pricing).

* **Quality Improvements**: The price adjustment reflects significant quality improvements to Enhanced Mode, ensuring higher success rates and more reliable data extraction from complex and difficult-to-scrape sites.

* **Usage Optimization**: For optimal credit usage, consider using Enhanced Mode as a retry mechanism only when encountering specific error status codes (401, 403, or 500).

* **Update (August 17, 2026)**: The 5-credit price above no longer applies. Enhanced Mode requests are billed at the same 1 credit per request as basic requests, and an automatic escalated retry is not charged separately. See the [Enhanced Mode docs](https://docs.firecrawl.dev/features/enhanced-mode).

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