# Cost Control

> Pick the cheapest reliable primitive and understand the Zenrows cost multipliers.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-zenrows-cli-cost-control`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [ZenRows](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/zenrows)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [ZenRows](https://github.com/ZenRows)
- **Source:** https://github.com/ZenRows/cli/tree/main/skills/cost-control
- **Website:** https://docs.zenrows.com/cli/introduction

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-zenrows-cli-cost-control
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Cost control

Prefer the **cheapest reliable** configuration; escalate only with evidence.

## Cost multipliers (Fetch)
- Basic request: **1×**
- JS rendering (`js_render`): **5×**
- Premium proxies (`premium_proxy`): **10×**
- Both: **25×**

With `mode=auto` (Adaptive Stealth Mode) you are billed only for the
configuration that **succeeds** — failed internal attempts are not charged.

## Tactics
- Default to `mode=auto`; let Zenrows escalate only when needed.
- Reduce response size with `--css` or `--output markdown` (avoids 413s too).
- Validate on one page before scaling across many URLs.
- Set guardrails in policy: `max_credits_per_run`, `max_pages_per_run`,
  `max_concurrency` ([[compliance-policy]]).
- Track per-run cost in `.zenrows/runs//run.json` (`costUsd`, from the
  `X-Request-Cost` header).

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [ZenRows](https://github.com/ZenRows)
- **Source:** [ZenRows/cli](https://github.com/ZenRows/cli)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://docs.zenrows.com/cli/introduction

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-zenrows-cli-cost-control
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/zenrows
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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