cheap carfax question for a potential project car… you guys paying full price or is there a smarter way?

Looking at picking up a rough little project this month and I forgot how annoying Carfax prices are when you’re checking multiple beaters. Half the cars I’m hunting don’t even justify spending $40 just to find out the thing was wrecked three times and lived its life in a salt mine. Before I start draining my wallet on history reports for cars that might not even make it home… what do you all do? Do you just bite the bullet and pay full price, or is there an actually legit cheaper option people use? Not looking for pirate crap or shared logins. Just wondering if there’s a normal workaround I’ve somehow never known about, because people on here always seem to pull full histories out of thin air.