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Best cached web scraping API in 2026

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Spider Cloud, Firecrawl and Anakin are the best cached web scraping API providers in our benchmark. We benchmarked 5 providers and rank all 5 by score. For the three we score highest, we show each one's top scoring plan, each part of the plan's score and what 1,000 pages cost. We rank 111 plans by price. The cheapest of the 111 plans is Spider Cloud, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, $500 or more (+5% credits), at $0.095 per 1,000 pages. Spider Cloud, $40 monthly, covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs less to start than Spider Cloud's top-up from $500.

Every cached web scraping API provider we score, ranked

  1. Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go: Overall score 89.2, Data score 93, $0.10 per 1,000 pages
  2. Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale: Overall score 85.3, Data score 88, $1.00 per 1,000 pages
  3. Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up: Overall score 84.6, Data score 93, $0.89 per 1,000 pages
  4. crawlbrulee, €399 monthly, ultra: Overall score 82.7, Data score 93, $0.898 per 1,000 pages
  5. WebcrawlerAPI, $499 monthly: Overall score 79.9, Data score 95, $1.00 per 1,000 pages

  1. #1 Spider Cloud: Cached web scraping API

    Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go

    It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Links.

    Overall score
    89.2
    $ per 1,000
    $0.10
    Price score
    87
    • $ per 1,000 pages the provider can't fetch: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 111
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 pages than this plan: 1
    Data score
    93
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $1
    Bundle score
    86
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Crawl · Links · Search · Search and crawl · Screenshot · Transform
    Performance score
    85
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 1.325 s
    • crawlbrulee, Scrape (http, basic proxy), the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.122 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 19 pages in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.927 out of 1 on those 19 pages. That gives this plan a Data score of 93 out of 100.

  2. #2 Firecrawl: Cached web scraping API

    Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Scale

    It returns 6 of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Summary, Links, Images.

    Overall score
    85.3
    $ per 1,000
    $1.00
    Price score
    87
    • $ per 1,000 pages the provider can't fetch: $0
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 111
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 pages than this plan: 16
    Data score
    88
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $5
    Bundle score
    89
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: Crawl · Map · Interact · Monitor · Agent · Search with Content Scraping · Search the Developer Index and 1 more
    Performance score
    53
    • This call's median time on 28 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.123 s
    • crawlbrulee, Scrape (http, basic proxy), the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.122 s
    • We scored this provider on 11 of the 19 pages in our benchmark. We sent this provider those 11 pages on 28 October 2026.
    • This plan scored 0.9707 out of 1 on those 11 pages. We trust a score on 11 pages less than a score on all 19. So we lower this plan's Data score to 88 out of 100.

  3. #3 Anakin: Cached web scraping API

    Anakin, top-up from $10, Business top-up

    It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML.

    Overall score
    84.6
    $ per 1,000
    $0.89
    Price score
    78
    • $ per 1,000 pages the provider can't fetch: the provider's pages don't say
    • Plans of this API we rank by price: 111
    • Plans cheaper per 1,000 pages than this plan: 12
    Data score
    93
    Cost to get started score
    93
    • How you pay: a top-up you pay first
    • Least to pay before your first result: $10
    Bundle score
    100
    • Also pays for, from the same budget: 5,353 other calls
    Performance score
    54
    • This call's median time on 29 October 2026, minus the baseline: 2.09 s
    • crawlbrulee, Scrape (http, basic proxy), the fastest benchmarked provider: 1.122 s
    • On 29 October 2026, we sent this provider all 19 pages in our benchmark.
    • This plan scored 0.9274 out of 1 on those 19 pages. That gives this plan a Data score of 93 out of 100.

The Data score on cached web scraping APIs

Out of 100: how much of the page's text the call returns. Each API here can answer with a copy of the page the API saved earlier. Within minutes of each call, we open the page in our own browser. We keep each line of the page with three words or more. A line counts when the answer's text, HTML or Markdown has the same line. For each page, we work out what share of the page's lines the answer holds. We average this share over all pages. Each page counts the same. A call that failed or returned no text counts as 0. Extra text in the answer that the page doesn't show doesn't change the score. We leave out a page our browser could not open. We also leave out a page with fewer than 10 lines. We lower the score when we test the call on fewer pages than the benchmark has.

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