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Spider Cloud pricing and alternatives: cached web scraping API

Spider Cloud's sitellms.txtBest cached web scraping API in 2026
14% complete: 1 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesThe cheapest of the 111 plans we rank by price is Spider Cloud, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, $500 or more (+5% credits), POST /scrape, Scrape, 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.Spider Cloud, Firecrawl and Anakin are the best cached web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: No API key one of Spider Cloud's 11 plans
Call: POST /scrape, Scrape one of Spider Cloud's 3 calls for this API
API: Cached web scraping API one of Spider Cloud's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 2 days old. You get the page from Spider Cloud's cache.
  • 1 of the 7 key fields we check. Links.
  • Nothing to pay. Spider Cloud limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many.
  • One call. You send url to POST /scrape. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: anyone, with no API key and no account (rate limited). Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Spider Cloud: cached web scraping API alternatives

The table starts with Spider Cloud's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Spider Cloud's. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.

Spider Cloud, top-up from $5,000, Pay as you go, $5,000 or more (+15% credits), POST /scrape, ScrapeAnakin, $4,824 yearly, Build your plan, $600 a month, annual, POST /v1/url-scraper/scrape, Scrape URL (Inline)Firecrawl, $7,190 yearlycrawlbrulee, €3,990 yearly, ultra (yearly), POST /api/scrape, Scrape (http, basic proxy)WebcrawlerAPI, $499 monthly
$ per 1,000 pages$0.087$0.465$0.599$0.748$1.00
Completeness14%29%86%57%57%
Billingpay firstyearlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$5,000$4,824$7,190€3,990$499
Enough for57,500,000 calls864,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month500,000 calls a month499,000 calls a month
Freshness2 days24 hours2 days2 days7 days
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business useanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardianbusinesses and professionals acting in the course of their trade, business, craft, or professionanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into contracts

Every cached web scraping API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. spider.cloud/api/scrape
  2. spider.cloud/api/search
  3. spider.cloud/docs/api
  4. spider.cloud/docs/core/rate-limits
  5. spider.cloud/docs/overview
  6. spider.cloud/eula
  7. spider.cloud/guides/pricing-and-plans
  8. spider.cloud/llms.txt
  9. spider.cloud/openapi.yaml
  10. spider.cloud/pricing
  11. spider.cloud/privacy

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

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Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchWeb scraping API. Known URLs in, named fields out.
Data
Freshness2 days
Keep datano limit
Use dataSpider may not be used for malicious or illegal activity, including: Hacking, Spamming or unsolicited bulk email, Phishing, Distributing malware, Unauthorized data collection, Fraud, Denial-of-service attacks [...] You are responsible for any data you acquire through Spider and any downstream use of that data [...] Spider may also limit, deprioritize or suspend traffic that harms the network or other customers, such as sustained bulk downloads of large files, media streaming, or reselling or relaying access to Spider.
Plan
Pay$0
Speed
Answerin the call
Median1.32 s
The call
You sendurl, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: smart_mode, webhook.destination, webhook.on_credits_depleted, webhook.on_credits_half_depleted, webhook.on_website_status, webhook.on_find, webhook.on_find_metadata, authorization, cookies, refresh_token, hard_limit, cache, cache.maxAge, cache.allowStale, cache.skipBrowser, cache.period, budget, store_data, use_chrome, root_selector, exclude_selector, run_in_background, request, depth, encoding, locale, request_timeout, delay, stealth, headers, viewport, device, readability, subdomains, tld, user_agent, blacklist, whitelist, full_resources, metadata, anti_bot, respect_robots, chunking_alg, skip_config_checks, text, website_limit, sitemap, sitemap_path, country_code, wait_for, execution_scripts, disable_intercept, disable_first_party_stylesheets, disable_first_party_javascript, disable_first_party_visuals, external_domains, css_extraction_map, scroll, automation_scripts, return_headers, return_cookies, return_page_links, return_json_data, return_embeddings, virtual_display, redirect_policy, preserve_host, filter_output_images, filter_output_svg, filter_output_main_only, remote_proxy, concurrency_limit
Path/scrape
About the plan
PlanNo API key
Who can get itanyone, with no API key and no account (rate limited)
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, HTTP status, page content, extracted data, embedded JSON data, page links, response headers, cookies, duration, total cost, compute cost, file cost, bytes transferred cost, AI cost, transform cost

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