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WebcrawlerAPI pricing and alternatives: cached web scraping API

WebcrawlerAPI's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026
57% complete: 4 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$2.00per 1,000 pagesHalf of the 76 plans we rank by price cost $6.901 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan is cheaper than 78% of the 76 plans.The cheapest plan we rank by price is Firecrawl, $399 monthly, at $0.798 per 1,000 pages.ScraperAPI, Scrapestack and HasData are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go one of WebcrawlerAPI's 4 plans
Call: POST /v2/scrape WebcrawlerAPI's only call for this API
API: Cached web scraping API one of WebcrawlerAPI's 2 APIs

About this item

  • A copy at most 7 days old. You get the page from WebcrawlerAPI's cache.
  • 4 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown, HTML, Text, Links.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend all of it on calls.
  • One call. You send url to POST /v2/scrape. You can also send output_formats, main_content_only, clean_selectors, respect_robots_txt, max_age and async. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WebcrawlerAPI: cached web scraping API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.

This planWebcrawlerAPI, top-upFirecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growthcrawlbrulee, €23 pack, starter top-up pack, 12,500 credits, POST /api/scrape, Scrape (http, basic proxy)
$ per 1,000 pages$2.00$2.00$2.071
Completeness57%86%57%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay first
Payany amount$5€23
Enough foras many as you pay for2,500 calls12,500 calls
Freshness7 days2 days2 days
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into contractsanyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardiansubscribers to the starter plan, businesses and professionals acting in the course of their trade, business, craft, or profession

Cached web scraping API pricing: plans compared

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. webcrawlerapi.com/docs/api/caching
  2. webcrawlerapi.com/docs/api/scrape
  3. webcrawlerapi.com/docs/pricing
  4. webcrawlerapi.com/docs/rate-limits
  5. webcrawlerapi.com/pricing
  6. webcrawlerapi.com/tos
  7. webcrawlerapi.com/web-scraping-api

Product details

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

  • Screenshot, not in the answer
  • Markdown
  • HTML
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$2.00
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Markdown (LLM-cleaned) · Crawl a website · Run agent
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSend a URL to POST /v2/scrape and get the rendered page back as markdown, HTML, links or structured JSON. No browsers, proxies or retries to run. You only pay for pages that succeed.
Data
Freshness7 days
Keep datano limit
Use dataOutput: Subject to these Terms and applicable law, you may use output generated from your jobs. [...] You are solely responsible for: [...] compliance with target website terms, robots directives, and other access restrictions where applicable, ensuring you have a lawful basis for any data you collect or process. You must not use the Service for unlawful surveillance, credential theft, malware distribution, spam/phishing, sanctions evasion, or any activity that violates law or third-party rights. [...] You must not: [...] use the Service to collect sensitive data in violation of law, [...] use the Service to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise infringe copyrighted content without authorization.
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerin the call or by polling
The call
You sendurl. Optional: output_formats, main_content_only, clean_selectors, respect_robots_txt, max_age, async
Path/v2/scrape
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into contracts
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold

request status, page markdown, page text, page HTML, page links, status code, page title

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