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Z.ai: cached web scraping API pricing, 1 plan

Z.ai's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026
0% complete: none of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
Top-upThe cheapest of the 76 plans 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 Z.ai's only plan
Call: POST /api/paas/v4/reader Z.ai's only call for this API
API: Cached web scraping API one of Z.ai's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Stored. You get the page from Z.ai's cache. Z.ai doesn't say how old its data is.
  • None of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend all of it on calls.
  • One call. You send url to POST /api/paas/v4/reader. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. docs.z.ai/api-reference/tools/web-reader
  2. docs.z.ai/api-reference/tools/web-search
  3. docs.z.ai/devpack/notice/api-key-management
  4. docs.z.ai/guides/overview/concept-param
  5. docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing
  6. docs.z.ai/legal-agreement/terms-of-use

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, not in the answer
  • HTML, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Web Search · Chat Completion · Generate Image · Generate Image(Async) · Generate Video(Async) · Audio Transcriptions · Layout Parsing · Agent Chat
In their words
Their pitchReads and parses the content of the specified URL. Supports selectable return formats, cache control, image retention, and summary options.
Data
Freshnessstored
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou and End Users must not engage in any of the following improper uses of the Z.ai during your use of our API Services, including but not limited to: i. Use the Services and End User Content (as defined in Section 3) in a way that violate applicable laws or our policies, ii. Any attempt to extract data, parameters, or code from the Z.ai, [...] vii. Any exploitation of our intellectual property through use, lease, lending, copying, modification, linking, reposting, compilation, publication, or establishment of mirror sites, [...] xii. Except for authorized integration with your specific business scenarios, any use of the Z.ai's models, prompts, or model-generated content for the development, training, labeling, fine-tuning, optimization, iteration, or similar activities related to external models is strictly prohibited. Furthermore, any utilization of platform models or exported data to develop, train, or enhance algorithms or models that compete with us, [...] xiv. Any other unauthorized actions or usage potentially detrimental to our interests. You must truthfully and accurately disclose the use of models from the Z.ai (and other models, if applicable) in accordance with relevant regulations and supervisory requirements.
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl. Optional: timeout, no_cache, return_format, retain_images, no_gfm, keep_img_data_url, with_images_summary, with_links_summary
Path/api/paas/v4/reader
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone not on an export control or sanctions list and not in Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Crimea, Donetsk or Zaporizhzhia, with an account
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

task ID, created at, request ID, model code, page content, page description, page title, URL, external stylesheets, stylesheet type, keywords, viewport, meta description, format detection

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