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API.SH pricing: ChatGPT scraper API

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58% complete: 7 of the 12 fields on our checklistSee the 12 fields
$0.00per 1,000 answersWe haven't run API.SH through our ChatGPT scraper API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 191 plans for ChatGPT scraper APIs by price. Half the plans cost $3.725 or less per 1,000 answers. See the best free ChatGPT scraper API plan.Surfeo's $39 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 answers. Surfeo's $39 monthly plan covers up to 300,000 answers a month at no extra cost. Scrappa's pay-as-you-go plan costs the least for 10,000 answers a month: $10.00.Temso AI's $10 monthly plan covers any number of answers. Temso AI's $10 monthly plan costs less up front than Surfeo's $39 monthly plan.Scrappa, PerceptLayer and ScrapeUnblocker are the best ChatGPT scraper API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest API.SH plan for that many answers. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of API.SH's 8 plans
Call: GET /chatgpt/v1/ask API.SH's only call for this API
API: ChatGPT scraper API one of API.SH's 99 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 7 of the 12 fields on our checklist. Citations, Search results, Search queries, Links, Products, Images, Model.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits don't roll over.
  • One call. You send prompt to GET /chatgpt/v1/ask. You can also send country and search. The call returns ChatGPT's answer.
  • Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with a working email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

API.SH: ChatGPT scraper API alternatives

API.SH alternatives: other ChatGPT scraper API providers by price

The table starts with API.SH's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 answers closest to API.SH's.

API.SH, $50 monthlyScrapio, $299 monthlyScraperAPI, $1,609.20 yearly, Startup, GET /structured/chatgpt/search/v1, ChatGPT, fullBedrockTap, $240.12 yearlyBotScope, $799 monthly
$ per 1,000 answers$10.00$8.97$10.057$10.454$10.653
Completeness58%25%25%17%25%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay$50$299$1,609.20$240.12$799
Enough for5,000 calls a monthabout 33,333 calls a monthabout 13,333 calls a monthabout 1,914 calls a month75,000 calls a month
Freshnessunknownunknownunknownunknownstored
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email addressanyone at least 18 years old and legally capable of entering a binding contractanyoneanyone with a Google account (sign-in is Google only)anyone using it for lawful business purposes

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. api.sh
  2. api.sh/docs/billing
  3. api.sh/docs/chatgpt-ask
  4. api.sh/legal/acceptable-use
  5. api.sh/legal/terms
  6. api.sh/llms.txt
  7. api.sh/pricing

Product details

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

  • Citations
  • Search results
  • Search queries
  • Links
  • Brands, not in the answer
  • Products
  • Places, not in the answer
  • Ads, not in the answer
  • Images
  • Tables, not in the answer
  • Model
  • Follow-up prompts, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 answers$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 6,019 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAsk chatgpt.com a question and get its answer, cited sources, search results and product cards as JSON, for AI visibility tracking.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not: resell or provide raw access to the Service as a competing API without our written agreement, attempt to get around credits, limits or security, interfere with the Service or other customers, reverse engineer the Service except where the law allows, or use the Service in breach of the Acceptable Use Policy.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for100 calls a month
Expiresunused credits don't roll over
Rate limit
Concurrentno limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendprompt. Optional: country, search
MethodGET
Path/chatgpt/v1/ask
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over with a working email address
The 14 fields the plan's answer can hold

prompt, answer markdown, answer text, citations, citation count, web search used, search results, links, products, images, model, country, cached, credits used

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