# Elmo, free: Perplexity scraper API

> One model answer, with its text normalized out of the provider’s response and its citations in the order the engine listed them.

Elmo's Perplexity scraper API on its Self-hosted plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 answers. It returns 3 of the 10 key fields we check: Citations, Search queries, Model.
We haven't run Elmo through our Perplexity scraper API benchmark yet.
This plan is free. We rank 75 plans for Perplexity scraper APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.40 per 1,000 answers or less.
[PerceptLayer's $399 pack](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/perceptlayer/399-pack/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 answers: $0.798.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/free
- Get it: https://www.elmohq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://app.elmohq.com/api/v1/prompts/{promptId}/runs/{runId}`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.elmohq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.elmohq.com/docs/api/runs/getRun?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- Sold by: Elmo (https://www.elmohq.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 30%
- Citations: ✓
- Search queries: ✓
- Model: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 answers: $0.00
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Get a brand's analytics · Get query fan-out · List cited domains · List cited URLs · List prompt performance · Create a brand · Get a brand · List brands · Update a brand · Add a competitor · Delete a competitor · Get a competitor · List competitors · Update a competitor · Describe the calling key · List trackable models · Get the latest opportunities report · Get an organization · Get billing state · List organizations · Create a new prompt · Delete a prompt · Get a prompt · List all prompts · Update a prompt · Create a report · Get report status and data · List reports · List runs for a prompt · Get prompt snapshot · List a brand's tags · Analyze a website

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: One model answer, with its text normalized out of the provider’s response and its citations in the order the engine listed them.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Any use of it, including through a third-party product, is bound by these Terms plus the following: [...] Abuse, or excessively frequent requests, may result in temporary or permanent suspension of your account's API access. [...] You may not use the API to build a product that resells Elmo's measurements as a competing visibility-tracking service.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: promptId, runId
- Method: GET
- Path: /prompts/{promptId}/runs/{runId}

## About the plan

- Plan: Self-hosted
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold

run ID, prompt ID, engine, web search used, brand mentioned, competitors, brand position, mention count, sentiments, competitor position, competitor sentiment, search queries, citation count, created at, answer text, citations

## Elmo's plans (9)

- [Elmo, free](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 30% complete
- [Elmo, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/99-monthly/llms.txt): 30% complete, 6 hours
- [Elmo, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/299-monthly/llms.txt): 30% complete, 6 hours
- [Elmo, $649 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/649-monthly/llms.txt): 30% complete, 6 hours
- [Elmo, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/990-yearly/llms.txt): 30% complete, 6 hours
- [Elmo, $2,990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/2990-yearly/llms.txt): 30% complete, 6 hours
- [Elmo, $6,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/6490-yearly/llms.txt): 30% complete, 6 hours
- [Elmo, contact us, Custom](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/contact-us-custom/llms.txt): 30% complete
- [Elmo, contact us, White label](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/contact-us-white-label/llms.txt): 30% complete

## Elmo's calls (1)

- `GET /prompts/{promptId}/runs/{runId}`: [Elmo, free](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt)

## Elmo's APIs (6)

- [Elmo: Bing Copilot scraper API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/bing-copilot-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt)
- [Elmo: ChatGPT scraper API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/chatgpt-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt)
- [Elmo: Gemini scraper API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/gemini-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt)
- [Elmo: Google AI Mode scraper API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-mode-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt)
- [Elmo: Google AI Overview scraper API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-overview-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt)
- [Elmo: Perplexity scraper API pricing, 9 plans](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/elmo/free/llms.txt)

## Elmo: Perplexity scraper API alternatives

- [Oxylabs, free](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/oxylabs/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 70% complete, live
- [VebAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/vebapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 40% complete
- [PerceptLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/perceptlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 30% complete
- [MentionsAPI, free](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/mentionsapi/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 20% complete, live
- [Loamly, free](https://datacircle.dev/perplexity-scraper-apis/loamly/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 10% complete

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-05.

- https://app.elmohq.com/api/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/docs/api/runs/getRun?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/docs/user-guide/providers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/features/api-and-mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/legal/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/legal/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing
- https://www.elmohq.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=perplexity-scraper-api-pricing