# Abstract API, free: Web scraping API

> Abstract's Web Scraping API helps you extract data from any URL

Abstract API's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: HTML.
We haven't run Abstract API through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,913 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.
[Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[WebScraping.AI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-html-get-page-html-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/abstract-api/free
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.abstractapi.com/api/web-scraping-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://scrape.abstractapi.com/v1/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.abstractapi.com/api/web-scraping-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.abstractapi.com/api/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Abstract API (https://www.abstractapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- HTML: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Abstract's Web Scraping API helps you extract data from any URL

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit, but no collection, database or directory compiled from it without Abstract's written permission
- Use data: You may not access or use the Site for any purpose other than that for which we make the Site available. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to: [...] 3. Use the Site or the Content to advertise or offer to sell goods and services or to identify any household, street address, or individual. 4. License, sell, resell, lease, distribute, or otherwise commercially exploit as a standalone product, or make available to any third party, the Site, or any Content not owned by you (unless the Content is expressly licensed to you for such purpose). [...] 13. Use the Site or the Content to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape. [...] 17. Use the Site or the Content for any illegal or unauthorized purpose. 18. Use the Site or the Content: for any form of debt collection, as the sole source of data for hard background check purposes, to determine eligibility for a government license or benefit, for any purpose prohibited by applicable data privacy and security laws, for the benefit of any one political candidate, political party, political campaign, or political advocacy group affiliated exclusively with or formed to benefit any one of the foregoing, [...] in connection with any purpose covered by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. Sec. 1681 et seq (“FCRA”)) [...], for the preparation of a Consumer Report or in such a manner that may cause such data to be characterized as a Consumer Report, in connection with establishing a consumer’s eligibility for credit or insurance to be used primarily for personal, family, or household purposes [...], for the purpose of evaluating a consumer for employment, promotion, reassignment, or retention as an employee, for any tenancy verification or in connection with any application to rent real property, [...] for any other purpose under the FCRA.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 requests
- Enough for: 1,000 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: render_js, use_proxy, cookie_jar
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or older

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

page HTML

## Abstract API's plans (4)

- [Abstract API, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/abstract-api/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Abstract API, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/abstract-api/99-monthly/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Abstract API, $1,188 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/abstract-api/1188-yearly/llms.txt): $19.80 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Abstract API, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/abstract-api/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete, live

## Abstract API's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/`: [Abstract API, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/abstract-api/free/llms.txt)

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- [Abstract API: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/abstract-api/free/llms.txt)
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- [Abstract API: phone validation API pricing, 15 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/abstract-api/free/llms.txt)
- [Abstract API: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/abstract-api/free/llms.txt)

## Abstract API: web scraping API alternatives

- [Social Fetch, $379 pack, Scale, GET /v1/web/html](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/social-fetch/379-pack-scale-get-v1-web-html/llms.txt): $1.648 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [CrawlForge, $990 yearly, Professional, POST /tools/extract_content](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlforge/990-yearly-professional-post-tools-extract-content/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Scrape.do, $990 yearly, Pro (annual billing), GET /, Web Scraping API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-do/990-yearly-pro-annual-billing-get-web-scraping-api-full/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $990 yearly, Launch L2, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, premium proxies](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/990-yearly-launch-l2-billed-yearly-get-v1-fetch-a-page-premium-proxies/llms.txt): $1.65 per 1,000, 43% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-04.

- https://docs.abstractapi.com/api/phone-intelligence?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.abstractapi.com/api/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.abstractapi.com/api/scrape.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.abstractapi.com/api/phone-validation-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.abstractapi.com/api/web-scraping-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.abstractapi.com/legal/dpa?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.abstractapi.com/legal/legal?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.abstractapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing