# Ambolt, free: Web scraping API

> Fetch a public web page and return its main text as Markdown with title, headings, lists, tables and absolute links. Respects robots.txt, refuses private and internal addresses, no JavaScript rendering. For pages that need a browser, use a rendering tool.

Ambolt's Free call a day plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Ambolt's docs list 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Markdown.
You get up to 30 calls a month.
We haven't run Ambolt through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,679 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.9999 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ambolt/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.ambolt.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.ambolt.dev/v1/url-to-markdown`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.ambolt.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1url-to-markdown
- Sold by: Ambolt (https://ambolt.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## 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: Fetch a public web page and return its main text as Markdown with title, headings, lists, tables and absolute links. Respects robots.txt, refuses private and internal addresses, no JavaScript rendering. For pages that need a browser, use a rendering tool.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not use the services to attack or overload systems, to evade sanctions, or in breach of law. [...] Each developer-tool response names its source and licence. Where a source requires attribution, you must keep it when you reuse the data.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 30 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: maxChars, free
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/url-to-markdown

## About the plan

- Plan: Free call a day
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key: one free call per tool and IP address per day

## The 2 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, title

## Ambolt's plans (2)

- [Ambolt, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ambolt/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Ambolt, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ambolt/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/url-to-markdown`: [Ambolt, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ambolt/free/llms.txt)

## Ambolt's APIs (6)

- [Ambolt: tech stack API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/ambolt/free/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: domain WHOIS API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/ambolt/free/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/ambolt/free/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ambolt/free/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/brazil-cnpj-lookup](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/ambolt/free-call-a-day-get-v1-brazil-cnpj-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/eu-vat-validate](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/ambolt/free-call-a-day-get-v1-eu-vat-validate/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/entity-resolve](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/ambolt/free-call-a-day-get-v1-entity-resolve/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/lei-lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/ambolt/free-call-a-day-get-v1-lei-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/nordic-company-lookup](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/ambolt/free-call-a-day-get-v1-nordic-company-lookup/llms.txt)
- [Ambolt: business verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /v1/us-business-entities](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/ambolt/free-call-a-day-get-v1-us-business-entities/llms.txt)

## Ambolt: web scraping API alternatives

- [LLMLayer, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v2/scrape, Scraper API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/llmlayer/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v2-scrape-scraper-api-full/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $75 pack, 25,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/75-pack-25000-credits-post-v1-scrape-batch/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, first 1K requests a month, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-first-1k-requests-a-month-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [CrawlForge, $3 pack, Credit pack, POST /tools/extract_text](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlforge/3-pack-credit-pack-post-tools-extract-text/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 29% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://ambolt.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ambolt.dev/licences?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ambolt.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ambolt.dev/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ambolt.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.ambolt.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.ambolt.dev/catalog.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.ambolt.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing