# APEX, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/x402/web-read: Web scraping API

> Read web pages as clean text: pass ?urls=a.com,b.com (up to 10 in one call) and get each page title, meta description and readable body with script, style, nav and footer stripped, plus the final URL after redirects, the content type, the byte count and whether it was truncated.

APEX's x402 pay per call plan for the web scraping API costs $0.30 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. APEX's docs list 1: Text.
We haven't run APEX through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
We rank 2,948 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 89% of the 2,948 plans.
[LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/25-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.
[Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt), [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) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-web-read
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://apexfaucet.xyz/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://apexfaucet.xyz/api/x402/web-read`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://apexfaucet.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#/paths/~1api~1x402~1web-read
- Sold by: APEX (https://apexfaucet.xyz?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.30
- Per: result
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Read web pages as clean text: pass ?urls=a.com,b.com (up to 10 in one call) and get each page title, meta description and readable body with script, style, nav and footer stripped, plus the final URL after redirects, the content type, the byte count and whether it was truncated.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Do not attack, overload or try to break the site, the API or the faucet, and do not try to claim more than the faucet allows. We may rate-limit or block traffic that harms the service or other users.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: urls
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/x402/web-read

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying in USDC on Arc, Base or Solana (or XNT on X1), no account and no API key

## The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, status code, content type, redirects, content length, truncated, page title, description, page text, character count, response time

## APEX's plans (2)

- [APEX, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/x402/web-read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-web-read/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [APEX, $5 pack, $5 Data Pass, GET /api/x402/web-read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/5-pack-5-data-pass-get-api-x402-web-read/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## APEX's calls for this API (4)

- `GET /api/x402/page-extract`: [APEX, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/x402/page-extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-page-extract/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/x402/page-markdown`: [APEX, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/x402/page-markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-page-markdown/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/x402/page-snap`: [APEX, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/x402/page-snap](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-page-snap/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/x402/web-read`: [APEX, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, GET /api/x402/web-read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-web-read/llms.txt)

## APEX's APIs (4)

- [APEX: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [APEX: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [APEX: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/email-check](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-email-check/llms.txt)
- [APEX: email verification API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/email-verify-bulk](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-email-verify-bulk/llms.txt)
- [APEX: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans, GET /api/x402/web-read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apex/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-get-api-x402-web-read/llms.txt)

## APEX: web scraping API alternatives

- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-a-web-page-standard/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [JsonLink, $15 monthly, Hobbie, POST /api/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/jsonlink/15-monthly-hobbie-post-api-markdown/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Decodo, $99 monthly, $99, POST /v1/scrape, 330,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/decodo/99-monthly-99-post-v1-scrape-330000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScrapeOps, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeops/15-monthly/llms.txt): $0.30 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 2026-11-09.

- https://apexfaucet.xyz/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://apexfaucet.xyz/pass/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://apexfaucet.xyz/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://apexfaucet.xyz/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing