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API Ninjas pricing and alternatives: web scraping API

API Ninjas's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026: pricing compared

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$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 1,154 plans by price. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan costs the least 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 covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of API Ninjas's 8 plans
Call: GET /v1/webscraper API Ninjas's only call for this API
API: Web scraping API one of API Ninjas's 7 APIs

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  • Nothing to pay. You get 3,000 requests a month. Calls stop once your requests run out.
  • One call. You send url to GET /v1/webscraper. You can also send text_only and user_agent. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or over. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

API Ninjas: web scraping API alternatives

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

API Ninjas, $2,388 yearlySpider Cloud, free, No API keyPhantomJsCloud, $10 monthlyScrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, without JavaScript renderingScrapingBee, $5,799 monthly, Enterprise 120, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, without JavaScript renderingZenRows, $29,990 yearly, Scale S5, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page
$ per 1,000 pages$0.02$0.00$0.022$0.023$0.048$0.056
Completeness14%57%29%14%43%43%
Billingyearlyfreemonthlyyearlymonthlyyearly
Pay$2,388$0$10$300,000$5,799$29,990
Enough for10,000,000 calls a monthnot published15,000 calls a day1,100,000,000 calls a month120,000,000 calls a month540,000,000 calls a year
Freshnessunknown2 dayslivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or overanyone, with no API key and no account (rate limited)anyoneanyoneany natural person aged at least 18 years old with full and complete legal capacity acting in the scope of their professional activity or being the legal representative of a legal entity empowered to enter into legally binding commitmentsanyone of legal age (18) with the legal capacity to contract

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Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-30.

  1. api-ninjas.com
  2. api-ninjas.com/api/webscraper
  3. api-ninjas.com/error-codes
  4. api-ninjas.com/openapi.json
  5. api-ninjas.com/pricing
  6. api-ninjas.com/tos

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Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 283 other calls
Overage
Units caphard
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$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchThe Web Scraper API provides web scraper services to retrieve HTML and plaintext data from any website URL.
Data
Keep datafor as long as your paid Subscription Plan remains active: once it ends or is canceled, you must immediately cease all commercial use of the Services and Output, and you may not continue to display, use, or provide Output in your commercial applications, products, or to your clients. Data caching/storing allowed: Yes on Business, Professional and Enterprise, No on Developer and Free
Use dataIf you are using the Free Subscription Plan, you may use the Services and Output solely for personal, non-commercial purposes and for development, testing, or evaluation of your Customer Applications. You may NOT: Use the Services or Output in any commercial environment. Use the Services or Output in any commercial product, service, or application, whether internal or external Share, distribute, or make available any Output or content from the Services to any third party in any form [...] Commercial use of the Services or Output is permitted while your paid Subscription Plan remains active. [...] You are strictly prohibited from using any information or Output from the Services to develop, train, maintain, or operate any API, software, database, or service that competes with API Ninjas—regardless of whether it is available on our platform or elsewhere. This prohibition extends to repackaging, redistributing, or making the Output or data accessible in any way that would compete with or substitute for our Services. [...] You agree NOT to use the Services for any purpose that: [...] Resells, redistributes, or sublicenses API access without authorization Creates competing products or services using our APIs White-labels or rebrands Output as your own data source Uses the Free plan for commercial purposes Shares or transfers API Keys to unauthorized parties [...] Attribution required: Yes (Free plan)
Plan
Pay$0
You get3,000 requests a month
Enough for3,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per second0.028
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median0.35 s
The call
You sendurl. Optional: text_only, user_agent
MethodGET
Path/v1/webscraper
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or over
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