# API Ninjas, free: Web scraping API

> The Web Scraper API provides web scraper services to retrieve HTML and plaintext data from any website URL.

API Ninjas'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: Text.
We rank 1,154 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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 to start 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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/free
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api-ninjas.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.api-ninjas.com/v1/webscraper`
- API key: with the plan, on https://api-ninjas.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://api-ninjas.com/api/webscraper
- Sold by: API Ninjas (https://api-ninjas.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-30

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 283 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Web Scraper API provides web scraper services to retrieve HTML and plaintext data from any website URL.

## Data

- Keep data: for 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 data: If 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 get: 3,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 3,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.028
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.35 s

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: text_only, user_agent
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/webscraper

## About the plan

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

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

page content

## API Ninjas's plans (8)

- [API Ninjas, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [API Ninjas, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/59-monthly/llms.txt): $0.59 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [API Ninjas, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.149 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [API Ninjas, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/299-monthly/llms.txt): $0.03 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [API Ninjas, $468 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/468-yearly/llms.txt): $0.39 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [API Ninjas, $1,188 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/1188-yearly/llms.txt): $0.099 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [API Ninjas, $2,388 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/2388-yearly/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [API Ninjas, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/api-ninjas/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete

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

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

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## API Ninjas: web scraping API alternatives

- [Spider Cloud, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 2 days
- [PhantomJsCloud, $10 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly-nova-pro-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.023 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [ScrapingBee, $5,799 monthly, Enterprise 120, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingbee/5799-monthly-enterprise-120-get-api-v1-html-api-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.048 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $29,990 yearly, Scale S5, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/29990-yearly-scale-s5-billed-yearly-get-v1-fetch-a-page/llms.txt): $0.056 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 2026-10-30.

- https://api-ninjas.com
- https://api-ninjas.com/api/webscraper
- https://api-ninjas.com/error-codes
- https://api-ninjas.com/openapi.json
- https://api-ninjas.com/pricing
- https://api-ninjas.com/tos