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APILayer pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, GET /scraper

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14% complete: 1 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 1,253 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 Plan one of APILayer's 6 plans
Call: GET /scraper one of APILayer's 2 calls for this API
API: Web scraping API one of APILayer's 4 APIs

About this item

  • Live. APILayer fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 7 key fields we check. HTML.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,500 requests a month.
  • One call. You send url to GET /scraper. You can also send selector. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

APILayer: web scraping API alternatives

The table starts with APILayer's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to APILayer's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

APILayer, $39.99 monthlyPhantomJsCloud, $250 monthlyScrapingdog, $160,000 yearly, Ultra 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$0.027$0.022$0.027$0.048$0.056
Completeness14%29%14%43%43%
Billingmonthlymonthlyyearlymonthlyyearly
Pay$39.99$250$160,000$5,799$29,990
Enough for1,500,000 calls a month375,000 calls a day500,000,000 calls a month120,000,000 calls a month540,000,000 calls a year
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with the right, power and authority to enter into and be legally bound by the Marketplace Terms of Useanyoneanyoneany 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 2026-10-31.

  1. marketplace.apilayer.com/scraper-api
  2. ideracorp.com/Legal/APILayer/Marketplace-Terms-of-Use

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Screenshot, not in the answer
  • Markdown, not in the answer
  • HTML
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchScrape websites bypassing rate limitations. Ability to simulate originating IP from any country. Fast and simple.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,500 requests a month
Enough for1,500 calls a month
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl. Optional: selector
MethodGET
Path/scraper
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone with the right, power and authority to enter into and be legally bound by the Marketplace Terms of Use
The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

page HTML, selector data, selector used, URL, response headers

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