# BESS x402, pay as you go: Web scraping API

> Read any public web page and get its main content as clean Markdown (menus, ads and footers removed) with title, author, publish date and language. Use when you need to read, quote or summarise an article, docs page or blog post from a URL. Not charged if the page fails.

BESS x402's x402 pay per call plan for the web scraping API costs $5.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. BESS x402's docs list 1: Markdown.
We haven't run BESS x402 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 24% 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/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://bess-x402.onrender.com/v1/web/markdown`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1web~1markdown
- Sold by: BESS x402 (https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Read any public web page and get its main content as clean Markdown (menus, ads and footers removed) with title, author, publish date and language. Use when you need to read, quote or summarise an article, docs page or blog post from a URL. Not charged if the page fails.

## Data

- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: links
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/web/markdown

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying USDC on Base, Polygon or Arbitrum (x402), no account or API key

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, title, author, site name, language, published, Markdown, word count

## BESS x402's plans (1)

- [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 14% complete

## BESS x402's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /v1/web/markdown`: [BESS x402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402's APIs (13)

- [BESS x402: App Store API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store review API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-review-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: App Store search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/app-store-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: business verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: company open jobs API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-open-job-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: image search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: IP company lookup API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/ip-company-lookup-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [BESS x402: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/bess-x402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## BESS x402: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-residential-proxy-js-rendering/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, $10 monthly, Monthly 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/10-monthly-monthly-80000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-fetch-fetch-pro/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [FlyCrawl, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/flycrawl/5-pack/llms.txt): $5.00 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bess-x402.onrender.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing