# BestSearch, top-up: Web scraping API

> Extract model-ready content from one or more URLs for RAG, fact checking, and content analysis.

BestSearch's web scraping API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $0.80 per 1,000 pages. It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: Text, Images.
We haven't run BestSearch through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 1,913 plans we rank by price cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 75% of the 1,913 plans.
[PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan 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 up front 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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bestsearch/top-up
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://websearchapi.tech/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://websearchapi.tech/extract`
- API key: with the plan, on https://websearchapi.tech/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://websearchapi.tech/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#extract
- Sold by: BestSearch (https://websearchapi.tech?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Text: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.80
- Per: result
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Crawl · Map · Research

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract model-ready content from one or more URLs for RAG, fact checking, and content analysis.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may not use BestSearch to: break any law, court order, sanction, or third-party right, infringe copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or database rights, distribute malware, phishing, spam, fraudulent content, or abusive automation, collect, expose, or misuse sensitive personal data without a lawful basis, probe, bypass, disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or evade security and rate limits, resell upstream credentials, conceal the origin of abusive traffic, or use the service for a prohibited or high-risk business, submit content that you do not have the right to process. [...] You are responsible for reviewing results and complying with the terms and rights that apply to your use. [...] These Terms give you a limited, revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access the service during your account term.

## Plan

- Expires: never while the account remains active

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: query, extract_depth, format, include_images, timeout
- Method: POST
- Path: /extract

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter into the agreement, the service is intended for business and professional use

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, page content, page images

## BestSearch's plans (1)

- [BestSearch, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bestsearch/top-up/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 29% complete

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

- `POST /extract`: [BestSearch, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bestsearch/top-up/llms.txt)

## BestSearch's APIs (3)

- [BestSearch: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bestsearch/top-up/llms.txt)
- [BestSearch: web search API pricing, 1 plan, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search/llms.txt)
- [BestSearch: web search API pricing, 1 plan, POST /search, Search, advanced](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-advanced/llms.txt)
- [BestSearch: news API pricing, 1 plan, POST /search, Search, advanced, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-advanced-news/llms.txt)
- [BestSearch: news API pricing, 1 plan, POST /search, Search, news](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/bestsearch/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-search-search-news/llms.txt)

## BestSearch: web scraping API alternatives

- [UnSearch, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/unsearch/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [Scrapeless, $399 monthly, Business, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeless/399-monthly-business-post-api-v2-unlocker-request-js-render/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Serpex, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/serpex/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $480 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/480-yearly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [OpenGraph.io, $100 monthly, Production, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/100-monthly-production-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown-full/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

- https://websearchapi.tech?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://websearchapi.tech/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://websearchapi.tech/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://websearchapi.tech/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing