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Browserless pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, POST /scrape

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29% complete: 2 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 935 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 Spider Cloud are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Browserless's 8 plans
Call: POST /scrape one of Browserless's 5 calls for this API
API: Web scraping API one of Browserless's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider fetches the page when you call.
  • 2 of the 7 key fields we check. Screenshot, HTML.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send url and elements[].selector to POST /scrape. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Browserless: web scraping API alternatives

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

Browserless, $4,200 yearly, Scale, POST /scrapeScrapeUnblocker, €599 monthlyDecodo, $99 monthly, $99, POST /v1/scrape, 141,428 requests a monthScrapeless, $999 monthly, Enterprise Plus, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS RenderThunderbit, $840 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page
$ per 1,000 pages$0.70$0.698$0.70$0.70$0.70
Completeness29%29%29%86%71%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$4,200€599$99$999$840
Enough for500,000 calls a month966,000 calls a month141,428 calls a monthabout 1,427,142 calls a month1,200,000 calls a year
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who is at least the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyone at least 18 years old or of the age of majority, with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms (its Terms' "Are at least 18 years old or the age of majority in your jurisdiction. Have the legal capacity and authority to enter into these Terms.")anyoneanyoneanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greater

Every web scraping API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.browserless.io/openapi.json
  2. docs.browserless.io/overview/unit-consumption
  3. docs.browserless.io/rest-apis/intro
  4. docs.browserless.io/rest-apis/scrape
  5. browserless.io/pricing
  6. browserless.io/pricing.md
  7. browserless.io/scraping
  8. browserless.io/terms-of-service

Product details

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

  • Screenshot
  • 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 forfrom the same budget: Smart Scrape API · Content API · Unblock API · Screenshot API · PDF API · Search API · Map API · Crawl API · Function API · Download API · Export API · Performance API · Predefined Scrapers API · Agent Run API
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExtract structured JSON from a fully rendered page using CSS selectors.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may not use our products for any illegal or unauthorized purpose nor may you, in the use of the Service, violate any laws in your jurisdiction (including but not limited to copyright laws) [...] You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us [...] In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose, (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts, (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances, (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others, (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability, (f) to submit false or misleading information, (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet, (h) to collect or track the personal information of others, (i) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape, (j) for any obscene or immoral purpose, or (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet.
Plan
Pay$0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median6.19 s
The call
You sendurl, elements[].selector. Optional: addScriptTag[].url, addScriptTag[].content, addScriptTag[].type, addScriptTag[].id, addStyleTag[].url, addStyleTag[].content, authenticate.username, authenticate.password, bestAttempt, cookies[].name, cookies[].value, cookies[].url, cookies[].domain, cookies[].path, cookies[].secure, cookies[].httpOnly, cookies[].sameSite, cookies[].expires, cookies[].priority, cookies[].sourceScheme, cookies[].partitionKey.sourceOrigin, cookies[].partitionKey.hasCrossSiteAncestor, debugOpts.console, debugOpts.cookies, debugOpts.html, debugOpts.network, debugOpts.screenshot, elements[].timeout, emulateMediaType, gotoOptions.referer, gotoOptions.referrerPolicy, gotoOptions.timeout, gotoOptions.waitUntil, gotoOptions.signal.aborted, gotoOptions.signal.onabort, gotoOptions.signal.reason, html, rejectRequestPattern, rejectResourceTypes, requestInterceptors[].pattern, requestInterceptors[].response.headers, requestInterceptors[].response.status, requestInterceptors[].response.contentType, requestInterceptors[].response.body, setExtraHTTPHeaders, setJavaScriptEnabled, userAgent.userAgent, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.brands[].brand, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.brands[].version, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.fullVersionList[].brand, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.fullVersionList[].version, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.fullVersion, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.platform, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.platformVersion, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.architecture, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.model, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.mobile, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.bitness, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.wow64, userAgent.userAgentMetadata.formFactors, userAgent.platform, viewport.width, viewport.height, viewport.deviceScaleFactor, viewport.isMobile, viewport.isLandscape, viewport.hasTouch, waitForEvent.event, waitForEvent.timeout, waitForFunction.fn, waitForFunction.polling, waitForFunction.timeout, waitForSelector.hidden, waitForSelector.selector, waitForSelector.timeout, waitForSelector.visible, waitForTimeout, blockAds, blockAdsInclude, launch, profile, timeout, trackingId, allowedDomains, credentials, externalProxyServer, integrationId, proxy, proxyCity, proxyCountry, proxyLocaleMatch, proxyPreset, proxyState, proxySticky
MethodPOST
Path/scrape
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone who is at least the age of majority in their state or province of residence
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

selector, element text, element HTML, element attributes, element position, element size, console messages, cookies, network requests, screenshot, page HTML

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