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Browserless pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, POST /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape API

Browserless's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026

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86% complete: 6 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 /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape API 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.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. 5 are in the plan's price: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text, Links. 1 costs extra: Summary.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 2,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send url to POST /smart-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 /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape APIScrapingdog, $50,000 yearly, Enterprise Plus, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, with countryGeekflare, $349 monthly, Business, POST /webscraping, Web ScrapingZenscrape, $349.99 monthly, Professional, GET /api/v1/get, Web Scraping API, JavaScript renderingZenRows, $190 yearly, Build B1, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page
$ per 1,000 pages$0.35$0.347$0.349$0.35$0.352
Completeness86%14%43%14%43%
Billingyearlyyearlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$4,200$50,000$349$349.99$190
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month12,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month540,000 calls a year
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone who is at least the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyoneanyoneanyoneanyone of legal age (18) with the legal capacity to contract

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/smart-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
  • HTML
  • Text
  • Summarycosts more
  • Links
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Extra fieldsextracted data, summary: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Content API · Scrape 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 pitchIntelligently scrape any URL using cascading strategies that automatically escalate from fast HTTP fetching to headless browsers and captcha solving as needed.
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 for2,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median2.78 s
The call
You sendurl. Optional: formats, changeTrackingOptions.modes, changeTrackingOptions.tag, jsonOptions.schema, jsonOptions.prompt, actions, proxy, onlyMainContent, includeTags, excludeTags, headers, waitFor, strategyCache, maxAge, storeInCache, emulationOs, profile, timeout, allowedDomains, credentials, externalProxyServer, integrationId, proxyCity, proxyCountry, proxyLocaleMatch, proxyPreset, proxyState, proxySticky
MethodPOST
Path/smart-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 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

success flag, HTTP status, page HTML, content type, response headers, strategy used, strategies attempted, message, screenshot, PDF, Markdown, page links, action scrapes, JavaScript return values, raw text, page title, description, language, source URL, cache state, cached at, warning, change status, previous scrape time, visibility, diff

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