# Bulkgrid, free: Web scraping API

> Crawl known URLs and retrieve normalized result content with Bulkgrid.

Bulkgrid's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 6 of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text, Links, Images.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Bulkgrid scores 76.8 out of 100. Bulkgrid ranks 9th of 77 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 1,913 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[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/bulkgrid/free
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://bulkgrid.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://bulkgrid.com/api/v1/crawl`
- API key: with the plan, on https://bulkgrid.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://bulkgrid.com/docs/api-reference/runs/create-a-crawl-run?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Bulkgrid (https://bulkgrid.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 86%
- Screenshot: ✓
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: result
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search web pages, images, or news and optionally crawl source pages · Create a deep crawl run · Create an extract run · Create a website map run · Search indexed content

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Crawl known URLs and retrieve normalized result content with Bulkgrid.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Bulkgrid grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and use the Services in accordance with these Terms and applicable laws." "You agree to use the Services only for lawful purposes and in compliance with these Terms, including any usage limits or account restrictions described in your plan." "You agree not to misuse the Services. Prohibited actions include (but are not limited to): Accessing or attempting to access accounts or systems without authorization, Using the Services to distribute malware, spam, or illegal content, Violating the rights of third parties, including copyrights or trademarks, Attempting to crawl, scrape, or collect data from websites or services in violation of their terms of use, Bypassing usage limits, rate limits, or billing thresholds set by Bulkgrid, Using the Services for purposes that may harm or overload Bulkgrid’s systems or networks." "You may not copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Services unless expressly permitted in writing by Bulkgrid."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 results a month
- Expires: each UTC calendar month, no rollover

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling
- Median: 4.27 s

## The call

- You send: urls, type "crawl", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: strategy, config.maxDepth, config.maxPages, config.topKLinks, config.minGainThreshold, config.confidenceThreshold, "markdown", "cleanHtml", "rawHtml", "links", "text" or several in options.formats, options.includeTags, options.excludeTags, options.headers, options.waitAfterLoad, options.timeout, options.blockAds, options.useInteractions, options.waitForSelector, options.waitForImages, options.removeConsentPopups, options.screenshot, options.useHttp, options.useLlmsTxt, options.includeDocumentLinks
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/crawl

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 18 or over with the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, page title, status code, Markdown, page text, clean HTML, raw HTML, links, images, metadata, screenshot, response time, crawled at, content hash

## Bulkgrid's plans (6)

- [Bulkgrid, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Bulkgrid, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Bulkgrid, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/79-monthly/llms.txt): $0.79 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Bulkgrid, $190 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/190-yearly/llms.txt): $1.583 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Bulkgrid, $790 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/790-yearly/llms.txt): $0.658 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Bulkgrid, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/contact-us/llms.txt): 86% complete, live

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

- `POST /api/v1/crawl`: [Bulkgrid, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/free/llms.txt)

## Bulkgrid's APIs (2)

- [Bulkgrid: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/free/llms.txt)
- [Bulkgrid: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/bulkgrid/free/llms.txt)

## Bulkgrid: web scraping API alternatives

- [Search1API, $99 monthly, Professional, POST /crawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/search1api/99-monthly-professional-post-crawl/llms.txt): $0.66 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $0.663 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $399 monthly, Growth G3, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/399-monthly-growth-g3-get-v1-fetch-a-page-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.665 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [CrawlForge, $3,990 yearly, Business, POST /tools/extract_text](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlforge/3990-yearly-business-post-tools-extract-text/llms.txt): $0.665 per 1,000, 29% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://bulkgrid.com/docs/api-reference/results/get-run-result-content.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/docs/api-reference/results/list-run-results.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/docs/api-reference/runs/create-a-crawl-run.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/docs/crawl.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/docs/plan-gating-and-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/docs/runs-and-results.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/docs/search.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://bulkgrid.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing