# Call402, pay as you go: Web scraping API

> Extract the readable main content of any public web page as clean text: send a URL, get the page title, excerpt and body text with navigation, ads and boilerplate stripped (Mozilla Readability, computed on our own servers).

Call402's web scraping API on its Pay per call plan. It costs $5.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns none of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
We haven't run Call402 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 25% 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/call402/pay-as-you-go
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://call402.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://call402.com/api/text-extract`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://call402.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Call402 (https://call402.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## 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: Extract the readable main content of any public web page as clean text: send a URL, get the page title, excerpt and body text with navigation, ads and boilerplate stripped (Mozilla Readability, computed on our own servers).

## 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/text-extract

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, title, excerpt, text

## Call402's plans (1)

- [Call402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/call402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 0% complete

## Call402's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /api/text-extract`: [Call402, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/call402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Call402's APIs (3)

- [Call402: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/call402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Call402: phone validation API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-phone-apis/call402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Call402: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/call402/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Call402: 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
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Hobby](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-hobby/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [WebcrawlerAPI, $499 monthly, Business, GET /markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/499-monthly/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [Context.dev, $200 yearly, Developer, POST /v1/web/scrape, Scrape with browser actions, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/context-dev/200-yearly-developer-post-v1-web-scrape-scrape-with-browser-actions-full/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 57% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://call402.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://call402.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://call402.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://call402.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing