Cloudsway SmartSearch pricing: web scraping API
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POST / api/ search/ read Cloudsway SmartSearch's only call for this APIAbout this item
- Live. Cloudsway SmartSearch fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
- 5 of the 7 key fields we check. Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Links, Images.
- Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits, enough for 5,000 calls. Unused credits expire after 30 days.
- One call. You send
urltoPOST /. You set theapi/ search/ read Content-Typeheader to "application/json". The call returns the page's content. - Who can get it: anyone who registers an account and binds and activates a credit card. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
Cloudsway SmartSearch: web scraping API alternatives
Cloudsway SmartSearch alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price
The table starts with Cloudsway SmartSearch's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Cloudsway SmartSearch's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Cloudsway SmartSearch, top-up | WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering | APIFreaks, $20 pack, One-Off 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API | Scrappa, pay as you go | Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Completeness | 71% | 29% | 29% | 71% | 43% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay as you go | pay first |
| Pay | any amount | $20 | $20 | per call | any amount |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 20,000 calls | 20,000 calls | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone who registers an account | anyone 18 or older | anyone 13 or older with a real company or personal email, not for gambling, adult content, dating or the alcohol industry | anyone 18 or over | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-06.
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, not in the answer
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links
- Images
| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search API |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Reader turns selected URLs into readable content for deeper analysis. |
|---|
| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 1,000 credits |
| Enough for | 5,000 calls |
| Expires | 30 days |
| Batch | 1 |
|---|
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: formats, mode, timeout, imageDownloadEnable, imageInContent, pdfExtractEnable, pdfImageDownloadEnable, enhancedOcr, fullPage, outputQuality |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/search/read |
| Plan | Free Trial |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone who registers an account and binds and activates a credit card |
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold
HTML, Markdown, text, screenshot, title, description, keywords, logo, site name, images, base64 images, page count, internal links, external links, request ID