# Crawlbase, free credits, GET /, Crawling API: Web scraping API

> Fetch any URL through Crawlbase's residential proxy network with optional JavaScript rendering, bot challenge solving, and geo-routing.

Crawlbase's web scraping API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML.
We rank 1,503 plans by price. [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 to start 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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/free-credits-get-crawling-api
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: pricing compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crawlbase.com/pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.crawlbase.com/`, Crawling API
- API key: with the plan, on https://crawlbase.com/pricing
- Its API docs: https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api
- Sold by: Crawlbase (https://crawlbase.com)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Crawling API (JavaScript token) · Enterprise Crawler · Built-in scrapers · google-serp · bing-serp · linkedin-profile · linkedin-company · linkedin-feed

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch any URL through Crawlbase's residential proxy network with optional JavaScript rendering, bot challenge solving, and geo-routing.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "in relevant business relations", after you "carefully read the applicable terms of service" of the crawled site

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Concurrent: 20
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by webhook

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: country, device, user_agent, tor_network, request_headers, cookies, cookies_session, async, callback, format, md_readability, pretty, get_headers, get_cookies, custom_success_codes
- Method: GET
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

page HTML, page markdown, target status code, Crawlbase status code, final URL, domain complexity, content type, target response headers, target cookies, Markdown flavor, Markdown features, Markdown base URL, Markdown generator

## Crawlbase's plans (18)

- [Crawlbase, free credits, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/free-credits-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, first 1K requests a month, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-first-1k-requests-a-month-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 10K requests a month, GET /, from the 1,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-next-10k-requests-a-month-get-from-the-1001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 100K requests a month, GET /, from the 11,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-next-100k-requests-a-month-get-from-the-11001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 1M requests a month, GET /, from the 111,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-next-1m-requests-a-month-get-from-the-111001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 10M requests a month, GET /, from the 1,111,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-next-10m-requests-a-month-get-from-the-1111001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 100M requests a month, GET /, from the 11,111,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-next-100m-requests-a-month-get-from-the-11111001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 1B requests a month, GET /, from the 111,111,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-next-1b-requests-a-month-get-from-the-111111001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $0.04 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, beyond 1,111,111,000 requests a month, GET /, from the 1,111,111,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-beyond-1111111000-requests-a-month-get-from-the-1111111001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $0.02 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $99 monthly, Starter, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/99-monthly-starter-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.495 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $199 monthly, Scale 500K, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/199-monthly-scale-500k-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.398 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $349 monthly, Scale 1M, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/349-monthly-scale-1m-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.349 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $599 monthly, Growth, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/599-monthly-growth-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.30 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $1,089 yearly, Starter, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/1089-yearly-starter-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.454 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $2,189 yearly, Scale 500K, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/2189-yearly-scale-500k-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.365 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $3,839 yearly, Scale 1M, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/3839-yearly-scale-1m-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.32 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, $6,589 yearly, Growth, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/6589-yearly-growth-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $0.275 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, contact us, Enterprise, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/contact-us-enterprise-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): 29% complete, live

## Crawlbase's calls for this API (2)

- `GET /`, Crawling API: [Crawlbase, free credits, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/free-credits-get-crawling-api/llms.txt)
- `GET /`, Crawling API (JavaScript token): [Crawlbase, free credits, GET /, Crawling API (JavaScript token)](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/free-credits-get-crawling-api-javascript-token/llms.txt)

## Crawlbase's APIs (5)

- [Crawlbase: SERP API pricing, 18 plans, GET /, Bing SERP](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawlbase/free-credits-get-bing-serp/llms.txt)
- [Crawlbase: SERP API pricing, 18 plans, GET /, Google SERP](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/crawlbase/free-credits-get-google-serp/llms.txt)
- [Crawlbase: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/crawlbase/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawlbase: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/crawlbase/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawlbase: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 18 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/crawlbase/free/llms.txt)
- [Crawlbase: web scraping API pricing, 18 plans, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/free-credits-get-crawling-api/llms.txt)

## Crawlbase: web scraping API alternatives

- [PhantomJsCloud, $10 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt): $0.022 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/300000-yearly-nova-pro-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.023 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [APILayer, $39.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apilayer/39-99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.027 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [ScrapingBee, $5,799 monthly, Enterprise 120, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingbee/5799-monthly-enterprise-120-get-api-v1-html-api-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.048 per 1,000, 43% 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 2026-11-01.

- https://crawlbase.com/docs/crawling-api
- https://crawlbase.com/docs/rate-limits
- https://crawlbase.com/linkedin-scraper
- https://crawlbase.com/pricing
- https://crawlbase.com/terms