# Crawlbyte, top-up: Web scraping API

> Scrape any public website using the Crawlbyte universal task engine. Designed for flexibility, it supports GET, POST, and custom selectors, JS rendering, headers, proxies, and more.

Crawlbyte's web scraping API on its Pay As You Go plan. It costs $5.00 per 1,000 pages. Crawlbyte's docs list 1 of the 7 key fields we check: HTML.
We haven't run Crawlbyte through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 2,323 plans we rank by price cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 24% of the 2,323 plans.
[GuGuData's CNY 83 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gugudata/cny-83-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. GuGuData's CNY 83 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many pages as GuGuData's rate limit allows.
[80legs's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/80legs/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GuGuData's CNY 83 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/crawlbyte/top-up
- [Web scraping API: 100+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://crawlbyte.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.crawlbyte.ai/api/tasks`
- API key: with the plan, on https://crawlbyte.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://developers.crawlbyte.ai/universal-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Crawlbyte (https://crawlbyte.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- HTML: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $5.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Amazon Scraper · Amtrak Scraper · Beehiiv Subscriber · Best Buy Scraper · FlyFrontier Scraper · HAR Scraper · LinkedIn Scraper · Target Scraper · Walmart Scraper · Yelp Scraper

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scrape any public website using the Crawlbyte universal task engine. Designed for flexibility, it supports GET, POST, and custom selectors, JS rendering, headers, proxies, and more.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree to use Crawlbyte only for lawful purposes and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Strictly prohibited actions include scraping websites where such actions are explicitly prohibited by law or site terms, collecting or processing personal data without legal basis, attempting to disrupt systems, or reselling access. [...] You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of Crawlbyte complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and third-party terms of service. [...] Users retain ownership of data results generated through the Service

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: type "universal", input, multithread, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: jsRendering, customSelector, method, user_agent_preset, user_agent_custom, headers, cookie, proxy
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/tasks

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay As You Go
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old with the legal authority to enter its Terms, for business and professional use

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

task ID, task status, page HTML, JSON response

## Crawlbyte's plans (5)

- [Crawlbyte, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbyte/top-up/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [Crawlbyte, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbyte/49-monthly/llms.txt): 14% complete
- [Crawlbyte, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbyte/99-monthly/llms.txt): 14% complete
- [Crawlbyte, $199 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbyte/199-monthly/llms.txt): 14% complete
- [Crawlbyte, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbyte/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete

## Crawlbyte's calls (1)

- `POST /api/tasks`: [Crawlbyte, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbyte/top-up/llms.txt)

## Crawlbyte's APIs (3)

- [Crawlbyte: Amazon product API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/amazon-product-apis/crawlbyte/top-up/llms.txt)
- [Crawlbyte: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbyte/top-up/llms.txt)
- [Crawlbyte: Walmart product API pricing, 5 plans](https://datacircle.dev/walmart-product-apis/crawlbyte/top-up/llms.txt)

## Crawlbyte: 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
- [APIFreaks, $10 monthly, Monthly 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/10-monthly-monthly-80000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-fetch-fetch-pro/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% 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

## 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://crawlbyte.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://crawlbyte.ai/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://developers.crawlbyte.ai/authentication?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://developers.crawlbyte.ai/common-error-messages?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://developers.crawlbyte.ai/getting-started/api-access?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://developers.crawlbyte.ai/universal-scraper?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing