# Croma, free, POST /global/extract/markdown/v1: Web scraping API

> Turn any public web page into clean Markdown with boilerplate stripped.

Croma's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Croma's docs list 1: Markdown.
We haven't run Croma through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,713 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.9999 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/free-post-global-extract-markdown-v1
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://usecroma.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.croma.run/global/extract/markdown/v1`
- API key: with the plan, on https://usecroma.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.usecroma.com/guides/global/extract?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#page-as-markdown
- Sold by: Croma (https://usecroma.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 400 other calls

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn any public web page into clean Markdown with boilerplate stripped.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 4. Acceptable use. You agree not to: Use the Services in violation of any applicable law or third-party rights. Use returned data for unlawful discrimination, harassment, or any purpose prohibited by data-protection or consumer-credit law. Attempt to disrupt, overload, reverse engineer, or gain unauthorized access to the Services. Resell or redistribute the Services except as expressly permitted in writing. 5. Lawful use of public-record data [...] You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of that information has a lawful basis and a legitimate purpose, and complies with the applicable data-protection, consumer-credit, and habeas-data rules of the country the records come from. [...] A record coming from a public source does not make it free to use for any purpose [...]

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,500 credits a month
- Enough for: 150 calls a month
- Expires: end of month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.017
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: effort, scope, include_metadata
- Method: POST
- Path: /global/extract/markdown/v1

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, Markdown, title, author, published date, image

## Croma's plans (7)

- [Croma, free, POST /global/extract/markdown/v1](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/free-post-global-extract-markdown-v1/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Croma, free, Government](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/free-government/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Croma, $20 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/20-monthly/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Croma, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/99-monthly/llms.txt): $9.90 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Croma, $299 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/299-monthly/llms.txt): $8.50 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Croma, $799 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/799-monthly/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Croma, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete, live

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

- `POST /global/extract/markdown/v1`: [Croma, free, POST /global/extract/markdown/v1](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/free-post-global-extract-markdown-v1/llms.txt)

## Croma's APIs (3)

- [Croma: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/croma/free-post-global-extract-markdown-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: web search API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/croma/free-post-global-web-search-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/colorado-sos/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-colorado-sos-entity-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/ct-sos/business/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-ct-sos-business-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/delaware/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-delaware-entity-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /sv/cnr-sv/company/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-sv-cnr-sv-company-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /global/gleif/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-global-gleif-entity-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /jp/nta/company/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-jp-nta-company-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/ny-dos/corporation/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-ny-dos-corporation-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /co/rues/entity-by-nit/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-co-rues-entity-by-nit-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /ve/seniat/rif/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-ve-seniat-rif-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /pe/sunat/ruc/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-pe-sunat-ruc-v1/llms.txt)
- [Croma: business verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /us/sunbiz/entity/v1](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/croma/free-post-us-sunbiz-entity-v1/llms.txt)

## Croma: web scraping API alternatives

- [APIFreaks, $1,000 pack, One-Off 10,000,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering with CAPTCHA solving](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/1000-pack-one-off-10000000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api-javascript-rendering-with-captcha-solving/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [XCrawl, $8 monthly, Hobby, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/xcrawl/8-monthly-hobby-post-v1-scrape-scrape-api-full/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $192 yearly, Starter (yearly), POST /webscraping, Web Scraping with Premium Proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/geekflare/192-yearly-starter-yearly-post-webscraping-web-scraping-with-premium-proxy/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [switch402, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /v1/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/switch402/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-x402-post-v1-scrape/llms.txt): $8.00 per 1,000, 14% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.croma.run/catalog?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.croma.run/openapi?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/guides/global/extract.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/live-lookups.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.usecroma.com/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usecroma.com/en?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usecroma.com/en/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usecroma.com/en/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing