Embedly pricing: web scraping API, GET /
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$11.90per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from Embedly scores 19.9 out of 100. Embedly ranks 143rd of 143 providers.Half of the 2,645 plans we rank by price cost $1.999 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 9% of the 2,645 plans.LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price.WebScraping.AI, Scrappey and APIFreaks are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: API one of Embedly's 2 plans
Call:
GET / one of Embedly's 2 callsAPI: Web scraping API Embedly's only API
About this item
- A copy at most 24 hours old. You get the page from Embedly's cache.
- Returns none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
- A monthly subscription. You pay $119 a month for 10,000 requests, enough for 10,000 results. Calls keep working once your requests run out.
- One call. You send
urlorurlstoGET /. The call returns each page's content.1/ oembed - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Embedly: web scraping API alternatives
Embedly alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a day old.
| This planEmbedly, $119 monthly, API, GET /1/oembed | FastAF, $299 pack, Pro, POST /v1/extract | LucidExtractor, $20 pack, 5,000 credits, POST /v1/browser/batch | Ilmenite, $200 pack, Top-up $200 (+25% bonus), POST /v1/scrape, Scrape, unlock | ScrapeUp, $29 monthly, Lite Plus, POST /, Premium scrape | |
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $11.90 | $11.96 | $12.00 | $12.00 | $12.083 |
| Completeness | 0% | 0% | 43% | 43% | 43% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | pay first | pay first | monthly |
| Pay | $119 | $299 | $20 | $200 | $29 |
| Enough for | 10,000 results a month | 25,000 calls | about 1,666 results | about 16,666 calls | 2,400 calls a month |
| Freshness | 24 hours | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone of legal age to form a binding contract (an individual at least 13 years old, or an entity) | Businesses and developers acting for purposes relating to their trade, business, craft or profession | anyone 18 or over | anyone | anyone with a confirmed email who accepts the Acceptable Use Policy |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Screenshot, not in the answer
- Markdown, not in the answer
- HTML, not in the answer
- Text, not in the answer
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Images, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 pages | $11.90 |
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| Per | result |
| Billing | monthly |
| $ a month | $119 |
| Also pays for | /1/extract: 10,000 URLs a month · /1/display: 25,000 images a month · /1/display/resize: 25,000 images a month · /1/display/crop: 25,000 images a month · /1/display/fill: 25,000 images a month · /1/display/blur: 25,000 images a month · /1/display/webp: 25,000 images a month · /1/display/avif: 25,000 images a month |
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.95 |
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| Units cap | soft |
| $ per 1,000 | $11.90 |
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| Their pitch | Turn URLs into responsive embeds, structured content, and optimized images through one developer platform. |
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| Freshness | 24 hours |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Embedly grants to you nonexclusive, revocable, nonsublicensable, nontransferable license to download and use the Embedly APIs and other materials provided by Embedly to develop, reproduce and distribute applications (“Applications”) that link to and display Third Party Media. You agree to use the API only as outlined in the documentation provided on the Site. You may not install or use the API for any other purpose without Embedly’s prior written consent. Restrictions. Except as expressly and unambiguously authorized under these Terms, you may not (i) use the Services, API or other tools, services, media, applications or content provided by Embedly in order to create any product or service that permits the linking or display of media, competes with or is intended to replace the Services, or (ii) copy, rent, lease, sell, transfer, assign, sublicense, disassemble, reverse engineer or decompile [...] modify or alter any part of the Services or API. Third Party Media. Give credit where credit is due. You should always link back to the original piece Third Party Media when possible. All Third Party Media is the property of the respective third parties. You agree and covenant to obtain all rights from owners of Third Party Media necessary for you to link to or display such Third Party Media. Use the Third Party Media for the purpose that it was intended. If you link to Third Party Media, you are required to comply, and represent and warrant that your use complies, with all terms of use, policies and laws, rules and regulations applicable to such Third Party Media. Don’t Be Evil. In connection with your use of the Service, you shall not: use any method to intercept or expropriate any system data or information from the Services, use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to crawl, index, or copy the Site or the content contained herein, attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, user accounts, computer systems or networks, link, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that you do not have a right to make available under any law, or under any contractual or fiduciary relationships, link, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party, link, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, “junk mail,” “spam,” “chain letters,” “pyramid schemes,” or any other form of solicitation, link, upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any material that contains software viruses or any other computer code, viruses, malware, bots, files or programs designed to interrupt, damage, disable, overburden, impair, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment, interfere with, damage, disable, overburden, impair, destroy, limit the functionality of or disrupt the Site or Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies of networks connected to the Services, or intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, rule or regulations. |
| Pay | $119 |
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| You get | 10,000 requests a month |
| Enough for | 10,000 results a month |
| Per second | 50 |
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| Batch | 10 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | one of url or urls. Optional: maxwidth, maxheight, width, height, wmode, autoplay, words, chars, luxe, secure, scheme, title, description, meta_images, a, dnt |
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| Method | GET |
| Path | /1/oembed |
| Plan | API |
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| Who can get it | anyone of legal age to form a binding contract (an individual at least 13 years old, or an entity) |
The 16 fields the plan's answer can hold
embed type, oEmbed version, page title, author, author URL, site name, site URL, cache age, thumbnail URL, thumbnail width, thumbnail height, page description, photo URL, embed width, embed height, embed HTML