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Expand pricing: web scraping API, POST /v1/fetch

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$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from Expand scores 76.2 out of 100. Expand ranks 17th of 102 providers.This plan is free. We rank 2,105 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan 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.80legs's $29 monthly plan covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Type a number to see the cheapest Expand plan for that many pages. The table below then sorts the other plans by what each costs.
Plan: Free one of Expand's 3 plans
Call: POST /v1/fetch one of Expand's 3 calls for this API
API: Web scraping API one of Expand's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. Expand fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 10,000 credits, enough for 10,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out. Unused credits expire after 365 days.
  • One call. You send url to POST /v1/fetch. You can also send include, highlights, browserConfig and documentConfig. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Expand: web scraping API alternatives

Expand alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

The table starts with Expand's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Expand's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Expand, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetchWebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS renderingAPIFreaks, $20 pack, One-Off 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper APILinkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standardScrappa, pay as you go
$ per 1,000 pages$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00$1.00
Completeness14%29%29%43%71%
Billingpay firstpay firstpay firstpay firstpay as you go
Pay$1$20$20any amountper call
Enough for1,000 calls20,000 calls20,000 callsas many as you pay foras many as you pay for
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over able to form a binding contract, for business and professional useanyone 18 or olderanyone 13 or older with a real company or personal email, not for gambling, adult content, dating or the alcohol industryanyoneanyone 18 or over

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.

  1. expand.ai
  2. expand.ai/api-reference/fetch/fetch.fetch
  3. expand.ai/docs/limits
  4. expand.ai/docs/pricing-and-usage
  5. expand.ai/docs/tiers
  6. expand.ai/pricing
  7. expand.ai/terms-of-service

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
  • 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
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Extra fieldshighlights: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Fetch JSON Mode · Start Batched Fetch · Search · Snapshot Highlights · Crawl
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFetch renders live pages and returns agent-ready Markdown, State JSON, and replayable Snapshots with evidence.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data3.1 Public web content only. The Services are designed and intended solely for accessing content that is publicly accessible without authentication. Content remains publicly accessible for this purpose when a website places a CAPTCHA, bot check, or similar bot-mitigation measure in front of it, and the Services may automatically complete such measures when accessing that content. You may not use the Services to access, retrieve, capture, or process content that is behind a login, authentication wall, paywall, or other access control that limits it to authorized users [...] 3.2 Prohibited uses. You may not use the Services, or permit the Services to be used, to: (a) violate any applicable law, including computer misuse, anti-circumvention, privacy, data protection, consumer protection, export control, and intellectual property laws, (b) collect, aggregate, or infer sensitive personal information (such as health, financial, biometric, or precise geolocation data, government identifiers, or information about children), or build profiles of individuals for surveillance, stalking, harassment, discrimination, or eligibility decisions subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act or similar laws, (c) send unsolicited communications or engage in other abusive conduct toward target websites or third parties, (d) generate request volumes against a target website that are designed to, or that you know are likely to, degrade or disrupt that website, (e) capture credentials, session tokens, cookies, or authenticated user data, (f) infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property or other rights of any person, or (g) transmit malicious code or harmful content. We may publish an acceptable use policy in the Documentation that provides further detail consistent with this Section 3, in the event of a conflict, this Section 3 controls. 3.4 Restrictions on the Services. Except as expressly permitted by these Terms, you may not, and may not permit any third party to: (a) sell, resell, sublicense, or otherwise redistribute raw access to the Services or the API (as distinct from providing Output within your own products and services), (b) modify, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Services, Iris, the API, or our dashboard, or attempt to derive the source code, models, model weights, or training data of any of them, (c) use the Services to develop a product or service that competes with the Services, or use Output for the purpose of building or training a web data extraction service that competes with the Services, (d) circumvent or attempt to circumvent metering, usage limits, credentials, or other technical restrictions of the Services, (e) interfere with or disrupt the integrity or performance of the Services or the systems of Expand or its suppliers, or (f) remove or obscure any proprietary notices in the Services or the Documentation.
Plan
Pay$0
You get10,000 credits
Enough for10,000 calls
Expires365 days
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median31.41 s
The call
You sendurl. Optional: include, highlights, browserConfig, documentConfig
MethodPOST
Path/v1/fetch
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone aged 18 or over able to form a binding contract, for business and professional use
The 12 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, snapshot ID, playground link, page title, description, page markdown, state JSON, appendix, same-domain link count, external link count, origin error

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