# Expand, free, POST /v1/fetch/json: Web scraping API

> JSON Mode returns a JSON object, for applications.

Expand's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), 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](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.
[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 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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/free-post-v1-fetch-json
- [Web scraping API: the best of 100+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://expand.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST /v1/fetch/json`
- API key: with the plan, on https://expand.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://expand.ai/api-reference/fetch/fetch.fetchJson?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Expand (https://expand.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Screenshot: ✓
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Extra fields: highlights: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Fetch · Start Batched Fetch · Search · Snapshot Highlights · Crawl

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: JSON Mode returns a JSON object, for applications.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: 3.1 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 get: 10,000 credits
- Enough for: 10,000 calls
- Expires: 365 days

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: include, highlights, browserConfig, documentConfig
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/fetch/json

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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, snapshot ID, public snapshot ID, playground link, content type, page markdown, state JSON, appendix, blocked, loading status, screenshot, origin error

## Expand's plans (3)

- [Expand, free, POST /v1/fetch/json](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/free-post-v1-fetch-json/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Expand, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch/json](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-fetch-json/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Expand, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/fetch/json](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-fetch-json/llms.txt): 29% complete, live

## Expand's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/fetch`: [Expand, free, POST /v1/fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/free-post-v1-fetch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/fetch/json`: [Expand, free, POST /v1/fetch/json](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/free-post-v1-fetch-json/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/fetch/batched`: [Expand, free, POST /v1/fetch/batched](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/free-post-v1-fetch-batched/llms.txt)

## Expand's APIs (2)

- [Expand: web search API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/expand/free/llms.txt)
- [Expand: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans, POST /v1/fetch/json](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/expand/free-post-v1-fetch-json/llms.txt)

## Expand: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-datacenter-proxy-js-rendering/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, $20 pack, One-Off 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/20-pack-one-off-80000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://expand.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://expand.ai/api-reference/fetch/fetch.fetchJson?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://expand.ai/docs/limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://expand.ai/docs/pricing-and-usage?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://expand.ai/docs/tiers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://expand.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://expand.ai/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing