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fastCRW pricing and alternatives: web scraping API

fastCRW's sitellms.txt
86% complete: 6 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesThe cheapest of the 84 plans we rank by price is ScrapingBee, $249 monthly, Business, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, without JavaScript rendering, at $0.083 per 1,000 pages.
Plan: Free one of fastCRW's 14 plans
Call: POST /v1/scrape fastCRW's only call for this API
API: Web scraping API one of fastCRW's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call fetches the page when you make it.
  • 6 of the 7 key fields we check. Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text, Links, Images.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 credits once, enough for 500 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send url to POST /v1/scrape. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: anyone with a fastCRW account. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

fastCRW: web scraping API alternatives

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

fastCRW, $5,604 yearlyScrapingBee, $5,799 monthly, Enterprise 120, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, premium proxy without JavaScript renderingScraperAPI, $49 monthly, Hobby, POST /jobs, Async APIOlostep, $99 monthlyScrapeless, $10,788 yearly, Enterprise Plus, yearly, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render
$ per 1,000 pages$0.467$0.483$0.49$0.495$0.63
Completeness86%43%43%71%86%
Billingyearlymonthlymonthlymonthlyyearly
Pay$5,604$5,799$49$99$10,788
Enough for1,000,000 calls a month12,000,000 calls a month100,000 calls a month200,000 calls a monthabout 1,427,142 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a fastCRW accountany natural person aged at least 18 years old with full and complete legal capacity acting in the scope of their professional activity or being the legal representative of a legal entity empowered to enter into legally binding commitmentsanyoneanyone at least 18 years old (or the legal age of majority), or 13 or older with a parent's or guardian's permissionanyone

Web scraping API pricing: plans compared

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-28.

  1. docs.fastcrw.com/credit-costs
  2. docs.fastcrw.com/openapi.json
  3. docs.fastcrw.com/rate-limits
  4. docs.fastcrw.com/scraping
  5. fastcrw.com
  6. fastcrw.com/pricing
  7. fastcrw.com/pricing.md
  8. fastcrw.com/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Screenshot
  • Markdown
  • HTML
  • Text
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links
  • Images
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Crawl · Map · Extract · Search
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchTurn any known URL into clean markdown, HTML, links, or structured JSON in one request.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data"You retain ownership of any data you extract using the Service, subject to the intellectual property rights of the original content owners. You are solely responsible for ensuring your use of extracted data complies with applicable laws and the rights of third parties.", "You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. You shall not use the Service to:" "Crawl or scrape websites in violation of their terms of service or robots.txt directives", "Collect personal data without proper legal basis or consent", "Engage in any activity that constitutes harassment, abuse, or harm to others", "Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any system, network, or data", "Distribute malware, spam, or any harmful content", "Interfere with or disrupt the Service or its infrastructure", "Resell, redistribute, or sublicense access to the Service without authorization", "Use the Service for competitive intelligence gathering against fastCRW", "Harvest child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or any other content whose collection, possession, or distribution is illegal under applicable law", "Target login-walled or authenticated-only content that the caller is not authorized to access"
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 credits
Enough for500 calls, once
Rate limit
Concurrent3
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: formats, onlyMainContent, renderJs, waitFor, includeTags, excludeTags, headers, cssSelector, xpath, chunkStrategy, query, filterMode, topK, proxy, proxyList, proxyRotation, country, stealth, renderer, deadlineMs, changeTracking, parsers, screenshotFullPage, maxAge, storeInCache
MethodPOST
Path/v1/scrape
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a fastCRW account
The 17 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page HTML, raw HTML, page links, page title, description, source URL, status code, warning, render decision, credits used, page text, page images, content type, change tracking, screenshot, content chunks

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