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FetchLayer pricing and alternatives: web scraping API

FetchLayer's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026

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0% complete: none of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 935 plans by price. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan costs the least per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Spider Cloud are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of FetchLayer's 8 plans
Call: POST /web-unblocker/fetch FetchLayer's only call for this API
API: Web scraping API one of FetchLayer's 11 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider fetches the page when you call.
  • None of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits, enough for 90 calls.
  • One call. You send url to POST /web-unblocker/fetch. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

FetchLayer: web scraping API alternatives

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

FetchLayer, $500 monthlyZenRows, $199 monthly, Growth G1, GET /v1/, Fetch a pageScrapingAnt, $249 monthly, Business, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Headless browser (no JS rendering, return_page_source parameter is true) + standard (datacenter) proxyScrapingdog, $12,000 monthly, Ultra Starter, GET /scrape, Web Scraping APIStealthASF, $169 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/scrape, Plain request
$ per 1,000 pages$0.167$0.166$0.166$0.167$0.169
Completeness0%43%29%14%14%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$500$199$249$12,000$169
Enough for3,000,000 calls a month1,200,000 calls a month1,500,000 calls a month72,000,000 calls a month1,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)anyone of legal age (18) with the legal capacity to contractanyone at least 18 years old, or with a parent's permissionanyoneanyone

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Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. fetchlayer.dev/
  2. fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
  3. fetchlayer.dev/documentation/web-unblocker/endpoints/fetch
  4. fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
  5. fetchlayer.dev/pricing
  6. fetchlayer.dev/terms

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
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: 223 other calls
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchFetch any public web page and get it back as HTML, visible text or Markdown — including the pages an ordinary request comes back empty from, and the pages that turn an ordinary request away.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataIts Acceptable Use Policy: "You Must Not Use FetchLayer To" violate any law, regulation, court order, or third-party right, collect or process personal data in a way that is unlawful, unfair, deceptive, or disproportionate, stalk, harass, threaten, dox, profile, or otherwise target individuals for harmful purposes, build or support unlawful surveillance, unlawful monitoring, or harmful intelligence gathering about private individuals, make or support decisions about housing, employment, credit, insurance, education, healthcare, public benefits, or similar regulated outcomes without an appropriate legal basis and all required safeguards, scrape or analyze data about minors, health, ethnicity, religion, sexuality, political opinions, or other sensitive categories without a lawful basis and appropriate protections, bypass authentication, paywalls, robots controls, rate limits, or technical access controls that are not intended for public access, republish, syndicate, mirror, or redistribute verbatim copyrighted third-party content (such as full Reddit posts or comments) to end consumers without appropriate rights, use scraped content to create a competing product that substitutes for the original source platform, use the service to distribute malware, spam, credential theft, or phishing content, attempt to reverse engineer, break, overload, or interfere with the service or its infrastructure, train machine learning or AI models on content obtained through FetchLayer without independently verifying that you have appropriate rights or a valid legal basis to do so, resell, sublicense, or operate a competing extraction service on top of FetchLayer unless we have expressly allowed it in writing. Its terms: "It is not permitted to republish, syndicate, or redistribute the original creative expression of third-party content without appropriate rights. You must not use FetchLayer to create a competing publication or mirror of the source platform's content."
Plan
Pay$0
You get30 credits
Enough for90 calls
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl. Optional: render, maxEffort, country, session, assets, waitUntil, waitForSelector, waitMs, expectText, device, headers, maxRedirects, output, maxBytes
MethodPOST
Path/web-unblocker/fetch
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of legal majority in their jurisdiction, if higher)
The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

page URL, final URL, status code, redirect count, page title, content type, page content, content format, text length, truncated, bytes transferred, total time, billable units

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