# FetchLayer, free: Web scraping API

> Fetch 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.

FetchLayer's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns none of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
We rank 935 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more to start 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/475-monthly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Spider Cloud](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free
- [Best web scraping API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fetchlayer.dev/web-unblocker/fetch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- Its API docs: https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/web-unblocker/endpoints/fetch
- Sold by: FetchLayer (https://fetchlayer.dev)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: 223 other calls

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Its 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 get: 30 credits
- Enough for: 90 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: render, maxEffort, country, session, assets, waitUntil, waitForSelector, waitMs, expectText, device, headers, maxRedirects, output, maxBytes
- Method: POST
- Path: /web-unblocker/fetch

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## FetchLayer's plans (8)

- [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/top-up/llms.txt): $0.663 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $25 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/25-monthly/llms.txt): $0.556 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/50-monthly/llms.txt): $0.476 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $100 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/100-monthly/llms.txt): $0.444 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $250 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/250-monthly/llms.txt): $0.333 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/500-monthly/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [FetchLayer, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, live

## FetchLayer's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /web-unblocker/fetch`: [FetchLayer, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer's APIs (11)

- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /bing/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-bing-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: SERP API pricing, 10 plans, POST /duckduckgo/search](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-duckduckgo-search/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Instagram profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/instagram-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: Reddit profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/reddit-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok profile API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: TikTok video API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/tiktok-video-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X post API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/x-post-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: YouTube channel API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-apis/fetchlayer/free/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/about-profile](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-about-profile/llms.txt)
- [FetchLayer: X profile API pricing, 10 plans, POST /twitter/user-profile-details](https://datacircle.dev/x-profile-apis/fetchlayer/free-post-twitter-user-profile-details/llms.txt)

## FetchLayer: web scraping API alternatives

- [ZenRows, $199 monthly, Growth G1, GET /v1/, Fetch a page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/199-monthly-growth-g1-get-v1-fetch-a-page/llms.txt): $0.166 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [ScrapingAnt, $249 monthly, Business, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Headless browser (no JS rendering, return_page_source parameter is true) + standard (datacenter) proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingant/249-monthly-business-get-v2-extended-extended-json-headless-browser-no-js-rendering-return-page-source-parameter-is-true-standard-datacenter-proxy/llms.txt): $0.166 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $12,000 monthly, Ultra Starter, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/12000-monthly-ultra-starter-get-scrape-web-scraping-api/llms.txt): $0.167 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [StealthASF, $169 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/scrape, Plain request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/stealthasf/169-monthly-scale-post-v1-scrape-plain-request/llms.txt): $0.169 per 1,000, 14% 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 2026-10-29.

- https://fetchlayer.dev/
- https://fetchlayer.dev/acceptable-use
- https://fetchlayer.dev/documentation/web-unblocker/endpoints/fetch
- https://fetchlayer.dev/llms.txt
- https://fetchlayer.dev/pricing
- https://fetchlayer.dev/terms