Foundry pricing: web scraping API, POST / v1/ readability
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$1.00per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run Foundry through our web scraping API benchmark yet.We rank 2,948 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 65% of the 2,948 plans.LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.Scrappey, WebScraping.AI and APIFreaks are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: x402 pay per call Foundry's only plan
Call:
POST / v1/ readability one of Foundry's 3 calls for this APIPOST /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$1.00 per 1,000v1/ readability POST /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$1.00 per 1,000v1/ html-to-markdown POST /Pay as you go, x402 pay per call$1.00 per 1,000v1/ website-metadata
API: Web scraping API one of Foundry's 7 APIs
- Tech stack API
- Domain WHOIS API
- Email verification API
- IP company lookup API
- Phone validation API
- GitHub repository API
- Web scraping API
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
- Returns none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
inputtoPOST /. The call returns the page's content.v1/ readability - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.
Foundry: web scraping API alternatives
Foundry alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages.
| This planFoundry, pay as you go, x402 pay per call, POST /v1/readability | WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering | APIFreaks, $20 pack, One-Off 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API | Scrappa, pay as you go | SerpKite, $10 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 pages | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Completeness | 0% | 29% | 29% | 71% | 57% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | pay first | pay as you go | pay first |
| Pay | per call | $20 | $20 | per call | $10 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 20,000 calls | 20,000 calls | as many as you pay for | 10,000 calls |
| Freshness | unknown | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key | anyone 18 or older | anyone 13 or older with a real company or personal email, not for gambling, adult content, dating or the alcohol industry | anyone 18 or over | anyone at least 18 and able to form a binding contract, with a verified email address (disposable email addresses are blocked) |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-09.
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
| $ per 1,000 pages | $1.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
|---|
| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | Readability: the main text of a web page with word count, reading time and Flesch reading ease. Input: a URL. |
|---|
| Keep data | no API terms |
|---|---|
| Use data | no API terms |
| Pay | per call |
|---|
| Per second | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | input |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/readability |
| Plan | x402 pay per call |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key |
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold
URL, page title, text, word count, reading time, Flesch reading ease