# Gaffa, free credits, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request: Web scraping API

> Any web page. One API. Send a request, say what you want back. Gaffa handles everything in between and turns every page into an API, built for you and your agents.

Gaffa's web scraping API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown.
We haven't run Gaffa through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,855 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.
[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 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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/free-credits-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://gaffa.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.gaffa.dev/v1/browser/requests`, Create a new browser request
- API key: with the plan, on https://gaffa.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://gaffa.dev/docs/api-reference/post-v1-browser-requests?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Gaffa (https://gaffa.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Create a site mapping request

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Any web page. One API. Send a request, say what you want back. Gaffa handles everything in between and turns every page into an API, built for you and your agents.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "Customers must not use the Products in a way that places an undue burden on any website or service. In particular, customers must: limit their request rate to any single website to a level that does not degrade its performance or availability for other users, respect rate-limit signals from target websites, including HTTP 429 and 503 responses and Retry-After headers, and back off when they are received, respect robots.txt directives and other machine-readable restrictions on automated access, not use the Products to circumvent technical measures that restrict access, such as login walls or paywalls.", "Our Products must not be used for: accessing non-public data, such as content behind a login or paywall, unless the customer is authorised to access it (for example, their own account or data they have been granted access to) and doing so does not breach the website's terms, collecting special category or sensitive personal data, such as health, biometric or financial data, without a lawful basis.", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of sending unsolicited bulk or commercial messages in violation of the laws and regulations applicable to your jurisdiction (“spam”).", "Our Products must not be used for the purpose of running unconfirmed mailing lists or telephone number lists", "Our Products must not be used to access any account or electronic resource where the group or individual attempting to gain access does not own or is not authorised to access the resource", "Each customer is responsible for determining which laws and regulations apply to their use of the Products, and for complying with them.", "We provide our facilities with the assumption your use will be "business as usual" [...] If your use is considered to be excessive, then additional fees may be charged or capacity may be restricted.", "By using this website, you warrant [...] that you will not: [...] harvest, collect, or gather user data without the user’s consent, or use this website or its associated services in such a way that may infringe the privacy, intellectual property rights, or other rights of third parties."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits
- Enough for: 500 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: url, settings.actions[].type "generate_markdown". Optional: async, proxy_location, max_cache_age, settings.record_request, settings.time_limit, settings.max_media_bandwidth, settings.block_ads, settings.block_non_essential_assets, settings.log_redirects, settings.session_continuation.enabled, settings.session_continuation.duration_minutes, settings.session_continuation.vendor, settings.actions[].selector, settings.actions[].output_type
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/browser/requests

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone who creates an account, no credit card required

## The 26 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, URL, proxy location, state, credits used, final URL, HTTP status code, from cache, data deleted, start time, completion time, running time, page load time, action ID, action type, page markdown, markdown file URL, redirect chain, proxy session ID, proxy session host, proxy session port, proxy session username, proxy session password, proxy session expiry, proxy session location, assigned proxy IP

## Gaffa's plans (6)

- [Gaffa, free credits, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/free-credits-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Gaffa, $20 pack, Get Credits, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/20-pack-get-credits-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Gaffa, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/29-monthly-starter-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt): $3.222 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Gaffa, $99 monthly, Startup, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/99-monthly-startup-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt): $2.829 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Gaffa, $249 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/249-monthly-growth-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt): $2.49 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Gaffa, contact us, Custom, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/contact-us-custom-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt): 14% complete, live

## Gaffa's calls (2)

- `POST /v1/browser/requests`, Create a new browser request: [Gaffa, free credits, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/free-credits-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/browser/requests`, Create a new browser request, full: [Gaffa, free credits, POST /v1/browser/requests, Create a new browser request, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/free-credits-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request-full/llms.txt)

## Gaffa's APIs (1)

- [Gaffa: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, Create a new browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gaffa/free-credits-post-v1-browser-requests-create-a-new-browser-request/llms.txt)

## Gaffa: web scraping API alternatives

- [ScraperAPI, $299 monthly, Business, POST /jobs, Async API with premium proxies and JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-post-jobs-async-api-with-premium-proxies-and-js-rendering/llms.txt): $2.492 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $299 monthly, Pro, GET /scrape, Scrape, premium proxy, with JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/299-monthly-pro-get-scrape-scrape-premium-proxy-with-js/llms.txt): $2.492 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Searlo, $9.99 pack, Starter, POST /scrape/batch, Batch Scrape, rendered](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/searlo/9-99-pack-starter-post-scrape-batch-batch-scrape-rendered/llms.txt): $2.498 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [PagePixels, $24.99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/pagepixels/24-99-monthly/llms.txt): $2.499 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 2026-11-04.

- https://gaffa.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://gaffa.dev/docs/api-reference/post-v1-browser-requests?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://gaffa.dev/docs/credits-and-pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://gaffa.dev/docs/features/browser-requests?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://gaffa.dev/docs/features/browser-requests/actions/generate-markdown?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://gaffa.dev/legal/acceptable-use-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://gaffa.dev/legal/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing