glim.sh pricing: web scraping API

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$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run glim.sh through our web scraping API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 1,913 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan 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 covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free credit one of glim.sh's 3 plans

Call: POST /api/v1/web/fetch glim.sh's only call for this API

POST /api/v1/web/fetchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web scraping API one of glim.sh's 10 APIs

About this item

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Nothing to pay. You get $1 of credit, enough for 500 calls.
One call. You send url to POST /api/v1/web/fetch. You can also send format and selector. The call returns the page's content.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

glim.sh: web scraping API alternatives

glim.sh alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

The table starts with glim.sh's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to glim.sh's.

	glim.sh, pay as you go	WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, no JS rendering	AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Protected	FetchFox, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/visit	Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth	BlockRun, pay as you go, Enterprise
$ per 1,000 pages	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00	$2.00
Completeness	14%	29%	43%	71%	86%	29%
Billing	pay as you go	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay first	pay as you go
Pay	per call	$20	$10	any amount	$5	monthly
Enough for	as many as you pay for	10,000 calls	5,000 calls	as many as you pay for	2,500 calls	as many as you pay for
Freshness	unknown	live	live	live	2 days	unknown
Who can get it	anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base, Solana or Monad, or MPP on Tempo	anyone 18 or older	anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian	anyone given access (its FAQ: sign-in is not yet open, reach out on Telegram for early access), outside the countries and regions under comprehensive U.S. sanctions

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Price
$ per 1,000 pages	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search tweets with advanced query operators - body param is query · Fetch a tweet with thread context, or a user profile · Search Reddit posts by keyword query · Fetch a Reddit post with comments, subreddit feed, or user · Run a semantic web search with ranked results · Search GitHub repos, conversations, discussions, or code · Fetch GitHub repo metadata, files, PRs, issues, or discussions · Search Amazon product listings · Fetch Amazon product details by ASIN · Fetch a cleaned YouTube transcript · Search Telegram channels and indexed public posts · Fetch a public Telegram channel's posts or a post with comments · Search tweets (paginated) - body param is q, not query · Fetch multiple tweets by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch replies to a tweet · Fetch quote tweets of a tweet · Fetch users who retweeted a tweet · Fetch the full thread context of a tweet · Fetch the attached Twitter article of a tweet · Fetch a single tweet by id · Search Twitter user profiles by keyword · Check the follow relationship between two users · Fetch multiple users by id (comma-separated ids) · Fetch a user's recent tweets · Fetch a user's mentions timeline · Fetch a user's followers · Fetch the accounts a user follows · Fetch a user's verified followers · Fetch a single user profile by @handle or id · Fetch tweets from a list · Fetch the member profiles of a Twitter list · Fetch trending topics (by WOEID) · LLM chat completion (OpenAI-compatible, streaming supported) · Anthropic Messages API compatible LLM inference (streaming supported)

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Full-page extraction to clean markdown, with server-side SSR/SPA rendering, PDF support, paywall detection and residential-proxy escalation when a site fights back.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	No unlawful use, and no use that violates the rights of others. Data is retrieved from publicly available sources on your behalf. You are responsible for how you use it, including compliance with the source platforms' terms and applicable law. No attempts to disrupt, overload, or reverse the service's payment gating.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$1
Enough for	500 calls

Rate limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call

The call
You send	url. Optional: format, selector
Method	POST
Path	/api/v1/web/fetch

About the plan
Plan	Free credit
Who can get it	anyone who signs in at glim.sh/app with an email code: new accounts get $1 of free calls

The 25 fields the plan's answer can hold

status code, page content, page URL, page title, author, published date, modified date, page description, site name, section, language, image, favicon, outcome, paywalled, unsupported reason, alternatives, total characters, truncated, truncated characters, download URL, file URL, file bytes, file type, expires at