# Grounder, free: Web scraping API

> Pages to read, 1 to 10 http(s) addresses. Grounder reads each through a page reader that gets past sites which block a plain fetch, and returns its text.

Grounder's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Grounder's docs list 1: Summary.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Grounder scores 47.0 out of 100. Grounder ranks 168th of 214 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 3,359 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. [765 web scraping API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) [HirePulse's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hirepulse/free-daily-calls/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 77.1 out of 100.
[LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/25-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Gapup's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan (/v1/batch)](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly-pool-post-v1-batch/llms.txt) covers any number of pages, and costs less up front than LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan.
[Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt), [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) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/50-monthly-monthly-600000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.grounder.net/v1/search`
- API key: with the plan, on https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://grounder.net/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Grounder (https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-11

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Summary: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Tavily request format · Brave request format · Claude Desktop's custom web search · Search (news) · Search (image-search) · Search (video-search)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000 calls that find nothing: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Pages to read, 1 to 10 http(s) addresses. Grounder reads each through a page reader that gets past sites which block a plain fetch, and returns its text.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Don't use Grounder to: break the law, or infringe or violate anyone's rights, get around the free allowance, rate limits or other limits, including by opening extra accounts, resell or redistribute access to the service, or offer its results as a search service of your own, without our written permission, disrupt, overload or attack the service, or test its security without our permission, work out how Grounder decides where a search goes, or build a competing router with it, send searches that break a search provider's terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 500 results a day

## Rate limit

- Per second: 2
- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: query, urls, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: features, top_k, filters.domains, filters.recency, filters.language, filters.publisher_ids, filters.article_types, filters.temporal_sensitivity, include_text, text_max_chars, requested_provider, providers, realtime, routing_settings, profile, workspace, context.user_location, context.user_time_zone
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/search

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or older with a Google, GitHub or Apple account whose email address is verified

## The 56 fields the plan's answer can hold

search query, request ID, workspace, root query ID, features, routing policy, provider call provider, provider call status, provider call latency, provider call result count, provider call mode, provider call results requested, provider call unique result count, provider call fresh result count, provider call cost units, provider call cost unit, provider call features, live data call provider, live data call status, live data call latency, live data call result count, live data call mode, live data call results requested, live data call unique result count, live data call fresh result count, live data call cost units, live data call cost unit, live data call features, citation request, latency, cached, licensed result count, cost in dollars, response count, historical count known, counting started at, result ID, rank, provider, found by, licensed, licensed basis, promoted, result features, publisher ID, publisher name, publisher domain, URL, domain, canonical URL, page title, text, summary, section heading, published date, language

## Grounder's plans (2)

- [Grounder, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [Grounder, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 14% complete

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

- `POST /v1/search`: [Grounder, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)

## Grounder's APIs (5)

- [Grounder Image search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder News API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Video search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/free/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, GET /compat/brave/res/v1/web/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-get-compat-brave-res-v1-web-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /compat/claude-desktop/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-claude-desktop-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-v1-search/llms.txt)
- [Grounder Web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /compat/tavily/search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/grounder/free-post-compat-tavily-search/llms.txt)

## Grounder: web scraping API alternatives

[Grounder alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked](https://datacircle.dev/grounder-alternatives.txt)

We list Grounder's cheapest paid plan first. Next we list other providers' plans closest to Grounder in price per 1,000 pages.

- [Grounder, top-up from $5](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grounder/top-up-from-5/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [Bulkgrid, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bulkgrid/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [ScrapingAnt, $19 monthly, Enthusiast, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Headless browser (JS rendering) + standard (datacenter) proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingant/19-monthly-enthusiast-get-v2-extended-extended-json-headless-browser-js-rendering-standard-datacenter-proxy/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Clawifi, $19 monthly, Starter, POST /scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/clawifi/19-monthly-starter-post-scrape/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 86% complete
- [Anakin, $19 monthly, Starter (social data), POST /v1/url-scraper/scrape, Scrape URL (Inline)](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anakin/19-monthly-starter-social-data-post-v1-url-scraper-scrape-scrape-url-inline/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 29% complete, 24 hours

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-11.

- https://grounder.net?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/api/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/drop-in?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/providers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/docs/routing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://grounder.net/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing