How.is pricing: web scraping API
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29% complete: 2 of the 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run How.is through our web scraping API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 2,491 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. See how many web scraping API plans are free.GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many pages as GuGuData's rate limit allows.80legs's $29 monthly plan covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free calls one of How.is's 4 plans
- FreeFree calls$0.00 per 1,000
- Pay as you goPay per call (x402)$5.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $5Prepaid credit$5.00 per 1,000
- $5 monthlyPrepaid credit, monthly refill$5.00 per 1,000
Call:
POST / How.is's only call for this APIAPI: Web scraping API one of How.is's 3 APIs
About this item
- Live. How.is fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
- 2 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Screenshot, Markdown.
- Nothing to pay. You get 20 requests a day. Calls stop once your requests run out.
- One call. You send
urltoPOST /. You can also sendv1/ read uaandscreenshot. The call returns the page's content. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
How.is: web scraping API alternatives
How.is alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price
The table starts with How.is's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to How.is's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| How.is, pay as you go | WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, JS rendering | APIFreaks, $10 monthly, Monthly 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering | Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, pro | FlyCrawl, $5 pack | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 pages | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| Completeness | 29% | 29% | 29% | 43% | 43% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | per call | $20 | $10 | any amount | $5 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 4,000 calls | 2,000 calls a month | as many as you pay for | 1,000 calls |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC from a wallet: x402 on Base | 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 | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.
Product details
The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.
- Screenshot
- Markdown
- 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 | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: URL pre-flight · Company card · DNS records · WHOIS / RDAP · Domain age · Domain availability · Domain change history · TLS certificate · DNSSEC · Email authentication · Security score · Blacklist status · IP intelligence · Site status · Page-change watch · Crawler identity check · Crawler identity check (batch) |
|---|
| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
|---|
| Their pitch | A page as clean markdown, with the pre-flight verdict attached (screenshot on request) |
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| Freshness | live |
|---|---|
| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Do not use the service to break the law, attack the hosts you look up, or resell it as a bulk mirror. |
| Pay | $0 |
|---|---|
| You get | 20 requests a day |
| Enough for | 20 calls a day |
| Expires | 00:00 UTC each day |
| Per day | 20 |
|---|---|
| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
|---|
| You send | url. Optional: ua, screenshot |
|---|---|
| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/read |
| Plan | Free calls |
|---|---|
| Who can get it | anyone |
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold
page markdown, page title, page description, language, canonical URL, final URL, status code, content type, word count, truncated, untrusted content, pre-flight verdict, pre-flight safe-to verdicts, pre-flight reasons, screenshot