# kagurazaka, pay as you go: Web scraping API

> Web tools for agents, paid per call in USDC on Base: read a page as clean Markdown [...] Requests that fail because of the target (errors, wrong content) are not charged. [...] No account or API key: an unpaid request answers 402 with the payment options, and any x402 client pays and retries.

kagurazaka's x402 pay per call plan for the web scraping API costs $2.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. kagurazaka's docs list 1: Markdown.
We haven't run kagurazaka through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) 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 47% of the 2,948 plans.
[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. [Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[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/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-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/kagurazaka/pay-as-you-go
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://web.kagurazaka.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://web.kagurazaka.dev/v1/read`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://web.kagurazaka.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#/paths/~1v1~1read
- Sold by: kagurazaka (https://web.kagurazaka.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $2.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Web tools for agents, paid per call in USDC on Base: read a page as clean Markdown [...] Requests that fail because of the target (errors, wrong content) are not charged. [...] No account or API key: an unpaid request answers 402 with the payment options, and any x402 client pays and retries.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no API terms
- Use data: no API terms

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: max_chars
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/read

## About the plan

- 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 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, title, byline, site name, published date, language, excerpt, Markdown, characters, token estimate, truncated

## kagurazaka's plans (1)

- [kagurazaka, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/kagurazaka/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## kagurazaka's calls (1)

- `GET /v1/read`: [kagurazaka, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/kagurazaka/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## kagurazaka's APIs (1)

- [kagurazaka: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/kagurazaka/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## kagurazaka: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, no JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-residential-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, $500 monthly, Monthly 10,000,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/500-monthly-monthly-10000000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Protected](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-a-web-page-protected/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [FetchFox, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/visit](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchfox/top-up/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 71% 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 2026-11-09.

- https://api.cdp.coinbase.com/platform/v2/x402/discovery/resources?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://web.kagurazaka.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://web.kagurazaka.dev/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://web.kagurazaka.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://web.kagurazaka.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing