# Linkup, free credits, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering: Web scraping API

> Real-time page content extractor. Clean, LLM-ready markdown from any public URL — HTML or PDF — with optional typed JSON from the same page.

Linkup's web scraping API on its Free credits plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML, Images.
We haven't run Linkup through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,089 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.
[80legs's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/80legs/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering
- [Web scraping API: the best of 70+ providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.linkup.so/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.linkup.so/v1/fetch`, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.linkup.so/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/fetch/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Linkup (https://www.linkup.so?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Research · Tasks · Extract

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Real-time page content extractor. Clean, LLM-ready markdown from any public URL — HTML or PDF — with optional typed JSON from the same page.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: Open Web Content: "retain Open Web Content for as long as is necessary for the purposes of text and data mining only", Answers: no limit set
- Use data: Answers: "a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide right to use, reproduce and modify Answers, for its internal needs and/or for its end-users’ internal needs", "not authorized to use, including to provide or to resell, the Answers for any purpose other than strictly specified above", Open Web Content: "only within the limits of the text and data mining exception provided for in Article 3 and Article 4 of EU Copyright Directive 2019/790", "not authorized to use, including to distribute, Open Web Content for any purpose other than strictly specified above"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $20 a month
- Enough for: 4,000 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 10
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: mode "standard", renderJs true, includeRawContent, extractImages
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/fetch

## About the plan

- Plan: Free credits
- Who can get it: anyone signing up with a professional email address, $20 of credit on sign-up and eligible accounts topped up back to $20 each month

## The 5 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, favicon, raw content, content type, page images

## Linkup's plans (5)

- [Linkup, free credits, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Linkup, free credits for startups, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-for-startups-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Linkup, pay as you go, x402, paid per request in USDC on Base, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/pay-as-you-go-x402-paid-per-request-in-usdc-on-base-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Linkup, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): 43% complete, live

## Linkup's calls for this API (4)

- `POST /v1/fetch`, Fetch, pro: [Linkup, free credits, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-fetch-fetch-pro/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/fetch`, Fetch, pro, JavaScript rendering: [Linkup, free credits, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, pro, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-fetch-fetch-pro-javascript-rendering/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/fetch`, Fetch, standard: [Linkup, free credits, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/fetch`, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering: [Linkup, free credits, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering/llms.txt)

## Linkup's APIs (2)

- [Linkup: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard-javascript-rendering/llms.txt)
- [Linkup: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, deep](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-search-search-deep/llms.txt)
- [Linkup: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, deep, sourced answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-search-search-deep-sourced-answer/llms.txt)
- [Linkup: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, deep, structured](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-search-search-deep-structured/llms.txt)
- [Linkup: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-search-search-standard/llms.txt)
- [Linkup: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, standard, sourced answer](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-search-search-standard-sourced-answer/llms.txt)
- [Linkup: web search API pricing, 5 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, standard, structured](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/linkup/free-credits-post-v1-search-search-standard-structured/llms.txt)

## Linkup: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, 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-js-rendering/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Context.dev, $200 yearly, Developer, POST /v1/web/scrape, Scrape with browser actions, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/context-dev/200-yearly-developer-post-v1-web-scrape-scrape-with-browser-actions-full/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [LLMLayer, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v2/scrape, Scraper API, advanced proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/llmlayer/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v2-scrape-scraper-api-advanced-proxy/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $50 pack, Blaze, POST /webscraping, Web Scraping with Premium Proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/geekflare/50-pack-blaze-post-webscraping-web-scraping-with-premium-proxy/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% 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 2026-11-01.

- https://api.linkup.so/v1/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.linkup.so/pages/changelog/fetch-pro-mode.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/fetch/best-practices.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/fetch/overview.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/endpoints/fetch/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/platform/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.linkup.so/pages/documentation/platform/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.linkup.so?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.linkup.so/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.linkup.so/terms-of-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing