# LucidExtractor, free, POST /v1/scrape/scrape: Web scraping API

> The scraping API supports various options for extracting web content with full control over rendering, output format, and data extraction.

LucidExtractor's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML, Text.
We rank 1,653 plans by price. [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.
[Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/free-post-v1-scrape-scrape
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://lucidextractor.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.lucidextractor.com/v1/scrape/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://lucidextractor.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://lucidextractor.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#scraping
- Sold by: LucidExtractor (https://lucidextractor.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Bulk URL scraping · Browser session reuse · Website crawling · AI data extraction · SEO analysis · SERP analysis · Advanced SEO audit · Trending Keywords · Create Monitor · Create Schedule

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The scraping API supports various options for extracting web content with full control over rendering, output format, and data extraction.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Subject to these Terms, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your personal or internal business purposes. [...] You agree to use the Service only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. [...] Your Responsibilities: Ensure you have the legal right to scrape target websites, Comply with target websites' robots.txt and terms of service, Do not overwhelm or damage target websites with excessive requests, Respect intellectual property and copyright laws, Protect your API keys and account credentials. [...] The following activities are strictly prohibited: Scraping personal data without proper legal basis (GDPR, CCPA compliance), Harvesting email addresses or contact information for spam, Circumventing security measures of websites that prohibit scraping, Engaging in competitive intelligence gathering that violates laws, Distributing malware or conducting cyber attacks, Reselling, sublicensing, or redistributing the Service without authorization, Reverse engineering, decompiling, or attempting to extract source code, Creating multiple accounts to abuse free credit offerings, Using the Service for any illegal, fraudulent, or harmful purpose

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 500 credits a month
- Enough for: 500 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.89 s

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: output, render_js, timeout, wait_for, wait, device, block_resources, extract[].name, extract[].selector, extract[].attribute, extract[].multiple, bypass_protection, proxy, llm_clean, llm_metadata, llm_chunk, llm_chunk_strategy, llm_chunk_size, llm_count_tokens
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/scrape/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page HTML, page text, page title, author, published date, page chunks, token count, extracted data

## LucidExtractor's plans (10)

- [LucidExtractor, free, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/free-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $5 pack, 1,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/5-pack-1000-credits-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $20 pack, 5,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/20-pack-5000-credits-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $4.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $75 pack, 25,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/75-pack-25000-credits-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $240 pack, 100,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/240-pack-100000-credits-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $2.40 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $900 pack, 500,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/900-pack-500000-credits-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $12 monthly, Starter, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/12-monthly-starter-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $2.40 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $45 monthly, Professional, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/45-monthly-professional-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $149 monthly, Business, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/149-monthly-business-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $1.49 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): 43% complete, live

## LucidExtractor's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /v1/browser/batch`: [LucidExtractor, free, POST /v1/browser/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/free-post-v1-browser-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/scrape/batch`: [LucidExtractor, free, POST /v1/scrape/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/free-post-v1-scrape-batch/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/scrape/scrape`: [LucidExtractor, free, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/free-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt)

## LucidExtractor's APIs (3)

- [LucidExtractor: keyword research API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/keyword-research-apis/lucidextractor/free/llms.txt)
- [LucidExtractor: related keywords API pricing, 10 plans](https://datacircle.dev/related-keywords-apis/lucidextractor/free/llms.txt)
- [LucidExtractor: web scraping API pricing, 10 plans, POST /v1/scrape/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/free-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt)

## LucidExtractor: web scraping API alternatives

- [ZenRows, $19,990 yearly, Scale S4, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, JavaScript rendering and premium proxies](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/19990-yearly-scale-s4-billed-yearly-get-v1-fetch-a-page-javascript-rendering-and-premium-proxies/llms.txt): $1.487 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [HasData, $1,190 yearly, Basic, POST /scrape/web, Web Scraping API, JavaScript rendering and residential proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hasdata/1190-yearly-basic-post-scrape-web-web-scraping-api-javascript-rendering-and-residential-proxy/llms.txt): $1.488 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [ScraperAPI, $149 monthly, Startup, GET /, Sync API with screenshot](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/149-monthly-startup-get-sync-api-with-screenshot/llms.txt): $1.49 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [WebScrapingAPI, $149 monthly, Advanced, GET /v2, GET Request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscrapingapi/149-monthly-advanced-get-v2-get-request/llms.txt): $1.49 per 1,000, 14% 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://lucidextractor.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://lucidextractor.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://lucidextractor.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://lucidextractor.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing