# MegaIndex, free: Web scraping API

> Managed browser automation for public web data workflows. Render JavaScript pages, maintain stable sessions, handle retries, and extract structured data through one API.

MegaIndex's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Text.
We haven't run MegaIndex through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 1,913 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.
[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 the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/megaindex/free
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://megaindex.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://scraper.megaindex.com/tasks/sync`
- API key: with the plan, on https://megaindex.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://megaindex.com/scraper-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: MegaIndex (https://megaindex.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Managed browser automation for public web data workflows. Render JavaScript pages, maintain stable sessions, handle retries, and extract structured data through one API.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You agree not to use MegaIndex for: illegal activity, fraud, phishing, spam, or malware distribution, unauthorized access to systems, accounts, or private data, credential attacks, account takeover, or credential stuffing, attacks, scanning, exploitation, or security abuse, unlawful collection or processing of personal data, infringement of intellectual property rights, activity that violates applicable laws, third-party rights, or platform rules, activity that may harm MegaIndex infrastructure, users, partners, or third parties." [...] "You may not use MegaIndex to access private areas, bypass authentication, perform unlawful automation, or violate third-party rights." [...] "You must ensure that your use of automation, browser sessions, traffic, and API access complies with applicable laws and third-party terms." [...] "You may not copy, modify, resell, reverse engineer, or distribute MegaIndex materials except as allowed by these Terms or with our written permission."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1 credit

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: task_type "scrape", url, data_format "raw", format "json"
- Method: POST
- Path: /tasks/sync

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

page content

## MegaIndex's plans (3)

- [MegaIndex, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/megaindex/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [MegaIndex, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/megaindex/250-pack/llms.txt): 14% complete, live
- [MegaIndex, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/megaindex/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete, live

## MegaIndex's calls (1)

- `POST /tasks/sync`: [MegaIndex, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/megaindex/free/llms.txt)

## MegaIndex's APIs (1)

- [MegaIndex: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/megaindex/free/llms.txt)

## MegaIndex: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, free, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/free-get-text-get-page-text-datacenter-proxy-js-rendering/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrappey, free, POST /api/v1, Browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/free-post-api-v1-browser-request/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [ScraperAPI, free plan, GET /, Sync API with screenshot](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/free-plan-get-sync-api-with-screenshot/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [AlterLab, free, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Dynamic](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/alterlab/free-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-a-web-page-dynamic/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% 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 2026-11-04.

- https://megaindex.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://megaindex.com/scraper-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://megaindex.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing