# Mekler, free: Web scraping API

> Turn a public HTML page into readable text and links.

Mekler's Free trial plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Mekler's docs list 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Text.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Mekler scores 36.2 out of 100. Mekler ranks 144th of 150 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 2,683 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.9999 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-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.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekler/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.mekler.ai/trials/offer?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mekler.ai/v1/web/pages/extract-static-content`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://mekler.ai/services/static-page-extractor/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#extractPage
- Sold by: Mekler (https://mekler.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn a public HTML page into readable text and links.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 3 requests
- Enough for: 3 calls, once

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.00 s

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: snapshot
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/web/pages/extract-static-content

## About the plan

- Plan: Free trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a Solana or Base wallet, one allowance per wallet

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

status, final URL, page title, page text, source links, fetched at, truncated, coverage, bytes fetched, redirects, elapsed time

## Mekler's plans (2)

- [Mekler, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekler/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Mekler, pay as you go, Pay per call over x402, POST /v1/web/pages/extract-static-content](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-post-v1-web-pages-extract-static-content/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## Mekler's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/web/pages/extract-static-content`: [Mekler, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekler/free/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/web/pages/extract-rendered-content`: [Mekler, pay as you go, Pay per call over x402, POST /v1/web/pages/extract-rendered-content](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go-pay-per-call-over-x402-post-v1-web-pages-extract-rendered-content/llms.txt)

## Mekler's APIs (3)

- [Mekler: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekler/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekler: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Mekler: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekler/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Mekler: 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
- [APIFreaks, $10 monthly, Monthly 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/10-monthly-monthly-80000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-fetch-fetch-pro/llms.txt): $5.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [FlyCrawl, $5 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/flycrawl/5-pack/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 2026-11-08.

- https://api.mekler.ai/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.mekler.ai/catalog.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.mekler.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.mekler.ai/trials/offer?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mekler.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mekler.ai/services/static-page-extractor/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing