# Mekong Trade Intel, free: Web scraping API

> Convert any URL to clean, LLM-ready markdown. Send a URL, get back clean markdown. Strips ads, nav, and boilerplate.

Mekong Trade Intel's Free daily trial plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Mekong Trade Intel's docs list 1: Markdown.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Mekong Trade Intel scores 37.2 out of 100. Mekong Trade Intel ranks 161st of 173 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 2,948 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[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/mekong-trade-intel/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/tools/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/markdown/api/markdown`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/tools/markdown?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Mekong Trade Intel (https://mekongtradeintel.com?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: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Convert any URL to clean, LLM-ready markdown. Send a URL, get back clean markdown. Strips ads, nav, and boilerplate.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 10 requests a day
- Enough for: 10 calls a day

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.55 s

## The call

- You send: url
- Method: POST
- Path: /markdown/api/markdown

## About the plan

- Plan: Free daily trial
- Who can get it: anyone, with no account, API key or payment: a daily free quota for each IP address

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, title, author, excerpt, Markdown, word count, fetched at

## Mekong Trade Intel's plans (2)

- [Mekong Trade Intel, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Mekong Trade Intel, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekong-trade-intel/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## Mekong Trade Intel's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /markdown/api/markdown`: [Mekong Trade Intel, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)

## Mekong Trade Intel's APIs (6)

- [Mekong Trade Intel: business verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: domain WHOIS API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: email verification API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: news API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, POST /enrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free-daily-trial-post-enrich/llms.txt)
- [Mekong Trade Intel: company enrichment API pricing, 2 plans, POST /companyenrich](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/mekong-trade-intel/free-daily-trial-post-companyenrich/llms.txt)

## Mekong Trade Intel: 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://api.mekongtradeintel.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/tools/markdown?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.mekongtradeintel.com/tools/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mekongtradeintel.com/privacy.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mekongtradeintel.com/terms.html?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing