# MeshArc, free: Web scraping API

> /scrape with one url waits for the page and returns it. maxCredits caps what it may cost, the ladder does the rest.

MeshArc's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. MeshArc's docs list 4 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML, Text, Links.
We haven't run MeshArc through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,323 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[GuGuData's CNY 83 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gugudata/cny-83-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. GuGuData's CNY 83 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many pages as GuGuData's rate limit allows.
[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 GuGuData's CNY 83 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/mesharc/free
- [Web scraping API: 100+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://mesharc.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.mesharc.dev/api/v1/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://mesharc.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://mesharc.dev/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#the-verbs
- Sold by: MeshArc (https://mesharc.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 57%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Text: ✓
- Links: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: POST /search · POST /crawl · POST /map · POST /agent · POST /agent/batch

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: /scrape with one url waits for the page and returns it. maxCredits caps what it may cost, the ladder does the rest.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You are responsible for making sure your use is lawful and that you have the right to collect, store and use what you crawl. In particular, you agree that you will not use the service to: Access a site or content you are not permitted to access, whether by law, by the site's terms, or by a technical measure that exists to keep you out. [...] Override robots.txt or rate limits on a site without the right to do so. [...] Collect personal data in a way that breaks the data protection law that applies to you or to the people the data is about. Collect content protected by copyright for use beyond what the law or the rights holder allows. Overload, disrupt or damage any site, or the service itself, or probe it for weaknesses other than under the security page. Resell the service as your own, share one account across companies, or use it to build a competing crawler by copying how it works. Do anything illegal, or anything that makes us the vehicle for something illegal."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits
- Enough for: 1,000 results, once

## Rate limit

- Per second: 1
- Batch: 500

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: one of url or urls. Optional: formats, timeout, config, scrapeOptions, maxCredits, destination, webhook_url
- Method: POST
- Path: /scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone with a work email address, 18 or older

## The 22 fields the plan's answer can hold

page URL, HTTP status, page status, verdict, error code, page shape, warnings, signals, fetch method, tier, credits, billed as, climbed to, word count, language, page markdown, page text, page clean HTML, page HTML, page links, page head, crawled at

## MeshArc's plans (8)

- [MeshArc, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [MeshArc, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.29 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [MeshArc, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.198 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [MeshArc, $349 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/349-monthly/llms.txt): $0.14 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [MeshArc, $290 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/290-yearly/llms.txt): $0.242 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [MeshArc, $990 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/990-yearly/llms.txt): $0.165 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [MeshArc, $3,490 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/3490-yearly/llms.txt): $0.116 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [MeshArc, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/contact-us/llms.txt): 57% complete, live

## MeshArc's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /scrape`: [MeshArc, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)

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- [MeshArc: news API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)
- [MeshArc: web scraping API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)
- [MeshArc: web search API pricing, 8 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/mesharc/free/llms.txt)

## MeshArc: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, $29 monthly, Personal, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, no JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/29-monthly-personal-get-text-get-page-text-datacenter-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt): $0.116 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScrapeOwl, $29 monthly, Bootstrap, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape API, rotating proxies without render_js](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeowl/29-monthly-bootstrap-post-v1-scrape-scrape-api-rotating-proxies-without-render-js/llms.txt): $0.116 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScrapeOps, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeops/29-monthly/llms.txt): $0.116 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $2,790 yearly, Growth G2, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/2790-yearly-growth-g2-billed-yearly-get-v1-fetch-a-page/llms.txt): $0.116 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 2026-11-06.

- https://mesharc.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/developers?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/docs/api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/docs/billing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://mesharc.dev/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing