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Meter pricing: web scraping API, POST /api/jobs

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0% complete: none of the 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run Meter through our web scraping API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 2,491 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. See how many web scraping API plans are free.GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many pages as GuGuData's rate limit allows.80legs's $29 monthly plan covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GuGuData's CNY 83 (about $12) monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Hobby one of Meter's 3 plans
Call: POST /api/jobs one of Meter's 2 calls
API: Web scraping API Meter's only API

About this item

  • Live. Meter fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • Returns none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get as many calls as you like.
  • One call. You call POST /api/jobs. You send strategy_id and one of url or urls. You can also send parameters. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no API terms. Use data: no API terms.

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Meter alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planMeter, free, Hobby, POST /api/jobsWebScraping.AI, free, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS renderingScrappey, free, POST /api/v1, Browser requestScraperAPI, free plan, GET /, Sync API with screenshotAPIFreaks, free, One-Off 10,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper APILightpanda, free
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness0%29%86%57%29%29%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0$0
Enough forno limit400 calls a month150 calls100 calls a month2,500 calls, oncenot published
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone 18 or olderanyone acting in the course of a trade, business, craft, or profession and at least 18 (its terms: "The Service is offered and made available solely for business, commercial, professional, or organizational purposes.")anyoneanyone 13 or older with a real company or personal email, not for gambling, adult content, dating or the alcohol industryanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.

  1. docs.meter.sh/api-reference/rest/account
  2. docs.meter.sh/api-reference/rest/jobs
  3. docs.meter.sh/api-reference/rest/overview
  4. docs.meter.sh/api-reference/rest/schedules
  5. docs.meter.sh/api-reference/rest/strategies
  6. docs.meter.sh/authentication
  7. docs.meter.sh/concepts/jobs
  8. meter.sh/#pricing
  9. meter.sh/docs

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Screenshot, not in the answer
  • Markdown, not in the answer
  • HTML, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forGenerate strategy: 10 strategies in a rolling 30 days
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchTurn any website into a live datafeed. You describe it in plain English. We scrape it, detect changes, and ping your webhook only when something actually moved.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano API terms
Use datano API terms
Plan
Pay$0
Enough forno limit
Speed
Answerby polling
The call
You sendstrategy_id, one of url or urls. Optional: parameters
MethodPOST
Path/api/jobs
About the plan
PlanHobby
Who can get itanyone
The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

extracted items, item count, job ID, job status, strategy ID, URL, content hash, structural signature, started at, completed at, created at

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