# Nero Labs, pay as you go: Web scraping API

> Fetches one public web page and returns its main article text, cleaned of menus, ads and footers (Mozilla Readability), plus title, author, publish and update dates, site name, language, image and canonical URL from the publisher's own data.

Nero Labs's x402 pay per call plan for the web scraping API costs $2.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Nero Labs's docs list 1: Images.
We haven't run Nero Labs through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
We rank 2,948 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 47% of the 2,948 plans.
[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/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev/read`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#/paths/~1read
- Sold by: Nero Labs (https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Images: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $2.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetches one public web page and returns its main article text, cleaned of menus, ads and footers (Mozilla Readability), plus title, author, publish and update dates, site name, language, image and canonical URL from the publisher's own data.

## Data

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

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: max_chars
- Method: GET
- Path: /read

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base (x402), with no account or API key

## The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, title, author, authors, published date, modified date, site name, description, language, image URL, canonical URL, paywalled, page type, is article, word count, reading time, truncated, text

## Nero Labs's plans (1)

- [Nero Labs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## Nero Labs's calls for this API (1)

- `GET /read`: [Nero Labs, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## Nero Labs's APIs (6)

- [Nero Labs: tech stack API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: domain WHOIS API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: email verification API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /company/ireland](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-company-ireland/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /company/uk-risk-report](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-company-uk-risk-report/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: business verification API pricing, 1 plan, POST /company/uk-trust-check](https://datacircle.dev/business-verification-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-company-uk-trust-check/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /company/poland](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-company-poland/llms.txt)
- [Nero Labs: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan, POST /company/uk](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/nero-labs/pay-as-you-go-x402-pay-per-call-post-company-uk/llms.txt)

## Nero Labs: 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://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev/.well-known/x402?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://x402-agent-tools.nerolabs.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing