# Nstdata, top-up, Pay Per Use, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape: Web scraping API

> Crawl is a high-performance Web Crawling API built for developers and data teams. [...] Simply provide a target URL to retrieve structured web data.

Nstdata's web scraping API on its Pay Per Use plan. It costs $1.20 per 1,000 pages. It returns 4 of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Links.
We haven't run Nstdata through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 1,913 plans we rank by price cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 61% of the 1,913 plans.
[PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.
[Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 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/nstdata/top-up-pay-per-use-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.nstdata.io/pricing/crawl?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.nstdata.io/api/v1/crawl/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.nstdata.io/pricing/crawl?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.nstdata.io/docs/crawl?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#asynchronous-scraping
- Sold by: Nstdata (https://www.nstdata.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-31

## In the answer

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

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $1.20
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Synchronous Scraping · Site-Wide Crawl

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $1.20

## In their words

- Their pitch: Crawl is a high-performance Web Crawling API built for developers and data teams. [...] Simply provide a target URL to retrieve structured web data.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You must not use Crawl to access or extract data from targets where you lack authorization or a lawful basis. Nstdata does not grant you rights to any third-party website, database, content, personal data, intellectual property, or service. [...] You must not use Crawl outputs to create unlawful profiles, make legally significant automated decisions without required safeguards, violate privacy laws, infringe third-party rights, or engage in harmful, deceptive, discriminatory, or abusive activity.

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling

## The call

- You send: url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: formats, timeout, onlyMainContent, targetSelector, removeSelectors, includeTags, excludeTags, jsRender
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/crawl/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay Per Use
- Who can get it: anyone using the Services for lawful business and professional purposes, who is not located in, organized under the laws of or ordinarily resident in a sanctioned jurisdiction and not listed on a sanctions or restricted-party list

## The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page HTML, raw page data, page links, page PDF, page screenshot, page title, page language, HTTP status, task status

## Nstdata's plans (5)

- [Nstdata, top-up, Pay Per Use, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/top-up-pay-per-use-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Nstdata, $79 monthly, Starter, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/79-monthly-starter-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Nstdata, $249 monthly, Growth, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/249-monthly-growth-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Nstdata, $699 monthly, Scale, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/699-monthly-scale-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape/llms.txt): $0.60 per 1,000, 57% complete
- [Nstdata, contact us, Custom, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/contact-us-custom-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape/llms.txt): 57% complete

## Nstdata's calls (2)

- `POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape`: [Nstdata, top-up, Pay Per Use, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/top-up-pay-per-use-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape/submit-sync`: [Nstdata, top-up, Pay Per Use, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape/submit-sync](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/top-up-pay-per-use-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape-submit-sync/llms.txt)

## Nstdata's APIs (1)

- [Nstdata: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, POST /api/v1/crawl/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/nstdata/top-up-pay-per-use-post-api-v1-crawl-scrape/llms.txt)

## Nstdata: web scraping API alternatives

- [Context.dev, $300 monthly, Growth, POST /v1/web/scrape, Scrape, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/context-dev/300-monthly-growth-post-v1-web-scrape-scrape-full/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 57% complete, 3 days
- [Thunderbit, $72 monthly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/72-monthly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $12 pack, Mini, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, advanced proxy, without JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/12-pack-mini-post-markdown-markdown-generation-advanced-proxy-without-js/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Novada, $55 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/novada/55-monthly/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 29% complete
- [Massive, $120 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/massive/120-monthly/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 29% complete, 1 day

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-31.

- https://docs.nstdata.io/docs/crawl?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.nstdata.io/pricing/crawl?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.nstdata.io/subscription?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.nstdata.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing