# OpenGraph.io, free, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown: Web scraping API

> Turn any URL into useful data

OpenGraph.io's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, Links, Images.
We rank 935 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least 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 to start 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/475-monthly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Spider Cloud](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/free-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown
- [Best web scraping API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.opengraph.io/pricing
- Request: `GET https://opengraph.io/api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}`, Markdown
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.opengraph.io/pricing
- Its API docs: https://www.opengraph.io/docs/api/markdown
- Sold by: OpenGraph.io (https://www.opengraph.io)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Markdown: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Extra fields: AI safety risk score, AI safety risk level, AI safety action taken, AI safety signals, AI safety recommendation: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Site (Unfurl) · Scrape · Screenshot · Extract · Query · oEmbed · Brand Intelligence

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn any URL into useful data

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: As long as you follow this API TOS, OpenGraph grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-assignable, non-transferable license to use the APIs to develop, test, and support any software application, website, or product, and to integrate the OpenGraph APIs with your Application. [...] Applicable laws or agreements. You may not use the OpenGraph API in violation of any law or regulation, or rights of any person, including but not limited to intellectual property rights, rights of privacy, or rights of personality, or in any manner inconsistent with this API TOS or OpenGraph’s other agreements to which you are subject. Scope of acceptable use. You may not use the OpenGraph API or any other technology in a manner that accesses or uses any information beyond what OpenGraph allows under this API TOS or the Documentation, that changes the OpenGraph Service, that breaks or circumvents any of OpenGraph’s technical, administrative, process or security measures, that disrupts or degrades the performance of the OpenGraph Service or the OpenGraph API, or that tests the vulnerability of OpenGraph’s systems or networks. [...] Malware. You may not transmit any viruses or other computer programming that may damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system or data. Reverse engineering. You may not attempt to reverse engineer or otherwise derive source code, trade secrets, or know-how in the OpenGraph API or portion thereof, Functionality. You may not use the OpenGraph API to replicate or compete with core products or services offered by OpenGraph. [...] Commercial Use. You may not sell, rent, lease, sublicense, redistribute, or syndicate access to the OpenGraph API. Rate Limits. You will not attempt to exceed or circumvent limitations on access, calls and use of OpenGraph API, or otherwise use the OpenGraph API in a manner that exceeds reasonable request volume, constitutes excessive or abusive usage, or otherwise fails to comply or is inconsistent with any part of this API TOS or the Documentation. Distribution of your application. You may not distribute or allow access to the OpenGraph APIs to anyone other than, if applicable, the company on whose behalf you entered into this API TOS. Use of OpenGraph Brand or Marks. You must not use the OpenGraph Brand in a way that suggests your service is endorsed by, sponsored by, or associated with OpenGraph. Government Use. [...] Any use, modification, derivative, reproduction, release, performance, display, disclosure or distribution of the OpenGraph API by any government entity is prohibited, except as expressly permitted by the terms of this API TOS. [...] Ownership. As between you and us, we own all rights, title, and interest, including all intellectual property rights, in and to, the (1) OpenGraph APIs, Documentation, and all elements and components thereof, (2) Data, (3) OpenGraph Services, and (4) Brand Features (collectively, the “OpenGraph Materials”).

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: unused credits do not roll over to the next month

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: encoded_url. Optional: only_main_content, include_tags, exclude_tags, max_chars, format, include_markdown, include_metadata, include_chunks, include_ai_safety, chunking, chunk_size, chunk_overlap, heading_aware, heading_aware_level, max_chunks, query, query_top_k, include_headings, include_links, include_images, auto_render, auto_proxy, retry, max_retries, retry_escalate, full_render, wait_for_selector, scroll_to_bottom, load_more_selector, use_proxy, use_premium, use_superior, proxy_country, cache_ok, max_cache_age, accept_lang, ai_sanitize, ai_sanitize_mode
- Method: GET
- Path: /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 29 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page title, page description, canonical URL, site name, page image, page language, final URL, character count, estimated token count, truncated, truncation reason, max characters, full render used, auto render triggered, proxy used, retry used, retry attempts, final status code, request ID, chunks, chunk count, chunks truncated, chunk relevance score, headings, links, images, tables detected, code blocks detected

## OpenGraph.io's plans (5)

- [OpenGraph.io, free, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/free-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored
- [OpenGraph.io, $200 pack, Pay As You Go Plan, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/200-pack-pay-as-you-go-plan-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored
- [OpenGraph.io, $25 monthly, Developer, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/25-monthly-developer-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt): $0.50 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored
- [OpenGraph.io, $100 monthly, Production, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/100-monthly-production-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt): $0.40 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored
- [OpenGraph.io, $250 monthly, Enterprise, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/250-monthly-enterprise-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored

## OpenGraph.io's calls (4)

- `POST /api/3.0/extract`: [OpenGraph.io, free, POST /api/3.0/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/free-post-api-3-0-extract/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}`, Markdown: [OpenGraph.io, free, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/free-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}`, Markdown, full: [OpenGraph.io, free, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/free-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown-full/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/3.0/scrape/{encoded_url}`: [OpenGraph.io, free, GET /api/3.0/scrape/{encoded_url}](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/free-get-api-3-0-scrape-encoded-url/llms.txt)

## OpenGraph.io's APIs (1)

- [OpenGraph.io: web scraping API pricing, 5 plans, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/opengraph-io/free-get-api-3-0-markdown-encoded-url-markdown/llms.txt)

## OpenGraph.io: web scraping API alternatives

- [Scrappa, $250 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappa/250-pack/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [AnyCrawl, $999 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawl/999-yearly/llms.txt): $0.555 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $500 monthly, Pro Plan, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/500-monthly-pro-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-html/llms.txt): $0.667 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [Social Fetch, $2,430 yearly, Scale, GET /v1/web/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/social-fetch/2430-yearly-scale-get-v1-web-markdown/llms.txt): $1.35 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

- https://www.opengraph.io
- https://www.opengraph.io/docs/api/markdown
- https://www.opengraph.io/docs/concepts/caching
- https://www.opengraph.io/docs/concepts/credits
- https://www.opengraph.io/docs/concepts/rate-limits
- https://www.opengraph.io/legal-terms-of-service
- https://www.opengraph.io/markdown-api-ai-ready-web-content
- https://www.opengraph.io/pricing