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PacketStream pricing: web scraping API

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14% complete: 1 of the 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields
$2.50per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run PacketStream through our web scraping API benchmark yet.Half of the 2,648 plans we rank by price cost $1.996 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 40% of the 2,648 plans.LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.WebScraping.AI, Scrappey and ScraperAPI are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Fetch API PacketStream's only plan
Call: POST /v1/fetch PacketStream's only call for this API
API: Web scraping API one of PacketStream's 7 APIs

About this item

  • Live. PacketStream fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Markdown.
  • A balance you top up. You pay $50 or more. You spend the whole balance on calls. $50 is enough for 20,000 calls. Calls stop once your credit runs out. The balance never expires.
  • One call. You send url to POST /v1/fetch. You can also send content, include_links, max_length, start_index, country and user_agent. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

PacketStream: web scraping API alternatives

PacketStream 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 planPacketStream, top-up from $50AnyCrawler, $20 monthly, Builder, POST /v1/crawl/page, RenderIrmu, $25 pack, Starter Pack, GET /crawl, Premium fetchSite-Shot, $5 monthlyQuanticData, top-up from $5, Pay as you go top-up, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape, rendered
$ per 1,000 pages$2.50$2.50$2.50$2.50$2.50
Completeness14%29%14%43%71%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstmonthlypay first
Pay$50$20$25$5$5
Enough for20,000 calls8,000 calls a month10,000 calls2,000 calls a month2,000 calls
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter the agreement ("You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement")anyoneanyoneanyone who registers an account with accurate, complete informationanyone

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. packetstream.io/docs/fetch-api
  2. packetstream.io/docs/fetch-api/errors-limits
  3. packetstream.io/docs/fetch-api/reference
  4. packetstream.io/docs/search-api
  5. packetstream.io/docs/search-api/errors-limits
  6. packetstream.io/pricing
  7. packetstream.io/terms-of-service

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
  • 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$2.50
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search API · Batch searches
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchSend a URL to the PacketStream Fetch API and get the page's main content as Markdown, with its final URL, status and title.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou may use the Services only for lawful purposes and only where you have any permission required by law, contract, or the operator of a target system. You may not use or help others use the Services to: commit fraud, deceive others, impersonate a person or organization, or manipulate PacketStream balances, measurements, referrals, trials, payments, or payouts, gain unauthorized access to accounts, systems, devices, networks, or data, or defeat access controls or security measures, distribute malware, interfere with services, conduct denial-of-service activity, scan for vulnerabilities without authorization, or compromise credentials, send spam or unlawful communications, harass or stalk others, or collect, use, or disclose personal data unlawfully, infringe intellectual-property, privacy, publicity, contractual, or other rights, conduct unlawful financial, payment, marketplace, government, or regulated activity, circumvent PacketStream restrictions, monitoring, metering, authentication, or safety controls, or violate applicable law or cause PacketStream, a Packeter, a reseller, or another person to violate applicable law. You may not copy, modify, sell, sublicense, reverse engineer, bypass, or create derivative works from the Services or software except where applicable law expressly permits it.
Plan
Pay$50
You get$50
Enough for20,000 calls
Expiresnever
Rate limit
Per second20
Concurrent32
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl. Optional: content, include_links, max_length, start_index, country, user_agent
MethodPOST
Path/v1/fetch
About the plan
PlanFetch API
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old and legally able to enter the agreement ("You must be at least 18 years old and legally able to enter this agreement")
The 23 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, requested URL, content mode, include links, country, user agent, final URL, status code, page title, page description, content type, source content type, fetched at, page markdown, start index, returned length, total length, truncated, next start index, source truncated, credits charged, credits remaining, response time

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