# PacketStream, top-up from $50: Web scraping API

> Send a URL to the PacketStream Fetch API and get the page's main content as Markdown, with its final URL, status and title.

PacketStream's Fetch API plan for the web scraping API costs $2.50 per 1,000 pages. PacketStream's docs list 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Markdown.
We haven't run PacketStream through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-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.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://packetstream.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.packetstream.io/v1/fetch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://packetstream.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://packetstream.io/docs/fetch-api/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: PacketStream (https://packetstream.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $2.50
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search API · Batch searches

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Send a URL to the PacketStream Fetch API and get the page's main content as Markdown, with its final URL, status and title.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You 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 for: 20,000 calls
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 20
- Concurrent: 32
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: content, include_links, max_length, start_index, country, user_agent
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/fetch

## About the plan

- Plan: Fetch API
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## PacketStream's plans (1)

- [PacketStream, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

## PacketStream's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /v1/fetch`: [PacketStream, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)

## PacketStream's APIs (7)

- [PacketStream: Google AI Mode scraper API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-mode-scraper-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: search autocomplete API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: SERP API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: Local business search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/local-business-search-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: Google Shopping search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)
- [PacketStream: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt)

## PacketStream: web scraping API alternatives

- [AnyCrawler, $20 monthly, Builder, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/20-monthly-builder-post-v1-crawl-page-render/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Irmu, $25 pack, Starter Pack, GET /crawl, Premium fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/irmu/25-pack-starter-pack-get-crawl-premium-fetch/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Site-Shot, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/site-shot/5-monthly/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [QuanticData, top-up from $5, Pay as you go top-up, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape, rendered](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/quanticdata/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-top-up-post-v1-scrape-scrape-rendered/llms.txt): $2.50 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 2026-11-07.

- https://packetstream.io/docs/fetch-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/docs/fetch-api/errors-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/docs/fetch-api/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/docs/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/docs/search-api/errors-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://packetstream.io/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing