# PapaCasper, pay as you go: Web scraping API

> Fetch a URL and return its main text content as clean, readable plain text/markdown-ish output. Strips scripts, styles, and HTML tags.

PapaCasper's x402 pay per call plan for the web scraping API costs $50.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more. PapaCasper's docs list none of the 7.
We haven't run PapaCasper through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
We rank 3,228 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 1% of the 3,228 plans. PapaCasper has no free web scraping API plan. [776 web scraping API plans on our price sheet are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) [HirePulse's free plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hirepulse/free-daily-calls/llms.txt) scores highest of the free plans in our benchmark, at 78.1 out of 100.
[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. [Gapup's pay-as-you-go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gapup/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[Scrape.land's $19 monthly plan (/v1/batch)](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly-pool-post-v1-batch/llms.txt) covers any number of pages, and costs less up front than LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan.
[Scrape.land](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrape-land/19-monthly-pool-post-v1-fetch/llms.txt), [FourA](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/foura/249-monthly-business-post-api-single-single-request/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/papacasper/pay-as-you-go
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: 220+ scrapers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://papacasper.com/mcp-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://papacasper.com/mcp/pay/url_to_markdown`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://papacasper.com/mcp-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: PapaCasper (https://papacasper.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-10

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $50.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch a URL and return its main text content as clean, readable plain text/markdown-ish output. Strips scripts, styles, and HTML tags.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use our sites for lawful purposes. Please do not abuse them: no attempts to break into, overload, or disrupt the sites, the MCP Toolbelt, or the public DNS service, and no use of any of them for illegal activity.

## Plan

- Pay: per call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp/pay/url_to_markdown

## About the plan

- Plan: x402 pay per call
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet paying each call in USDC on Base through x402, with no signup

## The only field the plan's answer can hold

readable text

## PapaCasper's plans (3)

- [PapaCasper, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [PapaCasper, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/papacasper/9-monthly/llms.txt): $22.50 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [PapaCasper, $29 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/papacasper/29-monthly/llms.txt): $14.50 per 1,000, 0% complete, live

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

- `POST /mcp/pay/url_to_markdown`: [PapaCasper, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## PapaCasper's APIs (5)

- [PapaCasper GitHub repository API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/github-repository-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Tech stack API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Domain WHOIS API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/domain-whois-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Email verification API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [PapaCasper Web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/papacasper/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## PapaCasper: web scraping API alternatives

[PapaCasper alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price](https://datacircle.dev/papacasper-alternatives.txt)

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the list gives live data.

- [Parsera, $10 pack, Pay-as-you-go credits, POST /v1/extractor/extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/parsera/10-pack-pay-as-you-go-credits-post-v1-extractor-extract/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [rtrvr.ai, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/rtrvr-ai/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $50.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [PromptLoop, $1,800 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/promptloop/1800-monthly/llms.txt): $51.429 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Suprsonic, $249 monthly, Team, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape, thorough](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/suprsonic/249-monthly-team-post-v1-scrape-scrape-thorough/llms.txt): $51.875 per 1,000, 43% 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 2026-11-10.

- https://papacasper.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://papacasper.com/mcp-docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://papacasper.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://papacasper.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing