Parallel pricing: web scraping API

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14% complete: 1 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields

$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 1,652 plans by price. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan 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 covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

Plan: $5 in free credits per month one of Parallel's 3 plans

Call: POST /v1/extract Parallel's only call for this API

POST /v1/extractFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web scraping API one of Parallel's 5 APIs

About this item

Stored. You get the page from Parallel's cache. Parallel doesn't say how old the data is.
1 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown.
Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit a month, enough for 5,000 results. Unused credit expires at the end of the month.
One call. You send urls and advanced_settings.full_content true to POST /v1/extract. The call returns each page's content.
Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: with conditions. Use data: with conditions.

Parallel: web scraping API alternatives

Parallel alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

The table starts with Parallel's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Parallel's. Each plan in the table gives stored data.

	Parallel, top-up	Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /contents, Get contents	ScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthly, Growth Plan, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML	OpenGraph.io, $200 pack, Pay As You Go Plan, GET /api/3.0/markdown/{encoded_url}, Markdown	Tabstack, $10 monthly, Starter, POST /extract/markdown
$ per 1,000 pages	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00	$1.00
Completeness	14%	71%	14%	43%	14%
Billing	pay first	pay as you go	monthly	pay first	monthly
Pay	any amount	per call	$100	$200	$10
Enough for	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	100,000 calls a month	200,000 calls	10,000 calls a month
Freshness	stored	stored	stored	stored	stored
Who can get it	anyone outside the jurisdictions export law bars	AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed	anyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.")	anyone	anyone at least 18 years old and not barred under any Office of Foreign Assets Control Specially Designated Nationals List

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

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	$0.00
Per	result
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: Search API · Image Search API · Decisions API · Task API · Task Group API · Responses API · Monitor API · FindAll API · Entity Search

Not found
$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Convert any public URL into clean, LLM-optimized markdown with the Parallel Extract API

Data
Freshness	stored
Keep data	(i) Customer Output generated from one query shall be primarily for the use of one End Customer only, and shall not be copied, cached, stored, or made available to other End Customers or other third parties, (ii) Customer shall not copy, cache, or store any significant portion of any Customer Output to create the AI and Data Selling Services (as defined in Section 2(c) below)
Use data	Parallel hereby grants Customer a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and non-sublicensable license [...] to access and use the Services (purchased and paid for by the Customer) solely by Authorized Users, in accordance with the Documentation. The foregoing license includes the right for Customer to use the Parallel API to integrate the Services into the Customer Applications and to make Customer Applications available to End Customers. [...] Customer shall not, directly or indirectly: (i) reverse engineer, disassemble, decompile, decode, adapt, or otherwise attempt to derive or gain access to or attempt to discover the source code, object code or underlying structure, ideas or algorithms of the Services or any software, systems, AI/ML models, Documentation, or data related to the Services (“Software”) (provided that reverse engineering is prohibited only to the extent such prohibition is not contrary to applicable law) or Customer Outputs (except as expressly permitted under Section 2(b) above), (ii) copy, modify, translate, or create derivative works of the Services or Software, in whole or in part, (iii) use or access the Services or Software for timesharing or service bureau purposes or for any purpose other than for Customer’s business purposes as set forth in this Agreement, (iv) rent, lease, lend, sell, resell, license, sublicense, assign, distribute, publish, transfer, or otherwise make available the Services, Software, or Customer Outputs (except as expressly permitted under Section 2(b) above), (v) remove any product identification, proprietary, copyright or other notices from the Services or Software, except as expressly and specifically authorized by Parallel under a specific Online Order on a case by case basis, (vi) use the Services or any Customer Output to (A) create synthetic training data to develop or train a language model or any other machine learning model, or (B) create databases, data brokerage, data selling/reselling businesses, or related products or services, whether competitive with the Services or not (all of the foregoing collectively, the “AI and Data Selling Services”), or (C) otherwise for any competitive purposes, (vii) use or permit the use of any tools in order to probe, scan or attempt to penetrate the Services, or engage in model extraction or stealing attacks, (viii) use any method (whether through use of manual or automated means) to harvest, scrape, or extract data from the Services, other than as permitted through the Parallel APIs, (ix) intentionally or knowingly use or otherwise cause the Services to generate or develop infringing or illegal content, (x) use the Services, Software, or Customer Output in any manner or for any purpose that infringes, misappropriates, or otherwise violates any intellectual property right or other right of any person, or that violates any applicable laws or regulations (including but not limited to any privacy laws, and laws or regulations concerning intellectual property, consumer and child protection, obscenity or defamation), (xi) intentionally or knowingly diverge requests of Authorized Users away from the Services (such as by making available Customer Outputs from previous queries for future uses, or incorporating Customer Outputs into an AI and Data Selling Services), or (xii) permit any Authorized User or third party to do any of the foregoing. [...] Customer shall not use the Services and/or the Customer Outputs to make automated decisions without human oversight that have a significant adverse impact on individual rights in high-risk areas such as employment, healthcare, finance, legal, housing, insurance or social benefits. [...] Customer shall not, directly or indirectly, export, re-export, or release the Services or the underlying software or technology to, or make the Services or the underlying software or technology accessible from, any jurisdiction or country to which export, re-export, or release is prohibited by law, rule, or regulation.

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	$5 a month
Enough for	5,000 results a month
Expires	at the end of the month

Rate limit
Per second	10
Batch	20

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	0.03 s

The call
You send	urls, advanced_settings.full_content true. Optional: objective, search_queries, max_chars_total, session_id, client_model, advanced_settings.fetch_policy, advanced_settings.excerpt_settings
Method	POST
Path	/v1/extract

About the plan
Plan	$5 in free credits per month
Who can get it	an organization with a payment card on file, one per card, not marketplace or postpaid organizations

The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

extract ID, URL, page title, published date, excerpts, page markdown, warnings, billable units, session ID