# Peekalink, free: Web scraping API

> The Powerful Link Preview API for Developers. Instantly generate unmatched link previews with our fast, reliable, and easy-to-use API.

Peekalink's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Peekalink's docs list 3 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Peekalink scores 25.1 out of 100. Peekalink ranks 142nd of 143 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 2,645 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.999 per 1,000 pages or less. [See how many web scraping API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[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.
[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 [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/free
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.peekalink.io/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference/link-preview/get-a-link-preview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Peekalink (https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Screenshot: ✓
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The Powerful Link Preview API for Developers. Instantly generate unmatched link previews with our fast, reliable, and easy-to-use API.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Permissible Use: You agree not to use the Service for unlawful purposes or in ways that violate others' rights. You will not submit or request previews of links that contain malicious content, violate intellectual property rights, or violate any local, state, national, or international law.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 36,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 36,000 calls a month
- Expires: hourly: "new requests will be temporarily blocked until the next hour begins"

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.014
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 4.93 s

## The call

- You send: link. Optional: accept-language, source, forceNewSnapshot, forceNewSnapshotRecursive
- Method: POST
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old ("You must be at least 18 years old to use Peekalink")

## The 41 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, link ID, valid link, last updated, page URL, domain, link type, HTTP status code, content size, redirected, final URL, redirect count, redirection trail, page title, page description, page language, icon, page image, page screenshot, estimated reading time, page HTML URL, page markdown URL, page raw text URL, video, audio, document, text content, YouTube video, YouTube channel, X user, X post, Instagram user, Instagram post, Amazon product, Etsy product, TikTok user, TikTok video, Reddit user, Reddit subreddit, Reddit post, GitHub repository

## Peekalink's plans (7)

- [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete
- [Peekalink, $49 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/49-monthly/llms.txt): $0.136 per 1,000, 43% complete
- [Peekalink, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/149-monthly/llms.txt): $0.103 per 1,000, 43% complete
- [Peekalink, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.069 per 1,000, 43% complete
- [Peekalink, $504 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/504-yearly/llms.txt): $0.117 per 1,000, 43% complete
- [Peekalink, $1,248 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/1248-yearly/llms.txt): $0.072 per 1,000, 43% complete
- [Peekalink, $4,188 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/4188-yearly/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 43% complete

## Peekalink's calls (1)

- `POST /`: [Peekalink, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt)

## Peekalink's APIs (1)

- [Peekalink: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/peekalink/free/llms.txt)

## Peekalink: web scraping API alternatives

- [Ransack, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [ScrapingBee, $5,799 monthly, Enterprise 120, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingbee/5799-monthly-enterprise-120-get-api-v1-html-api-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.048 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $3,500 yearly, Premium, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/3500-yearly-premium-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.049 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, next 100M requests a month, GET /, from the 11,111,001st call a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-next-100m-requests-a-month-get-from-the-11111001st-call-a-month/llms.txt): $0.05 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $29,990 yearly, Scale S5, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/29990-yearly-scale-s5-billed-yearly-get-v1-fetch-a-page/llms.txt): $0.056 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 2026-11-07.

- https://api.peekalink.io/mintlify?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/api-reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/faq?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/in-depth/error-handling?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/legal/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.peekalink.io/supported-link-types/page?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://peekalink.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.peekalink.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing