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PhantomJsCloud pricing and alternatives: web scraping API

PhantomJsCloud's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026
0% complete: none of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 902 plans by price. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan costs the least 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 to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Spider Cloud are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of PhantomJsCloud's 6 plans
Call: POST /api/browser/v2/{key}/ PhantomJsCloud's only call
API: Web scraping API PhantomJsCloud's only API

About this item

  • Live. The call fetches the page when you make it.
  • None of the 7 key fields we check: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 500 requests a day.
  • One call. You send one of url or content to POST /api/browser/v2/{key}/. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

PhantomJsCloud: web scraping API alternatives

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

PhantomJsCloud, $10 monthlyScrapingdog, $300,000 yearly, Nova Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, without JavaScript renderingScrapingBee, $5,799 monthly, Enterprise 120, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, without JavaScript renderingZenRows, $29,990 yearly, Scale S5, billed yearly, GET /v1/, Fetch a pageScrapestack, $2,039.88 yearly, Business, GET /scrape, Scrape
$ per 1,000 pages$0.022$0.023$0.048$0.056$0.057
Completeness0%14%43%43%14%
Billingmonthlyyearlymonthlyyearlyyearly
Pay$10$300,000$5,799$29,990$2,039.88
Enough for15,000 calls a day1,100,000,000 calls a month120,000,000 calls a month540,000,000 calls a year3,000,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyoneany natural person aged at least 18 years old with full and complete legal capacity acting in the scope of their professional activity or being the legal representative of a legal entity empowered to enter into legally binding commitmentsanyone of legal age (18) with the legal capacity to contractanyone

Every web scraping API provider we score, ranked

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

  1. docs.google.com/document/d/1ViiS6XAmImXuanV74YEMzmIHRldFD8IVC675vNjD46o/pub
  2. phantomjscloud.com
  3. phantomjscloud.com/docs/http-api/
  4. phantomjscloud.com/docs/http-api/interfaces/ipagerequest.html
  5. phantomjscloud.com/docs/http-api/interfaces/irequestsettings.html
  6. phantomjscloud.com/docs/http-api/interfaces/iuserresponse.html
  7. phantomjscloud.com/docs/index.html
  8. phantomjscloud.com/pricing.html

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, not in the answer
  • 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
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays fornothing else
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPhantomJsCloud is a crash proof and problem free cloud of Headless Browser instances. Simple to use, no-install required.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree to use PhantomJsCloud and all other services provided by Owner only for uses considered legal in the state of Washington U.S.A. You will not use more than one Free Subscription or otherwise non-paid api-key or account. You agree not to, and not to allow third parties to use the Service to do any of the following: to violate, or encourage the violation of, the legal rights of others (for example, this may include allowing Customer End Users to infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of others in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), to engage in, promote or encourage illegal activity, for any unlawful, invasive, infringing, defamatory or fraudulent purpose (for example, this may include phishing, creating a pyramid scheme or mirroring a website), to intentionally distribute viruses, worms, Trojan horses, corrupted files, hoaxes, or other items of a destructive or deceptive nature, to interfere with the use of the Service, or the equipment used to provide the Service, by customers, authorized resellers, or other authorized users, to disable, interfere with or circumvent any aspect of the Service, or to generate, distribute, publish or facilitate unsolicited mass email, promotions, advertisements or other solicitations (“spam”). You will use the PhantomJsCloud Service solely for your commercial use and will not make the PhantomJsCloud available for any type of external service such as, but not limited to, an application service provider. Don’t abuse our system, use more than 1 free account, or do anything that might resemble or be misunderstood as a denial-of-service attack. Don’t do anything illegal. Don’t violate anyone’s Terms of Service. You agree to let Owner use your organization's logo in its customer list and at other places on its website (including but not limited to PhantomJsCloud.com).
Plan
Pay$0
You get500 requests a day
Enough for500 calls a day
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendone of url or content, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: renderType, outputAsJson, overseerScript, proxy, queryJson, suppressJson, backend, renderSettings, requestSettings.authentication, requestSettings.clearCache, requestSettings.clearCookies, requestSettings.cookies, requestSettings.customHeaders, requestSettings.deleteCookies, requestSettings.disableJavascript, requestSettings.disableSecureHeaders, requestSettings.doneWhen, requestSettings.emulateDevice, requestSettings.ignoreImages, requestSettings.ioWait, requestSettings.maxWait, requestSettings.recordResourceBody, requestSettings.resourceModifier, requestSettings.resourceTimeout, requestSettings.resourceWait, requestSettings.stopOnError, requestSettings.userAgent, requestSettings.waitInterval, requestSettings.webSecurityEnabled, requestSettings.xssAuditingEnabled, scriptSettings, scripts, urlSettings
MethodPOST
Path/api/browser/v2/{key}/
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone (the terms allow one Free Subscription or other non-paid API key or account)
The 19 fields the plan's answer can hold

HTML, plain text, automation output, HTTP status, final URL, content length, content encoding, file name, response headers, cookies, frames, network events, resources, resource summary, time taken, credit cost, daily credits remaining, prepaid credits remaining, proxy cost

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