# Ransack, free: Web scraping API

> Give it a URL and it returns the page itself, rendered and extracted to markdown. No model in the path, no summary snippet.

Ransack's Trial plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. Ransack's docs list 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Markdown.
We haven't run Ransack through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
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/ransack/free
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://ransack.tools/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#pricing
- Request: `POST https://ransack.tools/mcp`
- API key: with the plan, on https://ransack.tools/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#pricing
- Its API docs: https://ransack.tools/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#ransack
- Sold by: Ransack (https://ransack.tools?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: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: ransack search · ransack hosts · ransack shop · ransack discover · ransack verify · youtube · search_memory · ransack_permit_search

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Give it a URL and it returns the page itself, rendered and extracted to markdown. No model in the path, no summary snippet.

## Data

- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You retain ownership of your queries and results. Do not exceed rate limits, use for illegal purposes, resell keys, or circumvent restrictions.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 50 requests a day
- Enough for: 50 calls a day
- Expires: daily at UTC midnight

## Rate limit

- Per day: 50
- Per second: 1
- Concurrent: n/a
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling

## The call

- You send: Content-Type header "application/json", Accept header "application/json, text/event-stream", jsonrpc "2.0", id, method "tools/call", params.name "ransack", params.arguments.mode "fetch", params.arguments.url. Optional: params.arguments.format, params.arguments.freshness, params.arguments.max_chars, params.arguments.max_urls, params.arguments.verbose, params.arguments.detail, params.arguments.background
- Method: POST
- Path: /mcp

## About the plan

- Plan: Trial
- Who can get it: anyone with a verified email address, free for 14 days

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, fetch tier, rate limit headroom

## Ransack's plans (2)

- [Ransack, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [Ransack, $15 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ransack/15-monthly/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 14% complete

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

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

## Ransack's APIs (2)

- [Ransack: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt)
- [Ransack: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/ransack/free/llms.txt)

## Ransack: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-datacenter-proxy-js-rendering/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, $20 pack, One-Off 80,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/20-pack-one-off-80000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Scrappa, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappa/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Linkup, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v1/fetch, Fetch, standard](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkup/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-fetch-fetch-standard/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Querit, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/querit/top-up/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 14% 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://ransack.tools?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/privacy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://ransack.tools/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing