# Rayobyte, free: Web scraping API

> Scraping the web shouldn’t be expensive, so you send a URL and we handle the proxies, browsers and retries.

Rayobyte's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: HTML.
We rank 935 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[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), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/475-monthly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Spider Cloud](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/rayobyte/free
- [Best web scraping API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://rayobyte.com/pricing/
- Request: `GET https://api.scraping.rayobyte.com/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://rayobyte.com/pricing/
- Its API docs: https://docs.rayobyte.com/scraping-api/making-requests/
- Sold by: Rayobyte (https://rayobyte.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- HTML: ✓

## Price

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

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Scraping the web shouldn’t be expensive, so you send a URL and we handle the proxies, browsers and retries.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may only use the Services in compliance with applicable laws. You may not use the Services to infringe upon any rights or terms of any third-party. You may not use the Services to gain unauthorized access to any computer or website. [...] Prohibitions: You must not do, or permit others to do, any of the following: [...] (c) rent, lease, distribute (or redistribute), provide or otherwise make available the Services, in any form, to any third party (including in any service bureau or similar environment), [...] You may not use the Services to violate the security or integrity of any network, computer or communications system, software application, or network or computing device (each, a “System”), or to engage in, foster, or promote illegal, fraudulent, defamatory, abusive, or irresponsible behavior. Prohibited activities including by way of illustration and not by limitation: [...] Collecting or using email addresses, screen names, other identifiers, or personal information without the consent of the person identified (including phishing, Internet scamming, password robbery, spoofing, impersonating, and harvesting), [...] Monitoring or crawling of a System that impairs or disrupts the System being monitored or crawled or that involves an unreasonable crawl rate, or that is contrary to the instructions in the System’s robots.txt, [...] You must comply with the terms of service, terms of use, and similar policies and rules of any other website or network you access or participate in using the Services. [...] You may not use the Services to download, publish, distribute, or otherwise copy or use in any manner any text, music, software, art, image or other work protected by copyright law unless: You have been expressly authorized by the owner of the copyright for the work to copy the work in that manner, or You are otherwise permitted by established copyright law to copy or use the work in that manner.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 requests
- Enough for: 5,000 calls

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.26 s

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: module
- Method: GET
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 18 years of age or older (or an emancipated minor, or with a parent’s or guardian’s legal consent), a direct competitor of Rayobyte needs its prior written consent

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

HTML

## Rayobyte's plans (3)

- [Rayobyte, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/rayobyte/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Rayobyte, top-up](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/rayobyte/top-up/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Rayobyte, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/rayobyte/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete, live

## Rayobyte's calls (1)

- `GET /`: [Rayobyte, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/rayobyte/free/llms.txt)

## Rayobyte's APIs (1)

- [Rayobyte: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/rayobyte/free/llms.txt)

## Rayobyte: web scraping API alternatives

- [Ujeebu, $10,789.20 yearly, Business, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, residential proxy, with JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/10789-20-yearly-business-post-markdown-markdown-generation-residential-proxy-with-js/llms.txt): $1.798 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Olostep, $9 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/olostep/9-monthly/llms.txt): $1.80 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Scrappey, top-up from €500, Pay As You Go, €500+ top-up, POST /api/v1, Browser request with Deepseek Autoparse](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-from-500-pay-as-you-go-500-top-up-post-api-v1-browser-request-with-deepseek-autoparse/llms.txt): $1.800 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $29 monthly, Build B2, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/29-monthly-build-b2-get-v1-fetch-a-page-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $1.813 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 2026-10-29.

- https://docs.rayobyte.com/scraping-api/
- https://docs.rayobyte.com/scraping-api/balance/
- https://docs.rayobyte.com/scraping-api/making-requests/
- https://docs.rayobyte.com/scraping-api/reference/parameters/
- https://docs.rayobyte.com/scraping-api/response-format/
- https://rayobyte.com/
- https://rayobyte.com/pricing/
- https://rayobyte.com/products/web-scraping-api/
- https://rayobyte.com/tos-and-aup/