# ScrapeMole, pay as you go: Web scraping API

> Any public web page as clean Markdown (main content only) plus title, author, date and word count.

ScrapeMole's web scraping API on its Pay per call over x402 plan. It costs $3.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Text.
We haven't run ScrapeMole through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
Half of the 1,913 plans we rank by price cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 39% of the 1,913 plans.
[PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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 up front 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/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://reader.scrapemole.workers.dev/v1/read`
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://reader.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: ScrapeMole (https://scrapemole.pages.dev?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-05

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Text: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $3.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay as you go

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Any public web page as clean Markdown (main content only) plus title, author, date and word count.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You are responsible for how you use the data and for complying with the law and with the terms of the sites the data comes from. Do not use the API to build profiles of individuals, for spam, or to infringe copyright (transcripts are provided for analysis, search, accessibility and research, do not republish them as your own content).

## Plan

- Pay: per call
- You get: 1 request
- Enough for: 1 call

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: format, maxChars, images, links
- Method: GET
- Path: /v1/read

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay per call over x402
- Who can get it: anyone with a wallet holding USDC on Base or Solana

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, page title, author, published date, language, format, page content, word count, character count, truncated

## ScrapeMole's plans (1)

- [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live

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

- `GET /v1/read`: [ScrapeMole, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole's APIs (11)

- [ScrapeMole: web search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky profile API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-profile-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: search autocomplete API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/search-autocomplete-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Hacker News search API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-search-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: news API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/news-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Bluesky post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/bluesky-post-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Hacker News comment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/hacker-news-comment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: company enrichment API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: Telegram channel post API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/telegram-channel-post-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: YouTube channel video API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/youtube-channel-video-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)
- [ScrapeMole: web scraping API pricing, 1 plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapemole/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt)

## ScrapeMole: web scraping API alternatives

- [LLMLayer, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v2/scrape, Scraper API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/llmlayer/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v2-scrape-scraper-api-full/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [LucidExtractor, $75 pack, 25,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/lucidextractor/75-pack-25000-credits-post-v1-scrape-batch/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Scrapfly, $100 monthly, PRO, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, residential proxy, browser rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapfly/100-monthly-pro-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-residential-proxy-browser-rendering/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Crawlbase, pay as you go, first 1K requests a month, GET /, Crawling API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlbase/pay-as-you-go-first-1k-requests-a-month-get-crawling-api/llms.txt): $3.00 per 1,000, 29% 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 2026-11-05.

- https://reader.scrapemole.workers.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://reader.scrapemole.workers.dev/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://scrapemole.pages.dev/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing