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ScrapingDuck pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, article, Main article content

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14% complete: 1 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 1,257 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, Scrappey and ScraperAPI are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of ScrapingDuck's 4 plans
Call: GET /v1/scrape/article, Main article content one of ScrapingDuck's 8 calls for this API
API: Web scraping API one of ScrapingDuck's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. ScrapingDuck fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • 1 of the 7 key fields we check. HTML.
  • Nothing to pay.
  • One call. You send url to GET /v1/scrape/article. The call returns the page's content.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

ScrapingDuck: web scraping API alternatives

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

ScrapingDuck, €149 monthly, Business, GET /v1/scrape/article, Main article contentZenRows, $2,999 monthly, Scale S5, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, premium proxiesIrmu, $200 monthly, Pro, GET /crawl, Premium fetchScrapingdog, $160,000 yearly, Ultra Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxyScrapeless, $7,548 yearly, Enterprise, yearly, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render
$ per 1,000 pages$0.671$0.666$0.667$0.667$0.675
Completeness14%43%14%14%86%
Billingmonthlymonthlymonthlyyearlyyearly
Pay€149$2,999$200$160,000$7,548
Enough for250,000 calls a month4,500,000 calls a month300,000 calls a month20,000,000 calls a month932,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone of legal age (18) with the legal capacity to contractanyoneanyoneanyone

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. scrapingduck.com
  2. scrapingduck.com/docs/estimates-the-credit-cost-of-a-browser-automation-request-without-executing-it-44734728e0.md
  3. scrapingduck.com/docs/extracts-the-main-article-content-from-a-web-page-26531030e0.md
  4. scrapingduck.com/docs/performs-a-web-search-and-returns-unified-results-from-searxng-tinyfish-or-brave-search-44734730e0.md
  5. scrapingduck.com/simplified-scraping-endpoints-llm-rag
  6. scrapingduck.com/terms-of-use

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
  • 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
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchVisits the specified URL, extracts the main article text, and returns it as clean HTML within a JSON envelope.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree not to use the ScrapingDuck API for any unlawful, harmful, or malicious activities, including but not limited to: Scraping personally identifiable information (PII) without a legal basis or consent. Infringing intellectual property rights, such as copyrights or trademarks. Conducting denial-of-service (DoS) attacks or otherwise imposing an unreasonable load on the infrastructure of third-party websites. Bypassing security measures (such as CAPTCHAs) in a manner that violates a website's terms of service. Distributing malware or engaging in any form of hacking. [...] You are responsible for reviewing and complying with the terms of service of any website or data source you access using the ScrapingDuck API.
Plan
Pay€0
Rate limit
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl. Optional: deviceName, locale, timezone, disableResourceExclusion, useAdvancedSpoofing, disableJavaScript, useResidentialProxy
MethodGET
Path/v1/scrape/article
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone
The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

execution ID, action, action success, action message, action timestamp, action duration, data name, article HTML, actions requested, actions succeeded, started at, finished at, duration in ms, response size in bytes, max actions allowed

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