# ScreenshotOne, free: Web scraping API

> Renders a public website and returns its cleaned Markdown directly [...] Use this tool when the agent needs to read, summarize, or extract information from a page without receiving a screenshot.

ScreenshotOne's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 2 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from ScreenshotOne scores 56.6 out of 100. ScreenshotOne ranks 60th of 77 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 1,913 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[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/screenshotone/free
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://screenshotone.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `GET https://api.screenshotone.com/take`
- API key: with the plan, on https://screenshotone.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://screenshotone.com/docs/options/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#format
- Sold by: ScreenshotOne (https://screenshotone.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-04

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Screenshot API · PDF Generation API · Animated Screenshots

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Renders a public website and returns its cleaned Markdown directly [...] Use this tool when the agent needs to read, summarize, or extract information from a page without receiving a screenshot.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: "You may use the Service as part of your own applications, products, and internal workflows, including applications used by your own end users, provided that: you do not expose the Service or API credentials directly to third parties, third parties do not receive standalone access to the Service, and you do not resell, white-label, or provide the Service as a standalone screenshot generation, rendering, or browser automation API or platform substantially similar to the Service without prior written permission.", "You agree not to: access or use the Service in a manner that could damage, disable, overburden, impair, or interfere with the Service or any other party’s use of the Service, interfere with or disrupt the integrity, stability, or security of the Service, bypass rate limits, quotas, usage restrictions, or access controls, attempt unauthorized access to systems, infrastructure, networks, or data, use the Service for illegal, harmful, fraudulent, or abusive purposes, use the Service to distribute malware, phishing content, spam, or malicious content, use the Service in violation of applicable laws or regulations."

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of the cycle

## Rate limit

- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by webhook
- Median: 3.53 s

## The call

- You send: url, format "markdown" or "html". Optional: selector, include_shadow_dom, response_type, external_identifier, viewport_device, viewport_width, viewport_height, viewport_mobile, viewport_has_touch, viewport_landscape, dark_mode, reduce_motion, reduced_motion, media_type, hide_selectors, scripts, scripts_wait_until, styles, click, hover, error_on_click_selector_not_found, error_on_hover_selector_not_found, block_cookie_banners, block_banners_by_heuristics, block_chats, block_ads, block_trackers, block_requests, block_resources, geolocation_latitude, geolocation_longitude, geolocation_accuracy, ip_country_code, proxy, proxy_bypass_hosts, user_agent, authorization, cookies, headers, time_zone, bypass_csp, wait_until, delay, timeout, navigation_timeout, wait_for_selector, wait_for_selector_algorithm, cache, cache_ttl, cache_key, store, storage_path, storage_endpoint, storage_access_key_id, storage_secret_access_key, storage_bucket, storage_class, storage_acl, storage_return_location, metadata_page_title, metadata_open_graph, metadata_http_response_status_code, metadata_http_response_headers, metadata_icon, metadata_fonts, async, webhook_url, webhook_sign, webhook_errors, ignore_host_errors, error_on_selector_not_found, fail_if_request_failed, fail_if_content_missing, fail_if_content_contains
- Method: GET
- Path: /take

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone

## The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page HTML, page title, Open Graph metadata, HTTP status code, HTTP response headers, favicon, fonts

## ScreenshotOne's plans (7)

- [ScreenshotOne, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScreenshotOne, $17 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/17-monthly/llms.txt): $8.50 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScreenshotOne, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/79-monthly/llms.txt): $7.90 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScreenshotOne, $259 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/259-monthly/llms.txt): $5.18 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScreenshotOne, $170 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/170-yearly/llms.txt): $7.083 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScreenshotOne, $790 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/790-yearly/llms.txt): $6.583 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScreenshotOne, $2,590 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/2590-yearly/llms.txt): $4.317 per 1,000, 29% complete, live

## ScreenshotOne's calls (1)

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

## ScreenshotOne's APIs (1)

- [ScreenshotOne: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/screenshotone/free/llms.txt)

## ScreenshotOne: web scraping API alternatives

- [Scavio, $30 monthly, Project, monthly, POST /api/v1/extract, Extract](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scavio/30-monthly-project-monthly-post-api-v1-extract-extract/llms.txt): $4.286 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Urlbox, $1,635 monthly, Business (380,000 renders a month), POST /v1/render/sync](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/urlbox/1635-monthly-business-380000-renders-a-month-post-v1-render-sync/llms.txt): $4.303 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [AnyCrawler, $5 monthly, Agent Lite, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/5-monthly-agent-lite-post-v1-crawl-page-render-full/llms.txt): $4.333 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Piloterr, $499 monthly, Startup+, GET /v2/website/rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/piloterr/499-monthly-startup-get-v2-website-rendering/llms.txt): $4.339 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 2026-11-04.

- https://screenshotone.com/docs/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://screenshotone.com/docs/concurrency?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://screenshotone.com/docs/credits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://screenshotone.com/docs/errors/usage-quota-exceeded?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://screenshotone.com/docs/mcp?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://screenshotone.com/docs/options?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://screenshotone.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://screenshotone.com/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing