# Seltz, free tier: Web scraping API

> Fetch turns a URL into LLM-ready Markdown. Send up to 20 in one call, they are fetched concurrently, so a batch takes about as long as its slowest page.

Seltz's web scraping API on its Free tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown.
We rank 1,653 plans by price. [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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/seltz/free-tier
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://seltz.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.seltz.ai/v1/fetch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://seltz.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/fetch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Seltz (https://seltz.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, base · Search, pro · Answer · Monitor · Agent

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch turns a URL into LLM-ready Markdown. Send up to 20 in one call, they are fetched concurrently, so a batch takes about as long as its slowest page.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not [...] (ii) store, aggregate, or reuse Output to serve multiple End Customers or requests, (iii) use the Output to create, compile, or build a dataset or database
- Use data: Except as expressly permitted by Seltz in writing, you may not (i) reproduce, distribute, publicly display, or otherwise make available any Third-Party Data on a standalone basis, [...] (iv) commercialize, resell, or sublicense the Output or any Third-Party Data or (v) represent that Output was human-generated when it is not, you may not [...] (iii) use Output from the Platform to develop models that compete with Seltz, (iv) use the Platform for the purpose of benchmarking, performance testing, or competitive analysis, or publicly disclose the results of any such activities, without Seltz’s prior written consent, (v) use any automated or programmatic method to extract data or output from the Platform, including scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction, you may use the free tier for non-commercial purposes only, if you make the Platform or any Output available to third parties or end users as part of your products or services, you must enter into a binding written agreement with each End Customer that contains terms that are no less protective of Seltz

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $20
- Enough for: 2,000 results, once

## Rate limit

- Batch: 20

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: formats, tier, timeout_ms
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/fetch

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone 18 or over, for non-commercial use only

## The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

request ID, requested URL, final URL, fetch status, status code, content type, fetched at, page markdown, structured properties

## Seltz's plans (4)

- [Seltz, free tier](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/seltz/free-tier/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [Seltz, free, Seltz for startups](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/seltz/free-seltz-for-startups/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [Seltz, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/seltz/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [Seltz, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/seltz/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete, stored

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

- `POST /v1/fetch`: [Seltz, free tier](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/seltz/free-tier/llms.txt)

## Seltz's APIs (4)

- [Seltz: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/seltz/free-tier/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: company discovery API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/company-discovery-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: people search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/people-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, base](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-base/llms.txt)
- [Seltz: web search API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, pro](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/seltz/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-pro/llms.txt)

## Seltz: web scraping API alternatives

- [Tabstack, $10 monthly, Starter, POST /generate/json](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tabstack/10-monthly-starter-post-generate-json/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, stored
- [Keenable, pay as you go](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/keenable/pay-as-you-go/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [ScrapeGraphAI, $20 monthly, Starter Plan, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML with stealth](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/20-monthly-starter-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-html-with-stealth/llms.txt): $12.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [Social Fetch, pay as you go, x402, GET /v1/web/markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/social-fetch/pay-as-you-go-x402-get-v1-web-markdown/llms.txt): $14.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

- https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/fetch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.seltz.ai/api-reference/search?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.seltz.ai/changelog/2026-09-fetch.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.seltz.ai/fetch/concepts.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.seltz.ai/fetch/quickstart.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.seltz.ai/fetch/reference.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.seltz.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://seltz.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://seltz.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://seltz.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing