# Skim402, free plan, POST /api/t/read/batch: Web scraping API

> Skim hands your agent clean Markdown, not raw HTML.

Skim402's Free Plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Skim402's docs list 2: Markdown, Text.
We haven't run Skim402 through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,713 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.9999 or less per 1,000 pages. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. [Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/free-plan-post-api-t-read-batch
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://skim402.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://skim402.com/api/t/read/batch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://skim402.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://skim402.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#card
- Sold by: Skim402 (https://skim402.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 29%
- Markdown: ✓
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Read a URL · Browser-rendered read · Schema-constrained extraction · Crawl a site to markdown · Register a URL watch · Poll a watch for changes · PDF URL to markdown · Signal feed poll · x402 ecosystem feed poll

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Skim hands your agent clean Markdown, not raw HTML.

## Data

- Freshness: 1 minute
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and revocable license to access and use the Service and the content it returns for your own lawful purposes — including building and operating AI agents and applications that consume the API in the ordinary, intended manner. This license is expressly limited. You may not: reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to derive the source code, models, or underlying structure of the Skim API or Service, circumvent, bypass, or interfere with any security measure or payment mechanism of the Service, including the x402 micropayment system, use the Service or its outputs to create, develop, or operate a product or service that directly replicates or substantially mimics Skim's core functionality, use Skim's outputs or data to train or improve competing AI models or data-extraction tools without our prior written permission, reproduce, modify, or create derivative works of the Service or API beyond what is reasonably necessary for the normal use described above, access or use the Service through automated means outside of the official API and its documented interfaces, or remove or alter any copyright, trademark, or other proprietary notices. You are responsible for complying with the rights of the content's owners, including any copyright, licensing, and attribution obligations.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 results a month

## Rate limit

- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: stripLinks, stripImages
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/t/read/batch

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Plan
- Who can get it: anyone with a card on file (never charged)

## The 13 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, final URL, read mode, page markdown, page text, page title, author, site name, published date, excerpt, language, content length, credits charged

## Skim402's plans (6)

- [Skim402, free plan, POST /api/t/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/free-plan-post-api-t-read-batch/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, 1 minute
- [Skim402, pay as you go, Wallet pay (x402), POST /api/v1/read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/pay-as-you-go-wallet-pay-x402-post-api-v1-read/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, 1 minute
- [Skim402, $15 monthly, Solo, POST /api/t/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/15-monthly-solo-post-api-t-read-batch/llms.txt): $2.727 per 1,000, 29% complete, 1 minute
- [Skim402, $45 monthly, Team, POST /api/t/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/45-monthly-team-post-api-t-read-batch/llms.txt): $0.79 per 1,000, 29% complete, 1 minute
- [Skim402, $250 monthly, Scale, POST /api/t/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/250-monthly-scale-post-api-t-read-batch/llms.txt): $0.526 per 1,000, 29% complete, 1 minute
- [Skim402, contact us, Custom volume, POST /api/t/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/contact-us-custom-volume-post-api-t-read-batch/llms.txt): 29% complete, 1 minute

## Skim402's calls (6)

- `POST /api/t/read/batch`: [Skim402, free plan, POST /api/t/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/free-plan-post-api-t-read-batch/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/t/read/js`: [Skim402, free plan, GET /api/t/read/js](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/free-plan-get-api-t-read-js/llms.txt)
- `GET /api/t/read`: [Skim402, free plan, GET /api/t/read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/free-plan-get-api-t-read/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/read`: [Skim402, pay as you go, Wallet pay (x402), POST /api/v1/read](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/pay-as-you-go-wallet-pay-x402-post-api-v1-read/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/read/js`: [Skim402, pay as you go, Wallet pay (x402), POST /api/v1/read/js](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/pay-as-you-go-wallet-pay-x402-post-api-v1-read-js/llms.txt)
- `POST /api/v1/read/batch`: [Skim402, pay as you go, Wallet pay (x402), POST /api/v1/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/pay-as-you-go-wallet-pay-x402-post-api-v1-read-batch/llms.txt)

## Skim402's APIs (1)

- [Skim402: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, POST /api/t/read/batch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/skim402/free-plan-post-api-t-read-batch/llms.txt)

## Skim402: web scraping API alternatives

- [OmegaProxy, $400 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/omegaproxy/400-monthly/llms.txt): $0.52 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [ScrapingBee, $3,599 monthly, Enterprise 69, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, premium proxy without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingbee/3599-monthly-enterprise-69-get-api-v1-html-api-premium-proxy-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.522 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Scrapingdog, $1,000 monthly, Business Plus, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxy without JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/1000-monthly-business-plus-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-premium-proxy-without-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $0.526 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $999 monthly, Business, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, premium proxy, without JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/999-monthly-business-post-markdown-markdown-generation-premium-proxy-without-js/llms.txt): $0.533 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 2026-11-07.

- https://skim402.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://skim402.com/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://skim402.com/llms.txt?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://skim402.com/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://skim402.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://skim402.com/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing