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Smooth pricing: web scraping API

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$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from Smooth scores 44.9 out of 100. Smooth ranks 152nd of 173 providers.This plan is free. We rank 2,948 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 or less per 1,000 pages. See the best free web scraping API plan.LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan 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 costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.Scrappey, WebScraping.AI and APIFreaks are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
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Plan: Free one of Smooth's 4 plans
Call: POST /task Smooth's only call
API: Web scraping API Smooth's only API

About this item

  • Live. Smooth fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • Returns none of the 7 fields on our checklist: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more.
  • Nothing to pay. You get $5 of credit. Calls stop once your credit runs out.
  • One call. You send task to POST /task. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Who can get it: anyone with an account, no credit card required. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Smooth: web scraping API alternatives

Smooth alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the table gives live data.

This planSmooth, freeScrappey, free, POST /api/v1, Browser requestWebScraping.AI, free, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS renderingAPIFreaks, free, One-Off 10,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper APIScraperAPI, free plan, GET /, Sync API with screenshotScrnify, free
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00$0.00
Completeness0%86%29%29%57%0%
Billingfreefreefreefreefreefree
Pay$0$0$0$0$0€0
Enough fornot published150 calls400 calls a month2,500 calls, once100 calls a month100 calls, once
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with an account, no credit card requiredanyone acting in the course of a trade, business, craft, or profession and at least 18 (its terms: "The Service is offered and made available solely for business, commercial, professional, or organizational purposes.")anyone 18 or olderanyone 13 or older with a real company or personal email, not for gambling, adult content, dating or the alcohol industryanyoneanyone

Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-08.

  1. app.smooth.sh/terms
  2. commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/2.1/
  3. docs.smooth.sh
  4. docs.smooth.sh/api-reference/introduction
  5. docs.smooth.sh/api-reference/openapi.json
  6. docs.smooth.sh/guides/scrape-behind-login-walls
  7. docs.smooth.sh/methods/simple-task
  8. docs.smooth.sh/pricing
  9. smooth.sh/pricing

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, not in the answer
  • 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
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Run Task · Extract
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchExtract data from secured sites with persistent sessions.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataExcept as expressly permitted by this Agreement, Customer will not (and will not allow anyone else to): (i) reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to discover any source code or underlying ideas or algorithms of the Product (except to the extent Applicable Laws prohibit this restriction), (ii) provide, sell, transfer, sublicense, lend, distribute, rent, or otherwise allow others to access or use the Product, (iii) remove any proprietary notices or labels, (iv) copy, modify, or create derivative works of the Product, (v) conduct security or vulnerability tests on, interfere with the operation of, cause performance degradation of, or circumvent access restrictions of the Product, (vi) access accounts, information, data, or portions of the Product to which Customer does not have explicit authorization, (vii) use the Product to develop a competing service or product, (viii) use the Product with any High Risk Activities or with any activity prohibited by Applicable Laws, (ix) use the Product to obtain unauthorized access to anyone else’s networks or equipment, or (x) upload, submit, or otherwise make available to the Product any Customer Content to which Customer and Users do not have the proper rights.
Plan
Pay$0
You get$5
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
Median28.22 s
The call
You sendtask. Optional: response_model, url, agent, max_steps, device, enable_recording, allowed_urls, metadata, files, profile_id, profile_read_only, use_adblock, stealth_mode, proxy_server, proxy_username, proxy_password, certificates, additional_tools, custom_tools, experimental_features, extensions, show_cursor
MethodPOST
Path/task
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with an account, no credit card required
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

task ID, task status, extracted data, credits used, device, live URL, recording URL, downloads URL, created at, events

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