# Smooth, free: Web scraping API

> Extract data from secured sites with persistent sessions.

Smooth's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields: Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Text and 3 more. Smooth's docs list none of the 7.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), 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.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $25 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/25-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.
[Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt), [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) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/smooth/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://smooth.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.smooth.sh/api/v1/task`
- API key: with the plan, on https://smooth.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.smooth.sh/api-reference/task/submit-task?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Smooth (https://smooth.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-08

## In the answer

- Completeness: 0%

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Run Task · Extract

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Extract data from secured sites with persistent sessions.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Except 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

- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: by polling
- Median: 28.22 s

## The call

- You send: task. 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
- Method: POST
- Path: /task

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Smooth's plans (4)

- [Smooth, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/smooth/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Smooth, $50 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/smooth/50-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [Smooth, $500 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/smooth/500-monthly/llms.txt): 0% complete, live
- [Smooth, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/smooth/contact-us/llms.txt): 0% complete, live

## Smooth's calls (1)

- `POST /task`: [Smooth, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/smooth/free/llms.txt)

## Smooth's APIs (1)

- [Smooth: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/smooth/free/llms.txt)

## Smooth: web scraping API alternatives

- [Scrappey, free, POST /api/v1, Browser request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/free-post-api-v1-browser-request/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [WebScraping.AI, free, GET /text, Get Page Text, datacenter proxy, JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/free-get-text-get-page-text-datacenter-proxy-js-rendering/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [APIFreaks, free, One-Off 10,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/free-one-off-10000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [ScraperAPI, free plan, GET /, Sync API with screenshot](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/free-plan-get-sync-api-with-screenshot/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Scrnify, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrnify/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 0% 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 2026-11-08.

- https://app.smooth.sh/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://commonpaper.com/standards/cloud-service-agreement/2.1/?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.smooth.sh?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.smooth.sh/api-reference/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.smooth.sh/api-reference/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.smooth.sh/guides/scrape-behind-login-walls?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.smooth.sh/methods/simple-task?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.smooth.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://smooth.sh/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing