# Sofya, free: Web scraping API

> Fetch URLs and get clean markdown. Web pages, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, EPUB and other document formats.

Sofya's Free tier plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. We check each provider's docs for 7 fields. Sofya's docs list 2: Markdown, HTML.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Sofya scores 62.9 out of 100. Sofya ranks 64th 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/sofya/free
- [Web scraping API: best scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://sofya.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://sofya.co/v1/fetch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://sofya.co/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://sofya.co/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing#fetch
- Sold by: Sofya (https://sofya.co?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-09

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search, snippets · Search, basic · Extract · Research

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch URLs and get clean markdown. Web pages, PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, EPUB and other document formats.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You agree that you will not, and will not allow any third party (including any of your end users) to: Use the Service to violate any applicable law or regulation, or the rights of any third party (including intellectual-property, privacy, and contract rights), Use the Service to access, collect, or compile information about specific individuals for the purpose of profiling, doxxing, surveillance, or unsolicited contact, Use the Service to produce, distribute, or facilitate the production of malware, phishing pages, fraudulent content, spam, or material that infringes copyright or trademark, Use the Service to make consequential, fully-automated decisions about individuals (for example employment, credit, insurance, housing, or law-enforcement decisions) without meaningful human oversight, Resell, sublicense, or redistribute the Service as a substantively similar API to third parties, or build a directly competing product on top of the Service, Reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the Service, or attempt to extract the source code or non-public APIs, except to the extent applicable law prohibits this restriction, Circumvent or attempt to circumvent any rate limit, credit metering, authentication mechanism, or security control, Probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of the Service, or breach or otherwise circumvent any security or authentication measures (except in good-faith security research disclosed to us promptly at security@sofya.co), Use the Service in any way that overburdens its infrastructure, interferes with its integrity or performance, or degrades it for other users. [...] we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, revocable licence to access and use the Service for your internal business or personal purposes. [...] you are solely responsible for ensuring that downstream use of content (re-publication, redistribution, training, indexing, large-scale storage, automated decision-making about individuals) is lawful and permitted by the rights holder.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 2,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 2,000 results a month
- Expires: 30 days

## Rate limit

- Per second: 30
- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 2.47 s

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: include_raw_html
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/fetch

## About the plan

- Plan: Free tier
- Who can get it: anyone who signs in with a GitHub account at least a year old (email sign-ups don't get it)

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

page title, URL, Markdown, raw HTML, published date, success, credits used, credits remaining

## Sofya's plans (2)

- [Sofya, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/sofya/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Sofya, top-up from $10](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/sofya/top-up-from-10/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 29% complete, live

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

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

## Sofya's APIs (2)

- [Sofya: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/sofya/free/llms.txt)
- [Sofya: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, basic](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-basic/llms.txt)
- [Sofya: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, basic, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-basic-full/llms.txt)
- [Sofya: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-snippets/llms.txt)
- [Sofya: web search API pricing, 2 plans, POST /v1/search, Search, snippets, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/sofya/free-tier-post-v1-search-search-snippets-full/llms.txt)

## Sofya: web scraping API alternatives

- [AnyCrawler, $20 monthly, Builder, POST /v1/crawl/page, Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawler/20-monthly-builder-post-v1-crawl-page-render/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Irmu, $25 pack, Starter Pack, GET /crawl, Premium fetch](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/irmu/25-pack-starter-pack-get-crawl-premium-fetch/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Site-Shot, $5 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/site-shot/5-monthly/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [switch402, $10 pack, Monthly plan, POST /v1/scrape/lite](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/switch402/10-pack-monthly-plan-post-v1-scrape-lite/llms.txt): $2.50 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [PacketStream, top-up from $50](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/packetstream/top-up-from-50/llms.txt): $2.50 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 2026-11-09.

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