SpecStream pricing: web scraping API
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$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from SpecStream scores 68.9 out of 100. SpecStream ranks 42nd of 143 providers.This plan is free. We rank 2,645 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.999 per 1,000 pages or less. See how many web scraping API plans are free.LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price.WebScraping.AI, Scrappey and APIFreaks are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of SpecStream's 9 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $10Pay as you go$0.80 per 1,000
- $19 monthlyPro$0.80 per 1,000
- $99 monthlyScale$0.80 per 1,000
- $499 monthlyTeam$0.80 per 1,000
- $228 yearlyPro, billed yearly$0.667 per 1,000
- $1,188 yearlyScale, billed yearly$0.667 per 1,000
- $5,988 yearlyTeam, billed yearly$0.667 per 1,000
- Contact usEnterprise
Call:
POST / SpecStream's only call for this APIAPI: Web scraping API one of SpecStream's 2 APIs
About this item
- Live. SpecStream fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
- 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Text.
- Nothing to pay. You get $10 of credit once, enough for 12,500 results. Calls stop once your credit runs out. Unused credit expires after 30 days.
- One call. You send
urlstoPOST /. You set thev1/ extract Content-Typeheader to "application/json". You can also sendformatand theIdempotency-Keyheader. The call returns each page's content. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
SpecStream: web scraping API alternatives
SpecStream alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked
The table starts with SpecStream's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to SpecStream's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| SpecStream, $228 yearly | APIFreaks, $100 pack, One-Off 600,000 credits, POST /scraping, Web Scraper API | AnyCrawler, $5 monthly, Agent Lite, POST /v1/crawl/page, Fetch | Irmu, $200 monthly, Pro, GET /crawl, Premium fetch | Automatio, $18 monthly | |
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.667 | $0.667 | $0.667 | $0.667 | $0.667 |
| Completeness | 14% | 29% | 29% | 14% | 14% |
| Billing | yearly | pay first | monthly | monthly | monthly |
| Pay | $228 | $100 | $5 | $200 | $18 |
| Enough for | 342,000 results a year | 150,000 calls | 7,500 calls a month | 300,000 calls a month | 27,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a contract | anyone 13 or older with a real company or personal email, not for gambling, adult content, dating or the alcohol industry | anyone | anyone | anyone |
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.
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
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Images, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.00 |
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| Per | result |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search API · Search API batch · Deep Search |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Send up to 20 URLs in one call and get the main text of each, without its menus, footers, and ads. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | You may use and export the results available to your account, subject to applicable law and any rights in the underlying sources. [...] Use SpecStream only for lawful purposes and within the permissions you hold. Do not use it for harassment, stalking, discrimination, fraud, unlawful surveillance, credential theft, or unauthorized access. Do not seek private information by bypassing access controls or use the service to make unlawful decisions about people. Do not interfere with the service, evade spending or access limits, abuse free grants, or submit malicious material. [...] Do not use SpecStream or any result as a factor in deciding a person’s eligibility for credit, insurance, employment, housing, tenancy, education, government benefits, or any other purpose those laws cover, and do not use it to screen tenants or employees. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | $10 |
| Enough for | 12,500 results, once |
| Expires | 30 days |
| Batch | 20 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 0.71 s |
| You send | urls, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: format, Idempotency-Key header |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/extract |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old and able to enter into a contract, once per eligible verified billing account |
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold
URL, read status, page title, published date, read source, capture time, page text, request ID, response time, cost in dollars