# Spider Cloud, free, No API key: Web scraping API

> Web scraping API. Known URLs in, named fields out.

Spider Cloud's web scraping API on its No API key plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Links.
Spider Cloud limits how many calls you get, but doesn't say how many.
We rank 902 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) costs the least per 1,000 pages: as little as $0.022. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan covers up to 15,000 pages a day.
[Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.
[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), [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/475-monthly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Spider Cloud](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-no-api-key
- [Best web scraping API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://spider.cloud/pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape`, Scrape
- API key: not needed
- Its API docs: https://spider.cloud/api/scrape
- Sold by: Spider Cloud (https://spider.cloud)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Links: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: nothing else

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Web scraping API. Known URLs in, named fields out.

## Data

- Freshness: 2 days
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: Spider may not be used for malicious or illegal activity, including: Hacking, Spamming or unsolicited bulk email, Phishing, Distributing malware, Unauthorized data collection, Fraud, Denial-of-service attacks [...] You are responsible for any data you acquire through Spider and any downstream use of that data [...] Spider may also limit, deprioritize or suspend traffic that harms the network or other customers, such as sustained bulk downloads of large files, media streaming, or reselling or relaying access to Spider.

## Plan

- Pay: $0

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.32 s

## The call

- You send: url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: smart_mode, webhook.destination, webhook.on_credits_depleted, webhook.on_credits_half_depleted, webhook.on_website_status, webhook.on_find, webhook.on_find_metadata, authorization, cookies, refresh_token, hard_limit, cache, cache.maxAge, cache.allowStale, cache.skipBrowser, cache.period, budget, store_data, use_chrome, root_selector, exclude_selector, run_in_background, request, depth, encoding, locale, request_timeout, delay, stealth, headers, viewport, device, readability, subdomains, tld, user_agent, blacklist, whitelist, full_resources, metadata, anti_bot, respect_robots, chunking_alg, skip_config_checks, text, website_limit, sitemap, sitemap_path, country_code, wait_for, execution_scripts, disable_intercept, disable_first_party_stylesheets, disable_first_party_javascript, disable_first_party_visuals, external_domains, css_extraction_map, scroll, automation_scripts, return_headers, return_cookies, return_page_links, return_json_data, return_embeddings, virtual_display, redirect_policy, preserve_host, filter_output_images, filter_output_svg, filter_output_main_only, remote_proxy, concurrency_limit
- Method: POST
- Path: /scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: No API key
- Who can get it: anyone, with no API key and no account (rate limited)

## The 15 fields the plan's answer can hold

URL, HTTP status, page content, extracted data, embedded JSON data, page links, response headers, cookies, duration, total cost, compute cost, file cost, bytes transferred cost, AI cost, transform cost

## Spider Cloud's plans (11)

- [Spider Cloud, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-no-api-key/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, free credits, POST /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-credits-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $1, Pay as you go, POST /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.10 per 1,000, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $500, Pay as you go, $500 or more (+5% credits), POST /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-500-pay-as-you-go-500-or-more-5-credits-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.095 per 1,000, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $1,000, Pay as you go, $1,000 or more (+8% credits), POST /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1000-pay-as-you-go-1000-or-more-8-credits-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.093 per 1,000, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $2,000, Pay as you go, $2,000 or more (+12% credits), POST /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-2000-pay-as-you-go-2000-or-more-12-credits-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.089 per 1,000, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, top-up from $5,000, Pay as you go, $5,000 or more (+15% credits), POST /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-5000-pay-as-you-go-5000-or-more-15-credits-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.087 per 1,000, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, $40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, $350 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/350-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, $19,994 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/19994-monthly/llms.txt): no limit, 14% complete, 2 days
- [Spider Cloud, contact us, Enterprise, POST /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/contact-us-enterprise-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): 14% complete, 2 days

## Spider Cloud's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /scrape`, Scrape: [Spider Cloud, free, No API key](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-no-api-key/llms.txt)
- `POST /scrape`, Scrape, full: [Spider Cloud, free credits, POST /scrape, Scrape, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-credits-post-scrape-scrape-full/llms.txt)
- `POST /unlimited/scrape`: [Spider Cloud, $40 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/40-monthly/llms.txt)

## Spider Cloud's APIs (2)

- [Spider Cloud: web scraping API pricing, 11 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/free-no-api-key/llms.txt)
- [Spider Cloud: web search API pricing, 15 plans, POST /search, Search](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/free-credits-post-search-search/llms.txt)
- [Spider Cloud: web search API pricing, 15 plans, POST /search, Search and crawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/spider-cloud/free-credits-post-search-search-and-crawl/llms.txt)

## Spider Cloud: web scraping API alternatives

- [ScraperAPI, $5,130 yearly, Scaling, GET /, Sync API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/5130-yearly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt): $0.086 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Scrappey, top-up from €1,000, Pay As You Go, €1,000+ top-up, POST /api/v1, Direct Request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-from-1000-pay-as-you-go-1000-top-up-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt): $0.087 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [ScrapingBypass, $1,056 pack, Ultimate Plan (1-Month Plan), GET /{path}, Scrapingbypass V1](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingbypass/1056-pack-ultimate-plan-1-month-plan-get-path-scrapingbypass-v1/llms.txt): $0.088 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $3,229.20 yearly, Pro, GET /scrape, Scrape, rotating proxy, without JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/3229-20-yearly-pro-get-scrape-scrape-rotating-proxy-without-js/llms.txt): $0.09 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 2026-10-29.

- https://spider.cloud/api/scrape
- https://spider.cloud/api/search
- https://spider.cloud/docs/api
- https://spider.cloud/docs/core/rate-limits
- https://spider.cloud/docs/overview
- https://spider.cloud/eula
- https://spider.cloud/guides/pricing-and-plans
- https://spider.cloud/llms.txt
- https://spider.cloud/openapi.yaml
- https://spider.cloud/pricing
- https://spider.cloud/privacy