# String Web, free: Web scraping API

> Retrieve any URL as structured JSON, raw bytes, or clean Markdown. The API handles JavaScript rendering, proxies, and captcha solving.

String Web's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. String Web's docs list 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Text.
We haven't run String Web through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,648 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.996 per 1,000 pages or less. [See the best free web scraping API plan.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-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.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/free
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://usestring.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://request.usestring.ai/v1/fetch`
- API key: with the plan, on https://usestring.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/fetch/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: String Web (https://usestring.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Text: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search the web · Approve a sitemap quote and start the crawl · Connect to a remote CDP browser (WebSocket)

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Retrieve any URL as structured JSON, raw bytes, or clean Markdown. The API handles JavaScript rendering, proxies, and captcha solving.

## Data

- Keep data: until your access ends ("Upon termination, all rights granted to you cease, and you must stop using and delete all String-provided data unless otherwise authorized")
- Use data: Subject to these Terms and any applicable Order Form, String grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Services solely for your internal business purposes. You may not: reverse-engineer or copy our software or data-collection infrastructure, resell, sublicense, or redistribute data obtained through the Services without written permission, use the Services to access sources that require payment or login credentials, or to circumvent technical access controls, except as the Services are designed to operate under our acceptable use policy, use the Services to circumvent authentication on any system you do not own or are not authorized to test, or to gain unauthorized access to financial, banking, healthcare, or government authentication systems, regardless of the exception above, use the Services for credential stuffing, brute-force login attempts, or unauthorized automated account creation, direct the Services at destination categories that are restricted under our acceptable use policy without prior approval, use the Services for unlawful, fraudulent, or competitive purposes, including identity theft, unauthorized data collection, distributing malware, or deliberately disrupting or harming any person, system, or service, bypass or tamper with the licensing, security, or technical controls of the Services or of the software our providers supply for them. [...] Data delivered through the Services is licensed, not sold, and may be used only within the scope defined in your contract or subscription plan.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: $5
- Enough for: 20,000 calls, once
- Expires: never

## Rate limit

- Per second: 15
- Concurrent: 10,000
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: method, body, format, markdownMode, mainContentOnly, jsonSchema, executeJS, requireWSS, waitUntil, includeIframes, captureIframes, captureXHR, headers, countryCode, solveCaptcha, ignoreCertificateErrors, maxRedirects, followRedirects, screenshot, actions
- Method: POST
- Path: /fetch

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract ("You must be at least 18 years old and able to form a binding contract"), no card needed

## The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

status code, response headers, page content, final URL

## String Web's plans (6)

- [String Web, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [String Web, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/19-monthly/llms.txt): $0.25 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [String Web, $99 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/99-monthly/llms.txt): $0.16 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [String Web, $499 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/499-monthly/llms.txt): $0.13 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [String Web, $999 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/999-monthly/llms.txt): $0.11 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [String Web, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/contact-us/llms.txt): 14% complete

## String Web's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /fetch`: [String Web, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)

## String Web's APIs (6)

- [String Web: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search, Search the web (Brave)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/string-web/free-post-search-search-the-web-brave/llms.txt)
- [String Web: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search, Search the web (DuckDuckGo)](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/string-web/free-post-search-search-the-web-duckduckgo/llms.txt)
- [String Web: SERP API pricing, 6 plans, POST /search, Search the web](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/string-web/free-post-search-search-the-web/llms.txt)
- [String Web: Google AI Mode scraper API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-ai-mode-scraper-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: image search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/image-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: video search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/video-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: Google Shopping search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/google-shopping-search-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)
- [String Web: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/string-web/free/llms.txt)

## String Web: web scraping API alternatives

- [RiteKit, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ritekit/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete
- [ScrapeOps, $54 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeops/54-monthly/llms.txt): $0.108 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [serp.cheap, $130 monthly, Medium, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/serp-cheap/130-monthly-medium-post-v1-scrape-scrape/llms.txt): $0.108 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $549 monthly, Scale S1, GET /v1/, Fetch a page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/549-monthly-scale-s1-get-v1-fetch-a-page/llms.txt): $0.11 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Infatica, $165 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/infatica/165-monthly/llms.txt): $0.11 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 2026-11-07.

- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/api-reference/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/fetch/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://portal.usestring.ai/docs/get-started/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://usestring.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing