Surf pricing: web scraping API

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$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from Surf scores 42.2 out of 100. Surf ranks 74th of 77 providers.This plan is free. We rank 1,913 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan 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 covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

Plan: Free tier one of Surf's 6 plans

Call: GET /gateway/v1/web/fetch Surf's only call for this API

GET /gateway/v1/web/fetchFree$0.00 per 1,000

API: Web scraping API one of Surf's 3 APIs

About this item

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Nothing to pay. You get 30 credits a day, enough for 30 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
One call. You send url to GET /gateway/v1/web/fetch. You can also send target_selector, remove_selector, wait_for_selector and timeout. The call returns the page's content.
Who can get it: anyone, with no sign-up: every IP gets the credits. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Surf: web scraping API alternatives

Surf alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

The table starts with Surf's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Surf's.

	Surf, contact us, Growth	Exa, pay as you go, x402 or MPP, paid per request, POST /contents, Get contents, full	LLMLayer, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v2/scrape, Scraper API, full	Anakin, $100 monthly, Scale, POST /v1/url-scraper/scrape, Scrape URL (Inline), full	ScrapeGraphAI, $150 pack, Large, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML
$ per 1,000 pages	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00
Completeness	14%	71%	43%	29%	14%
Billing	contact	pay as you go	pay first	monthly	pay first
Pay	not published	per call	any amount	$100	$150
Enough for	not published	as many as you pay for	as many as you pay for	about 33,333 calls a month	50,000 calls
Freshness	unknown	stored	live	24 hours	stored
Who can get it	anyone buying over 1,500,000 credits, arranged through sales	AI agents paying in USDC over x402 or MPP, no Exa account or API key needed	anyone at least 18 years old, with the authority to enter the Agreement and not prohibited by law from using the Services	anyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business use	anyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.")

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From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

Product details

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Price
$ per 1,000 pages	$0.00
Per	call
Billing	free

Charges
Also pays for	from the same budget: 120 other calls

Overage
Units cap	hard

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$ per 1,000	$0.00

In their words
Their pitch	Fetches a web page and converts it to clean, LLM-friendly markdown.

Data
Keep data	no limit
Use data	"a. Use and Restrictions of Output Subject to your compliance with these Terms, you may use the Output for personal or non-commercial purposes. If you wish to use the Output for any commercial purpose, you must obtain our prior written consent. [...]" "c. Prohibited Conduct You agree not to: Infringe upon the privacy, intellectual property, or other rights of third parties. Decompile, reverse engineer, probe, or interfere with the operation of the Services. Use the Services to create competing models or products. Use automated tools (e.g., crawlers or scrapers) to extract data or content. Misrepresent how content is generated or circumvent platform usage policies. Use the Services for unauthorized commercial purposes or sublicense them to others. Submit data that is subject to special protection or considered highly sensitive. You agree to comply with usage frequency limits and other access rules as outlined in our documentation. You must not use VPNs, proxies, automation scripts, or other methods to circumvent platform access restrictions. [...]"

Plan
Pay	$0
You get	30 credits a day
Enough for	30 calls a day

Rate limit
Concurrent	no limit
Batch	1

Speed
Answer	in the call
Median	3.03 s

The call
You send	url. Optional: target_selector, remove_selector, wait_for_selector, timeout
Method	GET
Path	/gateway/v1/web/fetch

About the plan
Plan	Free tier
Who can get it	anyone, with no sign-up: every IP gets the credits

The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page title, URL, credits used, served from cache, empty reason