switch402 pricing: web scraping API, POST / v1/ scrape/ lite
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$3.00per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run switch402 through our web scraping API benchmark yet.Half of the 2,645 plans we rank by price cost $1.999 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 36% of the 2,645 plans.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: Pay per call (x402) one of switch402's 5 plans
- Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)Pay per call (x402)$3.00 per 1,000
- $5 pack$5 pack$3.00 per 1,000
- $10 pack, Monthly planMonthly plan$2.50 per 1,000
- $20 pack$20 pack$2.857 per 1,000
- $50 pack$50 pack$2.727 per 1,000
Call:
POST / v1/ scrape/ lite one of switch402's 5 calls for this APIPOST /Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)$1.00 per 1,000v1/ metadata POST /Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)$8.00 per 1,000v1/ pdf POST /Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)$8.00 per 1,000v1/ scrape POST /Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)$3.00 per 1,000v1/ scrape/ lite POST /Pay as you go, Pay per call (x402)$1.00 per 1,000v1/ map
API: Web scraping API one of switch402's 2 APIs
About this item
- Live. switch402 fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
- 1 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Markdown.
- Nothing to buy first. You pay per call.
- One call. You send
urltoPOST /. The call returns the page's content.v1/ scrape/ lite - Who can get it: anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base over x402. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
switch402: web scraping API alternatives
switch402 alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| This planswitch402, pay as you go, Pay per call (x402), POST /v1/scrape/lite | LLMLayer, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/v2/scrape, Scraper API, full | LucidExtractor, $75 pack, 25,000 credits, POST /v1/scrape/batch | Crawlbase, pay as you go, first 1K requests a month, GET /, Crawling API | CrawlForge, $3 pack, Credit pack, POST /tools/extract_text | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 pages | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 |
| Completeness | 14% | 43% | 43% | 29% | 29% |
| Billing | pay as you go | pay first | pay first | pay as you go | pay first |
| Pay | per call | any amount | $75 | monthly | $3 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | as many as you pay for | 25,000 results | as many as you pay for | 1,000 calls |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base over x402 | 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 over | anyone | anyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Service |
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
- HTML, not in the answer
- Text, not in the answer
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Images, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 pages | $3.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | pay as you go |
| Also pays for | nothing else |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | A page as markdown, charged only on success. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Do not use switch402 for anything illegal. Do not use it to fetch, scrape or copy content from sites you do not have the right to access or use, to get around logins, paywalls or other access controls, or to overload or attack any site. You are responsible for what you request and how you use the results. |
| Pay | per call |
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| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | url |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v1/scrape/lite |
| Plan | Pay per call (x402) |
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| Who can get it | anyone, with no account or API key, paying each call in USDC on Base over x402 |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
URL, page title, page markdown, own service, response time, attempts, tier