The Drive AI pricing: web scraping API, POST /
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$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from The Drive AI scores 50.2 out of 100. The Drive AI ranks 70th 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 one of The Drive AI's 3 plans
Call:
POST / one of The Drive AI's 2 callsAPI: Web scraping API The Drive AI's only API
About this item
- Live. The Drive AI fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
- 1 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown.
- Nothing to pay. You get 100 credits a month, enough for 100 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
- One call. You send
fileorurltoPOST /. You set theapi/ v1/ markdown/ convert Content-Typeheader to "multipart/form-data". You can also sendurl_,headers use_,llm structure,ocr,ocr_andmax_ pages filename. The call returns the page's content. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
The Drive AI: web scraping API alternatives
The Drive AI alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked
The table starts with The Drive AI's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to The Drive AI's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| The Drive AI, top-up, Pro, POST /api/v1/markdown/convert | WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, stealth proxy | Hyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup, POST /api/scrape, Scrape with proxy | Geekflare, $10 pack, Spark, POST /webscraping, Web Scraping with Premium Proxy | Spidra, $5 pack, 500 credit top-up, POST /scrape, Start a scrape | |
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Completeness | 14% | 29% | 57% | 43% | 29% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | any amount | $20 | $30 | $10 | $5 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 2,000 calls | 3,000 calls a month | 1,000 calls | 500 results |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with an email address (its sign-in sends a magic link to an email address, the free tier asks for no credit card) | anyone 18 or older | anyone | anyone | anyone on a Starter, Builder or Pro plan |
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.
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 | $0.00 |
|---|---|
| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Extract Structured Data · Batch Extract · Analyze Document · Cross-Document Analysis · Batch Analyze · Decide · Generate Thumbnail · Screenshot · Markdown |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Convert any URL, document, or audio/video to clean markdown. Audio transcribed via Whisper. JavaScript rendered, boilerplate stripped. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | By uploading files, you agree that you have the right to do so, and that the content does not infringe on any third-party rights. [...] Users should evaluate the accuracy of the content, and shouldn't make use of harmful and offensive content. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 100 credits a month |
| Enough for | 100 calls a month |
| Per second | 0.5 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 5.19 s |
| You send | one of file or url, Content-Type header "multipart/form-data". Optional: url_headers, use_llm, structure, ocr, ocr_max_pages, filename |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/v1/markdown/convert |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone with an email address (its sign-in sends a magic link to an email address, the free tier asks for no credit card) |
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold
page markdown, file name, content length, content type, success, document pages, workbook sheets, scanned pages, transcribed pages