# The Drive AI, free, POST /api/v1/markdown/convert: Web scraping API

> Convert any URL, document, or audio/video to clean markdown. Audio transcribed via Whisper. JavaScript rendered, boilerplate stripped.

The Drive AI's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), 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](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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 up front 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/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/the-drive-ai/free-post-api-v1-markdown-convert
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://dev.thedrive.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://dev.thedrive.ai/api/v1/markdown/convert`
- API key: with the plan, on https://dev.thedrive.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.thedrive.ai/api-reference/markdown/convert-to-markdown?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: The Drive AI (https://dev.thedrive.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- Markdown: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Extract Structured Data · Batch Extract · Analyze Document · Cross-Document Analysis · Batch Analyze · Decide · Generate Thumbnail · Screenshot · Markdown

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Convert any URL, document, or audio/video to clean markdown. Audio transcribed via Whisper. JavaScript rendered, boilerplate stripped.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- 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.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 100 credits a month
- Enough for: 100 calls a month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 5.19 s

## The call

- You send: one of file or url, Content-Type header "multipart/form-data". Optional: url_headers, use_llm, structure, ocr, ocr_max_pages, filename
- Method: POST
- Path: /api/v1/markdown/convert

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- 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

## The Drive AI's plans (3)

- [The Drive AI, free, POST /api/v1/markdown/convert](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/the-drive-ai/free-post-api-v1-markdown-convert/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [The Drive AI, top-up, Pro, POST /api/v1/markdown/convert](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/the-drive-ai/top-up-pro-post-api-v1-markdown-convert/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [The Drive AI, contact us, Enterprise, POST /api/v1/markdown/convert](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/the-drive-ai/contact-us-enterprise-post-api-v1-markdown-convert/llms.txt): 14% complete, live

## The Drive AI's calls (2)

- `POST /api/v1/markdown/convert`: [The Drive AI, free, POST /api/v1/markdown/convert](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/the-drive-ai/free-post-api-v1-markdown-convert/llms.txt)
- `GET /md/{url}`: [The Drive AI, free, GET /md/{url}](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/the-drive-ai/free-get-md-url/llms.txt)

## The Drive AI's APIs (1)

- [The Drive AI: web scraping API pricing, 3 plans, POST /api/v1/markdown/convert](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/the-drive-ai/free-post-api-v1-markdown-convert/llms.txt)

## The Drive AI: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, stealth proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-stealth-proxy/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Hyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup, POST /api/scrape, Scrape with proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hyperbrowser/30-monthly-startup-post-api-scrape-scrape-with-proxy/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Geekflare, $10 pack, Spark, POST /webscraping, Web Scraping with Premium Proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/geekflare/10-pack-spark-post-webscraping-web-scraping-with-premium-proxy/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Spidra, $5 pack, 500 credit top-up, POST /scrape, Start a scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spidra/5-pack-500-credit-top-up-post-scrape-start-a-scrape/llms.txt): $10.00 per 1,000, 29% 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://dev.thedrive.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.thedrive.ai/api-reference/markdown/convert-to-markdown?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.thedrive.ai/developer/introduction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://thedrive.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing