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Thunderbit pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, POST /distill, Distill Single Page

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71% complete: 5 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe rank 935 plans by price. PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan costs the least 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 to start than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Spider Cloud are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Thunderbit's 11 plans
Call: POST /distill, Distill Single Page one of Thunderbit's 3 calls for this API
API: Web scraping API one of Thunderbit's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The provider fetches the page when you call.
  • 5 of the 7 key fields we check. 4 are in the plan's price: Markdown, HTML, Links, Images. 1 costs extra: Summary.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 600 credits, enough for 600 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You send url to POST /distill. You set the Content-Type header to "application/json". The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

Thunderbit: web scraping API alternatives

The table starts with Thunderbit's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Thunderbit's. Each plan in the table gives live data.

Thunderbit, $3,000 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single PageScrapingdog, $220,000 yearly, Titan Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxyBrowserless, $300 yearly, Prototyping, POST /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape APISearch1API, $499 pack, Pay as you go, $499 (+60% bonus), POST /crawlScrapeless, $10,788 yearly, Enterprise Plus, yearly, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render
$ per 1,000 pages$0.625$0.619$0.625$0.625$0.63
Completeness71%14%86%0%86%
Billingyearlyyearlyyearlypay firstyearly
Pay$3,000$220,000$300$499$10,788
Enough for4,800,000 calls a year29,600,000 calls a month40,000 calls a month798,400 callsabout 1,427,142 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greateranyoneanyone who is at least the age of majority in their state or province of residenceanyoneanyone

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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.

  1. thunderbit.com/api-pricing
  2. thunderbit.com/docs/api-reference/endpoints/distill
  3. thunderbit.com/docs/api-reference/overview
  4. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/faq
  5. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/output-formats
  6. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
  7. thunderbit.com/docs/guides/units
  8. thunderbit.com/docs/llms.txt
  9. thunderbit.com/terms

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
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summarycosts more
  • Links
  • Images
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Extra fieldssummary: +$0.00 · answer: +$0.00 · highlights: +$0.00
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Batch Distill · Extract Structured Data · Batch Extract · Search and Distill
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPOST a URL to convert any web page into clean, LLM-optimized Markdown. Automatic JS rendering, ad and nav stripping, no scraper or browser to maintain.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataWhen using the Scraping Services, you agree to the following: (a) Third-Party Service Compliance. You are solely responsible for ensuring that your use of the Scraping Services complies with all applicable laws, regulations, and the terms of service of Third-Party Services. [...] (d) Personal Data. You must not use the Scraping Services to collect personal data unless you have a lawful basis for such collection and processing. [...] (e) Authentication and Access. You shall not use the Scraping Services to access content protected by authentication systems unless you have valid, authorized access to such content. [...] (f) Intellectual Property. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of scraped data respects the intellectual property rights of third parties. [...] When using the API or SDK, you agree to the following: (a) You shall not exceed the rate limits or usage quotas applicable to your Account. (b) You shall not share API keys or SDK credentials with unauthorized parties. [...] (e) You shall not use the API or SDK to build services that compete directly with the Services.
Plan
Pay$0
You get600 credits
Enough for600 calls
Rate limit
Per second0.17
Concurrent2
Batch1
Speed
Answerin the call
Median4.92 s
The call
You sendurl, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: timeout, waitFor, includeTags, excludeTags, headers, countryCode, renderMode, forceRefresh, formats, include
MethodPOST
Path/distill
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greater
The 10 fields the plan's answer can hold

Markdown, page URL, page title, description, language, source URL, HTTP status, HTML, page links, images

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