# Thunderbit, free, POST /distill, Distill Single Page: Web scraping API

> POST 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.

Thunderbit's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 5 of the 7 key fields we check. 4 are in the plan's price: Markdown, HTML, Links, Images. 1 costs extra: Summary.
We rank 935 plans by price. [PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/phantomjscloud/10-monthly/llms.txt) 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](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 to start 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/475-monthly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt) and [Spider Cloud](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/spider-cloud/top-up-from-1-pay-as-you-go-post-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/free-post-distill-distill-single-page
- [Best web scraping API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://thunderbit.com/api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://openapi.thunderbit.com/openapi/v1/distill`, Distill Single Page
- API key: with the plan, on https://thunderbit.com/api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://thunderbit.com/docs/api-reference/endpoints/distill
- Sold by: Thunderbit (https://thunderbit.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 71%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Summary: ✓ costs more
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Extra fields: summary: +$0.00 · answer: +$0.00 · highlights: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Batch Distill · Extract Structured Data · Batch Extract · Search and Distill

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: POST 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

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: When 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 get: 600 credits
- Enough for: 600 calls

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Concurrent: 2
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 4.92 s

## The call

- You send: url, Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: timeout, waitFor, includeTags, excludeTags, headers, countryCode, renderMode, forceRefresh, formats, include
- Method: POST
- Path: /distill

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone 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

## Thunderbit's plans (11)

- [Thunderbit, free, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/free-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $29 monthly, Starter, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/29-monthly-starter-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $4.833 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $72 monthly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/72-monthly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $1.20 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $120 monthly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/120-monthly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $240 monthly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/240-monthly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $480 monthly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/480-monthly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $192 yearly, Starter, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/192-yearly-starter-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $3.20 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $480 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/480-yearly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $0.80 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $840 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/840-yearly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $0.70 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $1,560 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/1560-yearly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $0.65 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Thunderbit, $3,000 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/3000-yearly-pro-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 71% complete, live

## Thunderbit's calls for this API (3)

- `POST /batch/distill`: [Thunderbit, free, POST /batch/distill](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/free-post-batch-distill/llms.txt)
- `POST /distill`, Distill Single Page: [Thunderbit, free, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/free-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt)
- `POST /distill`, Distill Single Page, full: [Thunderbit, free, POST /distill, Distill Single Page, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/free-post-distill-distill-single-page-full/llms.txt)

## Thunderbit's APIs (2)

- [Thunderbit: web scraping API pricing, 11 plans, POST /distill, Distill Single Page](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/thunderbit/free-post-distill-distill-single-page/llms.txt)
- [Thunderbit: web search API pricing, 11 plans, POST /search, Search and Distill](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/thunderbit/free-post-search-search-and-distill/llms.txt)
- [Thunderbit: web search API pricing, 11 plans, POST /search, Search and Distill, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/thunderbit/free-post-search-search-and-distill-full/llms.txt)

## Thunderbit: web scraping API alternatives

- [Scrapingdog, $220,000 yearly, Titan Pro, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingdog/220000-yearly-titan-pro-get-scrape-web-scraping-api-premium-proxy/llms.txt): $0.619 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Browserless, $300 yearly, Prototyping, POST /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape API](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/browserless/300-yearly-prototyping-post-smart-scrape-smart-scrape-api/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Search1API, $499 pack, Pay as you go, $499 (+60% bonus), POST /crawl](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/search1api/499-pack-pay-as-you-go-499-60-bonus-post-crawl/llms.txt): $0.625 per 1,000, 0% complete, live
- [Scrapeless, $10,788 yearly, Enterprise Plus, yearly, POST /api/v2/unlocker/request, JS Render](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapeless/10788-yearly-enterprise-plus-yearly-post-api-v2-unlocker-request-js-render/llms.txt): $0.63 per 1,000, 86% 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://thunderbit.com/api-pricing
- https://thunderbit.com/docs/api-reference/endpoints/distill
- https://thunderbit.com/docs/api-reference/overview
- https://thunderbit.com/docs/guides/faq
- https://thunderbit.com/docs/guides/output-formats
- https://thunderbit.com/docs/guides/rate-limits
- https://thunderbit.com/docs/guides/units
- https://thunderbit.com/docs/llms.txt
- https://thunderbit.com/terms