# TinyFish, free: Web scraping API

> The TinyFish Fetch API fetches web pages, renders JavaScript-heavy pages when needed, and returns clean extracted text in your preferred format. Submit a URL, get back structured content.

TinyFish's web scraping API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 4 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML, Links, Images.
You get up to 30,000 results a month.
We rank 1,653 plans by price. [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 our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tinyfish/free
- [Best web scraping API in 2026: providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.fetch.tinyfish.ai/`
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.tinyfish.ai/fetch-api/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: TinyFish (https://www.tinyfish.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 57%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Links: ✓
- Images: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: Search API: 30 requests / min and 500 requests / hour · from the same budget: Create a Monitor (Page Monitor)

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: The TinyFish Fetch API fetches web pages, renders JavaScript-heavy pages when needed, and returns clean extracted text in your preferred format. Submit a URL, get back structured content.

## Data

- Freshness: stored
- Keep data: not to "store, copy, modify, distribute, or resell any information or material available on the Services" (Site Content) "or compile or collect any Site Content as part of a database or other work", "except as may be expressly permitted by applicable law or expressly permitted by us in writing", the rights in the Outputs the Services generate for you based on your Customer Data are assigned to you, a Custom Agreement controls over these Terms
- Use data: "solely for your internal business purposes (or, if you are an individual, your own personal or internal business purposes)", "This license does not include the right to sublicense, resell, or otherwise transfer the Services or any portion thereof to any third party", "Except as may be expressly permitted by applicable law or expressly permitted by us in writing, you will not, and will not permit anyone else to: [...] (b) scrape, index, or compile Site Content, or use any automated means to access the Services other than through the programmatic interfaces Tiny Fish provides, (c) rent, lease, or sublicense your access to the Services, [...] (h) access or use the Services or any Outputs to develop, train, or improve a product or service that competes with the Services, including by training or fine-tuning any machine-learning model for such a purpose"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- Enough for: 30,000 results a month

## Rate limit

- Per day: 1,000
- Per second: 2.5
- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 1.64 s

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: purpose, format, links, image_links, iframe_links, page_metadata, ttl, per_url_timeout_ms, if_none_match, if_modified_since, include_etag_and_last_modified, include_selectors, exclude_selectors
- Method: POST
- Path: /

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old who can form a legally binding contract

## The 21 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page HTML, page document tree, URL, final URL, page title, description, language, author, published date, page links, page images, iframe links, page metadata, output format, not modified, ETag, last modified, unmatched selectors, fetch time, request ID

## TinyFish's plans (2)

- [TinyFish, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, stored
- [TinyFish, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tinyfish/contact-us/llms.txt): 57% complete, stored

## TinyFish's calls for this API (1)

- `POST /`: [TinyFish, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt)

## TinyFish's APIs (2)

- [TinyFish: web search API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt)
- [TinyFish: web scraping API pricing, 2 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tinyfish/free/llms.txt)

## TinyFish: web scraping API alternatives

- [Exa, free, Starter, POST /contents, Get contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/exa/free-starter-post-contents-get-contents/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [Parallel, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/parallel/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [AnyCrawl, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anycrawl/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, stored
- [ScrapeGraphAI, free plan, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapegraphai/free-plan-post-api-scrape-scrape-html/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, stored
- [You.com, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/you-com/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, stored

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.

- https://agent.tinyfish.ai/v1/openapi/fetch?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/error-codes?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/fetch-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/fetch-api/reference?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/monitor?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.tinyfish.ai/search-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.tinyfish.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.tinyfish.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing