# ToolTrace, free: Web scraping API

> Turn a public webpage into content your application can read and store.

ToolTrace's Free plan for the web scraping API costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. ToolTrace's docs list 4 of the 7 fields on our checklist: Markdown, HTML, Text, Links.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from ToolTrace scores 62.7 out of 100. ToolTrace ranks 82nd of 143 providers.
This plan is free. We rank 2,645 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.999 per 1,000 pages or less. [See how many web scraping API plans are free.](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
[LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/linkpreview/8-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price.
[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), [Scrappey](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrappey/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-api-v1-direct-request/llms.txt) and [APIFreaks](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/apifreaks/100-monthly-monthly-1500000-credits-post-scraping-web-scraper-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/free
- [Web scraping API: 140+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://tooltrace.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.tooltrace.io/v1/extract`
- API key: with the plan, on https://tooltrace.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://tooltrace.io/apis/content-extraction-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: ToolTrace (https://tooltrace.io?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-07

## In the answer

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

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Check an email address · Check a batch of email addresses · Extract page metadata · Extract page links · Extract structured data · Audit webpage SEO · Inspect an XML sitemap and its URLs · Detect website technology stack

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Turn a public webpage into content your application can read and store.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You may use ToolTrace only for lawful purposes and in line with our Acceptable Use Policy. You must have a lawful basis and any necessary permission to request, store, or process the data you submit. You must respect privacy rights, intellectual property, access restrictions, robots directives, and applicable laws of the jurisdictions whose data you handle. [...] Do not use ToolTrace to access private systems, bypass controls, exploit vulnerabilities, distribute malware, facilitate fraud, impersonate others, harass people, conduct unlawful surveillance, infringe intellectual property, violate privacy rights, create spam, or support phishing.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,000 credits a month
- Enough for: 1,000 calls a month
- Expires: at the end of each billing period

## Rate limit

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

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 0.87 s

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: render, wait_until, wait_for_selector, render_timeout_seconds, mode, include
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/extract

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone aged 16 or over

## The 51 fields the plan's answer can hold

requested URL, final URL, status code, content type, bytes downloaded, fetch time, redirects, cached, render method, render reason, credits used, render stable, stability wait, stability checks, visible words, DOM nodes, network requests, network bytes, blocked requests, JS heap used, warnings, access status, block reason, challenge provider, mode, page markdown, page text, page title, description, canonical URL, language, author, published date, favicon URL, Open Graph, Twitter card, link URL, link text, link kind, link rel, nofollow, sponsored, UGC, schema, section ID, section heading, section level, section text, raw HTML, word count, content hash

## ToolTrace's plans (7)

- [ToolTrace, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [ToolTrace, $15 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/15-pack/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [ToolTrace, $65 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/65-pack/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [ToolTrace, $220 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/220-pack/llms.txt): $1.10 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [ToolTrace, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/19-monthly/llms.txt): $1.90 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [ToolTrace, $59 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/59-monthly/llms.txt): $1.686 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [ToolTrace, $149 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/149-monthly/llms.txt): $1.656 per 1,000, 57% complete, live

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

- `POST /v1/extract`: [ToolTrace, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/free/llms.txt)

## ToolTrace's APIs (3)

- [ToolTrace: tech stack API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/company-technology-apis/tooltrace/free/llms.txt)
- [ToolTrace: web scraping API pricing, 7 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/tooltrace/free/llms.txt)
- [ToolTrace: email verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/verify-email/batch](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tooltrace/free-post-v1-verify-email-batch/llms.txt)
- [ToolTrace: email verification API pricing, 7 plans, POST /v1/verify-email](https://datacircle.dev/validate-email-apis/tooltrace/free-post-v1-verify-email/llms.txt)

## ToolTrace: web scraping API alternatives

- [ZenRows, $549 monthly, Scale S1, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, premium proxies](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/549-monthly-scale-s1-get-v1-fetch-a-page-premium-proxies/llms.txt): $1.098 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $22 pack, Starter, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, advanced proxy, without JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/22-pack-starter-post-markdown-markdown-generation-advanced-proxy-without-js/llms.txt): $1.10 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Decodo, $99 monthly, $99, POST /v1/scrape, 90,000 requests a month](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/decodo/99-monthly-99-post-v1-scrape-90000-requests-a-month/llms.txt): $1.10 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [GrabzIt, $66.07 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/grabzit/66-07-yearly/llms.txt): $1.101 per 1,000, 14% 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 2026-11-07.

- https://api.tooltrace.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://api.tooltrace.io/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://tooltrace.io/acceptable-use?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://tooltrace.io/apis?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://tooltrace.io/apis/content-extraction-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://tooltrace.io/docs?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://tooltrace.io/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://tooltrace.io/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing