# Valyu, free, POST /v1/contents, Contents: Web scraping API

> Clean content extraction from any URL

Valyu's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 4 of the 7 key fields we check. 3 are in the plan's price: Screenshot, Markdown, Images. 1 costs extra: Summary.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), the best plan from Valyu scores 66.3 out of 100. Valyu ranks 30th 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/valyu/free-post-v1-contents-contents
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://www.valyu.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.valyu.ai/v1/contents`, Contents
- API key: with the plan, on https://www.valyu.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/endpoint/contents?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: Valyu (https://www.valyu.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-01

## In the answer

- Completeness: 57%
- Screenshot: ✓
- Markdown: ✓
- Summary: ✓ costs more
- Images: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Extra fields: summary, summary success, structured metadata: +$0.00
- Also pays for: from the same budget: Search · Answer · DeepResearch

## Overage

- Units cap: hard

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Clean content extraction from any URL

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- Keep data: no retention period is set in its documentation for what the API answers, "You may temporarily cache Outputs only within the durations specified by Valyu's Documentation. You may not: Store Outputs indefinitely, Store Outputs in volumes sufficient to recreate datasets, Store large batches of outputs from related queries, Store Outputs outside the permitted cache window", "Restricted Content [...] You may not: Cache, Store, Retain, Log, Index, Reformat, Copy any Restricted Content. All Restricted Content must be discarded once the request completes", "Upon termination: you must delete all cached data"
- Use data: "use Outputs within your applications", "You may not: use any Output for model training, fine-tuning, pre-training, embedding generation, or dataset construction, use Output to recreate the structure of any Valyu dataset or publisher corpus, resell or sublicense Outputs", "You may not use the Services to: circumvent paywalls or access restrictions, recreate datasets or build a competing search/index service, scrape, bulk extract, or systematically harvest content, perform benchmark dumping or bulk export of Outputs, use in regulated decision-making (medical, legal, financial) without human oversight, conduct security testing without permission, violate copyright or intellectual property rights", "use Outputs returned by the Services, provided that any source attribution and/or citation to Valyu or it’s Partners is included in the Output and is displayed clearly. It will not be removed, obscured, or disabled within your service or product", "You may not: Develop search engines, RAG corpora, knowledge bases, embeddings, LLMs, datasets, indexes, or generative models that compete with Valyu, Use Outputs as seeds for synthetic data that replicates licensed or indexed content, Use Outputs to build evaluation datasets for model training without written permission", "You may not: Embed Outputs into a vector store, Create, augment, or curate datasets partially or wholly derived from Outputs, Generate synthetic corpora seeded by Outputs, Store Outputs or derivatives in structured or unstructured datasets"

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 1,600 credits
- Enough for: 8,000 results
- Expires: 12 months after signup

## Rate limit

- Batch: 10

## Speed

- Answer: in the call
- Median: 5.25 s

## The call

- You send: urls. Optional: response_length, max_price_dollars, summary, extract_effort, start_date, end_date, historical_cache, historical_cache_strict, screenshot, include_image_links, max_age
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/contents

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone who is at least 16 years old, with a parent's or guardian's permission if under 18, and the legal authority to enter into the Platform Service Agreement

## The 27 fields the plan's answer can hold

success, transaction ID, URLs requested, URLs processed, URLs failed, URL, status, page title, page markdown, description, content source, result price, character count, data type, source type, publication date, cache state, crawl date, status code, result ID, image URL, screenshot, DOI, authors, citation count, total cost, total characters

## Valyu's plans (6)

- [Valyu, free, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/free-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [Valyu, top-up from $10, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/top-up-from-10-pay-as-you-go-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt): $1.25 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [Valyu, $29 monthly, Ridiculously Cheap, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/29-monthly-ridiculously-cheap-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt): $1.16 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [Valyu, $99 monthly, Comfortably Pro, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/99-monthly-comfortably-pro-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt): $1.10 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [Valyu, $499 monthly, Serious Business, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/499-monthly-serious-business-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt): $0.998 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [Valyu, contact us, Enterprise, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/contact-us-enterprise-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt): 43% complete, 7 days

## Valyu's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /v1/contents`, Contents: [Valyu, free, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/free-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt)
- `POST /v1/contents`, Contents, full: [Valyu, free, POST /v1/contents, Contents, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/free-post-v1-contents-contents-full/llms.txt)

## Valyu's APIs (2)

- [Valyu: web search API pricing, 6 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-search-apis/valyu/free/llms.txt)
- [Valyu: web scraping API pricing, 6 plans, POST /v1/contents, Contents](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/valyu/free-post-v1-contents-contents/llms.txt)

## Valyu: web scraping API alternatives

- [ScraperAPI, $299 monthly, Business, GET /, Sync API with screenshot](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/299-monthly-business-get-sync-api-with-screenshot/llms.txt): $0.997 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $299 monthly, Pro, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, rotating proxy, without JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/299-monthly-pro-post-markdown-markdown-generation-rotating-proxy-without-js/llms.txt): $0.997 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [Searlo, $799 pack, Enterprise, POST /scrape/batch, Batch Scrape, rendered](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/searlo/799-pack-enterprise-post-scrape-batch-batch-scrape-rendered/llms.txt): $0.999 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [Anysite, $1,199 monthly, Enterprise, POST /api/webparser/parse](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/anysite/1199-monthly-enterprise-post-api-webparser-parse/llms.txt): $0.999 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 2026-11-01.

- https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/endpoint/contents.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/openapi.json?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.valyu.ai/api-reference/overview?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.valyu.ai/guides/content-extraction?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://docs.valyu.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.valyu.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.valyu.ai/terms?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.valyu.ai/valyu-acceptable-use-policy?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://www.valyu.ai/valyu-platform-service-agreement?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing