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57% complete: 4 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, WaterCrawl's best plan scores 60.7 out of 100.This plan is free. We rank 1,855 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan 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 covers any number of pages. Spider Cloud's $40 monthly plan costs more up front than PhantomJsCloud's $10 monthly plan.WebScraping.AI, ScraperAPI and Scrappey are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Free Plan one of WaterCrawl's 6 plans
Call: POST /api/v1/core/crawl-requests/ WaterCrawl's only call for this API
API: Web scraping API one of WaterCrawl's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Live. WaterCrawl fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
  • 4 of the 7 key fields we check. Screenshot, Markdown, HTML, Links.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 1,000 credits a month, enough for 1,000 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
  • One call. You call POST /api/v1/core/crawl-requests/. You send url, options.spider_options and options.page_options. The call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done.
  • Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WaterCrawl: web scraping API alternatives

WaterCrawl alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked

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

WaterCrawl, €117.60 yearlyZenRows, $29 monthly, Build B2, GET /v1/, Fetch a pageCrawlbase, $2,189 yearly, Scale 500K, GET /, Crawling APIScrapingdog, $40,000 yearly, Enterprise Starter, GET /scrape, Web Scraping API, premium proxy without JavaScript renderingScrapingBee, $599 monthly, Business +, GET /api/v1/, HTML API
$ per 1,000 pages$0.368$0.362$0.365$0.37$0.374
Completeness57%43%29%14%57%
Billingyearlymonthlyyearlyyearlymonthly
Pay€117.60$29$2,189$40,000$599
Enough for360,000 calls a year80,000 calls a month500,000 calls a month9,000,000 calls a month1,600,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyoneanyone of legal age (18) with the legal capacity to contractanyoneanyoneany natural person aged at least 18 years old with full and complete legal capacity acting in the scope of their professional activity or being the legal representative of a legal entity empowered to enter into legally binding commitments

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.

  1. app.watercrawl.dev/api/schema/team/
  2. app.watercrawl.dev/api/v1/plan/plans/
  3. docs.watercrawl.dev/api/documentation
  4. docs.watercrawl.dev/clients/php
  5. docs.watercrawl.dev/clients/python
  6. watercrawl.dev
  7. watercrawl.dev/pricing
  8. watercrawl.dev/terms

Product details

The key fields this plan's answer can hold, then each filled column in its row on the sheet.

  • Screenshot
  • Markdown
  • HTML
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Batch create crawl requests
Overage
Units caphard
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchPrecise Content Extraction: Extract exactly what you need with customizable selectors. Focus on main content while filtering out ads, footers, and unwanted elements.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use dataYou agree to use our services only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms. You must: Respect website terms of service and robots.txt [...] Maintain reasonable crawling speeds [...] Not attempt to bypass security measures [...] Not use our service for any illegal activities [...] The following activities are strictly prohibited: Scraping personal or sensitive information [...] Denial of service attacks or excessive requests [...] Distribution of malware or harmful code [...] Unauthorized access to protected content
Plan
Pay€0
You get1,000 credits a month
Enough for1,000 calls a month
Rate limit
Per day100
Concurrent1
Batch1
Speed
Answerby polling
Median7.47 s
The call
You sendurl, options.spider_options, options.page_options. Optional: options.spider_options.max_depth, options.spider_options.page_limit, options.spider_options.concurrent_requests, options.spider_options.allowed_domains, options.spider_options.exclude_paths, options.spider_options.include_paths, options.spider_options.proxy_server, options.page_options.exclude_tags, options.page_options.include_tags, options.page_options.wait_time, options.page_options.include_html, options.page_options.only_main_content, options.page_options.include_links, options.page_options.timeout, options.page_options.accept_cookies_selector, options.page_options.locale, options.page_options.extra_headers, options.page_options.actions, options.page_options.ignore_rendering, options.plugin_options
MethodPOST
Path/api/v1/core/crawl-requests/
About the plan
PlanFree Plan
Who can get itanyone
The 9 fields the plan's answer can hold

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