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WebcrawlerAPI pricing and alternatives: web scraping API

WebcrawlerAPI's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026
14% complete: 1 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$6.00per 1,000 pagesHalf of the 473 plans we rank by price cost $1.50 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan is cheaper than 16% of the 473 plans.The cheapest plan we rank by price is Scrapestack, $199.99 monthly, Business, GET /scrape, Scrape, at $0.067 per 1,000 pages.ScraperAPI, Scrapestack and HasData are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go one of WebcrawlerAPI's 4 plans
Call: GET /markdown WebcrawlerAPI's only call for this API
API: Web scraping API one of WebcrawlerAPI's 2 APIs

About this item

  • Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
  • 1 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown.
  • A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend all of it on calls.
  • One call. You send url to GET /markdown. The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WebcrawlerAPI: web scraping API alternatives

We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages.

This planWebcrawlerAPI, top-upZenscrape, $59.99 monthly, Small, GET /api/v1/get, Web Scraping API, JavaScript rendering and premium proxyCrawlForge, $3 pack, Credit pack, POST /tools/extract_contentHyperbrowser, $30 monthly, Startup, POST /api/web/fetch, Fetch with JSON outputScrapeGraphAI, $100 monthly, Growth Plan, POST /api/scrape, Scrape HTML with stealth
$ per 1,000 pages$6.00$5.999$6.00$6.00$6.00
Completeness14%14%57%57%14%
Billingpay firstmonthlypay firstmonthlymonthly
Payany amount$59.99$3$30$100
Enough foras many as you pay for10,000 calls a month500 calls5,000 calls a monthabout 16,666 calls a month
Freshnessunknownliveliveunknownunknown
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into contractsanyoneanyone at least 18 years of age (or the age of majority in their jurisdiction) with the legal capacity to enter into the Terms of Serviceanyoneanyone who can form a binding contract and whose use is lawful where they and their users operate (its terms: "You may use ScrapeGraphAI only if you can form a binding contract and if your use is lawful in the places where you and your users operate.")

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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.

  1. webcrawlerapi.com/docs/getting-started
  2. webcrawlerapi.com/docs/pricing
  3. webcrawlerapi.com/docs/rate-limits
  4. webcrawlerapi.com/pricing
  5. webcrawlerapi.com/tos
  6. webcrawlerapi.com/web-scraping-api

Product details

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

  • Screenshot, not in the answer
  • Markdown
  • HTML, not in the answer
  • Text, not in the answer
  • Summary, not in the answer
  • Links, not in the answer
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$6.00
Percall
Billingpay first
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Scrape a page · Crawl a website · Run agent
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchAn LLM removes menus, footers, and banners so you get only the main content.
Data
Keep datano limit
Use dataOutput: Subject to these Terms and applicable law, you may use output generated from your jobs. [...] You are solely responsible for: [...] compliance with target website terms, robots directives, and other access restrictions where applicable, ensuring you have a lawful basis for any data you collect or process. You must not use the Service for unlawful surveillance, credential theft, malware distribution, spam/phishing, sanctions evasion, or any activity that violates law or third-party rights. [...] You must not: [...] use the Service to collect sensitive data in violation of law, [...] use the Service to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise infringe copyrighted content without authorization.
Rate limit
Concurrent5
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl
MethodGET
Path/markdown
About the plan
PlanPay as you go
Who can get itanyone at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into contracts
The only field the plan's answer can hold

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