WebcrawlerAPI pricing: web scraping API, POST /
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57% complete: 4 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$2.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, this plan scores 68.4 out of 100. WebcrawlerAPI ranks 14th of 77 providers.Half of the 1,913 plans we rank by price cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less. This plan costs less per 1,000 pages than 49% of the 1,913 plans.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 the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Pay as you go one of WebcrawlerAPI's 4 plans
- Top-up, Pay as you goPay as you go$2.00 per 1,000
- $99 monthly, ProfessionalProfessional$1.50 per 1,000
- $499 monthly, BusinessBusiness$1.00 per 1,000
- Contact us, CustomCustom
Call:
POST / one of WebcrawlerAPI's 2 callsGET /Top-up, Pay as you go$6.00 per 1,000markdown POST /Top-up, Pay as you go$2.00 per 1,000v2/ scrape
API: Web scraping API WebcrawlerAPI's only API
About this item
- A copy at most 7 days old. You get the page from WebcrawlerAPI's cache.
- 4 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown, HTML, Text, Links.
- A balance you top up. You pay any amount. You spend the whole balance on calls.
- One call. You send
urltoPOST /. You can also sendv2/ scrape output_,formats main_,content_ only clean_,selectors respect_,robots_ txt max_andage async. The call returns the answer when the provider is quick. When the provider is slow, the call returns a job. You fetch the answer once the job is done. - Who can get it: with conditions. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
WebcrawlerAPI: web scraping API alternatives
WebcrawlerAPI alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked
We list other providers' plans closest to this plan in price per 1,000 pages. Each plan in the table gives live data or data at most a week old.
| This planWebcrawlerAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v2/scrape | WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, no JS rendering | AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Protected | FetchFox, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/visit | Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth | ScrapingFish, $2 pack | |
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 | $2.00 |
| Completeness | 57% | 29% | 43% | 71% | 86% | 29% |
| Billing | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first | pay first |
| Pay | any amount | $20 | $10 | any amount | $5 | $2 |
| Enough for | as many as you pay for | 10,000 calls | 5,000 calls | as many as you pay for | 2,500 calls | 1,000 calls |
| Freshness | 7 days | live | live | live | 2 days | live |
| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into contracts | anyone 18 or older | anyone at least 18 years old, acting in a professional or commercial capacity | anyone | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone aged 18 or over, or under 18 with the consent of their legal representative |
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.
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
- Text
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links
- Images, not in the answer
| Overall score | 68.4 |
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| Price score | 51 |
| Accuracy score | 95 |
| Cost to get started score | 93 |
| Bundle score | 75 |
| Performance score | 1 |
| $ per 1,000 pages | $2.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | pay first |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Markdown (LLM-cleaned) · Crawl a website · Run agent |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Send a URL to POST /v2/scrape and get the rendered page back as markdown, HTML, links or structured JSON. No browsers, proxies or retries to run. You only pay for pages that succeed. |
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| Freshness | 7 days |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | Output: 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. |
| Concurrent | 5 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call or by polling |
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| Median | 7.76 s |
| You send | url. Optional: output_formats, main_content_only, clean_selectors, respect_robots_txt, max_age, async |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /v2/scrape |
| Plan | Pay as you go |
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| Who can get it | anyone at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction) and legally capable of entering into contracts |
The 7 fields the plan's answer can hold
request status, page markdown, page text, page HTML, page links, status code, page title