# WebcrawlerAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v2/scrape: Web scraping API

> 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.

WebcrawlerAPI's web scraping API on its Pay as you go plan. It costs $2.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 4 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML, Text, Links.
In [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt), 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](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/webcrawlerapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-scrape
- [Web scraping API: 70+ providers compared on price and data](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://webcrawlerapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.webcrawlerapi.com/v2/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://webcrawlerapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://webcrawlerapi.com/docs/api/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: WebcrawlerAPI (https://webcrawlerapi.com?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

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

## Score

- Overall score: 68.4
- Price score: 51
- Accuracy score: 95
- Cost to get started score: 93
- Bundle score: 75
- Performance score: 1

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $2.00
- Per: call
- Billing: pay first

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: Markdown (LLM-cleaned) · Crawl a website · Run agent

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- 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.

## Data

- Freshness: 7 days
- 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.

## Rate limit

- Concurrent: 5
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call or by polling
- Median: 7.76 s

## The call

- You send: url. Optional: output_formats, main_content_only, clean_selectors, respect_robots_txt, max_age, async
- Method: POST
- Path: /v2/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Pay as you go
- 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

## WebcrawlerAPI's plans (4)

- [WebcrawlerAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v2/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-scrape/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [WebcrawlerAPI, $99 monthly, Professional, POST /v2/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/99-monthly-professional-post-v2-scrape/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [WebcrawlerAPI, $499 monthly, Business, POST /v2/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/499-monthly-business-post-v2-scrape/llms.txt): $1.00 per 1,000, 57% complete, 7 days
- [WebcrawlerAPI, contact us, Custom, POST /v2/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/contact-us-custom-post-v2-scrape/llms.txt): 57% complete, 7 days

## WebcrawlerAPI's calls (2)

- `GET /markdown`: [WebcrawlerAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, GET /markdown](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/top-up/llms.txt)
- `POST /v2/scrape`: [WebcrawlerAPI, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /v2/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-scrape/llms.txt)

## WebcrawlerAPI's APIs (1)

- [WebcrawlerAPI: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, POST /v2/scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webcrawlerapi/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-v2-scrape/llms.txt)

## WebcrawlerAPI: web scraping API alternatives

- [WebScraping.AI, top-up from $20, Pay as you go, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, no JS rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscraping-ai/top-up-from-20-pay-as-you-go-get-text-get-page-text-residential-proxy-no-js-rendering/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [AlterLab, top-up from $10, Deposit $10, POST /api/v1/scrape, Scrape a web page, Protected](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/alterlab/top-up-from-10-deposit-10-post-api-v1-scrape-scrape-a-web-page-protected/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [FetchFox, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /api/visit](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/fetchfox/top-up/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 71% complete, live
- [Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Growth](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/firecrawl/top-up-from-5-pay-as-you-go-on-growth/llms.txt): $2.00 per 1,000, 86% complete, 2 days
- [ScrapingFish, $2 pack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingfish/2-pack/llms.txt): $2.00 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 2026-10-29.

- https://webcrawlerapi.com/docs/api/caching?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webcrawlerapi.com/docs/api/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webcrawlerapi.com/docs/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webcrawlerapi.com/docs/rate-limits?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webcrawlerapi.com/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webcrawlerapi.com/tos?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webcrawlerapi.com/web-scraping-api?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing