# webscrape.ai, free: Web scraping API

> Fetch a URL as raw HTML, cleaned markdown, or a list of outbound links.

webscrape.ai's web scraping API on its Free plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. webscrape.ai's docs list 3 of the 7 key fields we check: Markdown, HTML, Links.
We haven't run webscrape.ai through [our web scraping API benchmark](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt) yet.
This plan is free. We rank 2,323 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.
[GuGuData's CNY 83 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/gugudata/cny-83-monthly/llms.txt) is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. GuGuData's CNY 83 monthly plan charges nothing per call. You get as many pages as GuGuData's rate limit allows.
[80legs's $29 monthly plan](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/80legs/29-monthly/llms.txt) covers any number of pages. 80legs's $29 monthly plan costs more up front than GuGuData's CNY 83 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/webscrape-ai/free
- [Web scraping API: 100+ scraper providers compared](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://webscrape.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Request: `POST https://api.webscrape.ai/v1/scrape`
- API key: with the plan, on https://webscrape.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Its API docs: https://webscrape.ai/docs/api-reference/scrape?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- Sold by: webscrape.ai (https://webscrape.ai?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing)
- Checked: 2026-11-06

## In the answer

- Completeness: 43%
- Markdown: ✓
- HTML: ✓
- Links: ✓

## Price

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

## Charges

- Also pays for: Dispatch a SmartBrowse run: 50 runs a month, 25 pages a run · from the same budget: SmartScraper · Dispatch a SmartBrowse run · POST /v1/blueprints/suggest-schema · POST /v1/blueprints · POST /v1/blueprints/{id}/run · POST /v1/browse/sessions

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Fetch a URL as raw HTML, cleaned markdown, or a list of outbound links.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: You are responsible for how you use the Services and for the targets you choose to scrape. You agree that you will not use the Services to: violate any applicable law, regulation, or third-party right, access, scrape, or collect data from any site or system in violation of its terms of service, robots directives, or technical access controls, or where you are not authorized to do so, collect, store, or process personal data without a lawful basis or the required consent, or in violation of any applicable privacy or data-protection law, extract content for unlawful discrimination, harassment, stalking, surveillance, or to build profiles for purposes prohibited by law (for example, FCRA-regulated decisions you are not authorized to make), infringe, misappropriate, or violate any intellectual-property, trade-secret, or proprietary right, distribute malware, phishing content, or otherwise interfere with or compromise the integrity or security of any system or network, circumvent, disable, or attempt to defeat any rate limit, credit metering, authentication, or other technical restriction of the Services, reverse engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive the source code of the Services, except to the extent that restriction is prohibited by law, resell, sublicense, or provide the Services to third parties as a competing offering, or use the Services to build a competing product, impose an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Services or our infrastructure. [...] You represent and warrant that you have all rights and permissions necessary to submit Your Content and to access and extract data from the targets you choose, and that your use of the Services and of the extracted data complies with all applicable laws and third-party terms.

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 300 credits a month
- Enough for: 300 calls a month
- Expires: at renewal

## Rate limit

- Per second: 0.17
- Concurrent: 1
- Batch: 1

## Speed

- Answer: in the call

## The call

- You send: website_url. Optional: clean, parse_mode, tag_truncate, extract_links, include_tags, exclude_tags, headers, max_age, stealth
- Method: POST
- Path: /v1/scrape

## About the plan

- Plan: Free
- Who can get it: anyone at least 18 years old, or the age of majority in their jurisdiction

## The 11 fields the plan's answer can hold

page HTML, page markdown, page links, page title, description, language, content type, latency, credits used, credits remaining, request ID

## webscrape.ai's plans (4)

- [webscrape.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscrape-ai/free/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [webscrape.ai, $19 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscrape-ai/19-monthly/llms.txt): $3.80 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [webscrape.ai, $79 monthly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscrape-ai/79-monthly/llms.txt): $2.633 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [webscrape.ai, contact us](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscrape-ai/contact-us/llms.txt): 43% complete, live

## webscrape.ai's calls (1)

- `POST /v1/scrape`: [webscrape.ai, free](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscrape-ai/free/llms.txt)

## webscrape.ai's APIs (1)

- [webscrape.ai: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/webscrape-ai/free/llms.txt)

## webscrape.ai: web scraping API alternatives

- [CaptureKit, $313.20 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/capturekit/313-20-yearly/llms.txt): $2.61 per 1,000, 43% complete, live
- [Browserless, $35 monthly, Prototyping, POST /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape API, full](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/browserless/35-monthly-prototyping-post-smart-scrape-smart-scrape-api-full/llms.txt): $2.625 per 1,000, 86% complete, live
- [Ujeebu, $22 pack, Starter, POST /markdown, Markdown Generation, premium proxy, with JS](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/ujeebu/22-pack-starter-post-markdown-markdown-generation-premium-proxy-with-js/llms.txt): $2.64 per 1,000, 29% complete, live
- [DataBlue, $319 yearly](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/datablue/319-yearly/llms.txt): $2.658 per 1,000, 71% 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 2026-11-06.

- https://webscrape.ai/docs/api-reference/scrape.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/docs/concepts/credits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/docs/concepts/errors.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/docs/concepts/rate-limits.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/docs/concepts/stealth-mode.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/docs/features/scrape.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/docs/openapi.yaml?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/pricing?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/pricing.md?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing
- https://webscrape.ai/terms-of-service?utm_source=datacircle.dev&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=web-scraping-api-pricing