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WebScraping.AI pricing and alternatives: web scraping API, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, JS rendering

WebScraping.AI's sitellms.txtBest web scraping API in 2026
29% complete: 2 of the 7 key fields we checkSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesThe cheapest of the 473 plans 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: Free one of WebScraping.AI's 6 plans
Call: GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, JS rendering one of WebScraping.AI's 10 calls for this API
API: Web scraping API one of WebScraping.AI's 5 APIs

About this item

  • Live. The call fetches the page when you make it.
  • 2 of the 7 key fields we check. Markdown, Links.
  • Nothing to pay. You get 2,000 credits a month, enough for 80 calls.
  • One call. You send url to GET /text. You set js to "true" and proxy to "residential". The call returns the page's content.
  • Who can get it: anyone 18 or older. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.

WebScraping.AI: web scraping API alternatives

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

WebScraping.AI, $249 monthly, Startup, GET /text, Get Page Text, residential proxy, JS renderingScraperAPI, $21,330 yearly, Advanced, GET /, Sync API with premium proxies and JS renderingScrapingBee, $249 monthly, Business, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, premium proxyScrapeOwl, $249 monthly, Business, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape API, premium proxies with render_jsScrapingAnt, $249 monthly, Business, GET /v2/extended, Extended JSON: Simple request (no browser usage) + premium (residential) proxy
$ per 1,000 pages$2.075$2.067$2.075$2.075$2.075
Completeness29%43%57%29%29%
Billingmonthlyyearlymonthlymonthlymonthly
Pay$249$21,330$249$249$249
Enough for120,000 calls a month860,000 calls a month120,000 calls a month120,000 calls a month120,000 calls a month
Freshnesslivelivelivelivelive
Who can get itanyone 18 or olderanyoneany 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 commitmentsFor now, we provide this Website for use only by persons located in the United Statesanyone at least 18 years old, or with a parent's permission

Every web scraping API provider we score, ranked

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. webscraping.ai/#pricing
  2. webscraping.ai/docs
  3. webscraping.ai/docs/text.md
  4. webscraping.ai/linkedin-scraper-api
  5. webscraping.ai/llms-full.txt
  6. webscraping.ai/openapi.json
  7. webscraping.ai/terms

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
  • Images, not in the answer
Price
$ per 1,000 pages$0.00
Percall
Billingfree
Charges
Also pays forfrom the same budget: Search Results (SERP) · Structured Data · Ask Questions About a Page · Extract Structured Fields · Get Page HTML · Get Selected HTML · Get Multiple Selected Areas
Not found
$ per 1,000$0.00
In their words
Their pitchConvert a webpage to clean Markdown — boilerplate stripped, headings, lists, and links preserved (table cells come through as plain text). Perfect for feeding content to LLMs and RAG pipelines.
Data
Freshnesslive
Keep datano limit
Use data6.1 Permitted Use. You may use the Site and Service to extract data from publicly accessible pages or APIs on publicly accessible Target Websites, provided that such use does not conflict with these Terms, applicable law, or Section 4. [...] 4.4 Target-Website Terms of Service. You are responsible for compliance with the terms of service, terms of use, and other policies of each Target Website. [...] 6.6 Prohibited Activities. You shall not use the Site or Service to: [...] (b) collect, save, transmit, or access content that violates applicable law, including content that (i) infringes copyright or other intellectual property rights, (ii) breaches laws against hate speech, discrimination, violence, invasion of privacy, gambling, drug distribution, or similar harms, or (iii) violates competition law, [...] (i) generate fraudulent impressions, clicks, or engagements, including ad fraud, SEO manipulation, fake reviews, fake engagement, ticket-scalping bots, sneaker bots, sweepstakes or survey-reward farming, or any automated revenue generation by deceptive means, [...] (l) scrape data for use in harassment, doxxing, stalking, or intimate-partner surveillance.
Plan
Pay$0
You get2,000 credits a month
Enough for80 calls a month
Rate limit
Concurrent2
Speed
Answerin the call
The call
You sendurl, js "true", proxy "residential". Optional: headers, timeout, js_timeout, wait_for, country, custom_proxy, device, error_on_404, error_on_redirect, js_script, text_format, return_links
MethodGET
Path/text
About the plan
PlanFree
Who can get itanyone 18 or older
The 4 fields the plan's answer can hold

page markdown, page title, page description, page links

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