WebSearchAPI.ai pricing: web scraping API
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$0.00per 1,000 pagesIn our web scraping API benchmark, the best plan from WebSearchAPI.ai scores 54.3 out of 100. WebSearchAPI.ai ranks 64th of 77 providers.This plan is free. We rank 1,913 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $2.00 per 1,000 pages or less.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: Free one of WebSearchAPI.ai's 3 plans
Call:
POST / WebSearchAPI.ai's only call for this APIAPI: Web scraping API one of WebSearchAPI.ai's 2 APIs
- Web scraping API
- Web search API
POST /, Search APIai-search - Web search API
POST /, Search API, fullai-search
About this item
- Freshness. We don't know how fresh this plan's data is.
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- Nothing to pay. You get 2,000 credits a month, enough for 2,000 calls.
- One call. You send
urltoPOST /. You setscrape methodto "no-browser",engineto "direct" and theContent-Typeheader to "application/json". The call returns the page's content. - Anyone can get it. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
WebSearchAPI.ai: web scraping API alternatives
WebSearchAPI.ai alternatives: every web scraping API provider ranked
The table starts with WebSearchAPI.ai's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to WebSearchAPI.ai's.
| WebSearchAPI.ai, $1,250 monthly | Firecrawl, top-up from $5, Pay-as-you-go on Standard | Valyu, top-up from $10, Pay-as-you-go, POST /v1/contents, Contents, full | Anakin, $300 monthly, Build your plan, $300 a month, POST /v1/url-scraper/scrape, Scrape URL (Inline), full | x402serps, $20 pack | |
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $2.50 | $2.50 | $2.50 | $2.50 | $2.50 |
| Completeness | 14% | 86% | 57% | 29% | 14% |
| Billing | monthly | pay first | pay first | monthly | pay first |
| Pay | $1,250 | $5 | $10 | $300 | $20 |
| Enough for | 500,000 calls a month | 2,000 calls | 4,000 results | 120,000 calls a month | 8,000 results |
| Freshness | unknown | 2 days | 7 days | 24 hours | unknown |
| Who can get it | anyone who contacts sales | anyone at least 18 years old, or 13 years or older with the express permission of a parent or guardian | anyone who is at least 16 years old, with a parent's or guardian's permission if under 18, and the legal authority to enter into the Platform Service Agreement | anyone 18 or older, for professional, commercial or business use | anyone |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-01.
Product details
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| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | from the same budget: Search API · Screenshot a page · Call a plugin |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Use a resilient web scraping API to extract clean, AI-ready content from difficult URLs with browser rendering, layered fallbacks, precise selectors, and structured output. |
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| Keep data | no limit |
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| Use data | Our API is provided under a non-exclusive, non-transferable license. Usage must comply with our documentation and call volume limits. [...] Users must not use our API to generate outputs that violate intellectual property rights, distribute malware, or attempt unauthorized access. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 2,000 credits a month |
| Enough for | 2,000 calls a month |
| Batch | 1 |
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| Answer | in the call |
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| Median | 3.71 s |
| You send | url, method "no-browser", engine "direct", Content-Type header "application/json". Optional: returnFormat, retain_images, timeout, proxy, setCookie, locale, dnt, httpMethod, headers, body, includeHeaders |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /scrape |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone |
The 6 fields the plan's answer can hold
page title, URL, page content, token count, status code, response headers