Writ pricing: web scraping API
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29% complete: 2 of the 7 fields on our checklistSee the 7 fields
$0.00per 1,000 pagesWe haven't run Writ through our web scraping API benchmark yet.This plan is free. We rank 2,648 plans for web scraping APIs by price. Half the plans cost $1.996 per 1,000 pages or less. See the best free web scraping API plan.LinkPreview's $8 monthly plan is the cheapest paid plan per 1,000 pages. LinkPreview's web scraping API costs nothing beyond the plan price. Spider Cloud's Pay as you go plan costs the least for 10,000 pages a month: $1.00.WebScraping.AI, Scrappey and ScraperAPI are the best web scraping API providers in the Datacircle benchmark.
Plan: Free one of Writ's 12 plans
- FreeFree$0.00 per 1,000
- Free, KeylessKeyless$0.00 per 1,000
- Top-up from $5Add funds$1.00 per 1,000
- $15 monthlyStarter$0.75 per 1,000
- $49 monthlyPro$0.754 per 1,000
- $199 monthlyGrowth$0.765 per 1,000
- $499 monthlyScale$0.768 per 1,000
- $150 yearlyStarter$0.625 per 1,000
- $490 yearlyPro$0.628 per 1,000
- $1,990 yearlyGrowth$0.638 per 1,000
- $4,990 yearlyScale$0.64 per 1,000
- Contact usEnterprise
Call:
POST / one of Writ's 2 callsAPI: Web scraping API Writ's only API
About this item
- Live. Writ fetches the web page you ask for when you call the API.
- 2 of the 7 fields on our checklist. Markdown, HTML.
- Nothing to pay. You get 200 credits a month, enough for 200 calls. Calls stop once your credits run out.
- One call. You send
urltoPOST /. You can also sendapi/ crawl/ scrape format,render_,mode persona_andid use_. The call returns the page's content.residential - Who can get it: anyone with a verified email address. Keep data: no limit. Use data: with conditions.
Writ: web scraping API alternatives
Writ alternatives: other web scraping API providers by price
The table starts with Writ's cheapest paid plan. Next come plans from other providers with the price per 1,000 pages closest to Writ's. Each plan in the table gives live data.
| Writ, $150 yearly | Thunderbit, $3,000 yearly, Pro, POST /distill, Distill Single Page | Browserless, $300 yearly, Prototyping, POST /smart-scrape, Smart Scrape API | Search1API, $499 pack, Pay as you go, $499 (+60% bonus), POST /crawl | APIVerve, $2,999.90 yearly | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.625 | $0.625 | $0.625 | $0.625 | $0.625 |
| Completeness | 29% | 71% | 86% | 14% | 14% |
| Billing | yearly | yearly | yearly | pay first | yearly |
| Pay | $150 | $3,000 | $300 | $499 | $2,999.90 |
| Enough for | 20,000 calls a month | 4,800,000 calls a year | 40,000 calls a month | 798,400 calls | 400,000 calls a month |
| Freshness | live | live | live | live | live |
| Who can get it | anyone with a verified email address | anyone with a Thunderbit account who is at least 18 years old, or of the age of majority in their jurisdiction if greater | anyone who is at least the age of majority in their state or province of residence | anyone | anyone 13 or over (under 18 only with the permission of a parent or legal guardian) |
Sources
From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-11-07.
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, not in the answer
- Summary, not in the answer
- Links, not in the answer
- Images, not in the answer
| $ per 1,000 pages | $0.00 |
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| Per | call |
| Billing | free |
| Also pays for | Start a build · from the same budget: Call a published endpoint · Run a workflow · Start a harvest · Run a saved harvest · Check now · Start a session · Run a listing |
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| Units cap | hard |
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| $ per 1,000 | $0.00 |
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| Their pitch | Turn any website into an API. Tell Writ what you need from the site, and get a tested API your code, AI assistant or schedule can call again and again. |
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| Freshness | live |
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| Keep data | no limit |
| Use data | The Service automates browser actions against third-party websites. You are responsible for ensuring your use is lawful and authorized for each site you target. You may not: Collect or extract data in violation of a target website's terms of service or applicable law. Defeat technical access restrictions or paywalls you are not authorized to pass. Send request volumes that overload, degrade, or disrupt a target website. Collect personal data without a lawful basis or required consent. [...] Your data is yours. We do not sell it or train models on your runs. |
| Pay | $0 |
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| You get | 200 credits a month |
| Enough for | 200 calls a month |
| Expires | Nothing rolls over on Free, the 1,000 signup credits lapse 90 days after signup |
| Per second | 0.17 |
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| Batch | 1 |
| Answer | in the call |
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| You send | url. Optional: format, render_mode, persona_id, use_residential |
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| Method | POST |
| Path | /api/crawl/scrape |
| Plan | Free |
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| Who can get it | anyone with a verified email address |
The 8 fields the plan's answer can hold
page URL, page title, page markdown, page HTML, format, character count, raw token estimate, clean token estimate