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10,000 pages
$3.75
$0.38/1K pages
- Try it on your real URLs
- Same API as the biggest pack
- Credits never expire
Quick answer
How do web reader API prices compare in 2026?
On 2026-10-22, 100,000 browser-rendered pages a month cost $99 at eight APIs, including Firecrawl, Olostep and Crawl4AI Cloud; plain pages cost from $29 (Scrape.do). At 1 million pages, plain pages start at about $99 and browser pages at $399 (Olostep). WebReaderAPI charges $21.75 for 100,000 plain pages and $43.50 if all of them need a browser, paid in crypto with no KYC.
What does a month of pages cost at each API?
Monthly bill for 10,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000 pages, using the least expensive published plan, overage or pay-as-you-go rate. Where a provider prices browser pages differently, both figures are shown (plain / browser).
| API | 10,000 pages | 100,000 pages | 1,000,000 pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| WebReaderAPI, plain pages | $3.75 | $21.75 | $74.25 |
| WebReaderAPI, browser pages (2 credits) | $7.50 | $43.50 | $148.50 |
| Firecrawl | $44.00 | $99.00 | $749.00 |
| Crawl4AI Cloud, plain / browser | $10.00 | $50.00 / $99.00 | $395.00 / $667.00 |
| Olostep | $29.00 | $99.00 | $399.00 |
| Tavily Extract, plain / browser | $16.00 / $30.00 | $140.00 / $236.00 | $1,300 / $2,900 |
| Exa contents | $10.00 | $100.00 | $1,000 |
| Linkup fetch, plain / browser | $10.00 / $50.00 | $100.00 / $500.00 | $1,000 / $5,000 |
| ScrapingBee, plain / browser | $19.00 | $49.00 / $99.00 | $99.00 / $599.00 |
| Scrape.do, plain / browser | $29.00 | $29.00 / $99.00 | $99.00 / $699.00 |
| ZenRows, plain / browser | $5.00 / $25.00 | $39.00 / $99.00 | $199.00 / $549.00 |
| Scrapfly, plain / browser | $30.00 | $30.00 / $100.00 | $100.00 / $560.00 |
| Bright Data Web Unlocker | $15.00 | $150.00 | $1,300 |
| Diffbot | $299.00 | $299.00 | $899.00 |
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List prices in USD, read on 2026-10-22. "—" = not published or not self-serve at that volume. Exa and Parallel document no browser option. Full method and 21 APIs: URL to Markdown API price index 2026.
Which costs do pricing pages leave out?
- Browser multipliers. A JavaScript page costs 5 credits at ScrapingBee, ZenRows and Scrape.do, 6 at Scrapfly and 10 at ScraperAPI; Firecrawl and Olostep render every page at one price.
- Plan steps. A $99 plan bought for 20,000 pages still costs $99.
- Expiry. Most monthly plans reset unused credits; a quiet month is lost money.
- Extraction add-ons. Structured JSON extraction costs extra at several APIs: 4 more credits per page at Firecrawl.
- Premium connections. Residential or "premium" proxies multiply the credit cost at most scraping APIs; WebReaderAPI adds 10 credits only when you choose a country.
- Failed pages. Check whether errors are billed. WebReaderAPI charges nothing for failed pages or pages refused by robots.txt.
Where does WebReaderAPI sit?
At the prices on this page, set on 2026-10-22, WebReaderAPI charges $0.38/1K pages per plain page at 10,000 pages, $0.22/1K pages at 100,000 and $0.07/1K pages at 1 million; a browser page uses two credits. Credits are prepaid, never expire and are paid in BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC with no KYC.
We do not claim to be the cheapest at every volume or for every page type. Our crawler respects robots.txt and never tries to get around a refusal, so some pages that other tools fetch will come back refused, and free.
What does WebReaderAPI cost?
Prepaid packs; one credit per plain page, two with a browser; credits never expire. Prices set on 2026-10-22.
Build
100,000 pages
$21.75
$0.22/1K pages
- Production agents and RAG pipelines
- Batch and crawl jobs
- Credits never expire
Volume
1,000,000 pages
$74.25
$0.07/1K pages
- Datasets and research corpora
- Higher concurrency on request
- Credits never expire
Best rate
Bulk
5,000,000 pages
$350
$0.07/1K pages
- Web-scale ingestion
- Higher concurrency on request
- Credits never expire
In every plan: Main-content extraction · JavaScript rendering when needed · Failed and refused pages not charged · Credits never expire
Web reader API pricing: common questions
What is the cheapest URL to Markdown API in 2026?
For plain pages at 1 million a month, ScrapingBee ($0.099 per 1,000) and Scrape.do ($0.099 per 1,000) listed the lowest prices on 2026-10-22. For browser pages at that volume, Olostep listed $0.399. The answer changes with volume, so compare at your own.
Is Firecrawl expensive?
At small volumes, yes: $19 for 5,000 pages on Hobby is $3.80 per 1,000. At 100,000 pages ($99) and 1 million ($749) it sits close to the market for browser-rendered pages, because every Firecrawl page is rendered.
Do I pay for pages that fail?
It depends on the provider; read its billing page. Crawlbase states that failed requests and retries are free. WebReaderAPI does not charge for failed pages or for pages refused by robots.txt.
Can I pay for a web reader API with crypto?
Yes, at a few. Scrape.do, Decodo Web Data API, Scrapeless state crypto payment on an account, and Exa contents, Parallel Extract, Linkup fetch, Olostep and others take per-request USDC through x402. WebReaderAPI takes BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC with no KYC.
Sources (12)
- Firecrawl: pricing — Firecrawl (read 2026-10-22)
- Crawl4AI Cloud: pricing — Crawl4AI Cloud (read 2026-10-22)
- Olostep: pricing — Olostep (read 2026-10-22)
- Tavily Extract: pricing — Tavily Extract (read 2026-10-22)
- Exa contents: pricing — Exa contents (read 2026-10-22)
- Linkup fetch: pricing — Linkup fetch (read 2026-10-22)
- ScrapingBee: pricing scrapingbee.com/pricing — ScrapingBee (read 2026-10-22)
- Scrape.do: pricing — Scrape.do (read 2026-10-22)
- ZenRows: pricing docs.zenrows.com/first-steps/pricing.md — ZenRows (read 2026-10-22)
- Scrapfly: pricing — Scrapfly (read 2026-10-22)
- Bright Data Web Unlocker: pricing — Bright Data Web Unlocker (read 2026-10-22)
- Diffbot: pricing — Diffbot (read 2026-10-22)