--- title: "Web Scraper API from $0.00004/request | Rayobyte" description: "The Scraping API returns the page and runs the proxies, browsers and retries, from $0.00004/request." url: "https://rayobyte.com/products/web-scraping-api/" updated: "2026-10-01T23:34:00.975Z" --- # The Web Scraping API priced for the AI era. Scraping the web shouldn’t be expensive, so you send a URL and we handle the proxies, browsers and retries. **from $0.00004/request** [Start free trial](https://app.rayobyte.com/auth/register) | [Contact sales](https://rayobyte.com/contact-sales/?product=api) - Proxies, browsers and retries included - JavaScript rendering when a page needs it - The page comes back as HTML - 5,000 free requests ## Start free, then pay less per request as you grow. Every plan runs the same API, with proxy selection, browser rendering and retries included, and no charge for a failed request. - **Free** (5,000 requests, no plan): Custom plan - **Self-serve** (up to 500k requests a month): $0.0018/request - **At volume, 500k+ requests a month** (That’s $40 per million pages, with the proxies, browsers and retries included.): $0.00004/request. The rate depends on the site. Sales quotes yours from a sample of your URLs. ## From a URL to the finished page in three steps. - **Step 1, Send a URL**: Call the API with your token and the address of the page you want. - **Step 2, We fetch the page**: We pick an IP from our network, render the page in a browser when it needs JavaScript, and retry failed attempts. - **Step 3, You get the HTML**: The page comes back as HTML, the way the site served it, ready for the parser you already use. [Read the quickstart](https://docs.rayobyte.com/scraping-api/quickstart/) ## Proxies and the Scraping API compared. Choose proxies when you need to pick the IP or keep a session, and the Scraping API when you only want the page. | At a glance | Proxies | Scraping API | | --- | --- | --- | | Who sends the request | You | We do | | Choose the IP | Yes | No | | Retries | You | We do | | Billed by | Bandwidth | Successful request | | Price from | $0.0080/GB | $0.0018/request self-serve, or from $0.00004/request at 500k+ through sales | [See all pricing](https://rayobyte.com/pricing/) ## What teams collect with the Scraping API. - **AI training and retrieval**: Collect pages for training sets, retrieval indexes and AI agents without running browsers or proxies. ([Web data extraction](https://rayobyte.com/cases/web-data-extraction/)) - **Price monitoring**: Track prices, stock and product pages across stores on the schedule you set. ([Price monitoring](https://rayobyte.com/cases/price-tracking/)) - **SEO and SERP tracking**: Pull search results and rankings for the keywords and markets you track. ([SEO monitoring](https://rayobyte.com/cases/seo-monitoring/)) - **Market research**: Collect reviews, listings and assortment data across markets for your research team. ([Market research](https://rayobyte.com/cases/market-research/)) ## Trusted with production data for 11 years. From startups to the Fortune 5. - [How a Fortune 500 brand proved scraping can scale](https://rayobyte.com/case-studies/fortune-500-e-commerce-scraping-case-study/) (Fortune 500 · E-commerce · Scraping): 10M+ scrapes a day from 100+ sites [All case studies](https://rayobyte.com/case-studies/) | [Contact sales](https://rayobyte.com/contact-sales/?product=api) Rayobyte is a certified member of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative and was the first proxy provider to publish its abuse process. EWDCI certified · GDPR compliant · CCPA compliant [Security and compliance](https://rayobyte.com/security-and-compliance/) ## Questions about the Scraping API. ### What is a web scraping API? A web scraping API fetches web pages for you. You send a URL, and the service runs the proxies, browsers and retries it takes to load the page, then sends the page back. ### What do I get back? The page, as HTML. The Scraping API does not parse results into fields; you parse the HTML with the tools you already use. ### What does a request cost? Self-serve is $0.0018/request, up to 500k requests, from a dollar balance you top up. [Sales](/contact-sales/?product=api) quotes a rate from $0.00004/request at 500k+ requests, based on the websites you collect, since pages that need a browser to render cost more to fetch. ### When should I use proxies instead? When you need to choose the IP, keep a session, or send traffic that is not a page fetch. [Premium Residential](/products/residential-proxies/) gives you full control of the request. ### Can I use the Scraping API as a proxy? Yes. [Web Unblocker](/products/web-unblocker/) puts the same engine behind a proxy host and port, for scrapers and tools that already work through a proxy pool. ### What happens when my balance runs out? Requests stop until you top up, so top up before you start a long job. ### Is there a free trial? Yes. The Scraping API starts with 5,000 free requests and no credit card. Sign up with email, Google, Microsoft or GitHub. ### Do you offer volume pricing? Yes. [Sales](/contact-sales/?product=api) sets a rate from $0.00004/request at 500k+ requests, and committed volume lowers it further. ## Collect more. Spend less. **Start in minutes**: Every self-serve product has a free trial, and you can sign up with email, Google, Microsoft or GitHub without a credit card. [Start free trial](https://app.rayobyte.com/auth/register) **Talk to sales**: Sales offers volume pricing below our published rates, custom plans and a direct line to the people who run the network. [Contact sales](https://rayobyte.com/contact-sales/?product=api)