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The best scraping API for AI agents

For 10,000 extractions a month, WebScraping.AI costs $9.60 a month on its Pay as you go plan, the lowest bill among the 8 AI extraction APIs that meet the need below, out of 13 with a complete bill for this job.

WebScraping.AI checked Oct 12, 2026; every bill is worked out from its vendor's own pricing page.

An agent fetches pages on its own, so it needs an API it can call as a tool and pages it can read without wading through HTML. The bill is per page, like any scraping job, so the cheapest API that gives an agent both is the one to start with.

What qualifies: It lists an MCP server, so an agent can call it as a tool, and it returns markdown, the format an LLM reads best. "Best" on this page means the lowest complete monthly bill among the APIs that qualify; it is not a rating.