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Crawlbase pricing

What Crawlbase Crawling API returns, how domain complexity and requests affect billing, where the current source conflicts, and priced alternatives.

By quotePrice recorded on 2026-07-26Price rechecked on 2026-07-262 vendor sourcesSee the calculation
Available volumes

Every available option was priced in advance from published vendor rules. Changing a control only switches between those checked options; nothing is sent anywhere and no account is needed.

Your job

Workload100,000 pages per month
JavaScript renderingrequired
Bills failed fetchesno
per 1,000 pages keptnot computable for this state

What Crawlbase counts

1pages: 1 request per request
2request.js_render: 1 request per request
3No self-serve offer covers this volume; the vendor prices it by quote.

What you pay

Priced by quoteBy quoteNo self-serve price covers this workload.no purchasable offerNo self-serve plan covers this volume.
  1. Successes you want

    100,000 pages

    Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.

  2. × 1

    Attempts you are billed for

    100,000 requests

    Crawlbase does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.

  3. ?

    Cash per month

    Priced by quote

    No published self-serve offer covers this volume, so the chain stops here rather than guessing a total.

Bars share one linear scale across the 2 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.

What could and could not be computed
  1. pages: 1 request per requestsource
  2. request.js_render: 1 request per requestsource
  3. No self-serve offer covers this volume; the vendor prices it by quote.

By quote. No self-serve price covers this workload.

The vendor prices this volume by conversation, so no published total exists to check.

This is a finding about what Crawlbase publishes, not a gap in the data. It stays visible so a definitive market claim cannot quietly ignore it.

Published exact bills for comparable products

Same 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.

Every Crawlbase plan

Published plans, with the offer this workload actually selects marked
PlanMonthlyIf billed yearlyPrepaid packIncludedSimultaneous sessions
Crawling API Pay as you goNot publishedn/an/a20,000 requestn/a

What consumes a unit

This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.

Every published way Crawlbase charges
OperationCostsPerSource
request.basic1 requestrequestsource
request.js_render1 requestrequestsource

What Crawlbase does not publish

Product scope and returned result

Crawlbase Crawling API accepts a target URL and retrieves page content through rotating proxy and browser infrastructure. It offers a normal request path and a JavaScript-rendered path, and the response exposes a domain_complexity field that identifies the target tier Crawlbase assigned. The enterprise Crawler adds asynchronous bulk crawling, retries, webhook delivery, queue monitoring, and custom throughput, but keeps per-request billing aligned with Crawling API rates. (Crawlbase pricing and Crawling API documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26).

This scope is narrower than a general browser-control service and broader than a bare proxy. It returns retrieved page content rather than an interactive remote browser, while Crawlbase operates the proxy rotation and optional rendering. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).

Every recorded meter

The stored record has two replacement meters: one basic request per basic request and one JavaScript-rendered request per JavaScript request. It also states that Crawlbase chooses a domain-complexity tier, and that the response field identifies which tier was billed. Billing applies only when page content is delivered successfully; failed and blocked retrievals are not charged. (Crawling API documentation and Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).

There is an unresolved record contradiction. The record’s billing summary says JavaScript requests consume two request credits, while both structured meter entries store one request. The currently loaded static pricing page does not expose the numeric domain-tier rates, so this page cannot honestly choose a JavaScript multiplier or print a dollar rate. That conflict is in data/vendors/crawlbase.json, which is outside this content lane. (Crawlbase pricing and Crawling API documentation, retrieved 2026-07-26).

Contract path, minimum, and evaluation

The self-serve path starts with up to 20,000 free requests and no credit card. A buyer enters target domains into Crawlbase’s interactive estimator, chooses regular or JavaScript requests, and then starts free. There is no published monthly subscription floor for Crawling API. The exact paid unit price depends on the domain-complexity assignment, but the numeric rate was not present in the static source available to this record. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).

For large asynchronous programs, Crawlbase directs buyers crawling over one billion pages per month to sales. A buyer should bring the target-domain list, expected URLs per month, regular versus JavaScript mix, required throughput, webhook and delivery requirements, and SLA or dedicated-support needs. The public page describes 30 URLs per second out of the box, with higher throughput handled case by case. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).

Price status and why there is no fixed published price

Crawlbase does not expose one universal monthly price because the commercial unit is a successful request whose rate varies by assigned domain complexity. The pricing page does offer an interactive estimator, but the loaded static source did not reveal the numeric tier schedule. Stating an estimated rate from another site would be less accurate than leaving it unknown. (Crawlbase pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).

Priced alternatives

  • ScrapeNinja Basic starts at $0 per month, with separate JavaScript and non-JavaScript quotas. (ScrapeNinja pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
  • WebScrapingAPI Starter starts at $19 per month for a page-retrieval API allowance. (WebScrapingAPI pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).
  • Scrape.do Hobby starts at $29 per month for successful-result credits and rendering or proxy modes. (Scrape.do pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26).

Answer

What Crawlbase costs, what it publishes, and what it does not. Every figure sourced and dated.

Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.The published price on this page matched the vendor page when it was rechecked.