What is AI extraction?
AI extraction turns a web page into structured data by asking a language model for the fields you want: you describe the output, a product’s name, price and stock, say, and the API returns it as JSON. It replaces the CSS selectors or XPath a scraper would otherwise need for each site, so one request shape works on pages laid out in ways you have never seen.
AI extraction across the APIs we track
| API | Per 1,000 extractions | Monthly bill | Plan | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valyu | $0.89 | $89.00 | Comfortably Pro | Oct 12, 2026 |
| ScrapingDog | $0.90 | $90.00 | Standard | Oct 12, 2026 |
| WebScraping.AI | $0.99 | $99.00 | Plus | Oct 12, 2026 |
| ScrapingBee | $0.99 | $99.00 | Startup | Oct 12, 2026 |
| ScrapingBot | $1.00 | $99.99 | Startup | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Scrape.do | $2.49 | $249.00 | Business | Oct 12, 2026 |
| ScrapeOps | $2.49 | $249.00 | 3,500,000 credits | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Diffbot | $2.99 | $299.00 | Startup | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Browserbase | $4.16 | $416.00 | Developer — Extract | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Search1API | $4.99 | $499.00 | Enterprise | Oct 12, 2026 |
| ScrapeGraphAI | $5.00 | $500.00 | Pro | Oct 12, 2026 |
| AgentQL | $14.49 | $1,449.00 | Professional | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Browsable | $19.99 | $1,999.00 | Business | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Anchor Browser | $100.00 | $10,000.00 | Starter | Oct 12, 2026 |
17 more AI extraction APIs have no exact bill for this job; their pricing pages say why.
In more detail
The vendor examples below were read on the dates given in the text; the table above holds each vendor's current figure.
What it costs
Vendors charge for the model’s work on top of fetching the page, so AI extraction is the dearest way to get a page: a fixed surcharge per page on most APIs, a charge by tokens or page length on some. The JSON page answer lists the surcharge on each API that publishes one. Built-in parsers, which some vendors run for well-known sites, return JSON at no extra charge but only for the sites they were written for.
When it pays off
AI extraction earns its price on varied pages: many sites, changing layouts, or fields that need reading rather than locating. On a large job over a few site layouts, fetching the HTML and parsing it yourself costs less. The table prices 100,000 extractions a month on each AI extraction API; the AI scraping API page prices any volume.