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Crawlbase pricing: Crawlbase API pricing, plans and cost per 1,000 pages

The short answer

Crawlbase bills only successful requests, from one credit balance shared by the Crawling API, Enterprise Crawler, Smart AI Proxy and Cloud Storage. Pay as you go is a graduated ladder like income tax: $3.00 per 1,000 for the first 1,000 requests, $2.00 for the next 10,000, $0.60 for the next 100,000, $0.50 for the next million and $0.10 for the next ten million, falling to $0.02. Subscriptions are Starter at $99 a month for 200,000 credits, Scale 500K at $199, Scale 1M at $349 and Growth at $599 for 2,000,000, with one month free on yearly billing. JavaScript rendering doubles the cost of a request and heavily defended sites carry multipliers of up to 20x. We read every figure from crawlbase.com/pricing on 27 September 2026.

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Crawlbase publishes two price lists on one page, and the number a buyer needs sits between them. The first is a pay-as-you-go ladder billed monthly in arrears. The second is a set of four subscriptions that buy a monthly block of credits at a lower effective rate. Neither one tells you the cost of the page you actually plan to fetch, because that depends on two multipliers applied after the fact.

Start with the ladder. It is graduated, so every request is billed at the rate of the bracket it falls into and the average keeps falling as volume grows. Crawlbase publishes three worked examples and all three check out: 100,000 standard requests cost $76.40, about $0.76 per 1,000; one million cost $527.50, about $0.53; ten million cost $1,471.90, about $0.15. The first 11,000 requests of every month cost $23 on their own, which is why small accounts pay the most per page.

Then the subscriptions. Starter is $99 for 200,000 credits, about $0.50 per 1,000. Scale 500K is $199, Scale 1M is $349 and Growth is $599 for 2,000,000, which works out at $0.40, $0.35 and $0.30. Yearly billing charges eleven months for twelve, so Starter becomes $1,089 a year. Unused credits reset each month. Usage past the block keeps running on the pay-as-you-go ladder at the bracket your volume has already reached, unless you switch pay as you go off and let requests pause instead.

The multipliers are what move a real bill. Crawlbase assigns every domain a difficulty tier automatically: standard at 1x, moderate at 1.5x, complex at 2x, and five heavier tiers at 3x, 4.5x, 9x, 13.5x and 20x. JavaScript rendering doubles whatever tier the site is in. A rendered page on a standard site therefore costs 2 credits, and a rendered page on the hardest tier costs 40.

We sell a crawl and extraction API, so read our column in the table with that in mind. Crawlbase handles anti-bot defenses, proxies and dedicated scrapers for Amazon, Walmart, Google and LinkedIn, and we do none of that. For defended targets it is the relevant purchase. For public pages that you want back as clean markdown or typed JSON, with rendering included in the page price, the arithmetic often lands the other way.

If you are pricing the whole category rather than one vendor, our web scraping API pricing breakdown explains every meter in use, and the cheapest web scraping API table ranks vendors by monthly budget. Teams moving large batches should read the bulk web scraping API page, and rendering JavaScript pages in one call shows what a rendered page returns here. For another credit-multiplier model worked through the same way, see ScrapingBee pricing per 1,000 pages.

CRAWL RENDER JS EXTRACT MARKDOWN JSON

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Why it works

Three things the Crawlbase pricing page leaves you to work out

The multiplier is decided by the site, not by you

Crawlbase places each domain in a difficulty tier and applies the multiplier automatically: 1x, 1.5x, 2x, 3x, 4.5x, 9x, 13.5x or 20x, doubled again for JavaScript rendering. A Starter block of 200,000 credits is 200,000 plain pages on a standard site, 100,000 rendered ones, 50,000 rendered pages on a complex site and only 5,000 on the hardest tier. Run a sample of your real target list and read the credits used before you pick a plan.

Below about 143,000 requests, pay as you go wins

The ladder reaches $83.00 at 111,000 standard requests, and every request after that costs $0.50 per 1,000. It crosses the $99 Starter price at about 143,000 requests a month. Under that volume a subscription buys credits you will not use, because the block resets monthly. At 200,000 requests Starter saves $28.50 against the ladder, and Scale 500K saves $78.50 at 500,000.

Overage runs at your bracket, so the bigger block can lose

Usage past a block continues on the ladder at the bracket your volume has reached, and past 1,111,000 requests that bracket is $0.10 per 1,000. Read literally, Scale 1M at $349 plus 1,000,000 extra standard requests costs about $493 against $599 for Growth. That depends on the block counting toward your bracket, so confirm it with Crawlbase before you buy Growth for price alone. Growth is still cheaper than pure pay as you go at 2,000,000, which costs $671.90.

What it handles

Any URL in, clean structured data out

Point ClawEngine at a public page and it crawls, renders the JavaScript and extracts clean markdown or typed JSON in one call. Define a schema for structured fields, and respect robots.txt and Terms of Service by default.

The full Crawlbase pay-as-you-go ladder and its three worked examples
All four subscriptions at monthly and yearly prices, per 1,000 credits
Cost per 1,000 pages once JavaScript and difficulty multipliers apply
The volume where a subscription starts beating pay as you go
How overage, spend caps and free credits work
Where Crawlbase is the right purchase and a per-page crawl API is not

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{
  "url": "https://example.com/products/atlas",
  "title": "Atlas Field Notebook",
  "markdown": "# Atlas Field Notebook\n\nDurable...",
  "data": {
    "name": "Atlas Field Notebook",
    "price": 24.00,
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 4.7
  },
  "links": [ "/products", "/cart" ],
  "metadata": { "rendered": true }
}

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Head to head

Crawlbase pricing by billing model, with a flat per-page crawl API in the third column

Every Crawlbase figure below was read from crawlbase.com/pricing on 27 September 2026, including its three worked examples, never from a review aggregator. We put ourselves third and we lose several rows outright.

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What you are comparing	Crawlbase pay as you go	Crawlbase subscriptions	ClawEngine
What the meter counts	Successful requests, times the site difficulty multiplier, times 2 for JavaScript	Credits from a monthly block, with the same multipliers	Pages. One page of plan allowance per page returned, rendering included
Entry price	No minimum. Billed monthly in arrears for what you used	$99 a month for Starter, $1,089 billed yearly	$49 a month on Hobby. No free plan
Rates	$3.00, $2.00, $0.60, $0.50, $0.10, $0.05, $0.04, then $0.02 per 1,000 by bracket	$99 for 200,000, $199 for 500,000, $349 for 1,000,000, $599 for 2,000,000	$49 for 50,000, $99 for 250,000, $399 for 1,500,000 pages
Cost per 1,000 plain pages, standard site	$0.76 at 100,000 a month, $0.53 at 1,000,000, $0.15 at 10,000,000	About $0.50, $0.40, $0.35 and $0.30	$0.98 Hobby, $0.40 Startup, $0.27 Scale
Cost per 1,000 rendered pages, standard site	$1.53 at 100,000 a month, $1.06 at 1,000,000	About $0.99, $0.80, $0.70 and $0.60	The same as plain pages: $0.98, $0.40, $0.27
Rendered page on the hardest tier	40x a standard request	40 credits, so Starter covers 5,000 pages	Not offered. We defeat no anti-bot system
Past the allowance	Not applicable. Everything is metered	Continues on the ladder at your bracket, or pauses if you switch it off	Upgrade or wait for the monthly reset
Failed or blocked requests	Not billed	Not billed	Not counted against your allowance
Spend control	Optional hard spend cap	Optional hard spend cap, or pay as you go off	Fixed monthly price per plan
Anti-bot and proxies	Yes. Smart AI Proxy and difficulty tiers built in	The same	No. Public and permitted pages only
Dedicated scrapers	Amazon, Walmart, Google SERP and LinkedIn	The same	No. One schema-driven extractor for any page
Output you get back	Rendered HTML, structured JSON from its scrapers, or screenshots	The same	Clean markdown or typed JSON against your own schema
Crawling a whole site	Enterprise Crawler, asynchronous, delivered to storage	The same	Yes. Seed URL, scope and limit in one request
Free credits	1,000 at signup, up to 5,000 after setup steps, no card	The same	No free plan
Best for	Uneven or small volumes, and defended targets you cannot reach otherwise	Steady high volumes of plain HTML	Public pages you want as markdown or JSON, rendered, at a flat per-page price

Why ClawEngine

One API that crawls, renders and extracts

Not a raw HTML dump, not a headless browser fleet to run, and not a brittle parser to maintain. One call crawls a public page, renders its JavaScript and returns clean markdown or typed JSON, built for RAG pipelines and AI agents.

LLM-ready output

Clean markdown or typed JSON with the boilerplate stripped, so the data drops straight into a vector store, a prompt or an agent without a cleanup step.

JavaScript rendered

Each page loads in a real browser environment before extraction, so single-page apps and client-rendered content come back complete, not as an empty shell.

Compliance-first

ClawEngine works on public, permitted data only. It respects robots.txt and site Terms of Service and honors crawl-delay, so responsible scraping is the default.

Code examples

Crawling and extracting without a multiplier table

On Crawlbase, a rendered crawl is the Crawling API or the Enterprise Crawler with JavaScript enabled, billed at 2 credits or more per page depending on the domain, with the parsing left to you. Here the crawl, the rendering and the cleanup to markdown are one request, billed as one page of allowance per page returned.

curl Crawl a documentation site and return markdown (POST /v1/crawl)

curl https://clawengine.ai/v1/crawl \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CLAWENGINE_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://example.com/docs",
    "limit": 200,
    "render": true,
    "format": "markdown"
  }'

# One page of plan allowance per page returned.
# Rendering is included, with no difficulty multiplier on public pages.

Crawlbase pricing: the questions buyers ask

How much does Crawlbase cost?

Crawlbase starts on pay as you go, billed monthly in arrears for successful requests only, at $3.00 per 1,000 for the first 1,000 requests and falling in brackets to $0.02. Subscriptions cost $99 a month for 200,000 credits, $199 for 500,000, $349 for 1,000,000 and $599 for 2,000,000. Yearly billing gives one month free. New accounts get free credits with no card.

How much does the Crawlbase API cost per request?

A standard request on a standard site costs 1 credit. On pay as you go that is $0.003 for each of the first 1,000 requests a month, $0.002 for the next 10,000, $0.0006 for the next 100,000 and $0.0005 for the next million. On a subscription one credit costs between about $0.0005 on Starter and $0.0003 on Growth. JavaScript rendering doubles it.

Does Crawlbase have a free plan?

There is no free subscription, but every new account gets 1,000 free credits with no card on file, and completing setup steps raises that to up to 5,000. The credits work across every Crawlbase product. After that you move onto the pay-as-you-go ladder automatically, so set a spend cap before running anything large.

Does Crawlbase charge for failed requests?

No. Crawlbase bills only successful requests, and a request that fails or is blocked costs nothing whatever the site or rendering mode. A successful request is one delivered page. That protects you on flaky targets, but a page that loads and returns an error message or an empty template still counts as delivered, so check the content you get back.

How much does JavaScript rendering cost on Crawlbase?

JavaScript rendering doubles the cost of any request. On a standard site a rendered page uses 2 credits instead of 1, so Starter covers 100,000 rendered pages rather than 200,000, about $0.99 per 1,000. On a complex site at 2x a rendered page costs 4 credits, and on the hardest tier at 20x it costs 40 credits.

What are the Crawlbase complexity levels?

Crawlbase groups domains by how hard they are to crawl and multiplies the price accordingly: standard 1x, moderate 1.5x, complex 2x, complex I 3x, complex II 4.5x, extreme 9x, extreme I 13.5x and extreme II 20x. Most sites are standard. The tier is applied automatically per domain, so you learn it from your usage rather than choosing it.

What happens when a Crawlbase subscription runs out?

Usage past the included credits continues as pay as you go on the same rate card, at the bracket your monthly volume has already reached. If you would rather stop, turn pay as you go off and requests pause at the end of the block. The block itself resets every monthly cycle and unused credits do not carry over.

Can I cap my Crawlbase spend?

Yes. Crawlbase lets you set an optional hard spend cap in the dashboard on every plan, and usage stops before the bill passes it. You can raise, lower or remove it at any time. Because pay as you go bills in arrears, a cap is the only thing that stops a runaway crawl from reaching your invoice first.

Is Crawlbase yearly billing worth it?

Yearly billing charges eleven months for twelve, about 8% off: $1,089 for Starter, $2,189 for Scale 500K, $3,839 for Scale 1M and $6,589 for Growth. It only pays if your volume stays inside the block every month, because credits reset monthly. A workload that swings between 50,000 and 300,000 requests is often cheaper on pay as you go.

How much do Crawlbase screenshots and storage cost?

Both draw from the same credit balance. A screenshot capture costs 2 credits. Keeping a page in Crawlbase Cloud Storage costs 0.5 credits for every month it is stored, so a crawl you keep for a year costs 6 credits per page in storage on top of the fetch. Export and delete pages you no longer need to keep that line from growing.

Good questions

Questions about Crawlbase pricing

For plain HTML at high volume, yes. Crawlbase Growth works out at $0.30 per 1,000 standard requests and the pay-as-you-go ladder falls to $0.10 past a million. Once pages need rendering the picture changes: a rendered page costs 2 credits, about $0.99 per 1,000 on Starter and $0.70 on Scale 1M, against $0.40 on our Startup plan and $0.27 on Scale with rendering and markdown included.

Measure credits per page on a real sample first, because the difficulty tier and rendering can multiply your volume by 2 to 40. Under about 143,000 standard credits a month stay on pay as you go. Between that and 400,000 take Starter, since its overage runs at $0.50 per 1,000, the same as its block rate. Above that compare Scale 500K and Scale 1M against the ladder.

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