Yes. POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape with {"url": "..."} returns the page as markdown for $0.008 USDC on Base per call, paid over x402 and charged only on success. A lower-cost endpoint, /v1/scrape/lite, is $0.003 per call.

What is the cheapest ScraperAPI alternative?

It depends on volume and how hard the pages are. Checked Nov 10, 2026, for basic pages as text: at 1,000 pages a month ScraperAPI's free 1,000 credits, Firecrawl's free plan, Exa Contents and Tavily Extract all cost $0; at 10,000 pages Exa Contents ($10, covered by its $10 monthly free credit) and Tavily Extract ($8) cost least, then ScrapingBee Hobby $19; at 100,000 standard pages ScraperAPI Hobby ($49) and ScrapingBee Freelance without JavaScript ($49) are lowest, then Exa ($90) and Firecrawl Standard ($99).

Is switch402 cheaper than ScraperAPI?

Only in a low-volume band, or in months a plan would sit unused. ScraperAPI Hobby is $49 for 100,000 standard-page credits, about $0.00049 a page if you use them all, which is far below switch402's $0.008 (or $0.003 on lite). switch402 costs less than Hobby when you need fewer than 6,125 standard pages a month at $0.008 (16,333 pages on lite) and you would otherwise pay the $49 floor. On Google or Bing (25 credits) or LinkedIn (30), ScraperAPI's per-page cost rises; switch402's sticker does not, but it only reads public pages and may not return a protected page at all.

Which ScraperAPI alternative has no subscription?

Exa Contents is pay as you go with no subscription or minimum (prepaid credits, $10 free each month). Tavily Extract has pay as you go at $0.008 per credit with no plan. switch402 has no account at all: each scrape is paid in USDC on Base over x402. ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee sell monthly plans; ScraperAPI pay as you go starts on Scaling ($475). Firecrawl top-ups need a paid plan.

Do these alternatives handle hard sites?

ScraperAPI charges more credits for hard sites (Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, +10 behind Cloudflare, Datadome or PerimeterX). ScrapingBee uses premium proxies at 10 or 25 credits. switch402, Exa Contents and Tavily Extract read public pages; a page behind a login is out of scope, and a page that does not come back is not charged on switch402 or Tavily Extract.

How much does ScraperAPI cost?

Per scraperapi.com/pricing, checked Nov 10, 2026, monthly billing: Hobby $49 (100,000 credits), Startup $149 (1,000,000), Business $299 (3,000,000), Scaling $475 (5,000,000), Professional $975 (10,500,000) and Advanced $1,975 (21,500,000); annual billing is 10% off. A free plan gives 1,000 API credits. Credits reset at renewal. Professional and Advanced showed limited-time bonus credits on the pricing page that day.

Where do these numbers come from?

Each vendor's own pricing page or pricing docs: scraperapi.com/pricing, firecrawl.dev/pricing, scrapingbee.com/pricing, exa.ai/pricing and exa.ai/docs/pricing, and Tavily's API credits docs, all checked Nov 10, 2026, plus switch402's live payment terms. Prices can change; check the sources before you decide.

ScraperAPI Alternatives (2026): 5 Options Priced at 1K, 10K and 100K Pages

Looking for a ScraperAPI alternative? Here is what turning public pages into usable text costs on ScraperAPI and five alternatives, from each vendor's own pricing page, checked Nov 10, 2026. ScraperAPI Hobby is $49 for 100,000 API credits, Startup $149 for 1,000,000, up to Advanced $1,975 for 21,500,000, with a standard page at 1 credit (Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, plus 10 behind some bot protection). Short answer: for plain page text at 1,000 pages, ScraperAPI, Firecrawl, Exa Contents and Tavily Extract can all cost $0 on a free allowance; at 10,000 pages Exa Contents ($10, covered by its $10 free credit) and Tavily Extract ($8) cost least; at 100,000 standard pages ScraperAPI Hobby ($49) and ScrapingBee Freelance without JavaScript ($49) are lowest. switch402 is not the cheapest per page at any of these volumes. Its trade is different: no account, API key, plan or credits; /v1/scrape is $0.008 per successful page and /v1/scrape/lite is $0.003, paid in USDC over x402, only on success, which fits agents that just need public pages as markdown.

Exa Contents: $1 per 1,000 pages, no plan
Pay as you go: $1 per 1,000 pages per content type (text, highlights or summary), and a $10 free balance that resets on the first of each month. Best when you already have the URLs. Exa Search is $4 to $7 per 1,000 searches on top if you still need to find the pages.
Tavily Extract: cheap for light page-to-text use
Basic extract is 1 credit per 5 successful URLs, so the free 1,000 credits a month cover about 5,000 pages. Pay as you go is $0.008 per credit after that, or plans from Project $30 (4,000 credits). Failed extractions are not charged. Advanced extract is 2 credits per 5 URLs.
Firecrawl: one credit pool for scrape, crawl and search
A basic scrape or crawl is 1 credit a page; search is 2 credits per 10 results; JSON format adds 4 credits a page. Free 1,000 credits a month, then Hobby $19 for 5,000, Standard $99 for 100,000, Growth $399 for 500,000. Hobby, Standard and Growth credits do not roll over.
ScrapingBee: low plan price, 5 credits when JS is on
Hobby $19 for 75,000 credits, Freelance $49 for 250,000, Startup $99 for 1,000,000, Business $249 for 3,000,000. JavaScript rendering is on by default at 5 credits a page (1 without it); premium proxies cost 10 or 25. Credits are valid for one month. No pay as you go on the pricing page.
switch402: no account, plan or credits
/v1/scrape $0.008 per page as markdown, /v1/scrape/lite $0.003, /v1/map $0.001. Paid per call in USDC on Base over x402, charged only on success. Public pages only, nothing behind a login. A page that does not come back costs nothing.

Monthly cost for basic pages as text (cheapest option that covers it), as of Nov 10, 2026

Pages a month	ScraperAPI (standard page)	Firecrawl	ScrapingBee (default, JS on)	Exa Contents	Tavily Extract (basic)	switch402
1,000	$0 (free plan, 1,000 credits)	$0 (Free)	$19 (Hobby)	$0 ($1, inside the $10 free credit)	$0 (200 of the free 1,000 credits)	$8 ($3 on lite)
10,000	$49 (Hobby)	$44 (Hobby $19 + 5 x $5 top-ups)	$19 (Hobby)	$0 ($10, inside the free credit)	$8 (free 1,000 + 1,000 credits x $0.008)	$80 ($30 on lite)
100,000	$49 (Hobby, exactly 100,000 credits)	$99 (Standard)	$99 (Startup)	$90 ($100 minus $10 free)	$140 (Bootstrap $100 + 5,000 x $0.008)	$800 ($300 on lite)
Monthly minimum past the free tier	$49	$19	$19	$0 (pay as you go)	$0 (pay as you go)	$0

Plan figures assume every credit is used; a plan you only half use costs twice as much per page. ScraperAPI credits do not roll over; pay as you go starts on Scaling ($475). Hard sites cost more on ScraperAPI (Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, +10 behind some bot protection). ScrapingBee's 1,000-credit trial is a signup offer, not a monthly free plan; without JavaScript its pages are 1 credit (Hobby $19 at 1,000 and 10,000 pages, Freelance $49 at 100,000). Tavily Extract bills per 5 successful URLs, so its figures assume batches of 5. Firecrawl Hobby top-ups are 1,000 credits per $5. Outputs also differ (HTML, markdown or text). Honest reading: switch402 costs the most per page here; it fits agents that cannot or should not hold an account, key or plan, and uneven months where a plan would go unused.

Sources, checked Nov 10, 2026: scraperapi.com/pricing, firecrawl.dev/pricing, scrapingbee.com/pricing, exa.ai/pricing, exa.ai/docs/pricing, docs.tavily.com/documentation/api-credits. Prices can change; check the source before you decide.

Example: an agent reads 10,000 public pages a month as text. Exa Contents is $10 of text, covered by its monthly $10 free credit. Tavily Extract is 2,000 credits: the free 1,000 plus 1,000 x $0.008 = $8. ScrapingBee Hobby is $19 (default JavaScript). Firecrawl Hobby with top-ups is $44. ScraperAPI Hobby is $49. switch402 is $80, or $30 on /v1/scrape/lite, with no account or plan. If you can hold an API key and your volume is steady, a vendor plan or Exa pay as you go costs less.

Code example

ScraperAPI standard page, 1 credit (curl)

curl -s "https://api.scraperapi.com?api_key=$SCRAPERAPI_KEY&url=https://example.com"

Exa Contents, $1 per 1,000 pages (curl)

curl -s -X POST https://api.exa.ai/contents \
  -H "x-api-key: $EXA_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"urls": ["https://example.com"], "text": true}'

switch402 scrape lite, $0.003 per page, no key (JavaScript)

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig } from '@x402/fetch'
import { ExactEvmScheme } from '@x402/evm'
import { privateKeyToAccount } from 'viem/accounts'

const account = privateKeyToAccount(process.env.AGENT_KEY)
const fetchWithPayment = wrapFetchWithPaymentFromConfig(fetch, {
  schemes: [{ network: 'eip155:8453', client: new ExactEvmScheme(account) }],
})

const res = await fetchWithPayment('https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape/lite', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'User-Agent': 'my-agent/1.0' },
  body: JSON.stringify({ url: 'https://example.com' }),
})
const { markdown } = await res.json() // $0.003, charged only on success; /v1/scrape is $0.008

FAQ

Is switch402 live?: Yes. POST https://api.switch402.com/v1/scrape with {"url": "..."} returns the page as markdown for $0.008 USDC on Base per call, paid over x402 and charged only on success. A lower-cost endpoint, /v1/scrape/lite, is $0.003 per call.
What is the cheapest ScraperAPI alternative?: It depends on volume and how hard the pages are. Checked Nov 10, 2026, for basic pages as text: at 1,000 pages a month ScraperAPI's free 1,000 credits, Firecrawl's free plan, Exa Contents and Tavily Extract all cost $0; at 10,000 pages Exa Contents ($10, covered by its $10 monthly free credit) and Tavily Extract ($8) cost least, then ScrapingBee Hobby $19; at 100,000 standard pages ScraperAPI Hobby ($49) and ScrapingBee Freelance without JavaScript ($49) are lowest, then Exa ($90) and Firecrawl Standard ($99).
Is switch402 cheaper than ScraperAPI?: Only in a low-volume band, or in months a plan would sit unused. ScraperAPI Hobby is $49 for 100,000 standard-page credits, about $0.00049 a page if you use them all, which is far below switch402's $0.008 (or $0.003 on lite). switch402 costs less than Hobby when you need fewer than 6,125 standard pages a month at $0.008 (16,333 pages on lite) and you would otherwise pay the $49 floor. On Google or Bing (25 credits) or LinkedIn (30), ScraperAPI's per-page cost rises; switch402's sticker does not, but it only reads public pages and may not return a protected page at all.
Which ScraperAPI alternative has no subscription?: Exa Contents is pay as you go with no subscription or minimum (prepaid credits, $10 free each month). Tavily Extract has pay as you go at $0.008 per credit with no plan. switch402 has no account at all: each scrape is paid in USDC on Base over x402. ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee sell monthly plans; ScraperAPI pay as you go starts on Scaling ($475). Firecrawl top-ups need a paid plan.
Do these alternatives handle hard sites?: ScraperAPI charges more credits for hard sites (Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, +10 behind Cloudflare, Datadome or PerimeterX). ScrapingBee uses premium proxies at 10 or 25 credits. switch402, Exa Contents and Tavily Extract read public pages; a page behind a login is out of scope, and a page that does not come back is not charged on switch402 or Tavily Extract.
How much does ScraperAPI cost?: Per scraperapi.com/pricing, checked Nov 10, 2026, monthly billing: Hobby $49 (100,000 credits), Startup $149 (1,000,000), Business $299 (3,000,000), Scaling $475 (5,000,000), Professional $975 (10,500,000) and Advanced $1,975 (21,500,000); annual billing is 10% off. A free plan gives 1,000 API credits. Credits reset at renewal. Professional and Advanced showed limited-time bonus credits on the pricing page that day.
Where do these numbers come from?: Each vendor's own pricing page or pricing docs: scraperapi.com/pricing, firecrawl.dev/pricing, scrapingbee.com/pricing, exa.ai/pricing and exa.ai/docs/pricing, and Tavily's API credits docs, all checked Nov 10, 2026, plus switch402's live payment terms. Prices can change; check the sources before you decide.