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 ScrapingBee alternative?

It depends on volume and whether JavaScript is enabled. Checked Nov 11, 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, while ScrapingBee Hobby is $19; 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 or ScrapingBee Startup with JS on ($99).

Is switch402 cheaper than ScrapingBee?

Only below ScrapingBee's $19 Hobby floor, or in months a plan would sit unused. Hobby is $19 for 75,000 credits: about $0.00025 a credit if you use them all, or $0.00125 a page with JavaScript on (5 credits) and $0.00025 without it, which is far below switch402's $0.008 (or $0.003 on lite). switch402 costs less than Hobby when you need fewer than 2,375 pages a month at $0.008 (6,333 pages on lite) and you would otherwise pay the $19 floor. At 10,000 pages with JS on, Hobby is still $19 and switch402 is $80 ($30 on lite). switch402 only reads public pages and has no premium or stealth proxies.

Which ScrapingBee 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. ScrapingBee sells monthly plans only; the pricing page has no pay as you go. ScraperAPI pay as you go starts on Scaling ($475). Firecrawl top-ups need a paid plan.

Do these alternatives handle hard sites?

ScrapingBee charges 10 or 25 credits for premium proxies, depending on JavaScript. ScraperAPI charges more credits for hard sites (Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, +10 behind Cloudflare, Datadome or PerimeterX). 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.

Where do these numbers come from?

Each vendor's own pricing page or pricing docs: scrapingbee.com/pricing, scraperapi.com/pricing, firecrawl.dev/pricing, exa.ai/pricing and exa.ai/docs/pricing, and Tavily's API credits docs, all checked Nov 11, 2026, plus switch402's live payment terms. Prices can change; check the sources before you decide.

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

Looking for a ScrapingBee alternative? Here is what turning public pages into usable text costs on ScrapingBee and five alternatives, from each vendor's own pricing page, checked Nov 11, 2026. ScrapingBee Hobby is $19 for 75,000 API credits, Freelance $49 for 250,000, Startup $99 for 1,000,000, Business $249 for 3,000,000 and Business+ $599 for 8,000,000, with Enterprise from $999. A request starts at 1 credit; JavaScript rendering, when enabled, costs 5 credits per successful request, and premium proxies cost 10 or 25 depending on JS. Credits are valid for one month and do not roll over; the public pricing page lists monthly plans only, with no pay as you go. Short answer: at 1,000 pages, ScraperAPI's free 1,000 credits, Firecrawl's free plan, Exa Contents and Tavily Extract can all cost $0, while ScrapingBee Hobby is still $19; at 10,000 pages Exa Contents ($10, covered by its $10 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, while ScrapingBee with JS on needs Startup ($99). 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.
ScraperAPI: cheapest for big standard-page volume
Hobby $49 for 100,000 API credits, Startup $149 for 1,000,000. A standard page is 1 credit, but Amazon is 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, and bot-protected sites add 10. Credits reset at renewal; pay as you go only from Scaling ($475). A free plan gives 1,000 credits a month.
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; pay-as-you-go top-ups in $5 steps need a paid plan.
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 11, 2026

Pages a month	ScrapingBee (JS on, 5 credits)	ScrapingBee (no JS, 1 credit)	ScraperAPI (standard page)	Firecrawl	Exa Contents	Tavily Extract (basic)	switch402
1,000	$19 (Hobby)	$19 (Hobby)	$0 (free plan, 1,000 credits)	$0 (Free)	$0 ($1, inside the $10 free credit)	$0 (200 of the free 1,000 credits)	$8 ($3 on lite)
10,000	$19 (Hobby, 50,000 of 75,000 credits)	$19 (Hobby)	$49 (Hobby)	$44 (Hobby $19 + 5 x $5 top-ups)	$0 ($10, inside the free credit)	$8 (free 1,000 + 1,000 credits x $0.008)	$80 ($30 on lite)
100,000	$99 (Startup, 500,000 of 1,000,000 credits)	$49 (Freelance)	$49 (Hobby, exactly 100,000 credits)	$99 (Standard)	$90 ($100 minus $10 free)	$140 (Bootstrap $100 + 5,000 x $0.008)	$800 ($300 on lite)
Monthly minimum past the free tier	$19	$19	$49	$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. ScrapingBee credits are valid for one month and do not roll over; the public pricing page has no pay as you go. Its 1,000-credit signup offer is not a monthly free plan, so 1,000 pages still sit on Hobby ($19). A request starts at 1 credit; JavaScript rendering, when enabled, is 5 credits, and premium proxies are 10 or 25. ScraperAPI credits do not roll over; hard sites cost more (Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, +10 behind some bot protection). 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 more per page than a fully used ScrapingBee or ScraperAPI plan at these volumes; it can cost less than ScrapingBee's $19 Hobby floor when you need fewer than 2,375 pages at $0.008 (6,333 on lite) and would otherwise pay that floor. 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 11, 2026: scrapingbee.com/pricing, scraperapi.com/pricing, firecrawl.dev/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, with JavaScript rendering on. ScrapingBee Hobby is $19 (50,000 of 75,000 credits). 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. 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

ScrapingBee, 5 credits with JS on (curl)

curl -s "https://app.scrapingbee.com/api/v1?api_key=$SCRAPINGBEE_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 ScrapingBee alternative?: It depends on volume and whether JavaScript is enabled. Checked Nov 11, 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, while ScrapingBee Hobby is $19; 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 or ScrapingBee Startup with JS on ($99).
Is switch402 cheaper than ScrapingBee?: Only below ScrapingBee's $19 Hobby floor, or in months a plan would sit unused. Hobby is $19 for 75,000 credits: about $0.00025 a credit if you use them all, or $0.00125 a page with JavaScript on (5 credits) and $0.00025 without it, which is far below switch402's $0.008 (or $0.003 on lite). switch402 costs less than Hobby when you need fewer than 2,375 pages a month at $0.008 (6,333 pages on lite) and you would otherwise pay the $19 floor. At 10,000 pages with JS on, Hobby is still $19 and switch402 is $80 ($30 on lite). switch402 only reads public pages and has no premium or stealth proxies.
Which ScrapingBee 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. ScrapingBee sells monthly plans only; the pricing page has no pay as you go. ScraperAPI pay as you go starts on Scaling ($475). Firecrawl top-ups need a paid plan.
Do these alternatives handle hard sites?: ScrapingBee charges 10 or 25 credits for premium proxies, depending on JavaScript. ScraperAPI charges more credits for hard sites (Amazon 5, Google and Bing 25, LinkedIn 30, +10 behind Cloudflare, Datadome or PerimeterX). 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 ScrapingBee cost?: Per scrapingbee.com/pricing, checked Nov 11, 2026: Hobby $19 (75,000 credits), Freelance $49 (250,000), Startup $99 (1,000,000), Business $249 (3,000,000), Business+ $599 (8,000,000) and Enterprise from $999 (14,000,000). A request starts at 1 credit; JavaScript rendering, when enabled, costs 5 credits; premium proxies cost 10 or 25. Credits are valid for one month and do not roll over. New accounts can try 1,000 free credits, which is a signup offer, not a monthly free plan.
Where do these numbers come from?: Each vendor's own pricing page or pricing docs: scrapingbee.com/pricing, scraperapi.com/pricing, firecrawl.dev/pricing, exa.ai/pricing and exa.ai/docs/pricing, and Tavily's API credits docs, all checked Nov 11, 2026, plus switch402's live payment terms. Prices can change; check the sources before you decide.