Freemium web scraping tools

Exa

Embeddings-based neural search that finds semantically related pages

Tavily

Real-time search API built for AI agents and RAG pipelines

Parallel AI

Proprietary web index built for deep multi-hop agent research

Linkup

AI search that licenses publisher content instead of scraping it

Jina AI

Reader API that turns any URL into clean markdown, now part of Elastic

LLMLayer

Model-agnostic web access you add to any LLM in one call

Andi Search

Ad-free, privacy-first AI search that answers rather than lists links

Seltz

Web knowledge API running its own Rust crawler and hybrid index

Valyu

Search API spanning the web plus arXiv, PubMed, and SEC filings

Ceramic

Independent search index behind a single JSON endpoint for agents

NewsCatcher

Recall-first news and web search across 140,000+ sources

Serper.dev

Fast Google SERP API priced at a dollar per thousand queries

SearchAPI.io

Multi-engine SERP API with native LangChain and Haystack support

ValueSERP

Low-cost SERP API with batch jobs up to 15,000 requests

HasData

SERP API wired into Zapier and Make.com for no-code pipelines

ScrapingDog

Volume-priced SERP API that drops toward 29 cents per thousand

ScrapeOps

Proxy aggregator and scraper monitoring with a free tutorial hub

Zenserp

Google SERP API with image and reverse image search built in

Firecrawl

Turns any website into LLM-ready markdown via a single API

Apify

Scraping platform with a marketplace of 50,000+ prebuilt Actors

ScraperAPI

Handles proxy rotation and JS rendering behind one scraping API

Scrapeless

Anti-detection scraping API with CAPTCHA solving at low cost

Scrapfly

Bundles anti-bot bypass, rendering, and screenshots into one API

Nimble

Web data platform with native Databricks and Snowflake pipes

AnakinScraper

Extracts structured JSON with prebuilt, agent-ready site actions

Webclaw

Rust page-to-markdown API with raw-HTTP-first browser-fallback engine

Tabstack

Mozilla's web execution API routing from raw fetch to full browser

Context.dev

URL-to-markdown API with an added brand-data layer for agents

Browserbase

Cloud browser infrastructure for agents, with the Stagehand SDK

Steel.dev

Open-source browser API with stealth and session management

Browserless

Headless browser platform for scraping, PDFs, and screenshots

Anchor Browser

Browser automation for agents, and a verified Cloudflare bot

Hyperbrowser

Browser-as-a-service with natural-language control and fast launches

Airtop

Natural-language cloud browser with SOC2 and HIPAA compliance

Lightpanda

Zig-built headless browser using far less memory than Chrome

Kernel

Autoscaling browsers with anti-bot detection and reusable sessions

Browser Use

Hands any website to an AI agent, the top browser-automation repo

Nstbrowser

Anti-detect browser with fingerprint control and a headless API

Rebrowser

Patches Chromium to run automation that bot detectors miss

Brave Search API

API for the only independent Western search index at scale

Mojeek

UK search engine with its own index and a no-tracking pledge

ScrapeGraphAI

Python library that scrapes sites from plain-English prompts

parse.bot

Describe the data you need and get a REST API for any site

Riveter

Prompt-driven web research that builds and enriches spreadsheet rows

Kadoa

Enterprise web data extraction that auto-generates logic, no code

Skyvern

AI agent that navigates and extracts using vision and LLMs

AgentQL

Query language for pulling structured data from any web page

Browse.ai

Point-and-click robots that extract and monitor any site