Web Page scraper alternatives compared
Numbers are from the public Apify Store API on 2026-11-06: price is the first pricing tier per 1,000 results, users and run success cover the last 30 days. Each Actor’s title says which sites it covers.
| Actor | Price / 1k | Users (30d) | Run success |
|---|---|---|---|
| URL to Markdown API - Web Pages to Clean Text for LLMs | $0.75 | new | measured after launch |
| RAG Web Browser | $2.28 | 32912 | 99% |
| Web Fetch | $1.50 | 27790 | 91% |
| Website Content Crawler | FREE | 14363 | 96% |
| Fast Website Content Crawler | $3.00 | 140 | 100% |
| Fetch URL, Website & Web Page to HTML/Markdown/Text — Unblocker | $0.50 | 24 | 100% |
| Website Content Crawler | Markdown for RAG | $1.56 | 16 | 100% |
When to pick which
Section titled “When to pick which”- Need clean text from many different websites for an LLM? A page-to-Markdown Actor such as URL to Markdown API needs no per-site setup.
- Need pages that only render in a browser? Use a browser-based crawler; this Actor reads server HTML, which is why it is fast and cheap.
About Rocketyard’s URL to Markdown API
Section titled “About Rocketyard’s URL to Markdown API”- Price: $0.75 per 1,000 pages plus $0.00005 per run, no subscription.
- Fields: 21 per record, 16 of them filled in at least half of the records in the latest test run. A field the source doesn’t publish comes back as
null, never guessed. - Tested before every release: recorded pages, a run on the Apify platform that checks the output and the cost per result, and a data-quality check on live public pages (latest: nasa.gov, en.wikipedia.org and developer.mozilla.org). A release that fails a check after publishing is rolled back automatically.
Run URL to Markdown API on Apify$0.75 per 1,000 pages, no subscription.