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Realtime web data for AI agents

One fast API for crawling, scraping, search, and a real browser. Clean, structured data the moment your agents ask for it.

Free credits on signup. No card required.

A simulated ledger of Spider extraction runs, built entirely from measured figures: crawl sessions fan out from a seed domain — its discovered pages hanging off a thread beneath it — while single fetches land alongside. Real public pages are reduced from hundreds of kilobytes of raw HTML to a few kilobytes of clean markdown or schema-shaped JSON, anti-bot walls are escalated and delivered, and the occasional failed page is struck through and billed $0.00. Each row carries a small meter showing how little of the page's wire bytes survive as signal. Every clean page lands in entry 0000 of the ledger — your corpus — whose running totals follow below.

0000 your corpus READY start yours → 9 pages 3.66 MB boilerplate removed 90% noise

Before and after: raw HTML versus Spider's markdown

One real run against developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/map: the raw page arrived as 173.3 kilobytes of HTML — scripts, navigation, and component chrome — and Spider returned 11.7 kilobytes of clean, readability-extracted markdown, dropping 93.3% of the payload as boilerplate.

raw 173.3 KB clean 11.7 KB 93.3% noise dropped readability on

Source · one run · developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Array/map

Fidelity · Completeness · Freshness · Provenance

Measured, not promised: #1 on StealthBench V1, 84.5% across 71 anti-bot tasks, and the pages that fail bill $0.

Source · spider-rs/benchmark ↗ Proof per pillar

Fast, reliable, and low cost.

Spider was benchmarked against the leading alternatives on speed, reliability, and price. Point it at a whole domain and one request crawls 100K+ URLs — $0.03 per 1,000 pages on average.

Spider99.9%best
Firecrawl95.3%47× more misses
Bright Dataest.93.0%70× more misses
100K+
URLs per request10K req/min, no degradation
$0.03
Avg per 1,000 pagespay-as-you-go, no subscription
MIT
Open-source coreRust engine, self-host option

Agents onboard themselves.

No key, no signup: AI agents make the first request and find every other entrance below.

POST  /scrape
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"url": "https://example.com", "return_format": "markdown"}'

Teams shipping with Spider.

What engineers said on the internet, unedited.

Common questions.

Data quality, billing, and crawl failures.

What is Spider?

A fast crawling and scraping API for AI agents, RAG, and LLMs — structured data as markdown, HTML, JSON, or text.

How can I try Spider?

Grab a free balance, or run the open-source engine at github.com/spider-rs/spider.

What formats can Spider convert web data into?

HTML, raw, text, and markdown — delivered as JSON, JSONL, CSV, or XML.

Can you crawl all pages?

Yes, no sitemap needed. We rate-limit per URL to spare the target server.

Does it respect robots.txt?

On by default; disable it per request when you need to.

What if a crawl fails?

Failed requests bill $0 — you only pay for responses that return data.

What if I get blocked?

The Unblocker rotates proxies and retries; hard sites route to full stealth browser sessions.

How does billing work?

Bandwidth ($1/GB) plus compute ($0.001/min) — most pages cost a fraction of a cent. Estimate at /compare.

What does research-grade mean?

Measured: #1 on StealthBench V1, 84.5% across 71 anti-bot tasks, from an open 1,000-URL benchmark. Reproduce every number on GitHub.

How does Spider handle pages it can't fetch?

A failed request bills $0 — you pay only for data that arrives.

Can an AI agent use Spider without a human?

Yes. Hit /scrape with no key for a sample, use the MCP server at mcp.spider.cloud, or pay per request in USDC via x402 — no account needed.