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.
Native integrations with the leading AI frameworks
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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.