The fastest web data API.
Built to deliver clean data quickly and affordably. No monthly commitments, no lock-in, just results.
- success rate
- 99.9%
- stealth bench
- #1
- req / minute
- 10k
- avg per request
- $0.001
Sub-second delivery, not single-digit seconds.
Time from API request to data delivery, measured across production workloads. Lower is better.
- Spider<1s
- Firecrawl~3s
- ScrapingBee3.14s
- Apify~4s
- Bright Data~5s
Source · published benchmarks + Spider production monitoring
#1 on Stealth Bench V1.
Success rate across 71 real anti-bot protection tasks: Cloudflare, Akamai, PerimeterX, DataDome, and the rest. Higher is better.
One row that does everything.
How Spider stacks up against other web data APIs across the features that actually ship in production.
| Service | REST API | JS Render | AI Extract | Stealth | Min /mo | Success | Speed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Spider | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | #1 (84.5%) | $0 | 99.9% | <1s |
ScrapingBee | ✓ | ✓ | — | not tested | $49 | 98% | 3.14s |
Firecrawl | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | not tested | $19 | ~95% | ~3s |
Bright Data | ✓ | ✓ | — | not tested | $500 | ~95% | ~5s |
Apify | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | not tested | $49 | ~90% | ~4s |
Crawl4AI OSS | — | ✓ | ✓ | not tested | $0 | varies | varies |
Source · published pricing + Spider production monitoring
$0 before your first request.
What you owe each month before collecting a single page. Spider has no minimum — you only pay for requests you make.
- Spider$0/mo
- Firecrawl$19/mo
- Apify$49/mo
- ScrapingBee$49/mo
- Netnut$300/mo
- Bright Data$500/mo
Everything you need, none of the scaffolding.
AI-native extraction
Pull structured data with natural-language prompts. LLM-ready markdown, JSON schemas, and field extraction — no selectors, no parsing.
Every output format
HTML, Markdown, plain text, screenshots, PDFs, and structured JSON. One API, every shape your pipeline needs.
Anti-bot bypass
Stealth browsing with fingerprint randomization, smart proxy rotation, and automatic retries. You get the data; we handle the rest.
Open source core
Our crawler is MIT-licensed with thousands of GitHub stars. Audit the code, self-host it, or use the managed API.
Drop-in integrations
Works with LangChain, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, AutoGen, and every major AI framework. SDKs for Python, Node, Rust, and Go.
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