Synchronous and asynchronous web scraping costs

Name: Oassis
Price: 0.002 USD
Author: Oassis

Use a synchronous request for one page and a background job for a supplied list or bounded crawl.

Choose the right endpoint

Need	Endpoint	Lifecycle
One known page	POST /web/v1/scrape	Read the response directly
2–50 known URLs	POST /tasks/v1/scrape/batch	Save jobId, then poll status
Discover and read linked pages	POST /tasks/v1/crawl	Set a limit, save jobId and poll

Plan a startup workload

For 10,000 fresh single-format Markdown page reads, the extraction estimate is $20. For 10,000 fresh JSON outputs it is $50. These estimates exclude extra formats, discovery, browser sessions, research and external storage. A crawl reading Markdown also extracts links and therefore has a different per-page price.

Inspect the returned billing and errors; not every attempted read returns usable data. Account-credit jobs and HTTP x402 packages can have different settlement details. Read task billing.

Start a batch

curl https://api.oassis.dev/tasks/v1/scrape/batch \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls":["https://example.com/","https://example.org/"],"formats":["markdown"]}'

Keep costs bounded

Map a site before deciding which pages to read.
Request only the formats you need.
Use suitable cache freshness when a cached observation is acceptable.
Poll the existing job; do not create another job to check progress.
Set crawl limits and prevent overlapping scheduled jobs.

Try Scrape & Map · API quick start · Estimate your cost

Oassis basic fresh Markdown extraction: $0.002 per page output. All operation prices and calculator.